By Mark Rodriguez Lara Croft has rocked the world in 1996 as a thrill-seeking world-traveling adventurer when Tomb Raider hit the SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation. Garnering a huge fanbase due to the action-packed gameplay as well as Lara's looks and overall bad-assness, it's no surprise she'd eventually branch out into other forms of media or merchandising. In 1999 she got herself a comic book series from Top Cow and Image comics. Thanks to Hipcomics I was able to grab a copy, so let's check it out. 'The Medusa Mask' opens in Iran as the narrator explains how dangerous the place can be, especially towards thieves. Several Iranian soldiers are looking for 'the westerner' and start taking off the hijabs of any woman they see. One of them takes the hijab off a particular woman who turns out to be Lara Croft. One of the men sets her gun to her head and she tells him if he shoots, he'll mess up the 2200-year old necklace he's been told to recover. ...
By Mark Rodriguez Back in 2019, Dead or Alive 6 came out with mixed reactions due to how the girls were more covered up when compared to previous titles. For better or for worse, the Dead or Alive series has always been known for the alluring outfits and martial arts fighting women with bouncing boobs. Team Ninja tried to focus more on the fighting than the sex appeal for the sake of making it on EVO, which would kill its popularity and eventually never make it on EVO anyway. Personally I always figured they'd eventually release all the bikinis and maid outfits you'd expect from the game series through waves of DLC, but it looks like by the time we got there it was too little too late for a lot of the fanbase. Other problems were the hundred dollar season packs, having to re-purchase characters that were already DLC in DOA5 (Nyotengu, Phase 4, Rachael, Momiji and Mai), the free costumes being broken up into parts which take forever to collect, re-selling previous costumes and ...