Okay, I know what you all are thinking. These New Year's resolutions never last but I HAVE been working very steadily on my latest spotlight on Sal Buscema's run on SPECTACULAR SPIDER - MAN ( which I started in February 2023 just to give you an idea how far behind I am with posts ) and while I still have a ways to go I'd say that I have finished the biggest parts. So I might do the follow up post to that as one of my next posts.
But I took a break from that post because I came across some ultra rare videos from the famous - or infamous as your mileage may vary - HILDES WILDE HORROR SHOW as well as new episodes of SCHLEFAZ and a whole slew of movies in spanish that had been deleted but were recently re - uploaded and had to include at least some of the material in my newest posts provided it's appropriate. You see, only because I'm not working on the newest post or the oldest posts doesn't mean I'm not working on the posts. I am always working on the posts even if my followers can't see it.
Which brings us to Today's post. As you might have guessed by the title it's a Lara Croft comic by Joe Jusko and although I haven't done a solo post on Joe Jusko you have seen his art on the blog before. He worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics as well as other comicbook publishing companies and you can find some of his art in my Vampirella spotlights .
In fact the only reason why I haven't included more Vampirella art by Joe Jusko in these posts is that I have enough material for a Vampirella by Joe Jusko spotlight. Which I hope to do in the not too distant future but you never know. Coming back to this post of course every comicbook afficionado worth his salt knows Joe Jusko. Aside from countless covers - mainly for Marvel Comics magazines of the 70s, 80s and 90s - he has also done a plethora of work for trading cards of various comic companies.
Now while he is a well known name in the comicbook industry he has not done a lot of interior work and the times when he does - I remember that he did the illustrations to a story in an issue of EPIC MAGAZINE although I don't know if it was in the first issue or another issue but he did the cover to the first issue - these are very rare and few between.
That said with how many comicbooks are published on every year there might be one or two comicbooks by Joe Jusko that occasionally fly below my radar. Especially if it is a franchise that I am not that familiar with.
Not that I'm saying that TOMB RAIDER is a franchise that I am not familiar with but as for the comicbook adaption I left that to my brother who also had other sexbombcentric titles on his pull list like WITCHBLADE.
I tended to other series that caught my attention so I hope that the blog visitors will cut me some slack for not knowing that TOMB RAIDER : THE GREATEST TREASURE existed. Especially since it never ended up on my brother's pull list. Which may be due to the fact that the original version was outside of the regular series so he would have to had ordered that separately. It was part of the regular TOMB RAIDER series when it was translated to german but since my brother already was buying all the original issues he did not double tap and also get the german issues.
In any case I was very surprised when I saw a whole plethora of pages by Joe Jusko from a TOMB RAIDER comic I had never heard about. I mean I had seen some of the covers he did for the regular TOMB RAIDER book but I had no idea he had done a full graphic novel about Lara Croft. So I decided to make a special post about it. Especially since I found some of the original art on HERITAGE AUCTIONS. What I didn't find up until now was the right occasion to post these but now I can finally rectify that.
One last thing : unlike my usual original art posts there is no black and white art accompanied with the coloured version since here ALL the art pieces are coloured. Which means that if I put all of them into one post it would be still below my usual number of art in these posts which is 46.
But because I don't want this to become unnecessarily long I decided to split it up into two posts. That way you also get two bonus sections for the price of one which will take longer but it gives me a welcome excuse to put more videos on the blog since these have been piling up. And now enjoy and we will continue this in the second part with the grand finale.
laura kraft
