Saturday, January 11, 2025

Happy New Year with Joe Jusko's Lara Croft

My big New Year's resolution for this year is to start less new posts and concentrate on finishing the ones I started last year - and the previous year - instead. But I am still going to do at least one new post a month so that there is some new content for my faithful followers and I wanted to start off this year with a post I wanted to do as the send off for 2024.


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.

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