Tomb Raider Compendium Edition (Paperback)

by Dan Jurgens (Author), David Wohl (Author), James Bonny (Author), Andy Park (Author), Randy Green (Author), Michael Turner (Author), Tony Daniel (Author), Eric Basaldua (Author), and more! (Author)

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Product Description
There's nothing like going back to the beginning and reading it all over again. For the first time ever, get Tomb Raider issues #1-50 in one giant soft cover! See the video game come to life as some of the industries biggest names bring the adventures of Lara Croft to comics!

Product Details

• Paperback: 1248 pages
• Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics; Compendium ed edition (December 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582406375
• ISBN-13: 978-1582406374
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #374,581 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not that bad, April 23, 2007

By	Anna Friendly (RI) - See all my reviews

This product isn't as bad as the previous review mentions. While the stories are not canon with the games or movies, they do contain all the actions that we know and love about Lara Croft. The graphics are pretty good, and the stories are for both old and new fans of Lara. My biff with this product is that one of the comics in the book is a three-parter, which requires witchblade 60 and Evo 1 to complete.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good price, good comics!, November 18, 2007

By	Diana Muñoz Carbonell - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really love Lara Croft, and here, in Catalonia, they didn't publish the whole collection, only the first twenty comic books, so when I discovered the compendium I wanted it, specially with the price it was at the moment in Amazon.

The graphic content was amazing, and the stories where good. The only three things that I didn't like where:

- The necessity to show Lara Croft again and again with very little clothes on, or taking her clothes off or naked. Yes, ok, she's a myth, an icon, but it got old after twenty pages or so of Miss Croft in too small nikinis that left most of her out than in.
- I didn0t like this need to have Croft falling in love with half the repertoire of males that appered in the comic book. While Chase Carver does make sense because they knoweach other and there are feelings, it dones't makes sense that she falls and so deeply for a monk she has just seen, and also doesn't make much sense herself kissing Kurtis Trent, specally because in the video game was some sort of chemistry, but they never did nothing. I don't know, but the Lara in the video games wasn't so concerned aout dressing herself up in order to seduce the male of turn as she is with that monk.
- And last but not least, the fact that there was a crossover and that the crossover wasn't all in the compendium. I know that there were Witchblade's and Evo's province, bt it would have been nice to have those two also in the compendium so we could get a better sense of the story.

Other than that, superb drawing and nice storytelling. A must have for fans of Miss Croft!

4.0 out of 5 stars Tomb Raider Compendium, November 15, 2007

By	J. DuBose "Lover of Literature" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really enjoyed this book. Will probably Read it again some time in the distant future. Would recommend for any true Tomb Raider fan. The size of the book was somewhat difficult to deal with but as long as you support the binding by not just laying it down the book should survive the read. I finished the book and it still looks mostly new. Ultimately, I love the story lines, and most of the artists did a superb job bringing Lara's great character to life.
Oh, and although, for the most part, the story lines weren't in conjunction with the video games, I didn't understand half of what was going on in Angel of Darkness 'till I had read the book's part of the story.