Tomb Raider/Witchblade

Tomb Raider/Witchblade
Writer:	Michael Turner
Penciller:	Michael Turner Brian Ching
Inker:	Joe Weems Victor Llamas
Colorist:	Jonathan D. Smith
Letterer:	Dennis Heisler Robin Spehar
Editor:	Renae Geerlings
Cover:	Michael Turner Jonathan D. Smith Joe Weems
Published:	December, 1997

Tomb Raider/Witchblade is a one-shot crossover between Tomb Rider and Witchblade comics series. This one-shot is named Vendetta.

Synopsis

While tracking an ancient monster rampaging on the streets of New York, Lara Croft runs into the cities finest detective, Sara Pezzini.

Characters

Featured Characters

• Sara Pezzini
• Lara Croft

Antagonists

• Lucas Moralto

Other Characters

• Lloyd Drexler
• Vincent Scarponi (Death)
• Elderly Woman

Locations

• Top Cow Universe
  • Earth
    • North America
      • United States of America
        • Maine
          • Bar Harbor
    • Europe
      • Malta
        • Paola
          • Hal Seflieni

Plot Summary

An elderly women calls 911 calling to complain about the next door neighbors are screaming and probably fighting each other. A loud banging noise emanates from the wall. Suddenly a winged demon comes through the wall holding the next door neighbor, Vincent Scarponi and proceeds to throw him into the wall right next to the old women as if he was a rag doll. Then the door kicks open and Lara comes in guns blazing trying to kill the creature. But the demon flies off.

Few minutes later, police arrives at the scene and Sara takes Lara downtown for questioning. Sara does a background check on the mysterious women and finds out the girl's name is Lara Croft and she's multimillionaire archaeologist.

Lara reveals to Sara that this all began when she was commissioned to retrieve a talisman with a black pearl, that is believed to be a wellspring of immortality, for Lucas Moralto from a labyrinth in the ruins of Hal Seflieni, Malta, three months earlier. When returning the artefact Moralto, a 90-year-old friend of the late Lord Henshingly Croft, it turns out, that he does not intend to simply prolong his life, but instead wants to carry out a vendetta against the Scarponi family who few decades ago were the arch-rivals of Moralto's criminal family. Although the original criminal organization has been since disbanded and the members deceased, Lucas intends to accomplish his vendetta by killing their grandchildren.

Learning of his evil intentions, Lara tries to take the talisman from him, which splits in two in the process, releasing a Winged Demon that sets out to carry out Moralto's orders. Lara and Sara set out to Moralto's fortress in Bar Harbor, Maine and infiltrate it from the ocean side. Lara confronts Moralto to learn that the half of the talisman Moralto was able to keep, particular the black, is now part of him and transforms him into the winged demon. Lara is faced with the demon and has to fight him. Sara gives her a hand, or rather a bolt of fire from the Witchblade and together they defeat the demon. Moralto survives and later shows up on the doorstep of Antonio Scarponi's family while Lara takes the talisman with her, to keep it safe.

Trivia

• The couple of teenagers in the apartment next to the victim of a vicious attack are watching an episode of "The X-Files", and Sara Pezzini calls herself the Mulder and Scully of the NYPD.
• Sara likens Lara to James Bond.