Gail Simone's Lara Croft
Although whether Lara could be seen as a feminist character or a sexist marketing gimmick is up for debate (she was originally a male character in the planning stages for the first Tomb Raider game, but the simularities with Indiana Jones caused the production crew to use a female character instead), the impact that she's had on pop culture from the mid-nineties onwards has been considerable.
Whether it's in the form of energy drink adverts,
A U2 music video that makes liberal use of the movie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpQQVroYmI
To a mediocre Angelina Jolie movie starring a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig, followed by an awful sequel with a pre-300 Gerard Butler in it,
She even had a long running comic, in which she was a semi-regular cost member of the Witchblade books.
Anyway, in 2007, the online gaming service GameTap commissioned a brief animated series based on the character, in which numerous writers, including the likes of Warren Ellis and Gail Simone, and alternating art styles would be used to explore the character in different formats. The series was called'Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series'.
Here is Gail Simone's section, in which she shows that the character can as a heroine of a Kim Possibleish series if there was ever a demand for it. Not that there would be, but it's a neat short story anyways,
Whether it's in the form of energy drink adverts,
Click to viewA U2 music video that makes liberal use of the movie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpQQVroYmI
To a mediocre Angelina Jolie movie starring a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig, followed by an awful sequel with a pre-300 Gerard Butler in it,
She even had a long running comic, in which she was a semi-regular cost member of the Witchblade books.
Anyway, in 2007, the online gaming service GameTap commissioned a brief animated series based on the character, in which numerous writers, including the likes of Warren Ellis and Gail Simone, and alternating art styles would be used to explore the character in different formats. The series was called'Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series'.
Here is Gail Simone's section, in which she shows that the character can as a heroine of a Kim Possibleish series if there was ever a demand for it. Not that there would be, but it's a neat short story anyways,