Talk:Tomb Raider (Dark Horse Comics)/@comment-2069724-20160518043329/@comment-29952513-20160518050528

How many issues would you want and what stories would you have them tell in the time between Rise and TR3, aside from Sam being freed of Himiko and her relationship with Lara being explored. Honestly I would like to see the last few comics set up the thread game because when you get right down to it, the set before Rise didn't really do anything to set up the second game.

Anna wasn't shown until Rise, Kaz wasn't even mentioned and Lara didn't really learn that much about Trinity and Trinity itself didn't really do that much. I would like to see a bit more from Trinity's side, see where their going or a hint of what they're plans are. I'd defiantly would want to get a hint of who Lara will be fighting in this game.

Have the comics get a bit of Lara's final nemesis backstory set up here so it isn't dumped on us in TR3, but keep her in the shadows both figuratively & literally. This would help give her some great buildup that we never get a clear look at her yet we can gleam from what we get in the comics what sort of person she is.

She's as smart as Lara, roughly about the same age and is just as deadly as she is. However, she's shown to be completely Amoral, was raised by Trinity and completely devoted to their cause though not necessarily their leaders. The last bit is shown in how she seems to disregards their orders and goes on her own and even lies to her leaders when it suits her. Even killing a fellow agent because he was was useless in her eyes and then put the blame on another agent who she suspected was a traitor.

Something else I would want to see that is hinted or shown over the course of the comics and TR3 is that she really isn't interested in controlling Trinity or the world. She simply wishes to control her own destiny and has no interest in following a plan that takes that away from her.

Even towards the end of the game when Lara mortally wounds her she chose to take her own life rather then succumb to her own wounds and goes out with a smile. Have it where her conflict with Lara and Sam is less because they are ruining her plans and more that they are simply a threat. But one that she enjoys fighting because it gives her a challenge.

Something that I like about the rebooted Tomb Raider is that, when you get down to it, the male lead villains are the dragons and the woman are the real master minds behind the scenes. Himiko in Survivor Anna in Rise. It would be interesting to see the woman leading from the front lines while the man from behind the scenes is, in the end, nothing more then a figure head and Lara's counterpart is more of a Dragon-in-Chief.

And by having some of this set up in the comics it would at least mostly eliminate the need for a bunch of exposition in the game.