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The next one, "Queen of Serpents" is definitely one of the best, perhaps my second favourite. My favourite is the last one, "Inferno", it has great art and great writing. |
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17-06-21, 13:56 | #12 | |
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17-06-21, 14:22 | #13 | |
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I think the problem with Season of the Witch was more of a "not knowing where to start the comic's plot rather than necessarily Rhianna Pratchett saving things by herself. In retrospect, though, Secrets and Lies would have actually been a much better starting point than Season of the Witch, though. Add the pages about Lara and Sam being restless in their apartment, and keep it being about how Lara might have started to be addicted to danger and dealing with survivor's guilt by trying to help Alex's sister, and you would have a better starting point than everyone being somehow mind controlled by people worshipping Mathias and the Solari that hadn't even been in contact with the outside world for someone to know about their existence. |
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17-06-21, 15:50 | #14 | |
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I do like that the comics reasonably build up in scope. The Post-Rise stories feel a lot bigger and more cinematic. You also saw more of Lara's ruthless side. |
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17-06-21, 19:11 | #15 |
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If you remember the ending of the novel, where there is a friendly EMT getting Lara’s bag? Just pretend that he is the guy from the comics, and it would make perfect sense for Lara to have the artifact and being hypnotized easily.
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17-06-21, 19:54 | #16 | |
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No, the Chernobil arc would have been a better starting point. Maybe the London part could have been expended to its own arc, just so Chernobil could fit Lara's PTSD and/or survivor's guilt a bit better. |
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I'm not keen on the art of these first 18 either. It just doesn't look like lara to me, and I'm not keen on the digital-style colouring. Quote:
I'm not sure it solves the problem though. He'd still have to hypnotise them while they were on the island. Unless... he hypnotised them separately afterwards, gave them an artefact each and made them think they took it. But then he'd have to have gone to the island himself, got the artefacts, then done all that. Doesn't seem to fill in the gaps, but cool idea though. This also brings up another qualm. In the comics, Lara seems to not know about Trinity. Despite having some very up close and personal dealings with them, and learning that they considered recruiting her. So they don't tie together, especially with that hitman guy wanting her to take over from him. I don't know which was written first but I don't think they read the others' existing work, or maybe they weren't meant to be strictly in the same canon. |
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