Or if you just need something to tide you over until the console exclusivity is up and you can actually play it on your own machine, you could always buy the books from Dark Horse (In three trade paperback editions, the last of which is out this week) or digitally from. So before you sit down to your Xbox to crack open Rise of the Tomb Raider, we thought you might like to know what happened in those comics. Written by Pratchett and Gail Simone - a comics writer known for her work on titles like Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Red Sonja and Secret Six - it was explicitly intended to bridge the story between the two games.
Premiering in early 2014 and running through to summer 2015, Tomb Raider followed Lara Croft's adventures after the events of 2013's Tomb Raider game. Or, more precisely, the 18-issue comics series Tomb Raider, co-written by head Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett, is here to fill in the gaps.
