The Top Cow comic series Tomb Raider Journeys consists of 12 issues, each telling a separate story. These stories are part of their own universe and are not official canon alongside the video games.

Remember that if you are interested in these comics, you can buy them at comic book stores or purchase them through the various links on the Dark Horse website, as well as on Amazon.

Dark Horse, which publishes the new Tomb Raider comics, also publishes compilations of the classic Top Cow comics.

These issues are also included in Colossal Collection Volume 2 and Archives Volume 4, both published by Dark Horse.

For more information about the Top Cow: Vol. 1 collection and special comics, see these sections.

Below, you can read information about each issue of Journeys and view some preview pages.

Journeys #1

Follow the Dog Star with Lara Croft in the ultimate high seas adventure. She will master the west wind and harness the moon to capture the world’s most glorious and accumulated treasure. Join the piracy as Lara Croft pursues the most famous fleet in world history: the Spanish Armada. Yes, the Spanish Armada of 1550, and it’s going to be a thrilling adventure. Gentlemen, prepare to be boarded.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Drew Johnson
  • Inker: Jay Leisten
  • Colorist: Jonathan D. Smith
  • Cover artist: Adam Hughes
  • Release date: January, 2001
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.95

Journeys #2

The extraordinary artifact hunter Lara Croft embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to locate the Spanish Armada of 1550.

After being shipwrecked in a foreign land, Lara Croft finds a new adventure and an underground city filled with gold. A land lost to even the most voracious explorers becomes the unexpected setting for Lara’s adventure, as she takes on the problems of a small town and continues…

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Drew Johnson
  • Inker: Jay Leisten
  • Colorist: Jonathan D. Smith
  • Cover artist: Adam Hughes
  • Release date:: March, 2001
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.95

Journeys #3

Lara Croft is about to meet her rival again. The ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have been discovered. Unfortunately, Sodom is on public land and Gomorrah is on private land—land that will be sold to a real estate developer to build a residential complex and casino, unless Lara can find a way to stop the transaction from going through. Her options include an unlikely adventure and unusual allies.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Drew Johnson
  • Inker: Jay Leisten
  • Colorist: Jonathan D. Smith
  • Cover artist: Adam Hughes
  • Release date:: May, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.95

Journeys #4

Lara heads to another excavation site when (surprise, surprise) she runs into Kagan again.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Gerardo Sandoval
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Jonathan D. Smith
  • Cover artist: Adam Hughes
  • Release date:: May, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.95

Journeys #5

You thought you’d seen everything about Lara’s dangerous side. But no one could have imagined what the past had in store for the famous Tomb Raider. Travel back in time as Lara faces tie-dye, men who used to wear lipstick, and witness oversized shirts with even bigger belts and leggings over jeans with high heels. All this and much more when we return to Lara Croft’s high school reunion. Discover what shaped the Tomb Raider we all know and love today.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Drew Johnson
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Jonathan D. Smith
  • Cover artist: Keu Cha
  • Release date:: August, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.95

Journeys #6

Events on the eve of Lara’s high school reunion are beginning to heat up. Her former classmate, now prime minister, offers to take her back to 10 Downing Street and entrusts her with the mission of a lifetime. As Lara considers accepting the job, a strange assortment of supernatural and unexpected guests appear to convince her to do so. Some of the ghostly mediators are friendly, others confusing, and others downright dangerous.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Carlos Mota
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Tyson Wengler
  • Cover artist: Jonathan D. Smith / Clarence Lansang / Jay Leisten
  • Release date:: September, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #7

“The Low Down.” This small Australian town isn’t big enough for the two of them. Lara Croft begins investigating the mystery of the theft of the Maori Dream-Spear. She will only find the information she seeks after accepting a shootout with the man who knows what she is looking for. It seems that in Australia, they want her dead more than alive.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Tyson Wengler
  • Cover artist: Billy Tan
  • Release date:: October, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #8

Lara is about to discover the hard way how to get to the underworld in issue 8. She encounters a secret Maori tribe in New Zealand and convinces them to let her pass into the underworld in search of the thief who stole the Spear of Dreams. There’s just one problem… and that’s the passage of time in the Maori world… Lara struggles to understand the chronology, as visions, battles, and strange rituals follow one another like rapids in a raging river. Can Lara Croft master the time of dreams and pursue the thief of the Spear of Dreams?

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Tyson Wengler
  • Cover artist: Art Thibert / David Finch
  • Release date:: December, 2002
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #9

Lara’s journey to the Maori tribe in New Zealand reveals who stole the spear of dreams, but the most frustrating thing is that the spear of dreams seems to be the only way to access the Maori underworld. The only other way to reach the underworld is for Lara to get a tattoo covering her entire body that will leave her half in this world and half in the world of dreams, with the danger of not being able to escape if she stays too long in the Maori underworld. Lara must make the decision to accept the tattoo and take her first steps on her dream journey.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza / Sal Regla
  • Colorist: Brian Buccellato / Beth Sotelo
  • Cover artist: Billy Tan
  • Release date:: February, 2003
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #10

Lara continues her mission to recover the Spear of Dreams from the underworld. She has reunited with the spirit of her mentor and, together with him and her Maori guide, Akio, she follows its trail. But Kagan is treacherous, and at least one of them will not survive this journey.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza / Rick Basaldua
  • Colorist: Tyson Wengler
  • Cover artist: Billy Tan
  • Release date:: February, 2003
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #11

The final confrontation and climax of the mystery of the Spear of Dreams in the Maori underworld. Lara finally faces Kagan, the man who stole the influential Spear of Dreams from the Maori, and learns more about herself in the process. It seems that Lara and Kagan have been fighting the same battle for longer than she could ever have imagined. And Lara must decide between killing Kagan or changing the known destiny to start a new one.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Brian Buccellato / Steve Firchow
  • Cover artist: CORE Design
  • Release date:: April, 2003
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99

Journeys #12

Lara Croft returns from the Maori underworld with information about her mentor Carleton’s killer. She promises Myles that she will take care of his killer, as Myles must remain in the underworld despite his desire for revenge. But killing Charles Carleton goes against everything Lara Croft stands for. Will she avenge her mentor and pull the trigger? And what will the spirits of the dead do if she fails to avenge one of their own? This is the final chapter in the Tomb Raider: Journeys series.

  • Writer: Friona Avery
  • Penciller: Manny Clarke
  • Inker: Mario Alquiza
  • Colorist: Tyson Wengler
  • Cover artist: CORE Design
  • Release date: May, 2003
  • Format: 24 full-color pages
  • Price: $2.99