My 6th birthday party was themed after Tomb Raider. We played bingo with custom C-R-O-F-T cards we had custom printed. My dad hired a friend from work to come dressed as Lara Croft. He made me my own Lara Croft belt: a ring of felt with a skull sharpied on front, with two construction-paper gun-holsters. My presents included a few Tomb Raider comic books and an Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft action figure that for the next few years I would sleep with as if it was a stuffed plush and not a hard plastic figure.

We could begin unpacking the fact that I was, in the 2nd Grade, already dreaming of becoming a woman. Though there is a more shocking fact:

I did not play through Tomb Raider until last week, a month prior to my 28th birthday.

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This was written as my inaugural Letterboxd review. It got a bit out of hand so I have decided to present it here as well.

While Part 3 of my writing on my personal journey into reading comic books continues to bake in my brain (a fancy way of saying I am still brainstorming its final format) (a fancy way of saying I have not yet started writing it) as the list of included comics grows, I wanted to stop for a moment and write about one in particular for selfish reasons.

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“Frogger: Walkable City” is a bite-sized RPG-Maker game about a world where Frogger is allowed to live. Its absurdity is instantly captivating, its humor is sharp in utilizing the RPG medium in profound ways, and the emotional core of the concept is gut wrenching. It manages to toe the line where such compliments are both facetious and justified. I recommend going in without any preconceived notions, stop reading here and play it yourself.

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