What bad taste? This was a very meaningful, poignant scene - one of best in the book. I only get "bad tastes" when the scene is bad, not when it's sad.

Really, I thought that the third issue was far and away the best part of the mini-series, as we really focused on the conflict between the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, and the colony, where everyone wants to do the right thing, but no one is quite sure what that is. It's certainly better then the second issue, which was almost entirely taken up by shenanigans. Fun shenanigans, yes, but still just shenanigans.