Avatar: Smoke and Shadow Announced

[espanolbot]

With the last part of Avatar: the Rift getting released a little while ago, Gene Yang has announced the next trilogy in the post-Airbender/pre-Korra Avatar comics: Smoke and Shadows.



This story will apparently bring focus back to Zuko and the Fire Nation, spinning off from things mentioned in the Promise and related Free Comicbook Day story (posted below), where there are people who feel that the new Fire Lord effectively accepted a "Treaty of Versailles" deal, giving up a leading position in the world stage due to foreign pressure.

I know that some people didn't like the political side of things in the first Avatar comicbook series, but personally I think that I thought that it was good worldbuilding. We don't often get to see the fallout from the "evil empire" getting defeated that often, and, obviously, there would be people who wouldn't accept the good guys winning due to the fact that... well... they thought that THEY were the good guys in this situation.

Plus... well... with Legend of Korra coming to a regretable close in a few weeks, and the creators saying how they don't want to make a post-Korra series, at least not within the next few years (not that Nickelodeon would give them the cash to make it...as the scheduling shambles and the "Rememberances" fiasco shows)... the comics at the moment are really the only part of this universe we'll be getting for the forseeable future. *sigh*

Anyways, here's Mai being awesome in her post-Promises break-up from Zuko, prior to her return in the next comicbook series.








My view of Legend of Korra... I've liked it since the start, though the previous two seasons have been excellent, in no small part due to the character development that Korra's gone on since her introduction. The arc of her recovering from the events of the season three finale, for example, was both something not often covered in (western) animation and was handled very well also.

Plus, Toph as Yoda! :D

Comments

[q99]

I look forward to this arc!

[ozaline]

I fell off the Korra bandwagon at the mid point of season 2, but now I'm all caught up and enjoying it muchly.

Looking forward to this comic, I am.

[icon_uk]

Likwise, but I've yet to catch up again... I was sort of let down by the history flashback story which promised great things, but to me made the origin of the Avatar concept more or less breaking down to "Some guy asked the Elemental creaatures very nicely and they gave them all the bending powers" which seemed... anticlimactic.

[ozaline]

Did you only watch one half of the two parter on the origins?

-Because spoilers-

Because while he gained the powers by asking, the Avatar is also bonded to the spirit of light and has to duel the spirit of darkness, and in fact could only survive holding the mutiple powers because of that spirit.

[crinos]

Now I want Tom Tom to show up in Korra as an awesome knife wielding stone face do gooder like his big sister.

[shingi70]

So anyone hope Mai and Zuko got back together before the events of Korra.

[anothermoviegeek]

Given Izumi's (Zuko's daughter) very pointy chin as we saw recently in Korra I think it is safe to assume that Mai and Zuko got back together.

[featheredserpent]

Considering the lack of support from the network, I don't really want to see Korra continue. Nothing's worse than taking a beloved property and half-assing it. Like Firefly, it's better to maintain artistic integrity.

[janegray]

Nice! :D

[remial]

wait, Zuko and Mai broke up? AGAIN?!?
why?