Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South
Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South | |
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![]() Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South, Part 1 cover | |
Date | September 28, 2016 (Part 1) January 25, 2017 (Part 2) April 26, 2017 (Part 3) |
Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Creative team | |
Writers | Gene Yang |
Artists | Studio Gurihiru |
Pencillers | Chifuyu Sasaki |
Inkers | Chifuyu Sasaki |
Letterers | Comicraft |
Colourists | Naoko Kawano |
Creators | Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Smoke and Shadow (comic) |
Followed by | The Legend of Korra (TV series) |
Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South[1] is the fifth graphic novel trilogy created as a continuation of Avatar: The Last Airbender television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It follows the events of Smoke and Shadow. As a close sequel to the original Avatar series, it depicts events that occur seventy years before the sequel series The Legend of Korra.
Plot
Part One
Katara and Sokka return to their home village in the Southern Water Tribe, discovering that it has been transformed into a bustling and thriving city reminiscent of the Northern Water Tribe, and that their father Hakoda has been elected leader of the entire south. Though Sokka is enthusiastic at the changes, Katara fears that their tribe is losing its cultural identity. While dining out with Malina and her brother Maliq, the northerners in charge of the redevelopment process, thieves steal a briefcase containing important documents from Maliq, with Malina getting injured in the struggle.
Katara and Sokka pursue the thieves to a secret hideout occupied by a group of southern nationalists, who resent the northern tribe's imposement of their values onto the southern tribe, as well as Hakoda's complicity in the matter. Their leader, Gilak, expresses his belief that Malina and Maliq have a hidden agenda, before Katara and Sokka escape the group and return to the city. The siblings and Maliq enter the tent where Malina is recovering with Hakoda by her side, only to discover the pair of them kissing.
References
- ^ Gerding, Stephen. "New "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Graphic Novel Series Debuts in 2016". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 19 February 2016.