At this point, Avatar: The Last Airbender is only gaining steam, but it’s not yet running with the power of a locomotive. With The Legend of Korra's second season a faraway dot on a vast horizon, the ongoing comic book adventures of Avatar Aang and Friends (or Fire Lord Zuko and Friends, as is increasingly the case here) are the only new story that ( Read more... )

Broken Promise 3: Catastrophes in Threes

When Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise Part 1 came out, the Avatar franchise was ascendant. The fanbase was growing and glowing with the anticipated release of the sequel cartoon The Legend of Korra, Dark Horse had already published both a popular Art Book for the original cartoon and the non-canon ( Read more... )

When it comes to the Avatar franchise, it's either boom or bust. Since the original Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon series ended in 2008, little has been released for the property aside from an Art Book in 2010, but that was but a brief sip of water to the thirsty fans traveling across a four-year-long desert. (Then again, it could be worse; ( Read more... )

It's an interesting time to be a fan of the Avatar franchise. The original Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon is long done, the movie adaptation bombed, a new series is coming in the form of the very different-looking Avatar: The Legend of Korra, and now Dark Horse is publishing a trilogy a graphic novels continuing the story of the original ( Read more... )