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Synopsis: The Avatar's adventures continue right where the TV series left off, in this beautiful, oversized hardcover of The Promise, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! Aang and friends must join together once again as the four nations' tenuous peace is threatened in an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei! As the world heads toward another devastating war, Aang's friendship with Zuko throws him into the middle of the conflict! Featuring annotations by Eisner Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and artist Gurihiru (Thor and the Warriors Four), and a brand-new sketchbook, this is a story that Avatar fans need in an edition they will love!
Review: The Promise is the first comic arc that occurs after the end of the Avatar: The Last Airbender show. Team Avatar have started to do their own thing to maintain peace in the world, but Prince Zuko asks Aang to make a promise to him. Zuko wants Aang to kill him if Zuko starts to become like his dad. Considering the Fire Nation is entirely about colonialism, this particular conversation hits on many different levels. How do you reconcile with the fact that your father was a dictator who wanted to kill other nations? There’s an area of the Earth nation that was conqured over 100 years ago and, because of that, that particular are has had Earth and Fire nation practices incorporated into their day-to-day lives. Zuko has to wrestle with what the best option is. Does he completely eject the Fire Nation and give the Earth Kingdom their land back? How will that change how that area grows? The Promise allows Zuko to ask these questions of himself and his people.
We see Aang struggle throughout this story too. He doesn’t want to hurt his friend, but he’s expected to keep his end of the promise if it comes to it. In a swift change of tone, we see how romantic relationships can affect friend groups like Team Avatar. At the end of the show, Aang and Katara start dating and this changes the dynamic of the group quite a bit. There's a scene in the comic where Aang loses control and Katara has to talk him back. She calls him "sweetie" and, while I understand their relationship is different now, I kind of hated this scene. In the show, the same thing happens and it's because of Aang and Katara's friendship that Aang is able to come back to himself. I wish they kept this connection between Aang and Katara. Katara could have called Aang "sweetie," seen that it didn't work, then tried again as Aang's friend instead of his girlfriend.
Really fun continuation of The Last Airbender world and characters.
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Synopsis: The Avatar's adventures continue right where the TV series left off, in this beautiful, oversized hardcover of The Promise, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! Aang and friends must join together once again as the four nations' tenuous peace is threatened in an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei! As the world heads toward another devastating war, Aang's friendship with Zuko throws him into the middle of the conflict! Featuring annotations by Eisner Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and artist Gurihiru (Thor and the Warriors Four), and a brand-new sketchbook, this is a story that Avatar fans need in an edition they will love!
Review: The Promise is the first comic arc that occurs after the end of the Avatar: The Last Airbender show. Team Avatar have started to do their own thing to maintain peace in the world, but Prince Zuko asks Aang to make a promise to him. Zuko wants Aang to kill him if Zuko starts to become like his dad. Considering the Fire Nation is entirely about colonialism, this particular conversation hits on many different levels. How do you reconcile with the fact that your father was a dictator who wanted to kill other nations? There’s an area of the Earth nation that was conqured over 100 years ago and, because of that, that particular are has had Earth and Fire nation practices incorporated into their day-to-day lives. Zuko has to wrestle with what the best option is. Does he completely eject the Fire Nation and give the Earth Kingdom their land back? How will that change how that area grows? The Promise allows Zuko to ask these questions of himself and his people.
We see Aang struggle throughout this story too. He doesn’t want to hurt his friend, but he’s expected to keep his end of the promise if it comes to it. In a swift change of tone, we see how romantic relationships can affect friend groups like Team Avatar. At the end of the show, Aang and Katara start dating and this changes the dynamic of the group quite a bit. There's a scene in the comic where Aang loses control and Katara has to talk him back. She calls him "sweetie" and, while I understand their relationship is different now, I kind of hated this scene. In the show, the same thing happens and it's because of Aang and Katara's friendship that Aang is able to come back to himself. I wish they kept this connection between Aang and Katara. Katara could have called Aang "sweetie," seen that it didn't work, then tried again as Aang's friend instead of his girlfriend.
Really fun continuation of The Last Airbender world and characters.
4 howls
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