Avatar: The Last Airbender (Comic)

Comic
title	Avatar: the last airbender
Original title	Avatar: The Last Airbender
country	United States
author	Gene Luen Yang , Michael Dante DiMartino , Bryan Konietzko , and others
Illustrator	Gurihuri et al .
publishing company	Dark Horse Comics
First publication	June 2005 - ...
expenditure	19+

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a comic series that has been published by Dark Horse Verlag since January 2012 as the official sequel to the animated series Avatar - The Last Airbender (2005–2008) . Previously, individual stories were published in Nickelodeon Magazine and on the DVDs of the television series from June 2005 , before they first appeared in an anthology in July 2011. The series has been published in German by Cross Cult since September 2012 .

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After the events of the television series and the end of the Hundred Years War, the world is changing: progress meets tradition. Avatar Aang is forced to rethink his role and the definition of harmony that has been taught him. The new Fire Lord Zuko, meanwhile, has problems with not being accepted by some of his subjects and fears that he will develop into a monster over time. He also wants to finally find out what happened to his mother after her exile. Meanwhile, Toph opens a metal beating school in the former Yu Dao colony. All of this also leads to tension within Team Avatar, which rarely comes together completely. The young people soon realized that there were still many problems after the war.

The promise

After the war, the Fire Nation decides to dissolve its colonies. Zuko asks Aang to kill him in case he turns into a monster. When the city of Yu Dao refuses, another war threatens. While the Fire Nation under Zuko protects the city, Aang and the Earth Kingdom want to force it. Aang also feels compelled to keep his promise and kill Zuko. A great battle ensues in which Aang realizes that the nations cannot simply be separated. He convinces the Earth King that the colonies belong neither to the Fire Nation nor to the Earth Kingdom, but that something new should emerge from them.

As a subplot, Toph opens a metal taming academy and defends it against firebenders.

The search

Zuko signs a kind of truce with Azula and releases her from the asylum to search for her mother. However, Azula first visits Ozai in prison, who gives her a letter from her mother to her former fiancé Ikem. Together with his friends and Azula, Zuko sets out to find Ursa.

Azula has hallucinations of her mother and attacks the environment several times for no reason. In doing so, she provokes a wolf spirit that attacks the group. After the attack, Zuko finds the letter and learns of his parentage: his father is not Ozai, but Ikem. After the group reached the hometown of Ursa, they learned there that Ikem had emigrated to the valley of oblivion, has not been seen since then and that Ursa would have followed him there after their exile. In the valley of oblivion they meet the siblings Misa and Rufa who are looking for the mother of faces. Aang agrees to help and seeks them out in the spirit world.

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Single volumes

With the exception of The Lost Adventures , all comics consist of three volumes each, which appear under a common title. Cross Cult numbers the comic volumes beginning with the first volume of The Promise and ranked The Lost Adventures as the fourth volume between the first and second comic trilogy. There is no official continuous numbering in the original.

Volume no.	title	published (USA)	published (D)	Authors	Illustrator	ISBN (D)
1	The Lost Adventure ( The Lost Adventures )	77841738575 ♠June 15, 2011	77914484125 ♠Apr 29, 2013	Chan, Ehasz, Hamilton, Hedrick, Lumumba, Matte, Mattila, O'Bryan, Pittarese, Ralph, Roman, Torres, Wilgus	Dos Santos, Ganter, Garagarza, Gurihiru, Lewis, Lodge, Matte, McWeeney, Ralph, Ridge, Spaulding	978-3-86425-068-2
1	The Promise ( The Promise )	77866483225 ♠Jan 25, 2012	77889832500 ♠Sep 20 2012	Gene Luen Yang ( script & plot) Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko (plot)	Gurihiru	ISBN 978-3-86425-065-1
2		77878855550 ♠May 30, 2012	77892344175 ♠Oct 15, 2012			ISBN 978-3-86425-066-8
3		77890390650 ♠26 Sep 2012	77897460550 ♠0Dec 6, 2012			ISBN 978-3-86425-067-5
1	Search ( The Search )	77910670100 ♠20 Mar 2013	77921181925 ♠05th July 2013			ISBN 978-3-86425-150-4
2		77921647050 ♠July 10, 2013	77925647125 ♠Aug 21, 2013			ISBN 978-3-86425-151-1
3		77932437950 ♠Oct 30, 2013	77933926350 ♠Nov 14, 2013			ISBN 978-3-86425-152-8
1	The gap ( The Rift )	77947973125 ♠05th Mar 2014	77955229075 ♠19th May 2014			ISBN 978-3-86425-367-6
2		77959601250 ♠02nd July 2014	77964717625 ♠25 Aug 2014			ISBN 978-3-86425-368-3
3		77971787525 ♠0Nov 5, 2014	77974392225 ♠0Dec 1, 2014			ISBN 978-3-86425-369-0
1	Smoke and Shadows ( Smoke and Shadow )	78006206775 ♠23 Sep 2015	78010858025 ♠0Nov 9, 2015			ISBN 978-3-86425-814-5
2		78014486000 ♠Dec 16, 2015	78022672200 ♠0Feb 8, 2016			ISBN 978-3-86425-815-2
3		78026393200 ♠16. Mar. 2016	78032346800 ♠May 16, 2016			ISBN 978-3-86425-816-9
1	North and South ( North and South )	78044067950 ♠Sep 14 2016	78047602900 ♠Oct 20, 2016			ISBN 978-3-95981-024-1
2		78059975225 ♠Jan. 25, 2017	78061370600 ♠0Feb. 8, 2017			ISBN 978-3-95981-025-8
3		78068998650 ♠26 Apr 2017	78073835950 ♠June 14, 2017			ISBN 978-3-95981-336-5
1	Team Avatar Tales (Team Avatar Stories)	78120627525 ♠05th Sep 2018	23 December 2019	Gene Luen Yang and much more.		ISBN 978-3-95981-891-9
1	Imbalance ( imbalance )	78124069450 ♠Oct 10, 2018	15th May 2019	Faith Erin Hicks (script & plot) Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko (plot)	Peter Wartman	ISBN 978-3959818711
2		78148255950 ♠May 14, 2019	Jul 24, 2019			ISBN 978-3959819862
3		78161930625 ♠0Oct. 1, 2019	Jan 15, 2020			ISBN 978-3959813709

The lost adventures

This is an anthology of short comics, most of which had previously been published in Nickelodeon Magazine from June 2005 and as a supplement to the series' DVD boxes. The 26 comics included come from a wide variety of authors and illustrators, some of whom worked on the original series. You play between the episodes of the original series, plus two bonus stories that are outside of the canon .

Season	title	Author (s)	Illustrator	Colorist	Letterer
Book 1: water	Fidgeting is silver, standing still is gold	Joshua Hamilton, John O'Bryan	Justin Ridge	Hye Jung Kim	Clem Robins
	Water fight	Tim Hedrick	Justin Ridge	Hye Jung Kim	Comicraft
	Snot nose	Alison Wilgus	Elsa Garagarza	Wes Dzioba
	Relics	Johane Matte, Joshua Hamilton	Johane mat	Hye Jung Kim
	Fruity freestyle	Brian Ralph
Book 2: Earth	Sleep control	Joshua Hamilton	Joaquim Dos Santos	Hye Jung Kim	Clem Robins
	Lessons	Johane mat		Wes Dzioba	Comicraft
	Sokka the Avatar	Joshua Hamilton	Justin Ridge	Sno Cone Studios
	Dirt is only superficial	J. Torres	Gurihiru
	Stand together, fall apart	Frank Pittarese	Justin Ridge	Hye Jung Kim Wes Dzioba
	Top performance	J. Torres	Corey Lewis
	It's only natural	Johane Matte, Joshua Hamilton	Johane mat	Wes Dzioba
	Homecoming	Aaron Ehasz, May Chan, Katie Mattila, Alison Wilgus	Amy Kim Ganter	Wes Dzioba
	The bridge	Joshua Hamilton, Tim Hedrick, Aaron Ehasz, Frank Pittarese	Reagan Lodge
Book 3: Fire	Private fire	Joshua Hamilton	Johane mat	Wes Dzioba
	Nocturnal	Katie Mattila	Justin Ridge	Wes Dzioba
	Time out for boys	Alison Wilgus	Gurihiru
	Fiery arcade	Corey Lewis
	Monster tamer	J. Torres	Gurihiru
	Incinerator on the train	Alison Wilgus, Rawles Lumumba	Tom McWeeney	Wes Dzioba
	Swordbending	Alison Wilgus	Justin Ridge
	No access for tamers	Alison Wilgus	Elsa Garagarza
	Love is a battlefield	J. Torres	Gurihiru
	Kite days	Alison Wilgus	Johane Matte (frame story), Tom McWeeney (flashback)	Wes Dzioba
	time to play	Katie Mattila	Justin Ridge	Hye Jung Kim
	Bumi versus Toph, Round 1	Johane Matte Joshua Hamilton	Johane mat	Hye Jung Kim
bonus stories	New recruits	Dave Roman	Justin Ridge	Sno Cone Studios, Hye Jung Kim
bonus stories	Sports lesson	Alison Wilgus	Ethan Spaulding	Wes Dzioba

Anthologies

After the publication of the individual volumes, the trilogies appeared together in a large-format anthology, originally referred to as the Library Edition and in German as the Premium Edition . In addition, pages in the anthologies were provided with comments and background information from the people involved.

German title	Original title	published (USA)	published (D)	ISBN (D)
The promise	The Promise	77907693300 ♠Feb 20, 2013	77953089500 ♠Apr 28, 2014	978-3-86425-370-6
The search	The Search	77944996325 ♠0Feb 5, 2014	77972252650 ♠Nov 10, 2014	978-3-86425-371-3
The gap	The Rift	77984252875 ♠Feb 11, 2015	78006671900 ♠28 Sep 2015	978-3-86425-687-5
Smoke and shadows	Smoke and Shadow	78044719125 ♠21 Sep 2016	78085464075 ♠Oct 11, 2017	978-3-95981-617-5
North and south	North and South	78088068775 ♠0Nov 7, 2017	April 16, 2019	978-3-959817-32-5

Special editions

Between 2013 and 2015, an exclusive free comic was published annually in the USA on Free Comic Book Day (FCBD). In the comic Team Avatar Tales , which will be published in 2018, the three editions of the FCBD will be republished together with new stories.

Only the last two comics were published in German, together with a story from The Lost Adventures, exclusively on Free Comic Day 2016.

German title	title	published (USA)	published (D)	action	drawings
	rebound	77915135300 ♠04th May 2013		Gene Luen Yang	Ryan Hill
Shellfish	Shells	77953740675 ♠0May 3, 2014	78032160750 ♠May 14, 2016		Faith Erin Hicks
Sisters	Sisters	77992346050 ♠0May 2, 2015	78032160750 ♠May 14, 2016		Carla Speed McNeil

Individual evidence

↑ Avatar: The Last Airbender - Title Overview. In: cross-cult.de. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
↑ Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures. Dark Horse Comics, accessed May 12, 2013 .

[1] Avatar: The Last Airbender - Title Overview. In: cross-cult.de. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .

[2] Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures. Dark Horse Comics, accessed May 12, 2013 .