Avatar: The Last Airbender Promises To Hit Bookstores Soon!
Just to warm up all of us before the much-awaited sequel of Avatar: The Last Airbender called the Legend of Korra, which is expected to go on air in 2012, the company, Dark Horse Comics, is going to release a new series of Avatar comics!
This comic is called Avatar: The Last Airbender – Promise Part 1. It’s going to be penned by the Eisner Award winning writer Gene Luen Yang. Yang himself loves to watch Avatar cartoons.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story having Asian mythological influences. It is set in a fictional era when our world was divided into four kingdoms: the Earth Kingdom, the Fire nation, the Water Tribes and the Air nomads. Peace between these four territories is maintained by Airbenders, Waterbenders, Earthbenders and Firebenders. Catch the show online to witness its creative concept!
Above all these peacemakers is the ultimate power called Avatar, who uses martial arts to bend all the four elements of nature. The story follows the protagonist Aang and his friends as they battle a villainous fire lord.
Taking cue from the massive success of the earlier seasons of the show, Nickolodeon has announced a sequel called The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra.
Gene Luen Yang, with the help of the creators of the animated series, is writing the Airbender graphic novel. This will be an 80-page novel in paperback that will be available in January 2012.
In a recent interview, Yang said that he has taken inspiration only from the Airbender television series and has not even watched the movie made on the same concept.
If you remember, the writer had expressed his opposition to the M. Night Shyamalam directed film The Last Airbender in 2010 as well, because he thought that the portrayal of the Asian boy Aang by a Caucasian in the movie was inappropriate and against the spirit of the character.
Well, we hope the new graphic novel hits the bookstores soon!
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