“If you open your mind, you will see that all the elements are one. Four parts of the same whole… to master the Avatar State, you must open all the chakras. Surrender yourself… Let the pure cosmic energy flow.”
I’m excited to share with you all “Legacy”- the newest entry in my personal tribute to the timeless & marvelous “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra” series! I finally found some free time this year to rewatch the series and then dive into reading the Dark Horse comics for the very first time ever. I am now all caught up and have a newfound affection for the lore, all thanks to the high talents of Mike DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, and every other brilliant mind that has contributed to the Avatar series. A big thank you to each of them, as well as a big thanks to all of you for your continued support!
I’ve read “The North and the South” and it’s cool, but not great enough for the last Avatar comics (or, maybe it’s not last, and I just don’t know about the next?). It’s mostly about Sokka, Katara, their tribe and their father. One more time environment problem (like in “The Rift”, and connection with that story was probably the reason to bring Toph back?), and the new thing was water siblings and their father dealing with the loss of the mother. (SPOILERS!) Hakoda has a girlfriend now. Sorry. And they also get Zuko back, because of southern water tribe coming into the world of politics.
I’ve read “Smoke and shadow” and it’s really cool! It’s mostly about Zuko and his family and (Mai and her family). Firstly: I just can’t stand Zuko being sweet. And he is very sweet here. Mostly with his little sister and it’s double sweet! Honey-sweet! And we have Zuko-Mai relationship development. (SPOILERS!) Mai has a new boyfriend, well, at first, she just pretends to be attracted to him and uses him, but then… She really falls in love, but… In the end, they split up and there is an allusion to her coming back to Zuko. And I am very glad about that. And the plot is also very good: there is a pinch of politics, a pinch of drama and as always good fights. And Azula with her strange ideas about how to be the Fire Lord the right way. So, there is only one Avatar comics book left.
I’ve read “The Rift” and it was worse than “The Search” – it has two ideas about ecology and “bad capitalist”. We have some more spirit stuff and a person, who finds Toph more exciting person than Avatar and cool interaction with Toph’s metal bender students. Oh, and reunion of Toph and her father.
I’ve read “The Search” and liked it very much. It’s a story about Zuko looking for his mother (SPOILERS!) - You remember that cliffhanger at the end of the series? So, here we see the development of this. Here are two parallel stories: about the search and about Ursa’s youth and her early life as a wife of the Fire Lord. Both of them are interesting and of course, they are connected. In the search story, Azula is back, because Zuko wants her to help him in the quest, of course, she tries to run away or fight Zuko. And he tries to be a good brother, to be nice to her. Once, when he covers her during the cold night and finds a letter from his mother to her ex-boyfriend. It says that Zuko is their son. (actually (real SPOILERS!) it’s not true). Then Avatar team, Zuko and Azula find Ursa’s home village and a family of actors. And Zuko is very sweet in that scenes. Then we have a bunch of spirit stuff connected with faces (Remember that spirit from the end of the “Water” book? Like him, but here we have the Main Spirit of Faces.) and find out that actress from the village is actually Ursa. But she remembers nothing, and then Zuko comes back and Azula chases him. This woman, who doesn’t remember Azula, Zuko or anything felt sorry for Azula, who tries to kill her right now! But then she got her face and memories back and everybody is happy (well, except Azula).
This post wasn’t supposed to be so long, but it just happened… Sorry.
