Avatar: The Last

Airbender – North
and South

Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and

South[1] is the fifth graphic novel trilogy
created as a continuation of Avatar: The
Last Airbender television series created by
Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan
Konietzko. The first comic in the trilogy
was published on September 28, 2016, the
second on February 7, 2017, and the final
one on April 26, 2017.
 Avatar: The Last Airbender – North
and South

Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and South,

Part 1 cover
Date September 28, 2016
(Part 1)
February 7, 2017
(Part 2)
April 26, 2017 (Part 3)
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Writers CreativeGene
teamYang

Artists Studio Gurihiru

Pencillers Chifuyu Sasaki
Inkers Chifuyu Sasaki
Letterers Michael Heisler
Colourists Naoko Kawano
Creators Michael Dante
DiMartino
Bryan Konietzko
Editors Dave Marshall
Original publication
Published in Avatar: The Last
Airbender
ISBN 9781506700229 (Part
One)
9781506701295 (Part
Two)
9781506701301 (Part
 Three)
9781506701950 (Library
edition)
Chronology
Preceded by Smoke and Shadow
(comic)
Followed by Imbalance (comic)

The trilogy is set following the events of

Smoke and Shadow. As a close sequel to
the original Avatar series, it depicts events
that occur seventy years before the sequel
series The Legend of Korra. In early June
2017, the artist team Gurihiru, who drew
the first five stories, announced that
Avatar: The Last Airbender – North and
South was their last story.[2] In 2018, Faith
Erin Hicks took over as writer with Peter
Wartman as artist for the next graphic
novel trilogy, Avatar: The Last Airbender –
Imbalance.[3][4]

Plot

Part One E…

Katara and Sokka return to their home

village in the Southern Water Tribe,
discovering that it has been transformed
into a bustling and thriving city
reminiscent of the Northern Water Tribe,
and that their father Hakoda has been
elected leader of the entire south. Though
Sokka is enthusiastic at the changes,
Katara fears that their tribe is losing its
cultural identity. While dining out with
Malina and her brother Maliq, the
northerners in charge of the
redevelopment process, thieves steal a
briefcase containing important documents
from Maliq, with Malina getting injured in
the struggle.

Katara and Sokka follow the thieves to a

secret hideout occupied by a group of
southern nationalists, who resent the
northern tribe's imposition of their values
onto the southern tribe, as well as
Hakoda's complicity in the matter. Their
leader, Gilak, expresses his belief that
Malina and Maliq have a hidden agenda
before Katara and Sokka escape the group
and return to the city. During their escape,
the pair run into Thod, Gilak's second in
command, who tells them of a story of a
snow rat with the ability to talk and walk
on two feet who endeared himself to a
human tribe, only to be driven away by
them when he asked to be treated as an
equal. The siblings and Maliq enter the
tent where Malina is recovering with
Hakoda by her side, only to discover the
pair of them kissing.
Part Two E…

Hakoda investigates the nationalists'

hideout, only to discover it abandoned with
a note informing him that he will soon see
the truth. Elsewhere, Katara and Sokka
learn from Malina and Maliq that, as part
of the redevelopment process, they will be
extracting from a massive oil reservoir
recently discovered in the Southern Water
Tribe, in order to enable a new age of
machinery in which machines become
part of everyday life. Katara continues to
have issues with Malina and her
relationship with Hakoda, owing to her
plans and unintentionally offensive
remarks towards the South. Further
conversation reveals that Malina and
Maliq are business partners of Toph's
father, with Toph herself later arriving as a
representative of her father.

At a festival thrown by Malina and Maliq,

Katara and Sokka meet up with Aang, who
has returned from helping to solve the
crisis in the Fire Nation. As Malina makes
a speech about her plans, the festival is
attacked by Gilak's nationalists, with Gilak
accusing her and Maliq of attempting to
seize the oil for the Northern Water Tribe,
in order to make the Southern Tribe a
puppet state of the North. As proof, he
cites the documents that were stolen from
Maliq. Malina admits that she had
originally planned to give the oil to the
North, out of fear the South would be
unable to handle it properly but changed
her mind upon meeting Hakoda and
seeing that the South was capable of
doing so. Maliq however insists that they
carry on with the original plan, decrying the
South as culturally backward and
incapable of governing itself, let alone
managing the oil.

Malina agrees to step down from the

redevelopment project and leave the South
Pole with all her people in an attempt to
defuse the situation, but Gilak and the
nationalists attack. In the ensuing battle,
Thod reminds Katara of the story he told
her, comparing the humans' treatment of
the snow rat to the North's low opinion of
the South, to convince her to join Gilak, but
she refuses. Later on, Hakoda attempts to
persuade Gilak to give up his crusade, but
Gilak stabs Hakoda in the chest before he
and his men are captured. The night
following the battle, Sokka and Katara
briefly argue over the South's future, Sokka
pointing out that Malina and Maliq's plan
of using the oil has merits, Katara
unwilling to allow the South to lose its
cultural identity. Elsewhere, as Gilak sits in
his prison cell, one of Hakoda's officers
smuggles him the key to his cell door,
having been convinced of his opinions.

Part Three E…

To continue the redevelopment of the

South, Toph brings her metalbending
students over to help with construction,
while Hakoda invites Fire Lord Zuko and
Earth King Kuei over to discuss a
collaborative reconstruction effort
between the three nations. The meeting is
interrupted when Gilak and his nationalists
escape their imprisonment and force their
way into the meeting room, kidnapping
Kuei during the subsequent fight. Gilak,
who by now considers Hakoda a traitor to
the South due to his willingness to
collaborate with foreigners, demands that
Hakoda turn himself over in exchange for
Kuei's return.

The two groups meet at the Bridge of No

Return, a rope bridge once used to exile
Southern Water Tribe criminals. As part of
the exchange agreement, Aang, Katara,
Toph, and Zuko agree to be chi-blocked by
the nationalists, before Hakoda and Kuei
are sent across the bridge. Once the two
men are in the middle of the bridge, Gilak
attempts to collapse it and kill them both,
but he is foiled by Malina and Toph's
metalbending students, who had sneaked
over to the other side of the bridge prior to
the exchange. Aang, Katara, and Toph then
subdue the nationalists on their side of the
bridge, having used chainmail armor
designed by Sokka and the metalbending
students to avoid being chi-blocked.

His forces beaten, Gilak destroys the

bridge in order to kill Hakoda, while Malina
tries to stop him. Aang barely manages to
carry the three of them whilst flying his
glider, but Gilak's attempts to kill Hakoda
cause him to lose his grip and fall to his
death. Fearing that Aang will not be able to
carry both her and Hakoda, Malina
attempts to sacrifice herself for the other
two by letting go of Hakoda's hand,
professing her love for him as she does so,
but she is saved by Katara.

The next day, Katara and Sokka visit their

mother Kya's grave, and Katara admits that
her ideal Southern Water Tribe would be
one where her beloved mother was still
alive. She then states that she has felt her
mother's spirit support her last night, and
on her previous adventures, and with this
belief that her mother has been with her all
along, she is subsequently able to accept
the changes happening in the South more
easily. The characters then meet up in
Gran-Gran's hut for a feast that includes
cuisine from all of their cultures.

References
1. Gerding, Stephen (2016-02-18). "New
"Avatar: The Last Airbender" Graphic
Novel Series Debuts in 2016" . Comic
Book Resources. Retrieved
19 February 2016.
2. Gurihiru. Twitter
https://twitter.com/Gurihiru/status/8
73036172699680768 . Retrieved
September 20, 2017. Missing or
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 3. Holub, Christian (5 October 2017).
"Avatar: The Last Airbender comic" .
Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved
5 October 2017.
4. " 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'
Continues in 'Imbalance' " .

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