Lucy's Reviews > Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Part 2

Avatar by Gene Luen Yang

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Jun 02, 12

bookshelves: 2012-reads, 2012-releases, graphic-novels, favourites
Read on May 31, 2012

Another great addition to the Avatar: the Last Airbender universe. The artwork was once again perfect, the characterisation was spot-on and the story moved along at a fast pace, but without feeling rushed in any way.

Toph and Sokka were especially great in this installment. I loved their relationship in the TV series, so it was great to see them off on their own side-adventure while tensions reached boiling point for Aang, Katara and Zuko in the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation. I also think that Sokka and Toph's interaction and their individual personalities were captured perfectly.

I know a lot of fans are unhappy with the choices Zuko is making and feel that he is out of character. While I agree that his choices aren't good and he has a lot of simpler options available to him, I also think it's very in-character for Zuko to chose wrongly. how many times in the series did we shake our heads and scream at Zuko for the decisions he made? Even after his final choice to join Aang and fight against his father, he still had the same unfortunate one-step-forward-two-steps-back decision making skills. I'm confident that we'll see a growth in Zuko's character similar to the many changes that we saw in Zuko over the course of the three seasons of Avatar: the Last Airbender.

The best part of this installment is that the constant back-and-forth between humour and important story-building scenes kept the pace of the graphic novel exactly as it would have been if translated into an actual episode. Seeing and reading about the adventures of these characters I love, it was so easy to hear their voices and be transported back to the world of the TV show. I can't wait for the last part to be released in September!

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