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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, Part 2 Paperback – Illustrated, May 30, 2012
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* Written by Eisner winner and National Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese).
- Reading age8 - 11 years
- Print length80 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.01 x 0.27 x 9.03 inches
- PublisherDark Horse Books
- Publication dateMay 30, 2012
- ISBN-101595828753
- ISBN-13978-1595828750
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- Publisher : Dark Horse Books; Illustrated edition (May 30, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 80 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1595828753
- ISBN-13 : 978-1595828750
- Reading age : 8 - 11 years
- Item Weight : 6.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.01 x 0.27 x 9.03 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #37 in Animation Graphic Design (Books)
- #56 in Children's Media Tie-In Comics
- #67 in Fantasy Graphic Novels (Books)
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Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. As the Library of Congress’ fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, he advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. American Born Chinese, his first graphic novel from First Second Books, was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the L.A. Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His other works include Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), Superman from DC Comics (with various artists), and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series from Dark Horse Comics (with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. His most recent books are Dragon Hoops from First Second Books and Superman Smashes the Klan from DC Comics.
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First, I of course love Toph--how she sometimes seems like such a stubborn jerk but has all these layers underneath, and how she has a real calling for teaching (and yelling at people), and how she comes to realize she may be trying to groom her metalbending students into something they really aren't . . . just like her parents did to her. And I liked that she asked Sokka to evaluate her ability to roll her eyes properly so she could roll her eyes at him. And her students were kind of hilarious, even though they were each pretty one-dimensional--the fearful doomsayer, the shoe-obsessed spoiled brat, and the goth-type kid who hates everything because someone gave him a terrible name. It was cool that they wanted to be more, but they . . . kind of weren't, at least not in the story.
Katara and Aang make a very cute couple, and I liked that Katara got so jealous of the Avatar fangirls. (I didn't love how they were stereotyped, though--as vacuous, predatory girls who threaten Katara's relationship.) I did like that Aang was pretty oblivious to the whole thing, enamored instead with the feeling that someone tried to recreate his home by modeling the fanclub headquarters after the Air Temple he'd grown up in.
And the complexity of Zuko continues to impress me. His father insists that a Fire Lord doesn't choose what's right; he MAKES things become right THROUGH the act of his choosing. (Wow, we've got some theory of knowledge philosophy lessons going on here! They were talking about that back in Ancient Greece!) Zuko rejects this idea of goodness being defined by HIS choices; he believes that good is bigger than everyone, and that Aang can help him find it. But the Earth King--determined to force peace, even if it means war--is about to ruin the tentatively forged balance that the Avatar worked so hard to establish.
If you loved Avatar you'll love these comics too.
While I honestly enjoyed reading this graphic novel, I must admit that it covers my least favorite part of the Promise Series. It almost feels like an attempt by the author (Gene Yang) to elongate the story. It seems this way because most of this book was about the subplots that revolved around the main story. Considering that this series is already a subplot and is a supplement to the TV show, I thought this was a waste of time. This novel focuses on Aang and Katara's relationship and Toph's metal bending academy. It rarely illustrates any confrontation between Zuko and Ozai. Thus, the cliff-hangers that were released at the end of The Promise: Part I will go unanswered.
The story in it self was good but it was not meant for this book. As I said before, I think the series was elongated, that too, for financial reasons. Nevertheless, if you feel like collecting all the Avatar books, this is a good buy.







