Dark Horse Comics - Avatar: TLAB (Continuation)

[Technobuilder]

Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting it's own comic series continuation as well as new unreleased art. (http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=2687)

From Dark Horse's official press release:

"We had a great experience collaborating with Dark Horse on Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Art of the Animated Series," series co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino said. "We are excited to work closely with them once again to bring the further adventures of Avatar Aang and his friends to the comic world."​

Apparently, the art book and the Comic Strips (Some Previously Unseen) contributed to a cordial working relationship and the genesis of new Avatar The Last Airbender content for 2012. (Zuko's Mother anyone?)

Nice!


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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/09/avatar-the-last-airbender-returns-at-dark-horse-comics/

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/02/10/avatar-the-last-airbender-comics-free-comic-book-day-2011/

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-782/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender---The-Art-of-the-Animated-Series

 

[Mr Light]

Any new Avatar news is great news to me! I'd love to see that making of art book but it costs a ton.

 

[Technobuilder]

^Agreed.

Hope this does better than the Gaygoyles Comic Continuation managed.
I always felt like that story was just getting started and then *poof*.

 

[Christopher]

Hope this does better than the Gaygoyles Comic Continuation managed.
I always felt like that story was just getting started and then *poof*.

How long did that comic run, anyway? I heard about the first couple of issues, but then lost track of it. And is there a trade paperback compilation?

 

[bigdaddy]

Even if the comics stop suddenly we are still getting the sequel cartoon series that should fill in some blanks.

 

[Technobuilder]

Hope this does better than the Gaygoyles Comic Continuation managed.
I always felt like that story was just getting started and then *poof*.

How long did that comic run, anyway? I heard about the first couple of issues, but then lost track of it. And is there a trade paperback compilation?

Christopher,

Gargoyles ran 12 issues but only 8 were published as single issues. The last 4 were collected and the entire run was published at Gargoyles: Clan Building Vol. 1 & 2 (6 issues each)
They're sized kind of like a cross between a regular comic and a manga collection.

There was also a spin off 6 issue Black & White series called Gargoyles: Bad Guys (Of which I still haven't purchased)

I enjoyed the collected story format, and there was talk of doing more Gargoyles stories in the collected trade format, but that was years ago by now and GW is now busy with Young Justice.

Here's a wiki link with more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(SLG_comic)

 

[Christopher]

^Thanks. I just ordered all three trade paperbacks.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Hope this does better than the Gaygoyles Comic Continuation managed.
I always felt like that story was just getting started and then *poof*.

How long did that comic run, anyway? I heard about the first couple of issues, but then lost track of it. And is there a trade paperback compilation?

"Four Episodes"

1 - Return of Thailog
2 - King Arthur + Stone of Destiny Story
3 - A Brooklyn In Time Story
4 - A Gargoyles Version of Suicide Squad

There is also an unofficial 5th script by Weisman thats a crossover between SSM and Gargoyles, but ties into 1,2&3.

 

[Technobuilder]

I fervently continue to hope that someone at Marvel Animation realizes that Gargoyles (A Disney property) could so easily be brought back at any time.

Until that day, Avatar: The Last Airbender is still out there (and hopefully M. Night won't kill it's popular perception too much)

 

[Christopher]

I fervently continue to hope that someone at Marvel Animation realizes that Gargoyles (A Disney property) could so easily be brought back at any time.

Yeah, that would be cool. And maybe it would prompt Disney to finally release the rest of the series on DVD.

Although it wouldn't work without Weisman at the helm, and he's busy on Young Justice. So maybe in a few years. And only if they could get the whole cast and core crew back -- Frank Paur directing, Michael Reaves story-editing, Carl Johnson scoring, etc. All the main actors are still around, though some of them might be more expensive now -- while others, like Frakes and Sirtis, might be less in demand now and easier to get.

 

[bigdaddy]

I fervently continue to hope that someone at Marvel Animation realizes that Gargoyles (A Disney property) could so easily be brought back at any time.

Until that day, Avatar: The Last Airbender is still out there (and hopefully M. Night won't kill it's popular perception too much)

I actually think the movie being so bad made it more popular. People watched the movie as a joke, and then told them how awesome the TV show is and made some new fans of the show.

 

[Christopher]

Until that day, Avatar: The Last Airbender is still out there (and hopefully M. Night won't kill it's popular perception too much)

I actually think the movie being so bad made it more popular. People watched the movie as a joke, and then told them how awesome the TV show is and made some new fans of the show.

And most of the movie reviewers panning the film seem to have made a point of saying that the show was much better.

Besides, anything that brings publicity and attention is good. Like they say, as long as they spell your name right.

 

[Technobuilder]

True enough. I myself gained notice of of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher as a result of a (then) Sci-Fi Channel press release giving the basic premise of the show. While I started reading the novels just before the TV show premiered, I was well into them by the time the show was canceled.

Probably never would have read them at all if not for the fact that the show's existence brought them to my attention in the first place.

In regards to Gargoyles, as much as I'd love another animated series... Greg Weisman's involvement would be absolutely essential to any such endeavor. I never even considered a new series in which he wouldn't be involved...

Also been pretty happy with Young Justice thus far and you can already see the groundwork being laid for larger stories to be told as the season progresses. I'm still not sure if it will ever develop the depth of plot mythology that Gargoyles had, but then again it's got the preexisting DC Comics mythology to rely upon and already built in. (Was that Cheshire in the last episode? I wasn't certain until her last line about fading into nothing.)

 

[Gojirob]

Maybe DHC will be able to get its hands on the ATLA tie-in comics they made for Nick Magazine and as extras in some of the DVD sets.

Yeah! Zuko and Ursa. Azula's inevitable return from insanity. Hints (Likely false) of any surviving Air Nomads.

BTW : Is TLA2 Feature Film deader than dead or is it still a possibility?

 

[bigdaddy]

Anything is possible but it's pretty damn dead. I don't even think it has made any money.

 

[Mr Light]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastairbender.htm

It did $319 million and that's before home video or action figure money.

 

[Technobuilder]

Maybe DHC will be able to get its hands on the ATLA tie-in comics they made for Nick Magazine and as extras in some of the DVD sets.

Those articles I linked stated that indeed those comics will be making a return in the pages of collected editions.

Azula's inevitable return from insanity.

It's certainly one of the threads I'd like to see addressed, but I've also heard that Azula the Ancient will be making an appearance in Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Guess we'll see how that overlaps.

 

[Gojirob]

Then I wish they would just come out and say it. If nothing else, to start the clock ticking for a proper reboot somewhere down the road.

I've tried to like TLA. I even put aside most of what got tossed around on the boards--and I still can't make that jump.

 

[Gojirob]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastairbender.htm

It did $319 million and that's before home video or action figure money.

Said action figures once again excluding Katara - except for the BK toys.

 

[Thestral]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastairbender.htm

It did $319 million and that's before home video or action figure money.

Be that as it may, it was so universally panned that I'd be shocked to see it get a continuation.