Let me start of by saying that I love Zuko, he was my absolute favorite character from the original series. But I’m gonna be totally honest here, I hate the art style in this comic, I was really looking forward to getting the inside scoop on his banishment- but the artwork was so bizarrely different it didn’t even feel like the same story.

Zuko's origin story is just as we all know it to be packed with some real wholesome Uncle Iroh moments. The raw lineart is incredible, and the inking has me drooling. Such a great start to the story!

The art style is very different from usual ATLA comics. Iroh looks like he has rastas and is handsome??

Since it's the movie's back story of Zuko's journey as he searches for the Avatar it's not easy to not rate the movie as well. First of all, I think the art is very good, even though they are the movie's designs. Zuko's character comes off pretty much developed and his uncle is quite "alright" portrayed, in my opinion. As for the story itself ... oh well, you feel like reading a mix between "oh, this could actually be true to ATLA" and some other "oh, they made this up for the movie" stuff. Sinc...

Reading this story, which is by Dave Roman and the Alison Wilgus, I first wanted to say "And this is why they should let fanfic writers write for the canon. But then I didn't say that because it sounds like I'm just labelling Ali a fanfic writer, which I don't really think of her as, exclusively. (And also, let's face it, not all fanfic is good at all.) But what I meant was that part of what fanfic is is bringing those deeper character moments into a canon that doesn't always have time to linger...

I may have just recently finished watching Legend of Korra (I'm late, I know) and then gone a little overboard by ordering almost everything Avatar related my library had. This was my first draw off the pile, and I'm going to hope that it will be the least successful one. The problem starts with the source material. If you look at the cover closely (something you can't do when requesting library books from the online catalog) you can see that it's actually a tie in to the movie, not the cartoon....

You take away Uncle Iroh's belly fat and you lose 2 stars, simple as that.* * *Um you had me at Zuzu

"A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem and however far you may wonder from it . . . the important thing is that you learn from all your mistakes along the way . . ."-Uncle Iroh. This quite touching. (I am not gonna say I shed tears).But Whoa, I have a new found respect for Zuko's suffering. Having read this, I totally understand him now and get why he was so angry and determined at the beginning of the show, perhaps if this was an episode all...

After reading the, at best, mediocre The Last Airbender comic by the same author, this one here was pretty surprising.The art is better and I think the style, albeit sometimes looking a bit goofy, is fitting for this sort of dark story.Hard to say what diehard fans of the cartoon would say since this here is clearly intended to tie into the movie by Shyamalan and not the cartoon, however unlike the authors' previous comic book it seems that here they were given much more freedom and the story sh...

Avatar the Last Airbender, lives on as one of my all time favorite series. Maybe it is childhood nostalgia, but the series continues to delight me even today. Of course, when I saw a graphic novel prequel about Zuko's origin story, I couldn't resist. Zuko has always been my favourite character in the series because of the depth of his story, and because he is so much more relatable than any of the others.His fire and anger, coupled with a strong sense of idealism, and tempered by his Uncle Iroh'...

This comic draws mostly from the rather unfortunate movie adaptation, but taken out of that context, it's actually pretty good. It expands on the characters of both Zuko and Iroh, and has a few good touching moments that fit with what they were going through at the time. For the most part it could seamlessly attach itself to the series's canon, and I appreciate that.I liked seeing more of Pathik as well. And some of the things it did take from the movie, artistic choices and Iroh's appearance, a...

Ok. Granted, this was written as promotional material for the abominable (and racist!) The Last Airbender movie and not for the original series. But the writers really knew their stuff!! They treated the source material with great respect (unlike M. Knight Shyamalan who treated it with contempt). I loved all the callbacks to the original series and it was written and drawn with great care. My only major quibble is - WHY did the artist render Uncle Iroh SO WRONG? Everyone else looked right EXCEPT...

I feel like I finally read the missing chapter from Zuko's story. This was everything that I hoped for, and everything I suspected, with quite a few surprises and easter eggs. As expected, Zuko was every bit as traumatised by the Agni Kai. He was every bit as morose and quick tempered as we saw him to be at the beginning of Season 1. And while Azula reveled in her brother's departure, Iroh proved himself to be quietly supportive and exactly the kind of family/father figure Zuko needed.What surpr...

I was slightly torn reading this. It had the characters designed like the movie but the writing matched the cartoon. We got it for like $4 and it was worth adding to our Avatar collection. The best part of this book is the explanation of the Blue Spirit. I really liked that addition. Because I am such an Avatar fanatic that that little bit of background info was worth it for me.

I just finished the show today and was craving more Avatar, so I thought what better than read some comics. I was glad to find that the comics start off continuing right after the show. But of course, this one is an exception acting as a prequel just before the show starts. It a perfect prequel for the story, and it was better reading it after the show because I noticed a lot of characters and little things from the show that was in the comics like little easter eggs. I loved Uncle Iroh, but thi...

I bet Iroh is supposed to look like the terrible terrible movie version in a pathetic attempt to tie the two. “I felt like my stomach was full of fire. Like it would burn me up from the inside out. I almost wished that it would.” This line doesn’t apply to those with mental illness and depression but I still like it - “‘The warmth that burns inside every heart. By concentrating on that fire, you can control it. Stroke the flames and warm yourself from within, chasing away any chill of the air......

So this is based off both the movie and the Tv show. I have never watched the movie and have no desire to. That being said this was not bad. Everyone was in character, it followed the storyline of A:tla. But the characters all looked different, except for Azula. I think that they were older than they were supposed to be. Zuko looked to be around 15 in this when he was banished and he is actually 13. Azula looked older than Zuko, She looked like she was 16 and she is his younger sibling so she wo...

The artwork in this book is pretty sweet, and I have to say that I enjoy Zuko's hair better like this than the shaved scalp/queue he had on the TV series in the first season.This book provides a nice look into some of the time Zuko spent in exile, so it gives some more depth to his character. I was surprised and pleased by the appearance of Guru Pathik and his interactions with Zuko. I do wish that there had been a bit more of the more distant past (childhood, with Mom and Grandpa Azulon, his re...

Slight spoilers if you haven't seen the series, but nothing that would really ruin it for you. The characters are spot on, to the point that I could hear Iroh's voice as I read. We begin to see the very first tiny changes in Zuko from an angry, lost child to the more balanced person he eventually becomes. This is just plain good writing (and illustration), which makes it pretty darn brilliant by movie tie-in standards. I look forward to reading more by this author.

I don't usually read manga; I much prefer to just watch anime--part of the joy is in watching the animation. But as an unrepentant Avatar fangirl, I couldn't resist buying the Zuko/Iroh-focused movie prequel manga as a consolation gift to myself for how bad the movie was. Thankfully, the manga was more like the excellent animated series and less like its awful live action counterpart. Lots of character and touching Zuko/Iroh moments.