New Gene Yang Interviews + The Promise Sketches
Airspeed Prime
posted Friday, January 27th, 2012
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Airspeed Prime here again to give you a comic news update. So as you may have seen after reading my review that The Promise Part 1 is out right now in comic stores, Amazon I believe are shipping it out now or very soon so people will get it on or before the Book release date of February 7th.
Interviews
But enough of an Introduction you came here because of the title and new news. So to begin Gene Yang, the Writer of The Promise has done two recent interviews and these even more so than previous ones reveal some interesting stuff about Part 2 and 3, but nothing too specific.
The first Interview was with fellow Avatar Fansite, Avatar Spirit.
http://www.avatarspiritmedia.net/interviews.php?id=24
Then following this was an interview with Comic Book Resources
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36604
Alot of the questions cover stuff he has talked about in interviews before so for this post I will just bullet point out the really interesting points.
Interesting Points from the two interviews
Avatar Spirit
- Iroh and his relationship with Zuko will come up in future parts
- Zuko being related to Roku, mainly Roku finding this out will also come up in a future part
- We will see more of Suki, especially in Part 3
- What Ursa’s absence means is more important than What actually happened, from Mike and Bryan. This along with a recent interview Mike and Bryan had suggests that Ursa will not be resolved in The Promise, but it does also suggest that there is something else coming that we will find out about her in.
- Gene Yang really likes Sneers, he is trying to include him to get out more of his character
- Azula does make an appearance in these comics, he also confirmed that as we knew Azula is in an Asylum
- New Flying Bison and Lemurs as of now are not in the comics
Comic Book Resources
- Spoilers for Part 1……………… Zuko fears more what Ozai won’t tell him rather than what he will tell him.
- Part of how Aang gets into the idea of United Republic is with him seeing the world through a more modern lens
Sketches
So now onto the sketches that were released by Dark Horse Comics on Facebook.
So there are the sketches that Dark Horse posted on Facebook, personally I love seeing this sort of thing and it is amazing to see the behind the scenes stuff. Team Gurihiru’s art is just stunning even the line art and it is cool to see all the little notes that go into perfecting every character.
EDIT 28th January
Gurihiru on their blog shared these start to finish pictures of 4 pages
 
Also keep an eye on Dark Horses Website, Facebook and Twitter as they are really promoting Avatar well with loads of competitions and info. Like this awesome Computer Wallpaper http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Desktops/1222/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender
Oh and please if you can pick up The Promise Part 1 and support Avatar comics, if these do well it will mean a better chance for future Avatar comics. Here is a comic store locator to help you find your local store http://comicshoplocator.com/ .
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Azula’s in an ASYLUM? …..now that I think about it, I’m really that surprised.
Anyway, awesome sketches!
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Atry Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Is it really so hard to believe, what did you thought happened to her then?
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Airspeed Prime Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Well not everyone knows about the Asylum thing from the old Nick website.
This is pretty much our first full on confirmation that it is 100% canon.
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Atry Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
The old website is not gone.
Here it is:
http://kr.turbonick.nick.com/shows/avatar/index.jhtml
Airspeed Prime Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Wow, I never knew it was still up.
Kelly Reply:January 28th, 2012 at 12:27 am
How did you find that? If you go to Nick.com and go to avatar that type of format is not there anymore. Now its this.
http://nicktoons.nick.com/shows/avatar?navid=characterNav
Atry Reply:January 28th, 2012 at 4:51 am
I don’t know, I found it by chance
Destiny of Awe Reply:January 30th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
WOW. Thanks for posting that link, Arty. I missed the old Avatar page soo much.
I like the pics
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Airbender Prodigy Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Yea, they’re pretty awesome. (=
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I love the redesigns, thanks for posting the sketches
I also found out on the Dark Horse website, they’re launching a new Star Wars comic called “Dawn of the Jedi”.
I know that this is an Avatar site, but I just have to say it’s amazing they’re telling the story of the origins of the Jedi. So far we’ve only known it through text books, now they’re finally bringing it to life along with the galaxy 25 000 years before Luke Skywalker. It’s going to be great!
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Airspeed Prime Reply:January 27th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I am more a fan of the Star Wars novels, more specifically Darth Tenebrous up to the start of Episode 4 Timescale, I could never get into the original trilogy EU.
But I may be interested in looking into a few star Wars comics like that one.
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Atry Reply:January 28th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
So what prevents you from enjoying the novels about the Old Republic and Darth Bane?
Not that I’ve read them myself (I’ve hardly read any Star Wars novels), I’m just curious
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I actually just got an email from Amazon confirming that the book was shipped out to me this morning. =D
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Kelly Reply:January 28th, 2012 at 12:24 am
Same here I guess the Febuary 7th idea is out then? I should get mine monday
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WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO US ABOUT URSA. SERIOUSLY THIS IS ACTUAL TORTURE. But somethine knew!!! Thats almost worth it. (Probably will be worth it once I know what the ‘something’ is.)
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new* Wooooow. I need to get off the iced tea. -_-
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*Sniffle* It’s boomerang. That’s the happiest, most beautiful picture of them all.
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I really like all of them, but my favorite is toph. She looks like she has aged more than anyone
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The artwork in the comic is fantastic. It’s just like watching the show. Also, Dark Horse has a contest for the comic and the prize is a 7-foot Avatar poster.
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I like how they made Toph not uber skinny and her meteor bracelet? is that cannon? first I heard of it.
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Airspeed Prime Reply:January 29th, 2012 at 2:47 am
Well we know that she has it and it was referred to as a meteor Bracelet, Sokka gave her a lump of the meteor left over from his sword. When she made it into various things at the end of the episode the final thing was a bracelet
http://images.wikia.com/avatar/images/5/53/Toph's_bracelet.png
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307 The Runaway
Katara: “What about your meteor bracelet‌ You could make a saw. ”
Since this is a new design for her, the Promise part makes it canon that she wears it under her sleeve
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O.G. Sokka Reply:January 29th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Hmmmff just when I think I know it all… Thanks bud
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Airbender Prodigy Reply:January 30th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I know how you feel. =/
These are awesome! I think the sketches of Toph are awesome!
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Airbender Prodigy Reply:January 30th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Yep, they are probably my favorite. (=
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I absolutly love the detail and continuity of how they animateTophs meteor Braclet!! Awesome sketches and the book was a great intro to the next 2
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A QUESTION FOR AIRSPEED PRIME: Do you, in Ireland, have to pay monthly or something for Nick UK? Because you said you have it, and I’m trying to find out how I can watch korra :^)
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Airspeed Prime Reply:January 31st, 2012 at 9:06 am
My family have a Sky box and we get the nick channels on it, so it is a monthly thing, but not just for nick for all the sky channels overall (not stuff like Sky Sports and Sky Movies)
But I have resigned myself to having to watch Korra online because I need to keep up on things for this site and because I am just not waiting months to see it here.
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Hugh Reply:February 1st, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Oh right, well I hope it’s available online not too long after it’s been on TV because I haven’t got a Sky Box :^)
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And it’s lovely.
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