ATLA comics, are they good?

So, I loved the show from start to finish as i was a young teen. Just recently i decided to rewatch the show nearly ten years later and I was even more impressed by the show now that I could understand the characters better. So Sup Forums Are the comics worth buying?

They're really bad. All of the cast feels out of character in them.

They are terrible. Hell, even Rufftoon's Water Tribe (a fancomic) does a better job at continuing the universe post-ATLA and pre-LoK.

Depends. Do you enjoy getting angry?

I think they are fantastic! I really enjoyed them. They are by the same writers, and the story seems to naturally follow the tv series. There is also some good character development of a lot of the main cast.

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Geez that bad huh. What went wrong?
Now that is a mixed message.

>They are by the same writers
Bryke plotted but Gene Yang wrote.

This. The characters do a lot of dumb silly things too.

And the conclusion we get to the Zuko's mom subplot was pretty darn disappointing

>The Promise
The whole conflict and drama seems like it could have been avoided, but Ozai and Zuko interactions are GOAT. It really fleshes out Ozai without compromising on him being a bad guy.

Mediocre but I'd still read the Ozai parts

>The Search
None of the twists really mean anything and they give parent issues (the series' favorite go-to character problem) to a character that REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE PARENT ISSUES

Not good but still readable

>The Rift
Feels like an ATLA episode, but not a great one. Yangchen is qt in it.

Okay

>Smoke and Shadow
Filled with Fire Family drama, a love triangle nobody likes, and Azula becoming even more of a special snowflake.

Shit. Irredeemable shit.

>North and South
I haven't read the last issue yet, but it's shaping up well so far. I'd say it's the closest one to an ATLA episode. Or maybe it just seems better coming off of the shitstorm that was Smoke and Shadow.

Fuck no they are complete trash

Especially the fucking Korra ones. They retcon shit and then end up retconning what they retconned

Total mess

The ones i've read (all except North and South) were ok but boring to me.

I thought Gene did everything and send it off for the ok to print from bryke.

The Korra ones aren't even out yet.

There's been some previews and a leaked page or two, and they look like shit allready.

Read the first 4. The first three are good but the forth has a lot of problems. Didn't read north and south

No
the only good ATLA stuff is the show

i like them they are not that bad

nice opinion

see idiots like this is how hates the comics and korra fuck you

Just telling it how it is.

It brought to my attention the crack pairing of Zuki and against all logic I ended up digging it and regretting it would never actually happen.

Other than that, meh.

yea your shit opinion

It's basicly korrasami fanfic, complete with a rewrite of original scenes. It's about as shit as this stuff gets.

They're a solid 5/10 which is just average. I think the weakest one was Smoke and Shadow because of how really unnecessary it was.

I agree it's really to early to judge but it's definitely annoying that they're going with the "Korrasami was there since the start" angle and not acknowledging they're just stumbling into this relationship and are still trying to figure out how to click together, which is how Bryan initially framed their relationship.

Also in one of the panels Korra looks like she was drawn by the guy who does Attack on Titan and its irrationally bugging me. I don't think these comics should have been colored, the artist's style looks better in black and white.

Well it is Bryke, they haven't been able to stay consistent about Korrasami since the show ended. Not surprising he would say one thing and it turns out to be the opposite.

you are retarded

the comics sucked
the games were shitty cash grabs
don't even want to talk about the movie

the cartoon was the best thing and it ended up being the only good piece of ATLA

i dont even know why i go into avatar threads on Sup Forums all you stupid fucks bitch about is how you hate korra and mad about your headcanon

another opinion the only thing you are right about is that shit movie

user even the most chill threads about Korra are filled with negative opinions. I'd suggest trying /u/ since they're usually nicer but they've also drunken the Asami kool-aid.

We're mostly mad about other peoples headcanon and that some people will excuse everything in LoK because of lesbians.

you just have low standards

Isn't one of the previews basically Asami saying she realized how she felt about Korra during the 3 years apart. That's not really retconning since that was what most Korrasami fans assumed was the case.

>The Promise
It was the first thread in an awful tapestry that was Korra. Everything terrible about Korra can be traced back to this shitty comic.
>The Search
Azulafags liked it.
>The Rift
Meh. Doesn't really move the plot anywhere. It feels like filler but it got 3 whole volumes.
>Smoke and Shadow
Azulafags hated it.

Well maybe Korra should have tried to be a good series instead of a pile of shit.

no you fucks only bring up the bad parts even blaming korra for shit she didnt do and this shit

Wasn't it the other was around with Azulafags hating the search because of how shit she was treated and Smoke and Shadow being liked because Azula was in her element in walking all over Zuko?

i love this meme

the issue about Ty-Lee and Toph might not have been amazing, but fuck it, they were my two fave characters, so I'd read again anyways since they completely ignored Ty-Lee for the entire series and only focused on Mai out of the two

fuck you Mai

I don't think retconning is actually the right word, but Korra says something about how she felt Asami was the only one who really understood her and that started with the race car ride in book 1. The problem with this is that it completely ignores that Korra NEVER goes to Asami with her problems, even in books 3 and 4 (except for the letters but we only hear one of them and not Asami's response). If Korra felt like Asami understood her, why did they never talk? Why did all two of Asami's attempts to get Korra to talk about her problems fall flat?

We've only seen one part of the comic so it might be too early to make such calls but it gives me a bad feeling.

Many if not most Azulafags wanted her to be redeemed and were pissed that she wasn't redeemed in S&S

Yeah they're dragging this shit out in the most bizarre ways, just either kill Azula or let her be redeemed. LOK basically spoils that she doesn't win out against Zuko in the long run.

you can like whatever you want

just don't piss on my leg and tell its raining

you sound like a fucking idiot

To be absolutely fair in Book 3 they were spending most of their time together and one of those instances was Korra talking about her grievances to Asami.
And I wouldn't see it as a stretch to say that Korra feeling that Asami might be the only one that can truly get her, but at the same time she's too insecure to adress it until they can actually talk. And with the whole Mako thing having hung over them for the entirety of Book 1 and 2 it was kinda awkward.

Depends. Zuko's daughter clearly doesn't give enough of a shit about the other nations to give proper military support.

You seem really pissed off over people not liking ATLA spinoffs.

>To be absolutely fair in Book 3 they were spending most of their time together and one of those instances was Korra talking about her grievances to Asami.

Yeah and why didn't we see more of that? I need a little more than just Asami sitting next to or standing slightly closer to Korra. Even when she's watching her meditate it's awkward and unnecessary because Asami couldn't even do anything if the Red Lotus DID show up.

And they got over the Mako thing in the first fifteen minutes of the season. I think they should have dragged that out more.

What grievances was that again?

And the rest is just not true. She barely interacts with Asami in the first books, and shows no interest in doing so at all.

me na you seem upset about somebody liking something you dont

They have a little talk at the start of book 3 about Korra being upset over her approval ratings, but it goes something like this:

>"Ugh nobody's giving me a chance to fix this and they all hate me!"
>"It'll work out Korra :)"
>"No it won't."
>":("

Then in Remembrances they talk a little more but again, Asami just basically tells Korra to lighten up and of course it doesn't work.

>Yeah and why didn't we see more of that?
I would imagine because there is nothing to see.

Oh that. Didn't she talk about the approval ratings with other people aswell, or was she talking to herself outside city hall.

And yeah Korra never really listened to Asami, so it's no wonder she recieves no relief from her words.

Guess because they had to cram so much poot into such short seasons. I'm still wondering why they only had 13 episode seasons instead of the same amount as AtlA.

>And they got over the Mako thing in the first fifteen minutes of the season. I think they should have dragged that out more.
If anything them not dragging that shit out was one of the good things about it.

>What grievances was that again?
The Earth Queen using her as her little errant lady while not telling her about the Air Benders.

>And the rest is just not true. She barely interacts with Asami in the first books, and shows no interest in doing so at all.
Yes, and that's why I said she might have felt that way, but didn't act because of Mako. You know the dude they were both dating. It's at least a justification. It's better for them to say it like they did in the comics so far rather than say "you were always the closest to me" because that would definitely be a lie. You just have to pay attention to the wording.

Well it's not like the advice Asami was giving was really any good. I can't tell if it's because she really doesn't know how to comfort Korra but still wants to be there for her, the writers never gave a shit about her or if it was a mix of both.

ATLA threads are just retards trolling each other over a dead franchise

just remember the cartoon fondly and move on

They very from mediocre to bad. Pirate or don't bother.

Honestly I doubt anyone could have given Korra good advice there. Even Tenzin's asdvice wasn't that great, so it bottled down to Asami trying to be there for Korra.

>Azulafags liked it.
there are no Azulafags that like any of the AtLA comic

Yeah so I don't know where this whole "you understand me the best" thing is coming from. Asami never gave good advice and Korra never listened on top of never paying any real attention to her that you'd think she wanted that to be true.

>The Earth Queen using her as her little errant lady while not telling her about the Air Benders.
Eh it had to be somebody and Mako+Bolin were off doing actual story elements.

>It's at least a justification.
I'd say it's poor justification since there's nothing to suggest that being the case. I also think they're going really close to "you were always closest to me" in the leaked page. They practicly spell it out going as far as Korra being relieved about it and that no "gets her" like Asami does.

I would say it's because the writers never gave a shit about LoK. But also that Asami just doesn't seem to get anyone in Krew. She's just the nice person hanging around the others, that about the extend of her character.

My Azulafag friend liked Smoke and Shadow only because it got Azula out of that crazy stage. They still don't want her to be a villain anymore though.

I didn't enjoy them, save a for a few scenes. The one with Ozai and Zuko talking about a leader's responsibility was good.

Well she's the only other chick her age range. Honestly I'd be fine with flashbacks in the comics that elaborate on it all. I'm used to something like that from other comics anyway.

>They practicly spell it out going as far as Korra being relieved about it and that no "gets her" like Asami does.
Well, they both like chicks and dudes.

>artist says she won't post any panels of the kissing because it's special to her and she wants people to buy the comics
>one of the first pages to leak is them kissing

You know that was a planned leak to generate hype.

From Dark Horse, yeah. She's probably left in the dark about a lot of things.

What does that have to with anything? They drive a car at a race track, and the way they talk about it in the comics doesn't correspond at all to how it was portrayed in the show.

The comic sets it up like they formed a special kind of bond in that moment, that they're suddenly confidencial with each other. But in the show they continue to be rivals fighting over Mako, Korra doesn't even want to interact with Asami. It's retelling the story to force Korrasami as a plausible outcome, and that's so dumb.

Or she could be lying. I know what a shocker, someone lying on the internet.

Korra and Asami aren't actually fighting over Mako if you watch the first Book again. When Hiroshi gets outed as an Equalist it's Korra that tells Mako that he should be with Asami and when Asami finds out that Korra and Mako kissed she went and called bullshit on Mako. We've never even seen Asami and Korra fight for a single second over Mako on screen.

>It's retelling the story to force Korrasami as a plausible outcome, and that's so dumb.
Sheesh, it's like you never read a comic book by the Big Two before.

Well it is evident in the comics that Azula is going into a metamorphosis and slowly becoming the hero she was meant to be.

Is that really the case?
I read The Search, and all I got out of that was that bringing Azula along was one of the most idiotic ideas Aang and Zuko ever had.

It's amazing how in these shitty comics Zuko has more chemistry with Suki, whom he just met and who he doesn't even think of romantically, than he did with Mai over the course of two seasons of ATLA.

Well she did draw out all of Ozai's followers to conveniently get caught by Zuko. She seems to be helping out in her own way.

>She follows him pretty much everywhere, Kyyoshi warriors are pretty much the Fire Lord's official praetorians at this point.
>He opens up only to her and finds some peace after
>His little sister ships it
>Menwhile with Mai it's ANGST ANGST ANGST

If she and Sokka were not already an item I'd be militant for Zuki

Like Suki and Sokka will last.

Why wouldn't they?

Just the fact that Chief Sokka never had any children and Suki not being one to abandon the Kyoshi Warriors and move to the south to be some Chief's wife.

Didn't Sokka end up as not-mayor of Republic city? I din't finish Korra so that's the last I saw of him.

That was back when Aang was still alive. Later on Tenzin mentioned him as a Chief and the he had helped rescue little Korra from the attempt on her life by the Red Lotus together with Tonraq and Tenzin.

same uwu
is not even good fanart, no point.

I liked it. It's fun seeing her crazy and it was a nice moment of acknowledgment that Zuko and Azula still care for each other eventhough they don't much like each other.

Bryan said they never really thought about whether or not Sokka had kids, he probably did though.

If he had they sure should've been mentioned in Season 2 then.
They went out of their way to showcase everyone else in the Gaang to have kids but not Sokka?
Nah, he died old and alone going out fighting the Red Lotus.

If you had power why not fuck with the artist?

Their complaints won't go anywhere and it's not like you can't hire someone new.

What does that have to do with my point of her just faking being sad about the leak?

Well I specifically remember Bryan saying something to that effect, that Sokka and Suki did settle down and have kids, they just didn't think of who they were.

I mean remember we didn't find out about Su until book 3 and Izumi apparently has a daughter.

Can you back that claim up? Because that's the first time I ever heard about it.

No, unfortunately, there are too many interviews/commentaries and I'd have no idea where to look. You're free to not believe me but I just wouldn't be surprised if his kids showed up in the comics.

Well, I liked Ty Lee.

The only one I'm expecting to show up in the comic is Izumi's daughter because she was in the cards for being a new love interest for Mako

I have a soft spot for these stories that mix and match characters that didn't have the chance to hang out before.

I hope she's as grumpy as Mako.

Not to mention that through the comics they spent together like ten times the amount of time between her and Sokka.

There better be a clear confirmation of how that ended like claims or the itch will remain forever.

at least we will always have the porn

oh boo hoo no safe space for korrafags

Azula was never crazy.

Oh boy!

>tfw everyone flaming comics when you think they're actually pretty good