For a few seasons, it was 1 of the greatest-loved cartoons in the United States, an sudden, American-produced show incorporating Asian lifestyle and mythology with a blended anime model. This week, "Avatar: The Final Airbender" proceeds in comics, courtesy of Darkish Horse. The initial e-book, "The Promise – Element 1," is penned by Gene Luen Yang with art by Gurihiru and picks up proper exactly where the cartoon left off. Designed by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, "Avatar" is set in a world the place tribes which can each manipulate just one of the 4 elements — Air, Water, Earth and Hearth — have been at war for generations, and are now dominated by the ruthless Fireplace Nation. The Air Nomads have been hunted seemingly to extinction. But a strange boy discovered frozen in ice turns out to be a surviving Airbender, and also this generation's Avatar — an individual who can tame all four parts. Aang, the Airbender and Avatar, rapidly grew to become close with his rescuers Katara, a Waterbender, and Sokka, her brother. They are finally joined by Toph, a feisty, blind Earthbender, and enter a at times tenuous alliance with Prince Zuko, son of the ruthless Hearth Lord Ozai. The Nickelodeon cartoon "Avatar: The Past Airbender" concludes with Aang defeating Ozai and Zuko ascending to the throne. The Darkish Horse collection of digest-sized graphic novels commences straight away afterwards. Comic E book Resources spoke with Yang about creating in the "Avatar" universe, establishing complex yet accessible stories and his programs for the sequence. And look at again tomorrow for much more with the cartoonist on his graphic novel "Degree Up" with artist Thien Pham..