For about three seasons, it was 1 of the most effective-liked cartoons in the United States, an unanticipated, American-created display incorporating Asian way of life and mythology with a blended anime design. This week, "Avatar: The Last Airbender" proceeds in comics, courtesy of Dim Horse. The initial e book, "The Promise – Portion 1," is penned by Gene Luen Yang with art by Gurihiru and picks up right the place the cartoon left off. Produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, "Avatar" is set in a world the place tribes which can each and every manipulate an individual of the four things — Air, Drinking water, Earth and Fire — have been at war for ages, and are now dominated by the ruthless Hearth Nation. The Air Nomads have been hunted seemingly to extinction. But a peculiar boy observed frozen in ice turns out to be a surviving Airbender, and also this generation's Avatar — one particular who can tame all four factors. Aang, the Airbender and Avatar, easily became close with his rescuers Katara, a Waterbender, and Sokka, her brother. They are eventually joined by Toph, a feisty, blind Earthbender, and enter a occasionally 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 Dark Horse collection of digest-sized graphic novels will start instantly afterwards. Comic Book Means spoke with Yang about crafting in the "Avatar" universe, creating superior however available stories and his ideas for the series. And check back tomorrow for even more with the cartoonist on his graphic novel "Level Up" with artist Thien Pham..