Avatar: The Last Airbender – Smoke and Shadow

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke and Shadow
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Smoke and Shadow, Part 1 cover
Date	October 6, 2015 (Part 1) December 29, 2015 (Part 2) April 12, 2016 (Part 3)
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Creative team
Writers	Gene Yang
Artists	Studio Gurihiru
Pencillers	Chifuyu Sasaki
Inkers	Chifuyu Sasaki
Letterers	Comicraft
Colourists	Naoko Kawano
Creators	Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko
Chronology
Preceded by	The Rift (comic)
Followed by	North and South (comic)

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Smoke and Shadow is the fourth graphic novel trilogy created as a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It takes place following the events of The Promise, The Search, and The Rift, and breaks from the title pattern established by those three graphic novels. As a close sequel to the original Avatar series, it depicts events that occur before the sequel series The Legend of Korra.

Smoke and Shadow returns attention to the state of the Fire Nation and its royal family, which were previously emphasized in The Promise and The Search. With the aid of Avatar Aang and his estranged ex-girlfriend Mai, Fire Lord Zuko must deal with the threat of the New Ozai Society, a group that seeks to overthrow him and restore his deposed father Fire Lord Ozai to the throne of the Fire Nation. Their conflict with the group is complicated by the fact that it is led by Mai's own estranged father, and appears to be in league with a group of malevolent spirits known as the Kemurikage.

Ukano, father of Mai and former Fire Nation governor, is visited in the night by the Kemurikage, who tell him that he must act to make up for his failure by removing Zuko from the throne of the Fire Nation. Thus motivated, he gathers the New Ozai Society and announces plans to strike quickly in an effort to eliminate Zuko. However, one of his subordinates, Kei Lo, expresses doubts, fearing that they are moving too quickly. Elsewhere, Aang and his friends escort Zuko and his mother Ursa, stepfather Noren, and half-sister Kiyi back to the Fire Nation capital, which Ursa displays trepidation about returning to while Kiyi is struggling to get used to her mother's altered appearance.

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