Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise
| Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise, Part 1 cover
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| Date | January 25, 2012 (Part 1) May 30, 2012 (Part 2) October 9, 2012 (Part 3) |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Gene Yang |
| Artists | Studio Gurihiru |
| Pencillers | Chifuyu Sasaki |
| Inkers | Chifuyu Sasaki |
| Letterers | Michael Heisler |
| Colourists | Naoko Kawano |
| Creators |
Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV series) |
| Followed by | The Search (comic) |
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise is a graphic novel in three parts written by Gene Yang and illustrated by Studio Gurihiru, the first in a series of graphic novel trilogies serving as both a continuation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender and a prequel to The Legend of Korra, both animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Part 1 was released on January 25, 2012, Part 2 was released on May 30, 2012 and Part 3 was released on September 26, 2012.
The events of The Promise begin immediately after the last episode of the original series, "Avatar Aang", before jumping forward a year. It is followed by Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Search.
Although the one-hundred-year War is finally over, tensions run high as thirteen-year-old Avatar Aang and seventeen-year-old Zuko are put on a "collision course" after the Avatar travels to a Fire Nation colony named "Yu Dao", and finds "tension between neighbors" – a threat that may "shatter the world's newfound peace".
The unfinished conversation between Zuko and Ozai about the whereabouts of Ursa, Zuko's long-lost mother, is completed, but the conversation takes a different path after Zuko asks the question and her fate still remains unknown. Zuko forces Aang to promise to kill him if he becomes like his father, the deposed Fire Lord Ozai.
Negotiations with Earth King Kuei and the beginning of the Harmony Restoration Movement commence. The movement plans to take the people in the Fire Nation colonies and move them into the Fire Nation itself. However, an unexpected controversy breaks out, as the older colonies are composed of people who have never lived within the Fire Nation and have intermarried with Earth Kingdom citizens. These people view the movement as robbing them of their homes. Fire Lord Zuko is caught between the desires of his people and the demands of many who believe peace and balance is only attainable if Fire Nation citizens return to their country. When the Earth Kingdom army arrives to enforce the Restoration Movement, Zuko deploys his own forces in defense of the colonies, leading to an explosive showdown between the recently belligerent sides and threatening to reignite the fires of war. Aang must decide whether to follow through on his promise, and decide the fate of the colonies in the process.
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