Picture: Peter Wartman/Darkish Horse
Anybody who watched and loved the unique Avatar: The Final Airbender has a selected villain that’s their favourite, and for a lot of, that baddie is Zuko’s sister Azula. The princess of the Hearth Nation was stays fairly intimidating even right this moment, and is a part of one of many present’s greatest moments.
It’s been awhile since she’s been featured within the comics, however later this yr, she’ll be headlining a graphic novel of her personal. Azula within the Spirit Temple was revealed formally final yr, however Screenrant just lately revealed the e book’s launch date on September 26 and 27. Written by Religion Erin Hicks and drawn by Peter Wartman, it’ll choose up the place 2016’s Smoke & Shadow left off, along with her on the run after attempting to groom Zuko into a greater Hearth Lord in her personal, bizarre method. When a mission along with her followers doesn’t go as deliberate, Azula winds up in a forest temple inhabited by a single monk.
“What first looks as if a spot to securely cross the evening is rapidly revealed to be one thing horrifyingly totally different,” reads Darkish Horse’s description. “Azula is compelled to confront her previous and can lastly face her likelihood at redemption…however will she take it?”
Picture: Peter Wartman/Darkish Horse
The Azula comedian continues a development of standalone targeted on particular Final Airbender characters. Joined by sequence author Tim Hedrick, Hicks and Wartman beforehand labored on graphic novels targeted on Katara, Toph Beifong, and Suki in 2020 and 2021. These have all been fairly good and captured the spirit of the present fairly effectively, and it’s uncertain that development will finish with Azula’s. What’ll be attention-grabbing to see, although, is that if Azula will get the redemption story that some followers have thought she deserved—in spite of everything, if her brother and uncle did, there’s no rule saying she will be able to’t—or if she’ll simply embrace that she’s evil as hell and maintain menacing her household.
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Avatar: Azula within the Spirit Temple releases on September 26 for bookstores and September 27 for comedian retailers.
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