Avatar: The High Ground Volume 2 (Avatar, 2)

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The ship carrying Jake, Neytiri and Neteyam descends back to Earth, with RDA ships chasing after them. Jake and Neytiri are horrified that their plan seems to have failed by this unexpected turn of events. For example, Lo'ak has a haircut resembling Neteyam's and he is drawn as if he were a muscular young adult instead of a lanky 14-year-old boy.

It is set before Avatar: The Way of Water and follows many of the characters introduced in the film such as Lo'ak, Kiri, Neteyam and Frances Ardmore. Jake tries to talk to Pentyaru about the matter, but Neytiri insists they just enjoy themselves for tonight. Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na’vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again… if the plan works. Much better than the first volume since I could actually track what was happening (except for most of the battle since it would definitely make more sense on screen) and the art was a lot more consistent. Meanwhile, Kiri and Spider head to the RDA's lab where they watch Jake's video logs from when he was a human.feels distinctly vital to the broader “Avatar” story, serving to fill in blanks between the events of the first and second films in a way that doesn’t feel shoehorned, but rather, genuinely important and interconnected, as if it was ALWAYS a part of James Cameron’s broader story for the franchise (which, to be fair, it kind of was: the entire “The High Ground” trilogy is an adaptation of an un-filmed script that Cameron wrote – hence why so much of this feels like a direct prequel to TWOW. Akwey supports Jake's choice, though before the group can continue debating, it is noticed that Jake's children are gone, with the exception of Neteyam.

Smith is the award-winning author of YA novels LUCY THE GIANT, SPARROW, HOT SOUR SALTY SWEET, FLYGIRL and ORLEANS. During Lo'ak's ikran training session, Lo'ak falls off a cliff, frightening Jake although Neytiri insists the danger is part of the trial. The good thing, is Neteyam is Neteyam, and once in the mission, he does as he was told (most of the time).Jake tries to motivate the humans, but Mary tells Jake that they're not guerilla fighters, that they don't have avatar bodies, that it is challenging to expect their children to grow up wearing masks their whole lives, and that re-integrating back into human society is tempting.

Smith (The Toymaker's Apprentice, Orleans) and illustrated by Diego Galindo (Stranger Things: The Tomb of Ybwen, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).Lo’ak here is younger, so, yeah, no doubt why he’s the rebel one in The Way of Water, he’s just doing like Neteyam and Kiri. With the second movie in mind, I moreover felt that the plotline in which Jake and Neytiri's children get captivated gets overused and annoying.