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

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After the slaughter of some RDA members, the Sully family makes it to a beanstalk where a Samson corners them. 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. Jake's team tries to blackmail the RDA by threatening destroy Hell's Gate and several other structures on Pandora that the RDA desire to reclaim. It's surprisingly pretty good considering how the original movie is all flash with little substance. It’s not enough his biological father was the Colonel who attack Hometree, it’s not enough that his legal guardian neglect him, no, now the McCoskers have to be the snitches.

They are soon found by McCosker who says they can be useful, however, he traps Spider and the siblings in separate rooms. Some of the space action sequences were a little disorienting (I guess zero G will do that to you), but the characters are much closer to their film counterparts in this volume, including the children and the humans, which made the action a little easier to follow. It was interesting seeing them "pre" Avatar 2 and added another layer/depth to the story/characters. So yeah: I dug this a lot, and if you’re an “Avatar” fan, this is pretty much the definition of a must-read. As the Na'vi are in their shuttle, Jake and Neytiri are displeased to see that Neteyam has sneaked on board.I don’t know what James Camero has planned for Spider in the future, but he has given him a lot of daddy issues. This felt closer to a filmic prequel, setting up the RDA’s most recent conflict with Jake and the Na’vi. 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. Some of the characters have strange/goofy expressions or do not resemble like their film counterparts very much.

Despite this, Joshua Izzo clarified that all three issues of The High Ground are indeed canon, even mentioning, "James Cameron (my boss) says it's canon. 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. Kiri later comes across Mo'at who tells her that change is a part of life and is what someone makes of it. As the family becomes involved in another chase, Spider briefly struggles to catch up due to being a human. Neytiri also tries to convince Jake that their people need hope, although Jake feels as if he is lying to his people.

Smith (The Toymaker’s Apprentice, Orleans) and illustrated by Diego Galindo (Stranger Things: The Tomb of Ybwen, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers). I’m starting to think it would have been better if Jake and Neytiri didn’t tell her the truth in the first place. Kiri, Lo'ak, Tuk and Spider decide to secretly go exploring because they think the meeting is going to take forever and they won't want to be bored.

It offers fighting scenes but does not really engage with the characters, which I would have enjoyed to read way more. Jake and Neytiri fly to Hell's Gate on their banshees to rescue the children with Neteyam following after them. Meanwhile, Jake and Neytiri have previously "purified" their spirits with Mo'at by inflicting pain on themselves because they believe it should be done before they betray Eywa by using steel weapons. Though they sympathize with each other's viewpoints, Neytiri mentions Jake has been breaking the Three Laws of Eywa by teaching their hunters to use guns made of metal. However, the comic's art has been somewhat criticized because of its constantly changing art styles, leading to some thinking the art was rushed.The good thing, is Neteyam is Neteyam, and once in the mission, he does as he was told (most of the time). James Cameron’s epic original story “The High Ground” continues in this graphic novel adaptation written by award-winning author Sherri L. They fire guns to the windows of a space ship (like guns are more powerful that all the pressure of the take off) and go through them and he people there don’t die?