Items15The creator’s order
  1. 1Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise OmnibusStart here right after the animated finale. In the first sequel arc, Aang and Zuko discover that removing Fire Nation colonies from the Earth Kingdom is much harder than ending the war. The omnibus holds all three parts, so you can follow the argument over Yu Dao without hunting down separate…0
  2. 2Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: The Search OmnibusRead this second if you’ve been waiting for an answer about Zuko’s mother. The search for Ursa brings Zuko and Azula back together and fills in part of their family history. This paperback collects the three chapters of the same trip.0
  3. 3Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Rift OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: The Rift OmnibusRead the third arc after The Search. Aang tries to revive an Air Nomad holiday, and a visit from Avatar Yangchen brings him to a refinery built on sacred ground. If you’re following Toph as well as Aang, the argument about what to keep and what to build gives her an important role.0
  4. 4Avatar: The Last Airbender: Smoke and Shadow OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: Smoke and Shadow OmnibusMake this your fourth main arc. Go in after The Search, because the story assumes you know what happened with Zuko’s family. The masked Kemurikage threaten Zuko’s rule, and Mai gets caught up in the trouble around the throne. The omnibus includes all three parts.0
  5. 5Avatar: The Last Airbender: North and South OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: North and South OmnibusThe fifth arc follows Katara and Sokka back to a Southern Water Tribe that’s grown since they left. A proposal to unite the tribes gives Katara and other Southerners sharply different ideas about what progress should look like. This completes the five arcs in Gene Luen Yang’s omnibus boxed set. You…0
  6. 6Avatar: The Last Airbender: Imbalance OmnibusAvatar: The Last Airbender: Imbalance OmnibusFinish the main run here. Team Avatar returns to a fast-growing industrial town where conflict between benders and nonbenders is threatening to turn violent. It’s a good bridge toward the world of The Legend of Korra if you want to see how a bigger city changes the old arguments about bending.0
  7. 7Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong’s Metalbending AcademyAvatar: The Last Airbender: Toph Beifong’s Metalbending AcademyRead it as an optional stop after The Rift, once you’re familiar with Toph’s work as a teacher. School life is starting to bore her, which is a good excuse to see what metalbending looks like outside a battle. It’s also in Team Avatar Treasury with the Suki and Katara standalones.0
  8. 8Avatar: The Last Airbender: Azula in the Spirit TempleAvatar: The Last Airbender: Azula in the Spirit TempleRead this after Smoke and Shadow if you want to follow Azula away from Zuko’s court. A failed attack takes her to a remote forest temple where she has to confront her past. This is one of three stories collected in Fire and Family Treasury.0
  9. 9Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Bounty Hunter and the Tea BrewerAvatar: The Last Airbender: The Bounty Hunter and the Tea BrewerTake this detour after the main arcs when you want a story about Iroh. A shortage of tea sends him looking for answers, and bounty hunter June finds him first. Fire and Family Treasury collects this one with the Azula and Mai stories.0
  10. 10Avatar: The Last Airbender: Ashes of the AcademyAvatar: The Last Airbender: Ashes of the AcademyRead this after Smoke and Shadow if you want to spend more time with Mai and Zuko. Zuko puts Mai to work as a teacher at the Royal Fire Academy for Girls, where he’s trying to change what the next generation learns. It’s the Fire and Family Treasury story about a school rather than the royal…0