Michael Dante DiMartino
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| Original Title: | Avatar: Last Airbender v. 1 (Avatar (Graphic Novels)) |
| ISBN: | 1595328912 (ISBN13: 9781595328915) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics #1, Avatar: The Last Airbender Books |
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i have this theory about television (well, really all pop culture, but let’s stick with t.v.) – that it can, in its entirety, be reduced to three things, my holy trinity of pop culture:1) schadenfreude
2) panty-sniffing
3) happy tears
the first requires no explanation: taking delight in the misfortune of others is the bread and butter of talk shows, reality t.v., most sitcoms, and hour long dramas. the second is all that obligatory sex shit and covers just about all cop procedural shows, law and order svu, csi, etc… and the third is best seen on daytime television, oprah, dr. phil and the final few minutes of most reality shows.
i’ve been taking care of these two kids -- the boy is 9 and the girl is 12 -- and have had to sit down and watch kid t.v. with 'em. now there’s watered down versions of the pop culture trinity but I saw something else that freaked me the fuck out.
the one that left the deepest impression was their favorite animated show avatar: the last airbender. and here’s the thing: on the surface it’s really good: visually sophisticated, emotionally complex, well crafted. the episode i saw had the main group of good guys, led by avatar, trying to help refugees who were kicked out of their village by a marauding warlord. it felt and looked like bosnia circa 1998: crying babies and people in rags and bombed out huts, etc…
so my friend julian told me a story about his nephew who consumes all this shit like I consume glenfiddich and one day the kid looks over at julian and says “bill (his stepdad) is my nemesis. who’s your nemesis?”
this kind of shit, the natural assumption of a 'nemesis', comes out of the strange fascist mythos of these shows. they offer a manichean view of the world with little or no shading in which all people are good or bad. now, I might be some old bastard crying about how the old days were better and smarter, but loony tunes did offer a more complex view of the world, didn’t it? or alice in wonderland in which everything is not so simple, not so black and white, and the protagonist is a smart girl who, despite getting caught up in some silly shit, at a certain point, won’t take any more crap. kids are always smarter than we think; they understand the machination behind all this stuff, they understand the nature of power and how it’s used and abused.
and it’s strange dealing with kids. I mean, it freaks me out sometimes in that I feel that there’s no weight to anything I say… that it goes in there and kinda goes away. For such a narcissistic prick as myself this is wholly unacceptable.
and then it hit me that it’s kind of a relay race – and everyday I’m handed the baton and at the end of the day I hand it off and that the short daily heat i’m engaged in might not matter, but over the long haul it’s all of one piece, y’know? the words disappear, but every day i can tell that there’s a little more there. that it means something. that it’s important.
and what of all these children’s films? these warrior sagas (the lion the witch and the wardrobe, star wars, lord of the rings, avatar: the last airbender) with the message that the world’s problems can be solved with a sword? is it 'just a film'? am i being crazy? getting old?
and what of the ‘adult’ crap that is so highly praised by ‘smart’ people? iron man? the dark knight? this is the shit everyone loves? what’s amazing to me is that all these films inadvertently shill for fox news... they all offer the same manichean picture of absolute evil -- an evil with no shade of gray, an evil that needn’t be understood just eliminated -- as the shit that’s used to inculcate kids into the fascist mindset. the dark knight is right-wing wetdream disgused as liberal fantasy.
it will be hard for people in 200 years to believe that we just didn’t get it.
and jon favreau is the leni refienstahl of the 21st century.
shit yeah, cowgirl.
Define Based On Books Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics #1)
| Title | : | Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics #1) |
| Author | : | Michael Dante DiMartino |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Graphic Novels |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2006 by TokyoPop |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Manga. Comics. Fantasy. Young Adult |
Rating Based On Books Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics #1)
Ratings: 4.52 From 8944 Users | 84 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Last Airbender Comics #1)
I really love and adore avatar,the last Airbender.Ah, Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was and still is one of my favorite cartoon series ever! Although there are some parts that I found unrealistic, corny, and/or not well thought out, it managed to keep me hooked until the very last episode! That reminds me, I never checked the new Avatar series yet... Oh, well.This comic is a tie-in with the cartoon series. It's pretty loyal to it and the pictures are taken from the series itself (at least that's what I think). It was a fun read and a must-have
I love and adore everything to do with Avatar, but this little book was really just a cut and paste of screenshots from the TV show, and that doesn't exactly work well for a book. If there had been new art that was created for a book format, it would have looked better and flowed better for a written story. A lot of the time the action wasn't clear, because the panels weren't created to make that action clear on paper. Other Avatar comics that I've seen (like The Search or The Rift) were
it was a good book
i have this theory about television (well, really all pop culture, but lets stick with t.v.) that it can, in its entirety, be reduced to three things, my holy trinity of pop culture: 1) schadenfreude2) panty-sniffing3) happy tearsthe first requires no explanation: taking delight in the misfortune of others is the bread and butter of talk shows, reality t.v., most sitcoms, and hour long dramas. the second is all that obligatory sex shit and covers just about all cop procedural shows, law and
The books are based on the Nickelodeon animated series. The graphics are well done and the story is a lot of fun. We have a young boy, Aang, who is the Avatar but didn't want to be. He was found in an iceberg by a young water bender and her brother. He hadn't realized he had been in there for 100 years. The Fire tribe had attacked just after Aang was frozen and are trying to take over the world. The Avatar is the only one who can stop them. It is a fun story as Aang doesn't take anything too
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