List of Avatar: The Last Airbender comics

Avatar Comics are official comics released in Nick's magazine, and later to nickmag.com. To date, there are fifteen comics that have been released to the public. Most of the comics are considered canon. Super deformed ones and the character contest one aren't

Sleepbending

 * Story: Joshua Hamilton.
 * Art: Joaquim Dos Santos.
 * Color: Hye-Jing Kim.
 * Lettering: Clem Robins.

While Team Avatar is asleep camping in the forest, Aang starts to dream about riding an animal in the sky, and on the ocean. This ends up causing his body to bend, and he starts to manipulate the Earth, Air, and Water around him. The group wakes up, and tries to overcome the power of his bending, until Aang wakes up unaware of what had happened.

Bee Calm

 * Story: Josh Hamilton and John O'Bryan.
 * Art: Justin Ridge.
 * Color: Hye-Jung Kim.
 * Lettering: Clem Robins.

Team Avatar is lost in the forest, with only a broad knowledge of where they are, when all of a sudden a Scorpion Bee flies onto Aang's nose. Aang states he has a special connection with nature, then has some more nature cover his entire body. Convinced the Scorpion Bees will not sting him, he doesn't move or make any loud noises. Until Momo, frightened by Aang now covered by Scorpion Bees, yells causing them to prepare to sting Aang. Aang quickly uses Airbending to get the bees off of him, but they then chase him while on his air scooter. After getting them off of his trail with Airbending and some tactics, he then runs into a Fire Nation soldier. The soldier threatens Aang with a sword, until he and Aang notice Aang has another Scorpion Bee on his shirt. The insect then flies onto the soldier's nose, leaving the soldier scared, while Aang runs away.



Sokka, The Avatar

 * Story: Joshua Hamilton.
 * Art: Justin Ridge.
 * Color: Sno Come Studios.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

While coming into a village, Sokka pretends to be the Avatar to impress a girl, and eventually the village. But later, the Rough Rhinos come into the village, and Sokka pretends to do all the bending Aang, Toph, and Katara are doing, which beats the Rough Rhinos and impresses the girl even more.

Water War

 * Story: Tim Hedrick.
 * Art: Justin Ridge.
 * Color: Hye-Jung Kim.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

After watching two boys soak innocent pedestrians, Katara uses her Waterbending to make their tactics backfire, and getting them soaked instead.

New Recruits

 * Story: Dave Roman.
 * Art: Justin Ridge.
 * Color: Sno Cone Studios with Hye-Jung Kim.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

The gang goes to a local Earth Kingdom tavern in search for some new recruits and allies to join them in their fight against the Fire Nation. While there, their contact, Old Man Yahshi, introduces the gang to four unique benders:

Analay, the Shadowbender.

Hiroshi, an Earthbender with a special tunneling attack. He has a stone dragon named Genji.

Visola, a Northern Waterbender and weapons specialist. She surfs on an artificial wave ring.

Riley, the cookie dough bender (Sokka liked this one).

The group discusses whether to accept these new members, only to see the four kids leave to form their own gang! They didn't like being judged.

(Note: The characters in this comic were winners of a Nick Magazine contest in which the reader designed their own Avatar character.)

Lessons

 * Story: Johane Matte.
 * Art: Johane Matte.
 * Color: Wes Dzioba.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

Toph tries to teach Aang to listen to the earth while trying to get Sokka to stay out of their way. Sokka complies, but eventually gets in a squabble with Momo and Appa which causes him to chase after the two, and through Toph's ability, this starts to deafen her. She then Earthbends a huge column of rock underneath him causing him to be stuck tens of feet up. Later that day, it is shown he is still stuck, and Toph will not let him down until his 'lesson' is learned.

Gym Time

 * Story: Alison Wilgus.
 * Art: Ethan Spaulding.
 * Color: Wes Dzioba.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

In this super-deformed short, the members of Team Avatar (Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka, Suki and Zuko) along with Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Haru and Jet are in gym class, with their teacher, Avatar Kyoshi. Their teacher then announces that they will be playing dodgeball, and that they need to make teams. Aang and Azula are the team captains and they start to choose. Aang picks Katara, Toph, Sokka, and Suki, whilst Azula chose Ty Lee, Haru, and Jet. Then there were only two people left, Mai and Zuko. Zuko, wanted to be on Azula's team, used Firebending to try to tell her to pick him, but she chose the uncaring Mai instead. Since all the teams were done picking, Zuko asked what he was supposed to do, and to his surprise, Kyoshi said that he was going to be the ball, and hit him in the air with Earthbending and pushed him into the game with Airbending.

It's Only Natural

 * Story: Johane Matte & Josh Hamilton.
 * Art: Johane Matte.
 * Color: Wes Dzioba.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

After the fall of Ba Sing Se, Team Avatar (with Aang in a coma), Earth King Kuei and Bosco are camping out in the woods. Sokka, starting to get annoyed with how spoiled Bosco is, tries to teach the bear how to survive in the woods like a bear. After many failed attempts at collecting honey, fishing, and finding shelter, Earth King Kuei decides for him and the bear to set off on an adventure in disguise so he may learn some things about the world.

The Bridge

 * Story: Josh Hamilton & Tim Hedrick with Aaron Ehasz.
 * Script: Frank Pittarese.
 * Art & Color: Reagan Lodge.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

The story takes place in the weeks following the fall of Ba Sing Se, and takes on Katara's perspective as she chronicles the following events in her diary. Aang has been badly injured by Azula's lightning attack, and has fallen into a state of unconsciousness. Desperate, the gang and the Earth King have been forced to flee to Chameleon Bay, which is guarded by Katara and Sokka's father, Hakoda. Unfortunately, the Fire Nation is sending in reinforcements and the Water Tribe ships will not survive another battle, so the Avatar and his allies must abandon the bay.

During this retreat, the Earth King departs the group to travel the country in exile with his bear, Bosco, and Pipsqueak and The Duke join the group after they were caught stealing food. Meanwhile, Katara heals the wounded Aang on a daily basis, still clinging onto her hope that he will soon revive.

During the retreat, the Water Tribe fleet encounters a Fire Nation scout ship, but does not stand a chance of winning the battle. Instead, Sokka proposes that they sink their own ships and hijack the Fire Nation vessel in an effort to protect Aang. The warriors agree and they sink their fleet, traveling to the shore in rowboats. After setting camp for the night, the warriors storm the enemy ship the following morning, only to find that the crew is lazing about since they found the Water Tribe fleet destroyed. Thanks to Sokka, the crew catches on to the attack, but are quickly subdued with stink bombs and bending.

With the vessel captured, the gang dons Fire Nation disguises and decide to sail through the infamous Serpent's Pass, only to find that the one opening through the pass has been barricaded by a fortified Fire Nation gate. Fortunately, Hakoda gains entry through the gates when he claims that they are joining the Western Fleet. It is here that they are told by the bridge staff that the Avatar is dead. Katara is traumatized by this belief, but Sokka states that this assumption means that the Fire Nation will no longer hunt them down.

The gang continues their journey towards the Fire Nation, and Katara continues to tend to the unconscious Aang. The comic ends with her stating that the fight must go on, and that hopefully, the Avatar will return.

They all say hello to Aang when he wakes up, with a shock being on a fire nation ship.

Goofs

 * Waterbenders are seen on the Southern Water Tribe ships, but there are none except for Katara, in the South Pole.
 * In the comic, the Southern Water Tribe ships are destroyed when Team Avatar and the others capture Fire Nation ships to use as a disguise but, in "The Day of Black Sun", the same Water Tribe ships are used again to transport the invasion force, though they could have been rebuilt. They are the same ones that were destroyed.

Going Home Again

 * Story: Aaron Ehasz, May Chan and Kattie Mattila.
 * Script: Kattie Mattila with Alison Wilgus.
 * Art: Amy Kim Ganter.
 * Color: Wes Dzioba.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

After the fall of Ba Sing Se, Princess Azula decides to return home to the Fire Nation with Zuko, who helped her to defeat the Avatar, and their imprisoned Uncle Iroh. However, Zuko refuses to join her. In an attempt to convince him otherwise, Azula and Ty Lee team up to hook up Zuko with his old childhood crush, Mai.

With the help of the Dai Li, Azula arranges a dinner date between the two, and claims to Zuko and Mai that they are meeting with the Fire Nation Admiral put in charge of the occupation. Upon arrival, Zuko and Mai find themselves at dinner together alone, realizing that something is up. As the two proceed with their date, they spot Azula and Ty Lee spying on them, so they decide to take a walk through the city in order to get some alone time.

During the walk, Zuko runs into Jin, a girl he dated in an earlier episode. She recognizes him and questions him on who Mai is. Zuko claims that she is a friend from the circus, the knife thrower. In a demonstration, Mai expertly throws a sharp icicle through a fish she placed on Zuko's head, in a fashion similar to a prank Azula pulled on the two several years before. Mai offers Jin a turn next. Jin declines at first, then decides to try it anyway, and Zuko barely dodges in time before the icicle can hit him. He slips and falls into the fountain and chases a laughing Mai through the alleys. Surprised at her uncharacteristically good mood, Zuko remembers her better side from the past. Mai reaffirms her crush on Zuko and the two kiss.

On the day Azula is set to leave with Mai and Ty Lee, Zuko is still unsure of whether he wants to join them. Mai wants him to come with her, but he still seems uncertain. He finally agrees to go when Azula questions whether Iroh will even survive the trip. Thus, Zuko makes up his mind and returns home to the Fire Nation.

Fruit Stand Freestyle
Momo comes across a fruit stand filled with fresh fruit. In his attempts to retrieve some, he gets chased around by the owner's crazed Boar-q-pine. Momo eventually outwits the beast and gets his fruit.

Private Fire
Sokka decides to join to the Fire Nation Army.

Game Time
Team Avatar tries to pass the time when Sokka suggests playing hide-and-seek, to which Zuko says he hates games. Sokka dons his detective uniform as the gang run to find a hiding location. Sokka tricks Momo out of his hiding spot with a melon and adds him to the search party. Then starts using Momo to find the rest of the team. Zuko ambushes Sokka thinking the game is "hide-and-shriek" then Sokka corrects Zuko, to which Zuko says he hates games. As dusk falls Sokka becomes intrigued as he can't find Toph. Sokka stands on a rock pondering his situation when Toph shatters the boulder beneath him and cries out "I can't stand it any longer! Sorry... But you really need to clean those feet of yours... they stink."

Night Animals
Momo wakes Appa to go on a midnight mango run only to be discoverd by two Fire Nation soldiers. Appa and Momo scare away the two and feast on the bounty they collected. The next morning Team Avatar starts eating the left-overs that Appa and Momo left, and thanks a bewildered Sokka for collecting them. Sokka then scolds the pair for still being asleep.

Don't Blow It!
Aang wakes up with a case of sniffles, causing him to sneeze and blow himself into the air every time it happens. Katara offers Aang a solution, a special slime, that helped her when she was a little girl. Aang refuses, after hearing from Sokka that the paste was quite gross, and says that monks let these "blow themselves out". While sneezing one time, nearby Fire Nation soldiers spot Aang and launch a fireball, barely missing him. The soldiers track him to the gang's camp, and they barely make their escape. That night, Aang is seen strapped down with the slime on his chest. Sokka starts to make fun of Aang, but then sneezes himself. Resigned, he asks for the slime.

Bumi vs Toph

 * Story: Joshua Hamilton and Johane Matte.
 * Art: Johane Matte.
 * Color: Hye-Jing Kim.
 * Lettering: Comicraft.

In the Order of the White Lotus camp, Bumi and Toph have an Earthbending duel to decide the "Greatest Earthbender of all time". While they were fighting, with Sokka as referee, the order and Zuko hear destructive sounds and they think it's an attack. They see the duel and stop it saying that their objective there was to be hidden from the Fire Nation.