<p>For those of you in the Midwestern area, Gene Yang will flying over to Minnesota this Saturday for Teen Lit Con 2015. </p> <dl><dd>"<i>Teen Lit Con 2015 is an event for readers of YA literature–teens & others. The event is free & open to the public.</i>" <dl><dd>Henry Sibley High School, 1897 Delaware Ave, Mendota Heights, MN 55118 </dd></dl></dd><dd>11:00 – Choose Your Own Session:

• Airbenders & Me: Cartoonist & Author Gene Luen Yang, author of the Airbenders book series, explains why the original show was the best-written American animated series ever produced and more.

</dd></dl><p>Gene Yang will also offer a sneak preview of <i>Smoke and Shadow</i> at the event.[1] </p>

<p>^ I'm guessing a little more than what has already been revealed? </p> <table style="border-spacing:0; border:1px solid black; background:#; -moz-border-radius:6px; -webkit-border-radius:6px; border-radius:6px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; margin:.5em auto .5em auto; width:auto; text-align:justify; color:black;" class=""><tr><td>"<i>That's right. BLUE PEOPLE SUCK</i>"
</td></tr><tr><td>— Gene Yang </td></tr></table><p>Gave me quite a laugh. </p>

<p>Speaking of James Cameron, he has been busy trademarking anything he could that are related to "Avatar" from candy cake decorations to women's lingerie. He's nucking futs. In particular, the battle for Avatar trademark for 041 class of products (the one class that Viacom still has ownership over[1]) was lost a year ago.[2] His lawbenders argued with USPTO that there is no way the general public can confuse "NICKELODEON AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER" with this: </p> <center>http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i454/Hasdi/jamescameraonavatar_zpsihfrfxkx.png</center> <p>Of course, that's just bullshit. Unfortunately, USPTO got tired of arguing with him and allowed his application to be published for opposition. Viacom didn't make a single objection within the 12-week opposition period, probably because Viacom didn't care for the franchise and/or didn't want to waste their time on this as well. Bottom line: James Cameron effectively owns Avatar trademark for video products, as well as other class of products. :( </p><p>Oh, just in case there was any doubt that the TMNT franchise is Adam Goodman's other pet project.[3] </p> <table style="border-spacing:0; border:1px solid black; background:#; -moz-border-radius:6px; -webkit-border-radius:6px; border-radius:6px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; margin:.5em auto .5em auto; width:auto; text-align:justify; color:black;" class=""><tr><td>"<i>Apparently, [screenwriters] Appelbaum and Nemec turned in a script [for Beverly Hills Cop movie] and then former Paramount film pres Adam Goodman (rather wisely it seems) took them off that and had them quickly draft a script for the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last year.</i>"
</td></tr><tr><td>— Deadline.com on why ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ was pushed off the 2016 schedule </td></tr></table><p>Not only he was willing to throw Korra and TLA movie sequels under the bus, he was willing to throw Eddie Murphy under the bus. It's a good thing that Brad Grey fired his ass... >_> </p>

<p>Seems to be quite a bit of Last Airbender buzz than any LoK. It wouldn't surprise me if we saw a reboot to ATLA before any sequel series and most likely without the creators too. </p><p>Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Cameron plastering Avatar as his everywhere. It's almost as bad as Games Workshop suing everyone that used the word 'Space Marine'. </p>

<p>Ha. A part-time TV critic sent this tweet to Eric Goldman of IGN. It's so funny it weren't so sad. <span title=":cry:"></span> </p> <table style="border-spacing:0; border:1px solid black; background:#; -moz-border-radius:6px; -webkit-border-radius:6px; border-radius:6px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; margin:.5em auto .5em auto; width:auto; text-align:justify; color:black;" class=""><tr><td>"<i>@EricIGN Went to Nickelodeon Studio in Burbank today. Security guard said they get a couple angry Korra fans EVERY DAY show up to complain.</i>"
</td></tr><tr><td>— Luke Gelineau (6:49 PM - 6 May 2015) </td></tr></table>

<p>Wow. Impressive seeing as the series ended a little over five months ago :'( I would go too now that they officially took it off the air. I mean, it's called nicktoons for a reason -_- </p>

<p>What Mr. Gelineau did was known as Hyperbole. an exaggerated claim or statement not intended to be taken literally. Usually used to voice ones disdain with someone else. In this case it was to voice his complaints about ATLA/LOK getting the shaft without outright saying he dislikes Nick. </p><p>Personally. I'm kind've hoping the Airbender franchise goes into the freezer for the foreseeable future. No more movies, no more TV Shows, no more spinoff comics. If nick leaves it alone, we don't run the risk of the entire franchise being ruined by inferior spinoffs, another crappy live action film adaptation, Hasdi's Ego, etc. </p><p>I don't want to see my second favorite franchise turned into a seth brundle abomination of it's former glory that needs to desperately be put out of it's misery. </p><p>
</p><p>Paramount already did that to Transformers, I don't want to see that happen to ATLA OR LOK. </p><p>Lets leave the series be as a self contained story. Maybe we'll see more in about ten twenty years but until then lets leave the series be. </p>

haven't been around in a while... but i did see the partial transcript for the smoke and shadows comic. where did we get that from?

<div class="quote"><i>Intelligence4 wrote:
haven't been around in a while... but i did see the partial transcript for the smoke and shadows comic. where did we get that from?</i></div>
<p>Wasn't it from the preview? Or it had more things?
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<p>Nick and More posted a summary of TV rating woes on kids network in the past two weeks[1] Highlights are: </p>

• Nickelodeon - "<i>Downward ratings are the new norm for Nick. Almost every series is suffering from near-series to series lows.</i>"
• Disney - "<i>Sitcom have performed much lower than they used to. Most new episodes are at or under 2 million viewers.</i>"
• Cartoon Network - "<i>its schedule remains an overplayed mess with almost nothing but Teen Titans Go!, Gumball and Clarence.</i>"
• Nicktoons - "<i>made what is probably the biggest last-minute schedule change in their history. And it’s not a good one at all. Gone are a huge number of series (including Avatar, Korra, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, Robot and Monster, Penguins of Madagascar, Oggy and the Cockroaches, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Fanboy & Chum Chum, El Tigre, Teenage Robot, and LBX).</i>"
• Disney XD - "<i>schedule hand, has gotten a little sloppy lately. They’re in the habit of repeating the same new episode over and over and over and over throughout the week.</i>"
• TeenNick - "<i>continues to be “the Dan Schneider network” with repeats of iCarly, Sam & Cat, VICTORiOUS, Drake & Josh and Zoey 101 taking up much of the daily line-up</i>."

<div class="quote"><i>RaidenRadio wrote:
What Mr. Gelineau did was known as Hyperbole. ... it was to voice his complaints about ATLA/LOK getting the shaft without outright saying he dislikes Nick.</i></div>
<p>Dafuq. <span title=":wtf:"></span> Luke Gelineau mostly reviews live-action shows [2] not kid shows on Nickelodeon and others. His primary day job is an insurance agent for United Agencies Inc[3] so he gets to meet people working in TV and film industry, including that security guard at Nickelodeon Studios. Eric Goldman just happens to be his friend / business associate.[4][5][6] He sent that tweet knowing that Eric is a huge fan of ATLA and Korra, having interviewed Mike and Bryan on IGN.[7] Strangely enough, Eric doesn't enjoy the movie.[8]. </p>