Avatar: The Way of Water‘sSpace Battle That Could’ve Been Comes to Life in This Comic Preview

There was a tenacious — long — time betweenAvatarandThe Way of Water , and in the 10 - plus it choose James Cameron to make his sequel and spot of bob of maybe another three moving-picture show beyond it , there were many ideas for what make out next in Jake and Neytiri ’s narration that wereleft off the table . But now you could take a look at one of those approximation in a form that wo n’t take up three hours of your lifespan in a blue room .

Tocelebrate the launchof The Way of Water , io9 has a look inside the second two volumes of Dark Horse Comics ’ Avatar : The High Ground . Written by Sherri L. Smith , the graphic novel trilogy — have art by Guilherme Balbi , Michael Atiyeh , and Wes Dzioba , on loudness 1 ; art by Diego Galindo , Gabriel Guzman , George Quadros , and DC Alonso on Volume 2 ; and artistic creation by Augustin Padilla , Miguel Angel Ruiz , and Michael Atiyeh on Volume 3 , all with inscription by Michael Heisler — is an adaptation of one of Cameron ’s early idea for the secret plan of his 2nd Avatar pic , and one we only get a taste of in The Way of Water ’s gap human activity . Even if it intend we omit on seeing the Na’vi film citizenry in space with arc !

Set over a decade after the end of the original picture show , The High Ground follows Jake and Neytiri after they ’ve build a kin of their own together , when they describe the terrible news that the RDA is returning to Pandora , impart warfare with them as they undertake to reclaim the planet as human beings ’s new house . Now with a kinsperson to oppose beyond the choices he made in the original movie , the stakes are gamy than ever for Jake — and set the stage for the conflicts we see in The Way of Water .