Avatar: The Last Airbender - Smoke And Shadow Preview Released, Continues Story Of Zuko's Mother

Writer Gene Luen Yang is getting ready to launch his latest series of Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels at Dark Horse Comics, continuing the story of what happened to Team Avatar after the animated series ended.

"One of the best things about working on the comics is that we get to tie up some loose ends that the series left," Yang told Entertainment Weekly. "And the series left them intentionally, I've talked to Mike [Dante DiMartino] and Bryan [Konietzko], the creators of the original show about it, and we talked about how life in general, we often have loose ends so they wanted that feel. So in the comic, we bring some resolution."

Yang says Smoke and Shadow will be a continuation of narrative threads first explored in The Search, where Zuko finally found his long lost mother.

"He brings his mom back to the Fire Nation, because a lot of it will be about power — it'll be about how Zuko was handling being the Fire Lord," Yang explained. "I think all of us are haunted by our families, our families of origin in some way. We worry about either continuing the legacy of our parents or falling into the same pitfalls as they did. And I feel like that's just a hundred times worse for Zuko. So the focus will be really on the Fire Nation world family, and on how Zuko deals with power and fear."

You can check out the cover for Smoke and Shadow Part One, and some of Yang's interior artwork, in the gallery below.

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Smoke and Shadow Part One goes on sale Oct. 6.