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Inktober2018 day 29: gift

It’s a really good time to be an Avatar fan right now, with a LOT of content coming our way soon. So much that it’s hard to keep track of…

So here’s a classic korranews masterpost with everything you need to know.

⛰️🔥🌪️🌊 The Road Ahead: an Avatar mega update

September 2018

First up, in case you missed it, the following recent-ish stuff is already out!

All three parts of The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars graphic novel trilogy

The Legend of Korra: Pro-bending Arena, a super cool table top game with detailed figurines of a bunch of the characters

Secrets of Elvendale, a fantasy series on Netflix animated by Studio Mir

Pins!!! Check their online store because there’s about a million new ones (I need to make a whole masterpost just for that…)

The trailer for The Dragon Prince, a new animated fantasy series from the head writer of ATLA

The 2018 Korra FCBD comic

ATLA in true 1080p HD on Blu-ray and digital download!!!!!

And coming soon…

Imbalance

A new ATLA graphic novel trilogy, with a brand new writer and artist! The story covers a burgeoning bender-nonbender conflict in an industrial town, a very intriguing potential first link to the founding of Republic City and bridging the seventy-year gap to TLOK.

Part 1 comes out this year, on December 12th. Part 2 follows on April 16th 2019, with Part 3 expected in approximately August next year as well.

See all the detailed info we have so far, and keep up-to-date, with our #imbalance tag.

Team Avatar Tales

An anthology of comics following Team Avatar on various never-before-seen adventures! We don’t know a lot yet but this should be a very nice collection of stories.

This anthology hits shelves on January 2nd, 2019.

#team avatar tales

Turf Wars library edition

If the ATLA trilogies’ library editions are anything to go on, this volume collecting all three parts of Turf Wars should be a stunning hardcover with plenty of cool behind the scenes info, art, and extras.

You can get it on March 26th, 2019.

#turf wars

An Avatar’s Chronicle

This scrapbook-type release dealing with Korra looking back on her journey so far is going to be filled with gorgeous, full illustrations and posters, in-universe letters, inserts, mementos, keepsakes, photos, and more. It should also have some new stories and moments with the characters. Sounds cool!!

It comes out on May 21st, 2019.

#an avatar’s chronicle

The Rise of Kyoshi

A big surprise we very happily got hit with recently, The Rise of Kyoshi is an upcoming epic YA novel series about the origins of Avatar Kyoshi from a humble corner of the Earth Kingdom, starting her journey to legendary greatness.

It’s going to be two books, with the first hitting shelves on July 16th, 2019. When Book 2 comes is anybody’s guess, but a year later in summer 2020 is a potential ballpark.

#the rise of kyoshi

The next Korra trilogy

This is the one we know least about, but what’s exciting is that we know it exists at all! Korra’s story isn’t over yet: we have confirmation that a new graphic novel trilogy is happening. The rumor mill says we might finally be seeing the Fire Nation, but only time will tell…

We can hopefully expect some concrete information about this at NYCC in October. As for a release date, expect at least a few months between the end of Imbalance and the start of this, so late 2019 at the earliest, but probably 2020.

#korra comics

Oh, and one last thing…

FUNKO POPS ARE COMING

That’s all.

⛰️🔥🌪️🌊

So there you have it, the full slate! Novels, graphic novels, comics, merch, books of all kinds… yep, it’s a good time to be an Avatar fan. (Next week in particular might have a lil something in store for you… 👀)

Who knows what else is just around the corner?! Whatever it is, it’s clear that this franchise is still going strong and won’t be stopping any time soon. Good news for us!!

Inktober2018 day 26: stretch

Inktober2018 day 6: drooling

Quick Tips for Writing Interesting Villains

Give them relationships with other characters. Being a villain doesn’t mean they’re isolated

Give them their own set of morals

Give them something to care about

Consider the reasons why they want to hurt the protagonist

Remember that they are human

Don’t make them evil for the sake of being evil

Keep in mind that a villain doesn’t have to do every horrible thing imaginable

Not every villain was abused. Someone who was spoiled is just as, if not more, likely to lack empathy than someone who was abused

Consider how they rationalize their behavior (blame their victims, make excuses, believe that what they’re doing is right)

Give them a life outside of being a villain. Maybe your protagonist is going shopping and they run into their villain and the villain isn’t interested or up for a fight that day. This really depends on the story, though

Give them a past, present, or future relationship with the protagonist. Again, this depends on the story

Consider making your villain likable

Give the reader a reason to sympathize with them

Libraries with a sense of humour.