Avatar: The High Ground Volume 2 (Avatar, 2)

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Kiri, Lo'ak, Tuk and Spider decide to secretly go exploring because they think the meeting is going to take forever and they won't want to be bored. It is based on an 130-page original screenplay by James Cameron which originally was planned to become the second film of the Avatar franchise.

Some of the space action sequences were a little disorienting (I guess zero G will do that to you), but the characters are much closer to their film counterparts in this volume, including the children and the humans, which made the action a little easier to follow. It was decided to relaunch the Avatar: The High Ground script in the form of a graphic novel that tells the story of the Na'vi between Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water. feels distinctly vital to the broader “Avatar” story, serving to fill in blanks between the events of the first and second films in a way that doesn’t feel shoehorned, but rather, genuinely important and interconnected, as if it was ALWAYS a part of James Cameron’s broader story for the franchise (which, to be fair, it kind of was: the entire “The High Ground” trilogy is an adaptation of an un-filmed script that Cameron wrote – hence why so much of this feels like a direct prequel to TWOW.In their conversation, as he tries to defend Spider, Jake also educates Neytiri on what the word "sin" means.

It is set before Avatar: The Way of Water and follows many of the characters introduced in the film such as Lo'ak, Kiri, Neteyam and Frances Ardmore. I don’t know what James Camero has planned for Spider in the future, but he has given him a lot of daddy issues. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Spider's mother Paz Socorro had died during the assault on Hometree. Tuktirey, who is supposed to be a 7 year old girl, does not have her hairstyle and she is drawn very boyishly, even having a chest which appears to have some pecs. It also didn’t play enough by Avatar rules, which is to connect us to the dream world, that which has a spiritual component that we can’t even quite quantify in words.Jake insists even though he is not human, he still feels he is a marine and that he is still like the Sky People. They are soon found by McCosker who says they can be useful, however, he traps Spider and the siblings in separate rooms. Spider manages to escape his cell using a fire extinguisher to bash the windows, and he rescues the Sully children. Downgraded to a 3 though because much of this takes place in space and it's hard to follow the action in the 2nd half of this. Jake has mentioned that not a single day has passed without him in grief over the losses and the deaths that happened during the battle over Hometree and the Tree of Souls, and he feels that those tragic times almost feel as if they happened to someone completely different.