Avatar The Last Airbender Legacy

Title: Avatar The Last Airbender Legacy

Author: Michael Teitelbaum

Publisher: Insight Editions

ISBN: 9781608874477

Website: http://www.insighteditions.com

My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Since June, I have been waiting on pins and needles for this book.  I was so excited, thinking that we would finally get the chance to read about Aang and the Avatar team after the series - spanning from the last episode and leading up to his death.  Honestly, all I really wanted was to see images from Aang and Katara’s wedding.  Instead, I got another, but poor, rehashing of the Avatar series.
 

‘The Legacy’ was actually Aang’s diary for Tenzin.  Aang wanted Tenzin to know his history, about the Airbenders and basically recalling the events leading up to the defeat of the Fire Lord.  Katara, Toph and Sokka had 2 pages to add their 2 cents.  The book was divided up by the four nations.  Aang goes a little deeper into each nation and gives a few interesting facts, like population, bending, seasons of the most births and philosophy.  There are random postcards, small posters, and a comic.  There aren’t a lot of these and seem forced to make it diary-like.  It was an easy, quick read.  The font might be a little small.
 

The book is beautifully made.  The cover is gorgeous.  The pages are good quality.  The images are sharp and clean.  But the book is incredibly short, despite the price.  And my main pet peeve was the artwork.  I guessed I got used to the high quality from the other books that I own.  I don’t know if it was intentional, but the art work was not good and there was a mix of old and new artwork.  It was too much a clash that it was distracting.  I don't know if it was because they used a different publisher or what, but it saddened me after seeing such an awesome cover.

If you are like me, who collects all the comics and artbooks, it didn’t really bring anything new.  Considering the price, the length and the content is definitely not worth it.  I would’ve waited if I had known.  This is an absolute miss for me.  However, if you are coming late into the series or just seen only Korra, this will be a good way to get a quick recap of ATLA.  Depending on what you already own, you might get a different reaction than me.  In the end, I was disappointed.