A review by ellaellaellaetc
North and South by Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Gene Luen Yang

4.75

when you watched avatar the last airbender did you ever think, "what if they found oil in the southern water tribe???" well! you won't have to keep wondering because this comic answers that exact question! every time I read more of these comics I am really struck by how expansive they are. while I really loved the show, it was extremely simple in it's world politics. now it's a kids show, I never really expected it to address a lot of these really specific issues but it's interesting to see them unpacked in a format for kids! this world is just so well thought out and shows that when a 100 year war stops because you take out one monarch and replace them with another one it's not all sunshine and rainbows! this is about katara and sokka returning to the southern water tribe for the first time after the war and it's turning into a mini northern water tribe! this is lowkey about gentrification and higher powered countries "civilising" native populations and stealing their resources!!!! (also about rebel forces having good intentions but having the side effects of violence!!!) now has any of these ever happened before in the world I wonder🤔🤔🤔 this is actually crazily well done seeing as it's for kids and is actually a very unfortunate reality of what would actually happen if this was real (minus the kind of happy ending.....) cause the world is actually fucked up! 4.75 stars!