The Rift, Part 2

by Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko

Book Overview

Written and drawn by the team behind the best-selling books, Avatar: The Promise and Avatar: The Search , Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, in collaboration with the Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra animated series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this is the ultimate continuation of the Avatar animated series and the perfect companion to the currently-running Legend of Korra

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616552964
• ISBN13: 9781616552961
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift Part Two (Team Avatar Must Fix the Past)

Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift Part Two continues after the first part, where Toph meets her father for the first time in years. Lao claims he doesn’t know who Toph is and asks the Rough Rhinos to escort Toph and her friends out of the refinery. Satoru gets yelled at by his Uncle Loban about keeping them on their tight deadlines. Team Avatar chooses to stay and fights the Rough Rhinos, but Aang asks the Air Acolytes to evacuate. Aang and Toph continue to argue about helping versus hurting their opponents. At the same time, Sokka and Katara lure the majority of the Rough Rhinos into a trap. The Air Acolytes do their fair share of fighting. Jingbo enjoys breaking the rules. After the battle, Aang celebrates Yangchen’s Festival with the Air Acolytes, while Toph decides to infiltrate the refinery and confront her father, Lao. After a change of plans, Aang chooses a beautiful restaurant that serves cabbage soup, cabbage noodles, and cabbage cookies. The owner, Mr. Cabbage Man, allows Aang to have a meal and some cabbage cookies with his friends there. Toph and Satoru argue about Satoru’s actions before his Uncle Loban. Sokka unarms Yeh-Lu, the explosives expert of the Rough Rhino, and throws the explosive, exposing the entrance of a mine. Sokka and Katara investigate the mine while Aang, the Air Acolytes, and Momo pray before their meal. When Aang opens his eyes, he’s sharing a meal with Avatar Yangchen in the Spirit World. Aang hears Yangchen when she informs him about the consequences of breaking off his connection with Avatar Roku and explains how this meal allows them to connect. While the Air Acolytes think seeing Aang in the Avatar State is incredible, Mr. Cabbage Man does not. Despite Lao’s denial, he still keeps the picture of his wife, Toph, and himself on his desk. He puts the portrait away when Toph enters Lao’s office. Lao continues to lie to Toph, but she can tell he’s not being honest with her. Lao argues that Toph is not the proper young lady he trained her to be, and Toph argues that she is the greatest earthbender of all time. Meanwhile, Sokka and Katara enter the mine and discover an iron ore mining operation. When the Rough Rhinos show up to stop Sokka and Katara, they damage a pillar. As the cave threatens to collapse, Sokka commands the miners to evacuate the mine. Niyok and Nutha inform Sokka and Katara that this is their only job, and they can’t leave until the “boss man” says so. Sokka leaves to bring the “boss man” there. Yangchen begs Aang not to repeat her mistakes and narrates her first mission as a teenage Avatar. Yangchen travels on her sky bison, Nujian, with her guardian, Boma, and her two flying lemurs, Pik and Pak. The king informs Yangchen that the fortunate tellers predict a tragedy will fall upon the city. Yanchen, Boma, Pik, and Pak camp outside the city to see what is coming—an enormous spirit. Sensing the great spirit’s grief, Yangchen gets emotional but asks the spirit to leave the city alone. The spirit punches Yangchen aside and starts destroying the city gate. Boma says he will evacuate the town while Yangchen fights the spirit. In the meantime, Toph calls Lao blind and explains who she is, but he still refuses to accept her. Emotionally defeated, she agrees never to see him again. Sokka, followed by Satoru, enters the office, informs Lao about the iron mine beneath the city, and commands them to follow him. Yangchen reveals that the spirit called General Old Iron battled with her, but neither one could get the upper hand. General Old Iron removes his armor and describes his relation to the beautiful spirit called Lady Tienhai. As her guard, he watched her tend to the shore. When humans made tents on the shoreline, Lady Tienhai tended to the humans’ every need, and General Old Iron hated them for it. He knew they would betray Lady Tienhai, so he tried to murder the humans. However, Lady Tienhai protected the humans, so he left her. Then, a few nights ago, she was murdered by a huma