Like and comment on this video or I will flip the magnetic poles of the Earth, and according to all the doomsday shit I heard circa 2011, that is bad.

I wonder if any of the haiku girls ever think back and go "holy fuck one of the saviours of the world tumbled through our window and picked a rap battle with our teacher"

the thing with how the southern water tribe was one of the reason these comincs felt like they were written with korra in mind rather than atla

I like how katara and sokka are always on 2 different sides of a conflict (like in the best episode of the show) but always are aware that talking it out is the best solution.

4:36 To be fair, with the Water Tribe being heavily based off native american tribes, them being broken up into multiple different tribes scattered sround the area does make sence

"Come on Sokka, you've been on rougher rides than this" Suki prime example

alright, the Forklift was kindof excusable, there were some more primitive details on it. with sticks and some weird stuff. I could believe that the best minds in the post-war world could come together and figure all that out in a year or so. but that snow mobile is just straight up modern technology. fiberglass shell and curved glass and all that.

As much as love atla one thing I always hated was the fact that many places felt barren and there were few people living in these villages, towns and cities. So I do like this comic in the fact that it is fleshing out the southern water tribes and making it feel slightly more realistic, than just having like 5 people living on a massive piece of land

if you take Yon Ra, captain of the southern raiders into account, who knows what Katara would do to an unarmed old man

Kinda weird they choose a modern looking design for the snowmobile when they could’ve used a design like the jet skis from the painted lady

I guess the reason they didn't bring the Leopard-caribou to war is that they tossed their riders at the slightest hint of salted meat snacks. Almost as risky as the fire nation having ballistae that explode like misfiring cannons when attacked by the parents of protagonists

6:42 That's a good name for the restaurant. Two Fishes is a reference to the water and moon spirits but also shows that it is a seafood shop, and Northern Cuisine is just a label like taqueria.

North and South is definitely one of the better paced of the comics, and the story doesn't hinge on everyone passing the stupid stick like a baton. That said: HEY WHAT THE FvCK HAPPENED TO BATO!?

I always love that Sokka is Katara's number one fan. It's a great bit of development from the start where he still protects her as best he can but he knows she's ridiculously capable and has full faith in her to succeed.

Bro really called a snowmobile a "forklift without forks and with skis"

2:40 if you were ever hit with a frozen, hardened snow ball, you too would run for your life from a giant one with spikes…

This comic feels much more engaging, and seems to be really fleshed out, compared to the previous comics. The conflict is both interesting and feels believable. The firelord insurrectionist stuff from the previous comic felt a little pointless imo, but here both sides have valid points which is pretty crucial for a civil war scenario. Also the initial dream panels with Kaya's artwork not changing was so well done. Lookin forward to the next one!

I just sort of always assumed there was more than one community in the Southern water tribe. Because otherwise, if it was that ONE community, with a population of maybe 2 dozen..well, that's a lot of implied incest.

The traps on the ship are probably from the water tribe for catching fire nation soldiers that come back looking for supplies. Sokka and katara were probably young enough just to be told to stay away without hearing that it's been booby trapped (maybe for fear of giving sokka any ideas)

Hakoda absolutely has rizz if he managed to get a girlfriend from the place that calls him a "southern savage"

To be fair, if I was having a snowball fight and someone made a giant spikey ball, I'd surrender at that point too. They mean business, I ain't fucking with that.

I don't know, but when I listen through that patron list, I always hope that Supersnipper is still there. Such a catchy name.

I like the art style in this book a lot more than the last few, maybe it’s just the cool color palate, but it feels fresh and different.

One thing that always bothered me a little about the depiction of the Northern/Southern Water Tribes was the day-night cycle like… wouldn’t it be always day or night depending on the season? It’s just a detail but the fact that it’s always glossed over catches my attention

katara has successfully defended against the waist high wave...let's hope she doesn't do the bloodbending version...

Well the Southern Water Tribe being a multitude of different communities makes sense seeing as its a tribe, but also that with how few there were in the village at the beginning of the show would suggest they were on the verge of extinction if there weren’t any other villages. The Fire Nation was also shown to disrupt the Southern Water Tribe in flashbacks, which might have divided them into different groups.

"Dude, it's a metaphor." ..... .... ..... "He'S RiGHt!"

Kinda wish the comics actually did something with Sokka other than make him comic relief and a cheerleader. Even if they don't want to use him in actual fights, have him actually use his brain like in the show.

Honestly, I buy the city expansion. They have all these colonists from the North Pole, plus the men returning from war & a massive war economy in the Earth Kingdom & Fire Nation which would be eager to sell to a new market. Plus, as others have mentioned, the Inuit were traditionally mobile - so likely more of the Southern Water Tribe remained alive, sans benders, than we saw in the early show. Still hate the internal combustion engines though - _where are you getting gasoline!!!_

I can't believe you didn't call attention to the person asking Katara and Sokka if it is true that everything is on fire in the Fire Nation. It's 3:34 of the video.

Because of straight media tropes, I saw the Hakoda panel at the end and instantly thought, "OMG, Dad's cheating!! Oh wait... Their mom's dead lol"

This might be the best start to one of these archs so far. A lot of interesting stuff happening and setting up the rest of the story

Imagine they had barged into the hut with Sokka still thinking the Northerner siblings were a couple, just to find his dad like that...

It feels a lot like the main purpose of this comic was to bridge the gap between AtlA and Korra

"Classically Kataras them" is a great line 👏

I know the stuff with how suddenly urbanized the southern water tribe is, feels like a major plot hole, but I do actually have a headcannon that helps it a lot, the southern water tribe shown in the show was just one of dozens of small communities throughout the southpole, I feel like that kinda makes more sense then there only being one village on an entire continent anyways. but also jf you go with it you can actually make a real world parallel with with what happened to many of the Indigenous people of Greenland. During a time where they feared losing control of it to another nation Denmark forced the entire populations of hundreds of villages and large swaths of hundreds more to gather in its capital city Nuuk and turn it into a proper settlement they could control much easier then the frozen wilds. The same thing could perhaps be said about the northern water tribe, of the 3 nations in the world they are clearly the least powerful and although the world is generally at peace, I can absolutely see them wishing to modernize the south in the hopes it allows their people have to have more influence in the world. And especially considering what their shown to do in Kora I think them even just incentivising the people to abandon their old homes and gather here makes a lot of sense

The thing i like about this comic is how conifdent katara is in her bending

8:43 so like... was that supposed to hang intruders? cause thats the vibe im getting here. real dark avatar comics

It's wild to see them in their full snow gear after so long. I mean, we saw what the village used to be a lot more than when Aang found it, thanks to Hama's memories, so it's cool to see the place not one attack or bad month of hunting away from being erased. This is actual civilization and no longer mere subsistence living while all the men are off making war. It's been built up better than before. So long as the remaining villagers were respected and given good homes, I call this a major win. Darn right these kids deserve recognition! If the the new town knew the full scope, they'd have readied a parade! Well, that little village from the first couple episodes wasn't big enough to contribute more than one of Hakoda's ships, so this tracks. And frankly, a lot of shows have to compact locations or limit how much we see to avoid wasting budget. The difference between blue and light purple is soft, but useful. I am intrigued by the idea of exploring construction style bending more. Especially in a time of reconstruction and new growth. II mean, Toph made earth tents regularly, but those were pretty rough things. Seeing how benders who build instead of beat down could be very interesting. Again, that Snowmobile feels like they're advancing too fast. Not as bad as the forklift that seemed internally the same as a modern engine, but this is still a bit much. Maybe have it built around an oversized engine that would be seen as inefficient by LOK? Okay, the neck height triggering wire is a neat touch. Okay, trying to emulate the dominant powers of the war is actually an understandable piece of logic, and history would agree that centralized leadership allows for stronger nations. And the faults in this guy's thinking about how the north is a negative influence are understandable in his wrong conclusions. We can reason out that one of the reasons why the Northern Water Tribe was doing so well was a unified defensive posture while the Southern Tribes periodically bled themselves of manpower they couldn't afford to lose in numbers too small to change things, but he's not naturally going to see it that way. The rat metaphor feels more like what an egotistical Northern Water Tribe would say to dissuade aid to the Southern Water Tribe. 12:02 Awesome, but how did that get trained before the Polar Bear Dog? I'm guessing these things do VERY poorly outside of their native climate and that keeping them fed on campaign is a hassle, so only a prosperous water tribe can deploy them, and only domestically. And if they can be distracted THIS easily with meat.... well the Fire Nation skews heavier on the meat than the earth kingdom, so these things would be fairly easy to distract... and barring that, setting their fur on fire should work wonders to disrupt Water Tribe cavalry.

2:10 I like that you’ve been keeping this running gag

💀no but you know Maliq was about to drop a "Southern savages" line or something similar

been watching the channel for a year now and this has officially become my comfort channel, whenever i do anything I'll just put an Overanalyzing Avatar video in the background. So thank you very much for these videos

This video is unlisted but can be reached through the playlist, weird

One thing that I really dislike about the Avatar comics is how they made the characters much more 'cartoony' looking. They gave everyone, especially Aang, much larger, rounder eyes. I don't understand why. I feel like the comics would have a better visual look if they simply kept that same style of drawing that the original animation had. It almost feels like they are trying to change actors without telling anyone.

The water spout katara used to get out of the cave is the same move she used to get Aang out of the crystal catacombs in the crossroads of destiny

I'm guessing the northern water tribe wear purple because they were doing much better than the south were before and therefore were likely to be able to afford the purple dye

Best part of this comic is when sokka says “it’s soking time baby” and then he sokked all over gigamungious or whatever his name is

You genuinely have the best patron callouts i have ever seen, theyre so fun they make me want to donate to you to get one of them

something that gets lost with the medium of comics is the martial arts techniques/fighting styles that each bending style emulated that connected with a deeper ideology of lifestyle. With comics it’s hard to get those distinct styles back and we get silly things like snowballs with spikes and frozen toboggans. It makes sense for a world that is increasingly moving away from needing bending at all but it’s something that I’m missing from the original series. In fact it’s more akin to LOK bending attitudes where she just punches air at people, which doesn’t align with airbender techniques/ideology at all. Katara is a water bending master so we should be able to see that in a more nuanced way than her just being the most powerful bender but again the medium of comic books is way harder to depict that than animation.

This is looking to be a rather interesting one. I love that you're covering the comics!

That snowmobile looks straight out of the 1970s...

yeah sokka's father led 4-5 ships to war, all these men were part of that village.... there are almost more ships than tents man:)))) also most of those men should have had wifes and kids, in the begining there were either small children or old people...

Dang, this was a nifty one. Also, your recurring gag response to Katara's "Artisenal Christmas Sleds" had me in stitches, well done. xD

There father mentioned them meeting the rest of the southern tribe warriors in a letter when they meet the one warrior they left behind because he was hurt

Woooop woooop!! Thank for for continuing theseeeeee 😭

3:33 Shout out to that one townsfolk asking if everything in the Fire Nation is just always on fire.

Love the comment analysis videos, hope he does all of them eventually and maybe changes his mind about korra in the future

Gilak appears in briefly in "The Southern Raiders" flashback for a split second. Or at least it sure looks like him.

i’ve binged all your avatar content in the last few days. make more please :)

I got hooked on the reproduction list and didnt notice this was 10 days algo lmao. Cant wait for the next

I haven't seen any of the comments mention this yet, but we actually see Gilak briefly in the Southern Raiders flashback

I read this comic after I had seen Korra so it was kinda interesting to see how the Southern Water Tribe had begun the development it went through that we see at the beginning of Korra

One weird detail is that Malina is also the name of Unalaqs wife and Dresna and Eskas mother, which is an odd thing to do, have two northern water tribe women both have the same name, and they cant be the same character unless she just left everyone behind in the south, relocated to the North, and had some babies at a really old age

Let's goooooooo! You're videos make my day!

best avatar youtuber i love your vids man keep it up

6:35 don’t disrespec my man sokka like that

This is definitely the best start.

Wow is this the best comic reviewed so far? this feels so much like the show to me

Bro this content is keeping me alive please post more

That choke wire leading to a trapdoor drop is pretty dark. It's a trap that just brutally hangs the victim

Thanks man, I just got my tooth pulled 2 hours ago, I’m at work and I hate life Prolly gonna loop this for abit lol

You can really feel the characters emotions in this ine

3:20 okay until now I thought they'd been through a time warp or something. Either way though it's good to finally get confirmation that their one village was not the entire southern water tribe, which is the vibe I got, too. Man, imagine how much it would suck to be born in the Earth Kingdom and, like, your favorite color is blue. Too bad, dude. Green and brown for you.

This is just the Great Divide done right

"Hakoda, the head motherf*cker war hero" I am dying at that description, somehow both horrible and entirely correct

That line of the North hiding behind their walls feels…true. I can see why Gilak would feel bitter. Wtf North Pole

I like the plot of this one. Tradition VS Modernity The old ways VS New values It still has weight to it with all the, "culture wars" nonsense that we see these days.

That “forklift” was a snowmobile for future reference, very capable in the snow (as you could guess lol)

Tbh I'm no patreon but I mostly listen for the thanks at the end at this point.

I remember really liking this trio of comics but lets see where it goes!

Here for round 3 of hoping he says something/noticed Ty Lee’s eye color has been retconned/changed in there’s comics

Who the fuck is the other person in the flashback panel at 1:15, I get that it should be Katara, but that's not Katara even remotely, and she looks like a pretty young kid too, not really what young Katara looks like though, also not really anything we see Katara wear I don't think. Is this some really weird nod to how Aang said "you still are a kid!" to Katara in the scene we're flashing back to? Aang also looks kinda young in the panel too, but that could just be the slightly weird comic book face that he gets sometimes.

7:30 he walked Bob Dylan up on stage

I always assumed Sokka and Katara's village wasn't the only one in the Southern Water tribe

I like the setup for the plot so far. Let's see where this goes.

Finally some good content, for when i'm grinding away in wow

"Problems between the north and a south happen way before you were born" - Korra's Mom

I also remembering liking this comic. Can't wait to see how it ends!

I dunno, I always assumed that were was more to the Southern Tribe than the single 2 igloo village we saw. Makes more sense to be spread out, access to more hunting grounds and they're harder for the Fire Nation to efficiently raid since they can't hole up like the North.

They could have easily picked a spot for the southern water tribe central, have that be a capital and leave the smaller villages to be traditional(maybe a little fortified, but not too modernized).

9:30 oh shit! The La Li Le Lo Lu got to the Southern Water Tribe too!

"consecutive normal snowballs" is an excellent joke. I love the little zingers you hide in these things.

Crazy good addition to an amazing day. Have a great day everyone.

Wooo new avatar comic!!!

The art on this comic is really crisp.

think this might be my second favorite out the comics so far. maybe it’s because i have a bias to spirits (and toph) but the rift also had a good conflict that was both internal and external to toph and aang

Fun fact: Gilak was in the Southern Raiders

I hope you carry this over analyzing series to FMA

How does Molina know how to waterbend? Did she learn from Pakku in the time after the season 1 finale? Bc girls still werent allowed to fight before that

Are you going to do the Kiyoshi comics? Looking forward to those