The Lost Adventures

The Lost Adventures is an anthology of comics relating to Avatar: The Last Airbender and depicting events unseen during the series' run. The anthology collects previously unpublished comics, minicomics included as part of the Book Two: Earth and Book Three: Fire DVD volumes, the Avatar comic from Free Comic Book Day 2011, and the numerous works released by Nickelodeon Magazine and Nickelodeon Comics Club from 2005 through 2009.The Lost Adventures, page 5.
The comics reveal certain key information pertaining to the narrative, including Joo Dee's immediate appointment as the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se following the Coup of Ba Sing Se and the exact method of how Team Avatar commandeered a Fire Nation cruiser. Several other comics also release new information on characters from the series and introduce new characters absent from the series. The anthology was released on June 14, 2011. A Library Edition that collects the stories from both The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales was released by Dark Horse Comics on October 28, 2020.
== Book One: Water ==
=== Bee Calm ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton and John O'Bryan
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Clem Robins
While Team Avatar is lost in the forest early in their adventures, a scorpion bee lands on Aang's nose. Although Katara and Sokka advise him to make it detach from his body, Aang assures them that all he has to do is stay calm and it will not bother him, a plan that heeds less-than-favorable results.
=== Water War ===
* Story: Tim Hedrick
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Comicraft
When Katara witnesses two children pelting innocent civilians with water balloons in a small town, she decides it is their turn to get splashed.
=== Don't Blow It! ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Elsa Garagarza
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Aang wakes up with a case of the sniffles, causing him to exhibit unusual, airbender-enhanced symptoms, and ignores his friends' offers for cures by insisting that it is nothing to dote over. When his sickness complicates matters, Katara and Sokka resolve to keep Aang safe whether or not the Avatar agrees with their methods.
=== Relics ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton and Johane Matte
* Art: Johane Matte
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Comicraft
Team Avatar stops at the sales stand of a merchant who markets years-old artifacts, one of which, an Air Nomad pendant, catches Aang's eye and spurs him to uncover its whereabouts.
=== Fruit-Stand Freestyle ===
* Cartoonist: Brian Ralph
* Lettering: Comicraft
Momo comes across a fruit stand filled with fresh fruit, but a wild boar-q-pine thinks itself clever enough to outwit the lemur and take the fruit for itself.
== Book Two: Earth ==
=== Sleepbending ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton
* Art: Joaquim Dos Santos
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Clem Robins
Aang's dream stirs up trouble for the rest of the team, who are constantly interrupted from their rest by the Avatar's tumultuous delusions.
=== Lessons ===
* Story and art: Johane Matte
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Toph banishes Sokka and Momo from the area she is trying to use for Aang's earthbending training, but the two of them manage to cause even more of a distraction elsewhere.
=== Sokka the Avatar ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Sno Cone Studios
* Lettering: Comicraft
While visiting a small Earth Kingdom town, Sokka pretends to be the Avatar in order to impress a girl with Aang's permission. Although the scheme seems stellar at first, everyone involved soon realizes the danger involved with the impersonation of the Avatar.
=== Dirty Is Only Skin Deep ===
* Story: J. Torres
* Art and color: Gurihiru
* Lettering: Comicraft
When Toph refuses to bathe with the others and wash off the unseemly accumulation dirt on her body, Katara takes it upon herself to get the earthbender into her native element.
=== Divided We Fall ===
* Story: Frank Pittarese
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Wes Dzioba, Hye-Jung Kim, and Sno Cone Studios
* Lettering: Comicraft
The worst rainstorm Team Avatar has yet faced blows Appa to the ground of a dense forest, forcing the members of the gang to fend for themselves in an environment unlike any other they have ever dealt with. In their attempts to find each other, the children come face-to-face with the people of the jungle and do what it takes to survive.
=== Reach for the Toph ===
* Story: J. Torres
* Art and color: Corey Lewis
* Lettering: Comicraft
Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph appear to be locked in an intense battle, but what are the children really fighting over?
=== It's Only Natural ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton and Johane Matte
* Art: Johane Matte
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Earth King Kuei's pet bear, Bosco, has forgotten all of his natural instincts: hunting, intimidating, and basically all that has to do with him, a normally wild animal, living in the wild. Disappointed with the bear's backward progression to human-like characteristics under Kuei's care, Sokka attempts to turn Bosco into what nature intended him to be. His ideas are not taken well by the infinitely lazy animal.
=== Going Home Again ===
* Story: May Chan, Aaron Ehasz, Katie Mattila, and Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Amy Kim Ganter
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
After Ba Sing Se's fall, Princess Azula decides to return home to the Fire Nation with Prince Zuko and their imprisoned Uncle Iroh. Zuko, however, refuses. Azula and Ty Lee form a plan to convince him to leave with them.
=== The Bridge ===
* Story: Aaron Ehasz, Joshua Hamilton, Tim Hedrick, and Frank Pittarese
* Art and color: Reagan Lodge
* Lettering: Comicraft
Katara writes in her diary about events as they pass following the fall of Ba Sing Se, chronicling the progression of Aang's coma and the tribulations that she and the rest of the gang come to face while traversing Fire Nation waters.
== Book Three: Fire ==
=== Private Fire ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton
* Art: Johane Matte
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Having entered the Fire Nation in disguise as normal civilians, Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph go information gathering in an everyday Fire Nation village. Since this course of actions heeds no reveals to the gang concerning plans for the War, Sokka comes up with the one plan he can think of that may assist him in his quest for knowledge: he joins the Fire Nation Army.
=== Night Animals ===
* Story: Katie Mattila
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
When Momo spots two Fire Nation soldiers patrolling dangerously close to the Team Avatar campsite, he awakens Appa in the hopes that the flying bison can think of a way to ward off their enemies.
=== Boys' Day Out ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art and color: Gurihiru
* Lettering: Comicraft
Katara has learned of a gritty restaurant/bar situated in a nearby Fire Nation town and, bored with sitting around, invites Toph to visit it with her. Upon entering, they discover that it is an all-male establishment, but the waterbender is not ready to give up on the plan she had devised for her afternoon.
=== Ember Island Arcade ===
* Cartoonist: Corey Lewis
* Lettering: Comicraft
During a forced vacation to Ember Island, Lo and Li show Zuko, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee to a popular arcade to lift the teenagers' spirits. Azula's taunting challenge to her brother to play a game of Street Bender cannot be refused.
=== Monster Slayer ===
* Story: J. Torres
* Art & Color: Gurihiru
* Lettering: Comicraft
Sokka misleads an entire town of Fire Nation citizens into believing that there is a monstrous beast residing in the forest just outside of the village, knowing full well that this creature is only Appa, and volunteers to slay the monster for a free meal from the townspeople. When he gets to the woods, Sokka is met by an entirely different surprise.
=== Combustion Man on a Train ===
* Story: Rawles Lumumba and Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Tom McWeeney
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Although at first only spectating at the departure of a Fire Nation train, Aang and Sokka agree to go on the train with Sho, a child who is afraid to ride the train alone. Sho's fears are justified when an intimidating Fire Nation assassin, Combustion Man, invades the trains and chases Avatar Aang.
=== Swordbending ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Zuko agrees to a friendly sword-fighting match with Sokka, who practically begs the firebender in order to alleviate his boredom at the Western Air Temple. This "Swordbending Kai" does not go as Sokka expected, despite the latter's training with Master Piandao.
=== No Benders Allowed ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Elsa Garagarza
* Lettering: Comicraft
At the Western Air Temple, the benders of Team Avatar and Haru leave Sokka, Teo, and The Duke behind to do some household chores, while they go practice their bending. Feeling excluded, Sokka comes up with a new club, the "Bendless Boomerang Club", founded specifically to exclude benders, since only nonbenders can join.
=== Love Is a Battlefield ===
* Story: J. Torres
* Art and color: Gurihiru
* Lettering: Comicraft
At the Western Air Temple, Aang wishes to speak to Katara about the kiss the two shared during the Day of Black Sun, but she is hesitant.
=== Dragon Days ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Johane Matte (frame) and Tom McWeeney (flashback)
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Aang tells Zuko of his adventures with Kuzon while searching for dragons one hundred years before being freed from the iceberg. He details the day on which he and Kuzon discovered a corrupted trafficking business in the dragons' mountains.
=== Game Time ===
* Story: Katie Mattila
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Comicraft
The members of Team Avatar are sitting on the steps that lead to Ozai's beach house when Sokka bursts through the building's doors suggesting that they play hide-and-go-seek. Realizing that he will not deter in his efforts until they agree, the team joins the game and retreats into the bush to hide.
=== Bumi vs. Toph, Round One ===
* Story: Joshua Hamilton and Johane Matte
* Art: Johane Matte
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim
* Lettering: Comicraft
At the White Lotus campsite, Toph overhears Suki's praise for Bumi's earthbending skills and thinks it uncalled for, considering herself to be the greatest earthbender of all. When Toph and Bumi begin to argue over who is better, Sokka sees an opportunity to make a spectacle of their disagreement and suggests that the two battle one another to prove who deserves the title. Their fight disrupts the workings of the campsite and puts everyone present in harm's way.
== Bonus stories ==
=== New Recruits ===
* Story: Dave Roman
* Art: Justin Ridge
* Color: Hye-Jung Kim and Sno Cone Studios
* Lettering: Comicraft
The gang goes to a local Earth Kingdom tavern in search of some new recruits and allies to join them in their fight against the Fire Nation. While there, their elderly contact, Yahshi, introduces the gang to four unique benders.
=== Gym Time ===
* Story: Benjamin Wilgus
* Art: Ethan Spaulding
* Color: Wes Dzioba
* Lettering: Comicraft
Avatar Kyoshi arrives at class to instruct Team Avatar, along with Zuko, Mai, and Azula, on their game for the day: dodgeball.
== References ==
== See also ==
* List of Avatar: The Last Airbender comics
* List of The Legend of Korra comics
* Team Avatar Tales
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