See Avatar: The Way of Water’s Epic Space Battle That Could’ve Been

There was an extended—lengthy—time between Avatar and The Way of Water, and within the decade-plus it took James Cameron to make his sequel and bits of bobs of perhaps one other three motion pictures past it, there have been many concepts for what got here subsequent in Jake and Neytiri’s tales that had been left off the desk. But now you may check out a kind of concepts in a type that received’t take up three hours of your life in a darkish room.

To have a good time the launch of The Way of Water, io9 has a glance contained in the second two volumes of Dark Horse Comics’ Avatar: The High Ground. Written by Sherri L. Smith, the graphic novel trilogy—that includes artwork by Guilherme Balbi, Michael Atiyeh, and Wes Dzioba, on Volume 1; artwork by Diego Galindo, Gabriel Guzman, George Quadros, and DC Alonso on Volume 2; and artwork by Augustin Padilla, Miguel Angel Ruiz, and Michael Atiyeh on Volume 3, all with lettering by Michael Heisler—is an adaptation of one in all Cameron’s early concepts for the plot of his second Avatar film, and one we solely get a style of in The Way of Water’s opening act. Even if it means we missed on seeing the Na’vi shoot individuals in house with bows!

Set over a decade after the top of the unique film, The High Ground follows Jake and Neytiri after they’ve constructed a household of their very own collectively, after they uncover the horrible information that the RDA is returning to Pandora, bringing struggle with them as they try and reclaim the planet as humanity’s new house. Now with a household to defend past the alternatives he made within the authentic film, the stakes are larger than ever for Jake—and set the stage for the conflicts we see in The Way of Water.

Click by way of to see a preview from each quantity 2 and three of The High Ground, each of which can be found now.