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The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire graphic novel trilogy announced!

Here’s the official description from Penguin Random House:

Korra must decide who to trust as the fate of the Earth Kingdom hangs in the balance!
On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation’s democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don’t all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war!
Written by series co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino and drawn by Michelle Wong (Goosebumps: Download and Die), with consultation by Bryan Konietzko, this is the official continuation of the beloved television series!

So first of all… that TITLE.

Second of all, there’s a lot to gather from the above cover and description. Kuvira’s back and she’s on trial. Bolin is in his formal civilian clothing– he left the Republic City police at the end of the last trilogy. And it sounds like we’re gonna get some pretty cool Earth Kingdom politics! It’s not the return to the Fire Nation like a lot of us had hoped, but hopefully they do some interesting stuff with this plotline, which was left pretty open-ended at the end of the series. The cover background also features Zaheer’s prison in the United Republic mountains, so maybe there’s more there than meets the eye…

Maybe most excitingly, we have our new artist! It’s Michelle Wong! You can see a sample of some of her art above, and WOW we are in for a treat! Her style is clean and expressive and it really pops, similar to the show, she does beautiful detailed backgrounds, and you can just tell that she’s going to be doing the characters, especially Korra, justice.

She’s @lokhelle on twitter, and her website is wlokhelle.com. Definitely looking forward to her hopefully posting some preview panels as she works on the comics.

The people working on the other aspects are unchanged: Vivian Ng on colors, Mike writing, Bryan consulting. It’s interesting that Bryke is still on board considering they’re showrunning the new Netflix live action ATLA series.