Avatar: The High Ground Volume 2 (Avatar, 2)

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Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na'vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again. Lo’ak here is younger, so, yeah, no doubt why he’s the rebel one in The Way of Water, he’s just doing like Neteyam and Kiri. With some publishing metadata such as an ISBN remaining in place, the status of the book remained unknown. The Na'vi begin training in zero gravity, although Jake refuses to let one of his boys fight in the upcoming battle. Jake and Neytiri are horrified that their plan seems to have failed by this unexpected turn of events.

Kiri, Lo'ak, Tuk and Spider decide to secretly go exploring because they think the meeting is going to take forever and they won't want to be bored. As they rest on the ground, Jake looks up and sees a massive light in the sky, making Jake realize the RDA is back. The good thing, is Neteyam is Neteyam, and once in the mission, he does as he was told (most of the time). Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na’vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again… if the plan works. It offers fighting scenes but does not really engage with the characters, which I would have enjoyed to read way more.The commotion lets Jake and Neytiri separate and, with Josh Winslow, they decide to find the ship's auxiliary weapons to threaten the other RDA ships. But, any chain of events is only as strong as the weakest link and in this case the weak link is human nature. Some of the space action sequences were a little disorienting (I guess zero G will do that to you), but the characters are much closer to their film counterparts in this volume, including the children and the humans, which made the action a little easier to follow.

I’m starting to think it would have been better if Jake and Neytiri didn’t tell her the truth in the first place. Spider manages to escape his cell using a fire extinguisher to bash the windows, and he rescues the Sully children. Now, about the story… I know Kiri has a connection to Spider, but she is pushing the “orphans” theme too much. In a council meeting, Jake insists the Na'vi fight and tries to convince Yeyatley to agree, but Yeyatley instead insists the Na'vi offer peace instead. Smith (The Toymaker’s Apprentice, Orleans) and illustrated by Diego Galindo (Stranger Things: The Tomb of Ybwen, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).

It is based on an 130-page original screenplay by James Cameron which originally was planned to become the second film of the Avatar franchise. Although Max Patel insists Spider stay with the McCoskers, Kiri insists he come with them to High Camp. Jake and Neytiri fly to Hell's Gate on their banshees to rescue the children with Neteyam following after them. Smith (The Toymaker's Apprentice, Orleans) and illustrated by Diego Galindo (Stranger Things: The Tomb of Ybwen, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers). I liked Volume 2 more than Volume 1, I liked the story, and I think it would have been great to see it on the big screen, but at the same time, Na’vi in space is too much right now for me.