Exploring Jet's origin with a new adventure from ATLA
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Dark Horse Comics is partnering with Avatar Studios to bring you a brand new adventure from Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will be hitting shelves at your LCS later this year! Faith Erin Hicks (ATLA, The Last of Us, Lumberjanes Special) teams up with Peter Wartman (ATLA, Dragon Prince) on illustration, colorist Adele Matera, and letterers Jimmy Betancourt and Tyler Smith to dive into Jet's origin story and found family.
Writer: Faith Erin Hicks
Artist: Peter Wartman
Colorist: Adele Matera
Letterer: Jimmy Betancourt and Tyler Smith After his village is destroyed by the Fire Nation Army’s elite unit known as the Rough Rhinos, Jet’s life’s goal becomes making Colonel Mongke and his cavalry of soldiers pay for their crimes. But in a war-torn kingdom, who’s going to adopt a child’s mission of revenge? Jet uses his powers of persuasion to gather a small but determined force of other young people who are looking for something different in the midst of war: a community. When Jet has his chance to confront Mongke, will he throw away the found family he’s helped to build in pursuit of vengeance?
Avatar: The Last Airbender–Jet: Rebels and Rhinos (paperback, 80 pages, 6 × 9”) arrives in comic shops and bookstores on September 8, 2026. It is now available for preorder from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $13.99.
About Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson as an offshoot of his comics retail chain, Things From Another World. With a goal of creating a welcoming environment for comics professionals, Dark Horse continues to publish the work of many of the greatest creators in the industry’s history. Dark Horse, from its beginning, also has a track record of establishing new creative talent. Early on, the company set a new standard for quality with licensed properties, including comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books based on popular film and gaming properties. Dark Horse also began building a manga publishing line in the 1980s, going on to release such classics as Lone Wolf and Cub, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Trigun, and Berserk. Richardson established Dark Horse Entertainment as a film division in 1989, finding initial success with his own creations, The Mask and Timecop. Recent hits from Dark Horse Entertainment include The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and Resident Alien on SyFy. In 2022, Dark Horse Media, LLC was established as Dark Horse became part of Embracer Group AB.
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