My wife and kids are working their way through Avatar: The Last Airbender, and they've just got to the end of Book Two. When the Earth King and his bear turned up, my six-year-old remembered them... from the Avatar comics they had read on one of their reading sprees several months ago! I pointed out that the collected The Lost Adventures actually has three comics in it that bridge the gap between Books Two and Three, and suggested they read it before moving on. They did this, and then upon watching the first episode of Book Three, asked what comic went between that episode and the next.
Well! Never was this dad happier to be asked a question. With some help from the Avatar wiki, I worked out the timeline of Book Three's episodes, incorporating the comics from The Lost Adventures. When I told my wife I hadn't been able to find a good timeline online, she said... why don't you make one? So here we go.
Thanks to the continuity notes on the Avatar wiki, and several threads on Reddit. Note that I don't care about things I have not and will not read, like the novels. I've used the episode numbers given on the Avatar wiki, which are different than the ones given on Netflix. Some of the after the show books overlap with each other (like technically Smoke and Shadow and North and South do), but I've listed them as single unit for readability.
KEY:
- #x##: episode
- TLA: The Lost Adventures comic
- TAT: Team Avatar Tales comic
- Title: standalone graphic novel
Book One: Water
- 1x01: "The Boy in the Iceberg"
- 1x02: "The Avatar Returns"
- 1x03: "The Southern Air Temple"
- 1x04: "The Warriors of Kyoshi"
- 1x05: "The King of Omashu"
- 1x06: "Imprisoned"
- 1x07/08: "Winter Solstice"
- 1x09: "The Waterbending Scroll"
- TLA: "Bee Calm"
- 1x10: "Jet"
- 1x11: "The Great Divide"
- 1x12: "The Storm"
- 1x13: "The Blue Spirit"
- 1x14: "The Fortuneteller"
- 1x15: "Bato of the Water Tribe"
- TLA: "Water War"
- 1x16: "The Deserter"
- 1x17: "The Northern Air Temple"
- TLA: "Don't Blow It!"
- TLA: "Relics"
- TLA: "Fruit-Stand Freestyle"
- 1x18: "The Waterbending Master"
- 1x19/20: "The Siege of the North"
Book Two: Earth
- 2x01: "The Avatar State"
- TAT: "Origami"
- 2x02: "The Cave of Two Lovers"
- 2x03: "Return to Omashu"
- 2x04: "The Swamp"
- 2x05: "Avatar Day"
- 2x06: "The Blind Bandit"
- 2x07: "Zuko Alone"
- "Lost and Found" [uncollected comic]
- 2x08: "The Chase"
- 2x09: "Bitter Work"
- Katara and the Pirate's Silver
- TLA: "Sleepbending"
- TLA: "Lessons"
- TLA: "Sokka the Avatar"
- TLA: "Dirty Is Only Skin Deep"
- 2x10: "The Library"
- 2x11: "The Desert"
- TLA: "Divided We Fall"
- TLA: "Reach for the Toph"
- 2x12: "The Serpent's Pass"
- 2x13: "The Drill"
- 2x14: "City of Walls and Secrets"
- 2x15: "Tales of Ba Sing Se"
- 2x16: "Appa's Lost Days"
- 2x17: "Laka Laogai"
- 2x18: "The Earth King"
- 2x19: "The Guru"
- 2x20: "The Crossroads of Destiny"
- TLA: "It's Only Natural"
- TLA: "Going Home Again"
- TLA: "The Bridge"
Book Three: Fire
- 3x01: "The Awakening"
- 3x02: "The Headband"
- TLA: "Private Fire"
- 3x03: "The Painted Lady"
- TLA: "Night Animals"
- TLA: "Boys' Day Out"
- 3x04: "Sokka's Master"
- TAT: "The Substitute"
- 3x05: "The Beach"
- TLA: "Ember Island Arcade"
- 3x06: "The Avatar and the Fire Lord"
- 3x07: "The Runaway"
- TLA: "Monster Slayer"
- 3x08: "The Puppetmaster"
- TLA: "Combustion Man on a Train"
- 3x09: "Nightmares and Daydreams"
- 3x10/11: "The Day of Black Sun"
- 3x12: "The Western Air Temple"
- 3x13: "The Firebending Masters"
- TLA: "Swordbending"
- TLA: "No Benders Allowed"
- Suki, Alone
- 3x14: "The Boiling Rock," Part 1
- TLA: "Love Is a Battlefield"
- 3x15: "The Boiling Rock," Part 2
- 3x16: "The Southern Raiders"
- TLA: "Dragon Days"
- 3x17: "The Ember Island Players"
- TLA: "Game Time"
- 3x18/19: "Sozin's Comet," Parts 1-2
- TLA: "Bumi vs. Toph, Round One"
- 3x20/21: "Sozin's Comet," Parts 3-4
After the Show
- "Matcha Makers" [uncollected comic]
- The Promise
- TAT: "Rebound"
- The Search
- TAT: "Shells"
- TAT: "Sokka's Poem"
- The Rift
- TAT: "Toph and the Boulder"
- TAT: "Sisters"
- TAT: "The Scarecrow"
- Toph Beifong's Metalbending Academy
- Smoke and Shadow
- Azula in the Spirit Temple
- North and South
- The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer
- Ashes of the Academy
- Imbalance
Every post-show timeline I looked at seems to have different, sometimes wildly different, placements, so your mileage may vary. If you have a compelling argument, I'd like to hear it!
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