The Last Airbender Comics And Novels Are Canon

On a recent episode of "Comic Con Meta*Pod," a self-described nerdy podcast about popular culture, "Avatar" co-creator Mike DiMartino stated that Avatar Studios was moving forward with an intent to honor the comics as canon ... mostly. 

"We've been involved in all those main ancillary stories, so in our minds, it's mostly canon," he explained. "There may be some little tweaks here and there, but as of right now we're proceeding as if all this stuff is part of the proper universe and hopefully building on it."

This is probably as promising an answer as fans of the comics will ever likely get. It's not uncommon for studios to demolish lore established in tangential media when moving forward with what is considered the primary medium. Consider "Star Wars," which infamously retconned entire swathes of its expanded universe (now referred to as "Legends"), changing the Star Wars universe forever to make way for more Disney-helmed Lucas content.

With such examples at the forefront of popular culture, the fact that DiMartino went on the record saying that he'd attempt to avoid such drastic measures is reassuring, even if he left himself some official wiggle room to renege his words later down the road. As noted by the website ComicBook.com, DiMartino also told listeners that they shouldn't expect visual retellings of the graphic novel adventures, either. That being said, he once again added that it wasn't entirely off the table.