It’s been a real busy past few days for all Avatards. There was the news about the trailer for the upcoming finale during the recently concluded New York Comic Convention. There was also the sneak preview of "Ember Island Players" shown during the said convention, which undoubtedly sent fans into delirious heights of happiness (considering the recent drought).

Then Nick released the prospective airdates of the remaining episodes of the series. As of now, the Avatar comes back for the last time on July 14th. On a side note, Johanne Matte, who has been steadily releasing her Water Tribe alternate universe comics through her Livejournal blog, decided to go on hiatus as well, and return at the same time the series returns (which I find curious).

And finally, something broke last weekend. In tribute to Dongbu Feng’s method of hiding spoilers, you can read the rest of this entry by highlighting the next few lines. Both episodes of "The Boiling Rock" were leaked into the web!!

So if you’re wondering where I’ve been the past few, I only have one answer for you: I’ve been spazzing out on AWS aftershocks.

Some thigns are better seen than read.

Taken from the New York Comic Convention. I can’t wait for July.

First we had the news of the final DVD collection of Avatar, along with spoilers for the end-game of the series. Now, we have even more spoilers about the more immediate future of Avatar, as well as the upcoming films to be directed by acclaimed (or should the word be eccentric?) director M. Night Shyamalan.

First off, the immediate news. We’ve all heard about the amazing weirdness that is Phoenix Lord Ozai, but that’s still eight episodes away (more or less). But here’s a preview of The Boiling Rock (Part 1), although the image quality’s pretty bad, and it’s in another language. But that’s not important. What’s important is that you see footage from the next episode, and from the looks of it, it will be a very awesome episode indeed.

Also, news regarding the first Avatar live-action film has been popping up here and there. Firstly, it has been revealed that the feature film will air on 2010, a scant two years since the film was announced. Shyamalan is still directing, but a list of the tentative producers has been released. These will include:

• M. Night Shyamalan
• Kathleen Kennedy
• Frank Marshall
• Sam Mercer
• Scott Aversano

Some of these names are notable for producing blockbuster hits such as Signs, The Sixth Sense, Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones. Brian Konietzko and Michael DiMartino are the de facto executive producers of the film. The biggest piece of news surrounding the film, however, is the name. Due to the legal battle between the producers and James Cameron, who will be releasing a film entitled “Avatar” in 2009, the eponymous title was dropped, and the film will instead be called The Last Airbender.

First and foremost, the news about the flyers that I posted the other day turns out to be a fluke. The story can be found here.

As for the spoilers, direct your eyes to the following photograph:

An excerpt from the link: "The kids return to the Fire Nation and prepare for their final confrontation with Firelord Ozai, but they discover that the Firelord has plans of his own: he has ordained himself Phoenix Lord and appointed Princess Azula as the next Firelord. In the spectacular 4-part finale of Avatar Book 3: Fire, Aang fulfills his destiny as Avatar and confronts the Firelord in the greatest battle of the series."

Nothing says more spoileriffic than that! Now it’s just a question as to when the finale will actually air. . .

I don’t know just how unprecedented this is, but when the director of a show decides to boycott the network airing the said show, you gotta admit that this is pretty big.

The director I speak of is Giancarlo Volpe,  one of Avatar’s respected helmsmen, and the man behind the season two episode "The Drill," which won an Annie for Best Directing in an Animated Television Production. In his Deviant Art post dated April 10, Volpe technically hands Nickelodeon an ultimatum of sorts by calling the fans to boycott the network until new episodes of Avatar begin to air.

Unprecedented? Maybe. Awesome? You bet. Giancarlo Volpe is a man among men.

Just like Jake of DongbuFeng said, I don’t know just how legit this image is, but it’s Avatar-related info although it doesn’t do much to quell any and all AWS.

Since everybody’s just waiting for the New York Comic Con for news about Avatar’s future episodes, I’ve been scouring Youtube for related videos.

Haru = WIN

Of Dongbu Feng’s April 1st posts. Yeah, I was taken in, too. The thought of a preview for the upcoming episodes was just too good to be true. And I don’t know why, but the idea of Tim Burton working with M. Night Shyamalan on the Avatar movies don’t really sit very well with me.

I just hope that update of theirs with regards to the double episodes wasn’t an April Fools prank. Man. What a way to get my AWS going.

According to the convention folks, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Di Martino will both be at a panel during the New York Comic Convention on Saturday, April 19th. The word is that the panel’s going to be called Into the Inferno: Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender Finale, which oozes spoilers and excitement in every last syllable.

I can’t wait. It feels just like waiting for the trailer of season three, except that you know this time, it’s going to be the last you’ll ever hear of Aang and the gang from Mike and Brian. You can find out more about the details here.