It offers fighting scenes but does not really engage with the characters, which I would have enjoyed to read way more. Despite this, Joshua Izzo clarified that all three issues of The High Ground are indeed canon, even mentioning, "James Cameron (my boss) says it's canon. In their conversation, as he tries to defend Spider, Jake also educates Neytiri on what the word "sin" means.

Spider manages to escape his cell using a fire extinguisher to bash the windows, and he rescues the Sully children. It was decided to relaunch the Avatar: The High Ground script in the form of a graphic novel that tells the story of the Na'vi between Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water. They are soon found by McCosker who says they can be useful, however, he traps Spider and the siblings in separate rooms. Though Jake briefly attempts a treaty, he then goes onto say that the RDA would just break it again.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 . In one of the panels in the first volume, Neteyam has five fingers when he is supposed to have four. Jake tries to motivate the humans, but Mary tells Jake that they're not guerilla fighters, that they don't have avatar bodies, that it is challenging to expect their children to grow up wearing masks their whole lives, and that re-integrating back into human society is tempting. The character interactions were the only interesting thing, and unfortunately, we did not get too many of them.

Kiri then meets up with Tuk and Lo'ak, and Kiri goes to pray at the Tree of Souls to beg Eywa for help. It’s not enough his biological father was the Colonel who attack Hometree, it’s not enough that his legal guardian neglect him, no, now the McCoskers have to be the snitches. 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. As the Na'vi are in their shuttle, Jake and Neytiri are displeased to see that Neteyam has sneaked on board.Jake and Neytiri are horrified that their plan seems to have failed by this unexpected turn of events. Just doesn't seem to bother with character growth and for God's sake, why are the kids captured AGAIN here? 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. As they rest on the ground, Jake looks up and sees a massive light in the sky, making Jake realize the RDA is back.

I don’t know what James Camero has planned for Spider in the future, but he has given him a lot of daddy issues. 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. Kiri later comes across Mo'at who tells her that change is a part of life and is what someone makes of it. I’m starting to think it would have been better if Jake and Neytiri didn’t tell her the truth in the first place.For example, Lo'ak has a haircut resembling Neteyam's and he is drawn as if he were a muscular young adult instead of a lanky 14-year-old boy.