MISC. MANGA, *The Dragon Prince: Through The Moon

The first graphic novel that is considered canon with The Dragon Prince animated series, Through The Moon takes place a little while after the end of Book Three(Season 3), and the first story arc. Writer Peter Wartman already had already worked on a similar series when he wrote for the Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels, and artist Xanthe Bouma later went on to draw the YA series of Dungeon Club, so both creators were perfect enough to handle this continuation of the TV series. There was a three-year gap between Book Three and Four which lead to the shock that there was a 2-year time skip from each season, so this graphic novel set up a load of events that would shape The Mystery Of Aaravos story arc.

Callum, Ezra, Soren, and Rayla travel to the mountain of Cursed Caldera to return the remaining phoenix feather of Phoe-Phoe who burned out transporting Ezra during Book Three. Once at the mountain, Team Zym meets up with Moonshadow Elf mage Lujanne who was the mistress of illusions that the gang met at the end of Book One. The at least twice-divorced mage was now dating a local human craftsman named Allen who only had one scene during the first season, and if you wanted to find out about how the two of them met up you should have watched the closing credits of certain episodes which show behind the scenes bonus material. Phoe-Phoe gets reincarnated as a new hatchling while Ezra plans to restore the Moonhenge site so that Rayla kind find out if her parents are still alive or not. After quickly rebuilding the remains of the water-filled portal, Rayla dips inside and looks around the spirit world as the spirits of her deceased comrades depart. Rayla then sees an image of Viren still alive inside a giant cocoon just as Callum pulls her out of the water, bringing her back to consciousness. Rayla decides she is going to hunt down Viren and find out what happened to her parents, but Callum insists on coming with her. Rayla agrees, but she goes off on her own early leaving Callum with the most heartbreaking Dear John letter of all time that you had to read online to find about.

Through The Moon perpetuates the satisfying climax that Book Three left off. The story focuses more on the characters and the budding romance that has become "Rayllum". The plot ties well into the overall Dragon Prince saga and welcomes first time watchers into the fold. It's mainly a great story on its own but is more steered towards already existing fans of the Netflix fantasy series.