Yeah, I reckon the colourists messed up - it's definitely enough to be distracting. And hell yeah, go Maiko! I too arrived late to the fandom (late as in earlier this year...), but I'd been expecting Maiko since the *significant glance* when Mai hears Zuko's name in her first episode. I liked the idea of it (and was *completely boggled* to find the internet so full of Zutara), but I was still a bit dumbfounded it happened so quickly. The comic is also super sweet (and online: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2090336.html), so I wish they could've worked it in somehow, much as I appreciate the desire to drop us into the third season at the moment Aang wakes up and get the show on the road without any lingering in Ba Sing Se.