(I think that the Micky Mouse heads must be exchanged.) Take a look at these special characters: Saxon, Lieam,Celanawe. The entire build consists of approximately 580 pieces. Mouseguard™ Copyright 2016 David Petersen
This is a winter not every Guard may survive… But hungry predators, the dangers of ice and snow, and a wrong turn into the haunted depths of the abandoned weasel tunnels of Darkheather place even so intrepid a band of Guardsmice in mortal peril. Some of the Guard’s finest - Saxon, Kenzie, Lieam, and Sadie, led by Celanawe, the legendary Black Axe - traverse the snow-blanketed Territories acting as diplomats to improve relations between the mouse cities and the Guard, and seeking vital supplies in their headquarters at Lockhaven. You won't be disappointed.In the Winter of 1152, the Mouse Guard face a food and supply shortage threatening the lives of many mouse through a cold and icy season. If you like The Lord of the Rings and talking animals, you should definitely check out Mouse Guard. I haven't played this myself, but having seen the amount of detail Petersen puts into the comics, I wouldn't be surprised if the RPG is a richly-created world. And one more bit of "hey, cool!" is the Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game.
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Petersen has also prepared an 11-page insert for Free Comic Book Day, coming up in May.įor more about Mouse Guard, including extended excerpts, check out Petersen's website. So far those are all the collected books Petersen has completed, but he's got a lot in the works.* Legends of the Guard* will be written and illustrated by various contributors with oversight by Petersen, and The Black Axe will reveal in more detail the legends of a mouse warrior that we've only gotten hints of up until now. That's an image that won't fade away soon. The creepiest part (which I wouldn't show my six-year-old for fear of causing nightmares) is in the second volume: a few of the mice wind up in Darkheather, old weasel territory, and come across the bones of their victims (i.e., mice). I enjoyed Fall 1152, about a secret plot to overthrow Gwendolyn, but it was the second volume, Winter 1152, that really hooked me, both the story and the artwork.įor the most part, the books are kid-friendly, too, as long as you're okay with some illustrated violence. In the first book, several crabs attack some mice in a house on the beach, and the illustrations of a couple crabs crawling over the roof are absolutely striking. I was especially impressed with encounters between the mice and various predators. The artwork is amazing: Petersen depicts the various mouse colonies with painstaking detail, and the supplemental material at the end of the books shows that he has fairly detailed maps and backstories for everything. Oh, and there might be a touch of Star Wars in there, too. Mouse Guard is like Lord of the Rings meets Watership Down with mice. When the first two collected volumes (*Fall 1152 *and Winter 1152) showed up at my local library I decided it was finally time to give them a read, and I'm really glad I did. I don't remember when I first came across Mouse Guard-probably in a bookstore somewhere-but I only had time to flip through briefly and thought it looked promising. Tiny creatures in a world filled with much bigger things like snakes and owls and weasels who are decidedly not friendly. Mouse Guard by David Petersen falls somewhere in the middle: the mice behave like people, walking on two legs and wearing clothes, writing books and building cities, but they're still mice. He wields a powerful weapon called The Black Axe, and a recent prequel comic called Mouse Guard: The Black Axe explains how he became the owner of this weapon it's unclear exactly how much of. And, of course, there are plenty of books in which animals are just completely anthropomorphized, where they're living in a basically human world, wearing human clothes, doing human things. I've always loved books involving critters, whether they behave more like real animals who just happen to talk (as in Watership Down) or like small furry people (think Secret of NIMH). What is it about talking animals that fascinates us? And by us, I mean me.
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