- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Villard Books; Reprint edition (25 Mar 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345496868
- ISBN-13: 978-0345496867
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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"Petersen's art is wonderfully textured and the story is a good one, suitable for kids." - Variety.com "Petersen's character designs are enormously appealing, and the book is hard to put down" - Publishers Weekly "A nice pleasant surprise; it's well written and drawn, and it's the sort of book where at the end you want to see more." - iComics.com "... a compelling story wrapped in extraordinary art" - Mark A. Messler, author of Zeyde and the Hidden Mine"
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In the world of Mouse Guard, mice struggle to live safely and prosper amongst harsh conditions and a host of predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed: more than just soldiers that fight off intruders, they are guides for common mice looking to journey without confrontation from one hidden village to another. The Guard patrol borders, find safeways and paths through dangerous territories and treacherous terrain, watch weather patterns, and keep the mouse territories free of predatory infestation. They do so with fearless dedication so that they might not just exist, but truly live. Saxon, Kenzie and Lieam, three such Guardsmice, are dispatched to find a missing merchant mouse that never arrived at his destination. Their search for the missing mouse reveals much more than they expect, as they stumble across a traitor in the Guard's own ranks.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
like i said
mr petersen has an ability to create from the mouses point of view! outstanding story line (please someone tell me when volume 2 is out?) but it is the stunning art style that i particularly like. Each picture can absorb you for a good time. it is also particularly refreshing to read a title that isnt grim! i have two copies, one for me and one that i let my daughter read! i file it between the lovely silent owly and the slaine the horned god
mr petersen has an ability to create from the mouses point of view! outstanding story line (please someone tell me when volume 2 is out?) but it is the stunning art style that i particularly like. Each picture can absorb you for a good time. it is also particularly refreshing to read a title that isnt grim! i have two copies, one for me and one that i let my daughter read! i file it between the lovely silent owly and the slaine the horned god
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The first thing that strikes you about Mouse Guard is the amazing artwork. The combined forces of the inked linework and the traditional-looking colours lend the book a quietly brooding atmosphere, infused with the colours of autumn. The pace of the story is easy, giving each scene the time that it needs to breath.
To say it's basically about mice with swords wouldn't do it justice (though it sounds pretty cool), because there's a fully realised world behind all that, with so much more to the mice way of life and the Mouse Guard themselves that it's more a story about comradery in the face of danger - the dangers faced by the companions who comprise the heroes of the tale to the greater dangers faced by the entirety of mousedom.
It's a tale with honour and heroism faced against dark deeds, but it's down to earth aswell and it's easy to care what happens to the mice.
The characters feel real and well rounded. The world also, with different mice exercising their different opinions on how to face the threats they all .. um ..face.
This has become a fond favourite and I can't wait for the next installment. In the meantime I'll have to content myself with the wealth of information about the world contained in the Mouse Guard RPG.
To say it's basically about mice with swords wouldn't do it justice (though it sounds pretty cool), because there's a fully realised world behind all that, with so much more to the mice way of life and the Mouse Guard themselves that it's more a story about comradery in the face of danger - the dangers faced by the companions who comprise the heroes of the tale to the greater dangers faced by the entirety of mousedom.
It's a tale with honour and heroism faced against dark deeds, but it's down to earth aswell and it's easy to care what happens to the mice.
The characters feel real and well rounded. The world also, with different mice exercising their different opinions on how to face the threats they all .. um ..face.
This has become a fond favourite and I can't wait for the next installment. In the meantime I'll have to content myself with the wealth of information about the world contained in the Mouse Guard RPG.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Filled with stunning, evocative images (both the drawing and colouring are superb) that create a fully developed world and atmosphere for the very well written characters to `live' within. Comparisons with Lord of the Rings are easy to slip into, but there is as much of a flavour of The Three Musketeers in here.
The hardback, slightly square format gives a -literally - different feel that all helps create the impression that this book is something special. The author has clearly poured a lot of love and life into creating this and the publisher seems to have recognised this will be something to cherish and have given it the right level of production.
If I have one complaint it would be that it is too long to wait for the next edition
The hardback, slightly square format gives a -literally - different feel that all helps create the impression that this book is something special. The author has clearly poured a lot of love and life into creating this and the publisher seems to have recognised this will be something to cherish and have given it the right level of production.
If I have one complaint it would be that it is too long to wait for the next edition
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Gorgeously illustrated adventure
I was familiar with the Mouse Guard illustrations having excerpts before finally buying the book. Am glad I waited because this story is such a compulsive read it is hard to... Read more
Published 27 days ago by Sophie_M
Great stuff
I found this while searching for a mouse pad! Pure curiosity made me look inside and thirty seconds later I had bought the book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Benjamin De Jersey-moore
Nothing special, sadly
I really wanted to like this, but it left me feeling hollow. The artwork is competent and balances cuteness with a more serious tone, but without ever providing any kind of wow... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Philip Tomlinson
Fun, But I Might Be Missing Something?
This book has been greatly talked up - but the trouble is that when words like "incredible" get thrown around I start to expect something, well, incredible. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Miss DePlume
Wow
Not normally a graphic novel person, i'll admit, but this is something else. Rivalling Lord of the Rings in terms of epic imagination and stunning involvement, you truly are taken... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Andrew Kyle
Great artwork and cute but...
Lovely artwork but the story was predictable and lacked substance and depth. An artist trying to create a story. If he can team up with a good writer perfection.
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by MoreMoore
Something a little different...
Why should you read this?
Firstly the artwork is stunning. The mice look so determined and and brave with their little furrowed brows! Read more
Firstly the artwork is stunning. The mice look so determined and and brave with their little furrowed brows! Read more
Published on 23 April 2008 by grr
one of the best Graphic novels I've ever read! (though I am a novice )
as I said am a novice, I've read some of the classics, watchmen, dark Knight returns, LXG and V for vendetta, I would say mouse gruad rivals these, because.... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2007 by Toboe
Absolute Joy!
The drawings in this graphic novel are absolutely superb, the look of steely determination on Lieams face as he shapes up to tackle the serpent single-handedly is one that you will... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2007 by John Lilburne
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