Mouse Guard - The Black Axe
David Petersen
Hardback:
192pp
Full colour
Dimensions: 209.5 x 209.5mm
ISBN: 9780857681430
Publication date: 13 December 2013
£14.99
This prequel, set in 1115, fulfills the promise the wise
oldfur Celanawe made to tell Lieam of the day his paw first touched the Black
Axe. The arrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry
him across the sea to uncharted waters and lands all while unraveling the
legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic axe.
This is the first Mouse Guard book I have seen and its
volume 3 –collecting together the series from Archaia Comics.
It is beautifully illustrated and written and I almost
thought “a family read” BUT it is very “Red in tooth and claw” –in other words
you get to see animals killing and being killed –the perpetual cycle of life in
the wild, if given a different slant in this book. Wind In The Willows meets
Lords Of The rings is my sad attempt to describe it.
The art really is magnificent. Look at what I’ve been
missing!
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