I highly recommend this both as a stand alone, and a worthy follow up to the original books of.

That ferrets live in great halls, that weasels wear skulls, and that mice carouse with the best of them…A wonderful read. Well written, engaging, emotional, and deep. Mouse Guard Volume 3: The Black Axe by David Petersen - Welcome back to the world of mice in the third collected volume of the Eisner Award-winning and. “Mouse Guard: The Black Axe lures us into believing mice fly birds, build ships, and kill foxes. It is utterly, wonderfully, incredibly awesome.” -Mordicai Knode, Tor.com I n 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. Mouse Guard: The Black Axe (1 book series) Kindle Edition by David Petersen (Author) Set in 1115, this prequel to Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 fulfills the promise the wise oldfur Celanawe made to Lieam the day his paw first touched the Black Axe: to tell the young warrior about the mouse who first wielded the deadly weapon. “A story of Viking ferrets and Reaver fishers, of heirs and elders, of the death curses of crows and brutal psychological warfare with a fox in a thicket. Purchase on Amazon:īest Graphic Album Previously Published – Mouse Guard The Black Axe The arrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea and off any mouse-maps into uncharted waters and lands, to the gates of the ferret hall of Ildur, and into the briar of a fearsome predator all while unraveling the legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic axe. This hardcover collection includes an epilogue, pinups, a twenty-two page section of maps, guide pages, and cutaways, as well as reprinting the 2010 Free Comic Book Day story as a prologue to the tale.Īfterword by Monty Python’s Terry Jones. Mouse Guard is a New York Times Bestselling, Eisner & Harvey Award winning comic book series written and illustrated by David Petersen.

Set in 1115, this beautifully illustrated prequel to Fall 1152 & Winter 1152 spins the tale of how the wise oldfur Celanawe (pronounced Khel-eN-Awe) came to own and take up the legendary weapon and the title The Black Axe.

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