![]() ![]() The feel and the art, however, is vastly different.Īuthor/illustrator David Petersen puts it like this Over the years he’d scribble little ideas about this miniscule world. More than library-worthy, "Mouse Guard" is bound to remind kids of ‘Redwall’ and the like. Months later, I received this in the mail: a beautifully bound edition of six or seven of those comic books, now in a handsome edition. A friend told me they’d be bound together at some point, but I never really believed it and "Mouse Guard" fell out of my thoughts. They were nice items, but too short and shoddy to stand up to serious library circulation. While drifting about the most recent Comic Con I took some free samples of the "Mouse Guard" comic books. Now, I had heard of "Mouse Guard" before. You’re lucky if you can find three new books a season that aren’t parts of already existing series. The public perception is that comics are just made for kids anyway, so shouldn’t this lead to an abundance of riches? Hardly. ![]() You wouldn’t think finding quality comics would be so hard. The quest to locate child-friendly graphic novels is amusingly difficult. ![]()
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