Mouse Guard - A Return to Honor

Writer/Artist: David Peterson

(Spoilers within)

I only bought two things at the comic book shop this week, Astonishing Xmen and Mouse Guard. And although i love the former, it was the latter that i was excited for.

This issue concludes David Peterson's six issue miniseries, and is by far the best of the bunch. The three Mouse Guard are finally reunited, as Black Axe begins his attack on Lockhaven. The art in this series has always had a cineramic quality to it, and more than once i found myself staring at the panels, soaking up all the details. The fight scenes, in particular, are very kinetic.

There is a panel midway through the book, where a mouse is conversing with a bumblebee. In his hand he holds an urn, from which churns smoke that has a very faint impression of the artist's fingerprints. As if he smudged the ink with his fingers to create the effect of smoke. You can almost picture David Peterson hunched at his drawing table churning out each page of this comic.

Overall, this series has one of enjoyable things I've read all year. Five Pistolwips.

Pick up the trade when it drops in April, and pick up the next Mouse Guard series beginning in July.