The story is very simple and, at a glance, the art certainly strays the furthest away from the normal look of 'Mouse Guard.' Young's mice don't wear the medieval garb that Petersen gives them (or, in fact, any clothing at all) and the overall society is missing too, but it's charming with its exaggerated art and day-glo colors. Young's 'The Mouse and the Moon' reminds me a bit of a fairy tale, something that Young himself no doubt hopes to evoke with the story of a father mouse telling his child how he discovered what the moon was really made of. I love the depiction of the ghost and how Buckingham brings it to life. The story is simple enough, but the art is attractive. Buckingham sets the defeat of the goose up in a simple enough manner, first showing us a loss for the guardsman before his coming back around with a less traditional solution. It's a simple enough story, with a member of the Mouse Guard helping a local miller stop a greedy goose who keeps breaking in and stealing all of the grain.

It's simple and to the point and allows the other creators to go hog-wild with their ideas.įirst up is Buckingham, a smart choice since his story 'The Gosling and the Ghost' is the most traditional of the three. This new chapter has a series of mice each telling tales to an innkeeper, with the winner of the contest having their bar tab forgiven while all the others finally have to pay up. The various 'Legends of the Guard' volumes have all let other creators tell their own 'Mouse Guard' short stories, with series creator Petersen joining them all with a framing device. For those who have never encountered 'Mouse Guard' before, the thrust of the series has been fairly simple: picture a medieval society with mice (as well as dangerous creatures like ferrets, weasels, owls, geese and so on) and you're almost all the way there.

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