{"id":509,"date":"2008-08-17T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=509"},"modified":"2010-03-09T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:25:32","slug":"mouse-guard-fall-1152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/mouse-guard-fall-1152\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Guard: Fall 1152"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was my birthday, not so long ago, and I received a fairly random graphic novel about some mice, right? Just lately I’ve read it, and it was pretty okay. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152<\/a> chronicles the doings of several members of the Mouse Guard over the course of the Fall of 1152. (I’m more proud of that than you might imagine.)<\/p>\n

But seriously, there’s a hidden society of mice, and for the purposes of transportation and trade, the Mouse Guard keeps the roads safe of enemies: weasels and cats and so forth. The map indicates that they’ve found a way to turn back large predators from their terriroty via a scent barrier; it’s clear that the world has more depth than was presented in this original book. However, all is not well in mousey-town, as someone has snuck out a map of the home city of the Guard for the purposes of villainous treachery.<\/p>\n

The art has a very A.A. Milne or Peter Cottontail feel to it, just slightly cartoonish versions of real animals[1], but since everything is at mouse-scale, the occasional marauding snake or crab is quite exciting. The story’s pacing and spare prose adds to my impression that it was meant to be a kid-book. And believe me, it’s a pretty good one that a new reader would get a lot of enjoyment out of. I got probably 50 pages of enjoyment out of the 192 page book, myself. The story was fine, it was just widely paced, like I said. But the art made up for most of that. I just didn’t expect to finish quite that large of a book in a single day around my unreasonably crowded work schedule.<\/p>\n

[1] To the extent that mice wear cloaks and carry swords. Which I assume is a very wide extent indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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