Mice Templar

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:08 -0700

I read a negative review of this and almost didn't buy it. I decided to give it a chance and I'm glad I did! I loved it.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 15:57 -0700

I can't help but suspect it's a ripoff of Mouse Guard, but I'll give it a fair shot.

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 16:29 -0700

Shishio wrote:I can't help but suspect it's a ripoff of Mouse Guard, but I'll give it a fair shot.

I believe the first Mice Templar story predates Mouse Guard by a few years.

Post by **Maka** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 16:44 -0700

Stan Sakai wrote:I believe the first Mice Templar story predates Mouse Guard by a few years.

My local comic book store said the same thing, Mice Templar was in the works before Mouse Guard. He wasn't able to explain why it just coming out now, however.

Peace, maka

MikeM · Post by **MikeM** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:57 -0700

Mice Templar was published in New Fund Comics 2004 or something like that. There was also another comic that had a little Mice Templar comic before Mice Templar #1 last week.

As far as issue 1 goes, I found it very enjoyable. The only problem I had was keep the characters seperate. I would get a little confused on who was who and their relationships to each other. Nothing a 2nd reading wouldn't clear up.

MikeM

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:21 -0700

If you buy the issue, there's a brief article that explains the history of this idea and why it took so long to come out. I guess the maih holdout was that the artist had another series that became immensely successful, which would be a good problem to have.

I think there room enough for more than one anthropomorphic mouse comic. At least I hope so, since I make one too!

The art looks very different than the Mouse Guard -- almost Mignola-esque -- if I can make up a word. Very dynamic.

I also was confused at first by several characters looking alike and had to read it a second time.

The review I read bashed it for it's similarities to Star Wars, Eragon, etc., but these are archetypes that have existed for hundreds of years.

Daniel-san · Post by **Daniel-san** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 13:00 -0700

I thought it was pretty sweet the art and story.

ricksam · Post by **ricksam** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:35 -0700

just added mice templar to the list of must read books.
last one i added was mouse guard

is this a trend here or what? very enjoyable books.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 16:22 -0700

Stan Sakai wrote:I believe the first Mice Templar story predates Mouse Guard by a few years.

Well... that shuts me up.

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