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The Mice Templar! 100% Not Redwall.

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edited July 2007 in Graphic Violence
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The Mice Templar is a new bi-monthly ongoing series published by Image Comics. It's written by Mike Oeming(Powers, Thor: Blood Oath, Ares) and Bryan Glass with art by Oeming. Originally planned for August, it has been pushed back to September, but the first issue will be a 64-Page Double-Sized Issue.
Preview of Issue One:
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Interview with Oeming and Glass on the book.

I for one love Oeming, he writes some of the best fantasy stuff in the business and his art is great, so I'll be picking this up.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I will buy anything Oeming draws.

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  • BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    This looks pretty neat.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Looks good. Like the Secret of Nihm crossed with the middle ages. Could be worth checking out.

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Is this at all related to that "Mice Guards" or "Mouse Guard" or whatever book?

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Nope, just similar premises.

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  • SpeedySwafSpeedySwaf Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

    I did hear they were releasing a graphic novel adaption of the first book in October. It's supposed to be B&W, though.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    SpeedySwaf wrote: »
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

    I did hear they were releasing a graphic novel adaption of the first book in October. It's supposed to be B&W, though.

    That will be gorgeous. I still have most of my books up in my closet, I think.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    That spider has an inconsistent number of legs. >_>

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Interesting. I read all the Redwall books when I was younger (and the basically are the same plot), so maybe Ill pick this up. Art looks pretty enough.

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Wiggin wrote: »
    SpeedySwaf wrote: »
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

    I did hear they were releasing a graphic novel adaption of the first book in October. It's supposed to be B&W, though.

    That will be gorgeous. I still have most of my books up in my closet, I think.

    I would like more info on this.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Wiggin wrote: »
    SpeedySwaf wrote: »
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

    I did hear they were releasing a graphic novel adaption of the first book in October. It's supposed to be B&W, though.

    That will be gorgeous. I still have most of my books up in my closet, I think.

    I would like more info on this.

    Burr' Aye

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  • SpeedySwafSpeedySwaf Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Wiggin wrote: »
    SpeedySwaf wrote: »
    LockeCole wrote: »
    Blankspace wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Damn...because Redwall was fantastic.
    Until you figured out it was the same book over and over with a different cast and setting.

    So true. Just read the first two or three books and forget the rest are there.

    I did hear they were releasing a graphic novel adaption of the first book in October. It's supposed to be B&W, though.

    That will be gorgeous. I still have most of my books up in my closet, I think.

    I would like more info on this.

    Burr' Aye

    Searched google, found this interview that has some preview pages.

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  • DarkHawkeDarkHawke Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
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    God, seeing that page just reminds me of what happens next.

    D:

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    DarkHawke wrote: »
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    God, seeing that page just reminds me of what happens next.

    D:

    You know, now that I think about it, I read those books for the first time in 4th grade... there was some dark shit going on in those books for that age group.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    HEY!


    This is the Mice Templar.


    100% NOT Redwall.

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Blankspace wrote: »
    HEY!


    This is the Mice Templar.


    100% NOT Redwall.

    But I'm more interested in the Redwall comic :rotate:

    On topic-ish for Mice Templar, I find the concept interesting, but the art is kind of a turn off for me. Dunno why though.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I love that art

    I want this

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So is this one of those stories about the secret world of animals that could just as easily be about a group of humans from the appropriate time period, or do the characters' habits and practices reflect their species at some points? I'm not talking about exhibiting a cartoonish obsession with cheese, of course, but rather something like displaying the anxieties one may expect to see in one of nature's smaller mammals.

    I really don't buy into taking standard fantasy and inserting mice with swords into otherwise generic roles, but if they make better use of their central motif than that then I'll have to check it out.

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  • The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Usually they face dangers relevant to their real life predators. Such as snakes or giant spiders in this case, but of course you could easily replace it with dragons and stuff.

    I know that in red wall, badgers=really strong, squirrels=woodsmen, birds=savages, rats=scum

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