Mice Templar Volume 4.1 - Hardcover

Glass, Bryan J. L.; Oeming, Michael Avon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607068222 ISBN 13: 9781607068228

Publisher: Image Comics, 2013

Synopsis

• The Legend of Karic grows...but its legacy is both greater and darker than the noble, young mouse it is said to embody. As every victory is turned against him, Karic confronts his own past and demands answers. And the mad king Icarus launches his great war against creation.

About this title

From Booklist:

The Mice Templar series conscripts those long-anthropomorphized rodent mainstays of the comic-book genre into work their forefathers could scarcely have imagined: as the heroes, villains, and fools of a sprawling epic, replete with a complex backstory, vast mythology, and civilization-ending stakes worthy of Tolkien. Legend, the first part of the fourth volume, finds Karic, said to be the incarnation of the Templar’s very founder and last hope for peace, confronting the gods who thrust this prophecy upon him, even as the mad king Icarus ratchets up a war that literally shakes the heavens. Owning the appellation “fantasy epic” for all it’s worth, it communicates with an overheated fervor that, if you’re along for the ride, creates an appropriate sense of direness and urgency. Oeming forges mice into archetypal adventure figures but affords each a necessary humanity, while his battles are satisfyingly bloody, and his visual tone foreboding. Readers even slightly averse to fantasy will likely find this impenetrable, and this volume is assuredly not the place to start, but for those already on board, the series continues to deliver. --Jesse Karp

About this edition

• Publisher: Image Comics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607068222
• ISBN 13: 9781607068228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248