Légendes de la Garde #1

Set against a blaze of autumn leaves, this French edition of Mouse Guard — subtitled Automne 1152 — opens with three armed mouse warriors pressing forward through the undergrowth, spear and quiver at the ready. David Petersen's painterly cover work gives these small but determined guardians a genuine sense of weight and peril, the warm oranges and browns of the season wrapping the scene in both beauty and tension. Published by Gallimard Bande Dessinée in 2008, it's a wonderful entry point into one of the most lovingly crafted worlds in Franco-Belgian comics publishing.