The Mice Templar #2

The cover of this 2007 Image series delivers an atmosphere of dark, mythic tension — a cloaked mouse warrior grips a dagger while being seized by a massive serpent whose glowing maw looms above, set against a brooding crimson landscape of twisted, skeletal trees. In the far background, a tiny armored mouse figure stands staff in hand, dwarfed by the ominous world around them. Michael Avon Oeming's cover linework captures the series' blend of anthropomorphic fantasy and genuine menace beautifully, making The Mice Templar feel like one of 2007's most ambitious small-scale epics.