Listen to Gobbledygeek Episode 527 - "Four-Color Flashback: Mouse Guard (feat. Eric Sipple)"
Gobbledygeek Episode 526 - "VAL-halla: Top Secret! / Real Genius (feat. Eric Sipple)" is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, or on Apple Podcasts.
For this month’s (not that we’re on any kind of schedule anymore, hehe) Four-Color Flashback, Paul, Arlo, and Eric are scurrying over to the first three volumes of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard. Published from 2006-13 by BOOM! Studios, Petersen’s medieval epic takes place in a world devoid of humans, where a civilization of mice attempt to survive harsh weather, even harsher predators, and each other. The gang discusses the many, gloriously illustrated sequences of absolutely brutal animal-on-animal violence; Petersen’s awe-inspiring attention to detail, including a number of songs and poems that enrich the culture of his world; and Paul’s newfound obsession with the series and its many ancillary offshoots.
NEXT: we’re going back…to That Was Then! We’re celebrating the 40th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’ classic blockbuster Back to the Future.
BREAKDOWN
00:00:48 - Intro / Banter
00:28:13 - Mouse Guard
01:41:54 - Outro / Next
Links
- David Petersen’s Mouse Guard “Creator Commentary” videos
MUSIC
- “One Brown Mouse” by Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses (1978)
- “…And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps” by Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses (1978)
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