![]() ![]() His response was that if I wanted to be a comic book artist, I needed to get over it and draw the thing that was important to show, no matter how hard it was to draw." Nervous about drawing an army of mice storming a citadel's gates, I told Jeremy I didn't know if I wanted to draw something so complex. Jeremy, however, was flabbergasted as to why I wouldn't show the reader the gates of Lockhaven coming down or follow the army in their conquest as they were moments the series was building towards. Showing the aftermath rather than the act was supposed to be suspenseful. Once the trio makes their way into Lockhaven, they find Midnight's army has already burst through the gates and are threatening the Guard's matriarch Gwendolyn. My original draft had the reader following Saxon, Kenzie, and Celanawe through secret tunnels to build the suspense of what's happening with Midnight's army. He told me to walk him through the story of the issue: Saxon, Kenzie, and Celanawe arrive at Lockhaven's gates to find Midnight's army already there. The solution came out of a lunch with Jeremy Bastian. ![]() Feared I'd backed myself into a corner and was going to let down my publisher and readers. "I'd drawn two pages of issue 6 and was banging my head against the wall because the story wasn't working for me. In the "Art of Mouse Guard" David Petersen explains the genesis of this part of the story. ![]()
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