Mouse Guard Pin Up
Filed under: Pin Ups | 1 Comment »I did this Mouse Guard piece a while back and have been meaning to post it for ages. (ages = weeks) David is a good friend and I’d been meaning to do a piece for much longer than this one has been sitting on my desk un-posted. Consider one of the universe’s great wrong’s corrected.
Drawing in the Mouse Guard universe made me realize how different the process can be when the subject is more organic and less, you know, cities, machines, and robots. I do love me some perspective but every now and then it’s nice to break out of that and this was one of those opportunities.
Plus, I’ve had this idea (locust plague) for a while so I was pleased that no one snapped it up during the last round of Legends of the Guard. It’s hardly a fully developed concept but I like the idea of how devastating that could be and how the mice would have to deal with it. I think you can ward off locusts with smoke (maybe that’s bees?) but prairie fire is probably also pretty bad if you are small furry animal, so that’s a lose-lose I guess?
Perhaps Wikipedia has the mice’s protection from locus: “A biological pesticide to control locusts was being trialled across Africa by a multinational team in 1997. Dried fungal spores sprayed in breeding areas pierce the locust exoskeleton on germination and invade the body cavity, causing death. The fungus is passed from insect to insect and persists in the area, making repeated treatments unnecessary.”
Sounds like that would make for some badass mice/locust wars.