
It follows an entry in the Matriarch Gwendolyn's journal and the doings of the Mouse Guard across the Mouse Territories. The prologue collects Petersen's first Free Comic Book Day one-shot, Spring 1153, which was originally released on.

Contents Prologue Overview Main article: Mouse Guard: Spring 1153 Petersen released a collected hardcover in July 2013, collecting all six issues as Chapters One through Six, the 2010 Free Comic Book Day one-shot Spring 1153 as a prologue, a short epilogue, a twenty-two page section of maps, guide pages, and cutaways, and a gallery of the aforementioned pin-ups. As with Fall 1152 and Winter 1152, each issue was accompanied by a pin-up by a guest contributor(s): Alex Sheikman, Sean Rubin, Duncan Fegredo, Charles Paul Wilson III, Shane-Michael Vidaurri and Mike Mignola & Dave Stewart. The final issue was released in January 2013. Issues 2 and 3 followed in April and September 2011, respectively, and Issues 4 and 5 in January and August 2012, respectively. Īrchaia published Issue 1 in October 2010. īy early 2010, Petersen had completed the cover for the first issue, and he finished outlining this issue in April that year.

This longer character arc necessitated six issues of material. However, when developing the outline for the series he found that Celenawe's history could be better told as a "quest" narrative. Petersen originally planned to make this a shorter, four-issue anthology series with each issue documenting a different Celanawe adventure. Around 2007, when Petersen was beginning to draft Winter 1152, he committed to the idea that the third Mouse Guard volume would explore the history of Celanawe and of his finding of the Black Axe.
