Mooncop

by

Hardcover, 96 pages

English language

Published Sept. 20, 2016 by Drawn and Quarterly Books.

ISBN:
9781770462540
OCLC Number:
932060440

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3 stars (1 review)

From back cover: The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, an old lady loses her dog, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. capturing essential truths about humanity and making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

2 editions

reviewed Mooncop by Tom Gauld

A quiet, little tale of life for a Mooncop

3 stars

A quiet, little tale of life for a Mooncop: finding lost teenagers, filing regular reports on crimes (none), finding a lost dog and a lost lunar automaton and discovering the automated snack dispenser is being replaced by a manned donut shop. All against a background of a lunar colony slowly winding down as people leave for another life back on earth. Should he leave, or perhaps admire the lovely view on the moon for a while longer.

Drawn in Tom Gauld's usual detailed style, there is some humour to be found in the story of a cop doing his job the best he can given the circumstances.