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    Mooncop
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    Mooncop

    By Tom Gauld

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    About this ebook

    The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon

    "Living on the moon…Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.”

    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, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier.

    As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
    Release dateMar 3, 2021
    ISBN9781770463554
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    • 5/5
      Simple, clean, quiet, but thoughtful. Melancholy but also very sweet, a beautiful way of showing the thoughts of the last people on the moon. Bittersweet but strangely fulfilling - a good read.
    • 5/5
      Nice and bite sized. Thought provoking without being a major commitment.
    • 4/5
      Uh, I think I just read this in 5 minutes. I wasn't timing, so maybe 7. It's super cute and melancholy. But I do think it could have been longer. Gorgeous illustrations though.
    • 3/5
      short graphic novel - lovely artwork with characteristically dry humor :)
    • 4/5
      5/2021. This is a short graphic novel about, unsurprisingly, a policeman on the moon. Tom Gauld is better known for his short cartoons but his style of understated minimalist storytelling expands well to book length. Who else could make me laugh aloud at, "I'm afraid that item is not in stock."? Or delight in moonbase buildings that look like mid 20th century furniture? And parks that look like Victorian glass dome displays? Or create an uplifting comic about the horrible feeling that your life is being dismantled around you?
    • 5/5
      I LOVE this book! Won't be spoiling to say....there is a #42 in the book.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely delightful. A quiet and melancholy story with beautifully simple illustrations.
    • 5/5
      Tom Gauld produces quirky cartoons for 'The Guardian' and 'New Scientist'. Here, he produces a short graphic novel about the fading days of a lunar colony and its sole policeman. The Moon is slowly being closed down and people are returning to Earth because - well, just because. Our protagonist patrols the magnificent desolation and the abandoned settlements, his only companions various robots (whose ability to cope with the environment varies) and the last woman on the Moon, who was sent to run a doughnut stand. An elegaic and highly individualistic tale. The production, by the US publisher Drawn and Quarterly, is a delight.
    • 1/5
      How dreary and repetitive can a work get? Ugh.
    • 4/5
      Impulse choice from the new books shelf at the library.

      Sweet little simple story that is funny and off at the same time. Very spare illustrations very appropriate to the story and setting. What if you were one of the last few inhabitants of a lunar colony?
    • 3/5
      A cute, short story. The arc of the story was a little odd and anticlimactic. However, I enjoyed the pacing, and it was an interesting journey, the art is simple, but gets the point across well.
    • 5/5
      I love this so much. It's beautiful and funny and sad and then it just ENDS. I feel so betrayed.I still love it though.
    • 4/5
      A lonely cop wanders the moon, which has zero crime and almost zero population. Humorous, slightly melancholy, with clear illustrations.
    • 4/5
      If you are expecting an action story, go elsewhere. If you are expecting a crime story, that is not that either. What Gauld created is a story about a policeman that is one of the last people left in a place that everyone leaves. It happens to be the Moon - but it could have been any village that is getting depopulated (and my home country has a lot of them), every place that loses its population when the jobs get sent elsewhere. Once upon a time, the Moon had a thriving colony - with agricultural specialists and people. Then things started to go down - we do not see all the details of how, by the time we start the story, it had already happened. But we do see a few robots replacing people (although in the usual way corporations work, there is also a reversed action when a vending machine is replaced with a human-fronted cafe). And outside of the moon setting, it is a standard cop story - with donuts, missing pets and mismatched technology - the help our main character gets is so weird - the way it gets when someone reads reports and sees everything like numbers - why would send to the moon a robot that is not suited for rough terrain? It is a bit repetitive in places (although it serves its purpose of showing the everyday). But the economical art suits the story perfectly.
    • 5/5
      A wonderfully drawn meditation on solitude and a sense of utility in the age of automation.
    • 4/5
      I love Tom Gauld's cartoons when they appear in The Guardian, so I was excited when his graphic novel Mooncop came out.It's a salutary tale about brave new horizons, failed experiments, the death of community, and hope for the future.Across its 94 pages, we follow the last police officer on the moon. He has a 100% crime solution rate. There aren't many people left on this lunar outpost of the earth, though, so no crime happens.Gauld's illustrations are beautiful in their simplicity and the sparse dialogue punctuates moments of reflection captured in views of the moon's surface, starscapes and views of the earth.It's a melancholy tale with a wry humour and closes with a glimmer of hope for the future. As a distraction from everything going on here on earth right now, it was a touching read.