Mooncop – Bìa Cứng

Dwelling on the moonWhatever have been we considering? …It appears so foolish now. The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small city circumvented by a new tremendous freeway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his every day rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the inhabitants dwindles. A younger lady runs away, a canine breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Every day that the Mooncop goes to work, life will get slightly quieter and slightly lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the main focus in Gauld’s science fiction is personal-no large explo-sions or grand reveals, simply the incremental dissolution of an deserted mission and a individual’s sluggish awakening to his personal uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact fashion of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal components humorous and melancholy. Gauld captures important truths about humanity, making this a narrative of the previous, current, and future, multi function.