Mooncop, hardcover/tom gauld

At once hilarious and achingly melancholy, Mooncop ] reads like a requiem for the future we were promised decades ago that never arrived.

A quietly essential read for anyone who grew up reading sci-fi.

-- Wired 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.

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.

Like his Guardian and New Scientist strips, as well as his previous graphic novel, Goliath , Mooncop is told with Tom Gaulds distinctive, matter-of-fact storytelling and dry humor -- an approach that has earned him fans around the world.