Mooncop

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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 & 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 explo-sions or grand reveals just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project & 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 & melancholy Gauld captures essential truths about humanity making this a story of the past present & future all in one