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First edition. |
| Description |
94 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm |
| Local Note |
rw |
| Summary |
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. 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 Gauld's 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. |
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Lunar bases -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Police -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Robots -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Science fiction comics.
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Comics (Graphic works)
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Graphic novels.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781770462540 (hardback) |
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1770462546 (hardback) |
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