I’m a long-term fan of speculative fiction graphic novels (Bilal, just to name one among many) and, if you are too, there is one you can’t possibly miss: Mooncop.
This is what the book’s blurb says: “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.”
Amazing, right? I couldn’t literally put it down. It’s subtly melancholic with some genius dialogue and the well-known trait of the Guardian cartoonist. Five stars!
It sounds a solid delight – many thanks for sharing this little gem, Steph:)
I’m reader of the Guardian, so I was used to his comics strips. I *so* love him 😀
And it shows in your lovely article:)