A review by mschlat
Mooncop by Tom Gauld

3.0

I'd never read any Tom Gauld before, but this slim volume reminded me (favorably) of [a:John Porcellino|318465|John Porcellino|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1259809646p2/318465.jpg]'s King Cat comics and the Glenn Ganges works of [a:Kevin Huizenga|89169|Kevin Huizenga|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1268324988p2/89169.jpg]. Gauld's work has the same minimalism and focus on the interior life and nature (although the nature in this book is lunar, not earthly). I liked the humor of our protagonist mooncop dealing with slowly dying or completely unsuited technology, but the whole thing is much more about loneliness and (relative) isolation than anything else. Even though it's 94 pages, it doesn't feel like much more than a standard comic book story length, and I was wishing for a little more.