Mooncop

"Deadpan humor doesn’t get much deader than Tom Gauld’s spare and slyly funny graphic novel about the last police officer on a soon-to-be-abandoned lunar colony. Though Gauld’s characters are little more than stick figures, he imbues them with so much feeling, you find yourself leaning into the page, as if to catch hints of whatever’s hiding behind their blank expressions. The book’s retro-future designs (everyone, including the dog, sports a bubble space helmet) are shot through with a very modern species of loneliness and melancholy. Beautiful and haunting."