{"product_id":"9781770469235","title":"Mooncop","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"At once hilarious and achingly melancholy, [\u003ci\u003eMooncop\u003c\/i\u003e] reads like a requiem for the future we were promised decades ago that never arrived. A quietly essential read for anyone who grew up reading sci-fi.\"—\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMooncop\u003c\/i\u003e is equal parts funny and melancholy. capturing essential truths about humanity and making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one. Like his \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist \u003c\/i\u003estrips, as well as his previous graphic novel, \u003ci\u003eGoliath\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMooncop\u003c\/i\u003e is told with Tom Gauld's distinctive, matter-of-fact storytelling and dry humor \u003cb\u003e— \u003c\/b\u003ean approach that has earned him fans around the world.","brand":"Tom Gauld","offers":[{"title":"Drawn and Quarterly |  Paperback \/ softback  |  2026-12-01","offer_id":48995620880639,"sku":"9781770469235","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6eca782d-0699-4931-a3d9-211ec2a16faf.jpg?v=1786483758","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781770469235","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}