COMICS AT THE LIBRARY: I had occasion the other day to wander past the comics section at Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library–the main DC library–and I noticed something. I’d been to that section before, and it had been sparse, with a fairly random selection: Maus, yes, and something by Joe Sacco (really!), and one lone volume of Love and Rockets. Really no rhyme nor reason.

This time, the section was full to bursting with interesting stuff. I had to restrain myself from checking several books out. Age of Bronze; yes, there was Safe Area Gorazde, which is probably the Sacco from last visit; Y: The Last Man; and, on a table where some kid (or out-of-bounds pseudo-adult like me–the comics are in the YA section) had been reading it, Brian Bendis’s excellent Torso. And lots more that I can’t recall right now. I just remember thinking it looked like a really good selection, with all kinds of different genres and styles. I don’t know if that’s new since I last visited, or if my previous visit just happened to come when many of the books were checked out (I hope!), or what–but I thought I’d pass this on to you all. Sign of the times and whatnot.