Comics Are Nao Growing Up

I’ve always had a soft spot for comics, but before I started Good Ok Bad, I was more interested in literary fiction. The Savage Detectives, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Never Let Me Go, Franny and Zooey, Cat’s Cradle, Foucault’s Pendulum, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I don’t mention these to drop names but to give you a place to hang your hat, a way of knowing what I’m talking about. Maybe you’ve read all of these. Maybe only one or two. But in either case, you should understand that I’m talking about those literary works of heft (and not necessarily of physical heft) that demand careful reading and even more careful interpretation.