Real Green Lanterns of NYC and Maus

So I was reading random news articles, in my attempt not to lose touch with the goings on in world around me, when I stumbled upon this interesting article linked from in the New York Times web site.

Evidently, the New York City Police have a little known, yet long-running tradition of having green lanterns in front of their stations. Cool!

The comic geek in me points out that this article comes as I just finished reading Green Lantern: Rebirth and Green Lantern: No Fear. I still have few more GL TPBs to flip through from my recent online comic hunt.

I’m typing this as my wife attempts to find a home for the remnants of our home office elsewhere in our condo. I’m reminded of all the books/comics I’ve yet to read and now need to find a new home for. All the rest have been carefully boxed in hopes they may someday see the light again on a bookshelf or display case in another home.

Towards the top of my list of “things-I-need-to-read” would be Maus II, by Art Spiegelman.

I discovered Maus I in my SDSU literature class. Maus is an amazing, Pulitzer Prize-winning, autobiographical retelling of the experiences of the author’s father, a Jewish survivor, under Hitler’s rule — told in comic form! Make no mistake, Maus is not a comic for entertainment, it’s the art of comics as literature.

Time to talk to my baby before bed…