Our Actual Now. I stepped back from making diary comics for a week or so to focus a bit on promoting The Fifth Quarter, and when I got back to it, I feel like it all came tumbling out. Here’s a lot of what’s been on my mind, the ever increasing efforts to ban books from school and libraries that are spreading across the country especially. I feel like this isn’t making it into most people’s radars, but it’s an extremely ominous trend.