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. Hereβs a lot of whatβs 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 isnβt making it into most peopleβs radars, but itβs an extremely ominous trend.