in that Times article about all the New York comic shops?

Bryan Talbot‘s American tour for Alice in Sunderland had its moments: `The signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe in New York was nearly cancelled — a guy jumped from the 60th floor of the Empire State Building just a couple of hours before. He hit a ledge but one of his legs made it to the sidewalk right outside the store and the police closed off the street. Fortunately they’d cleaned it up and the store reopened in time for the signing. We were shown photos of the errant (and extremely grisly) leg by the store staff! It happened on Friday 13th.’

UPDATE: A few minutes after I posted this, I realized that the reason it went unmentioned is that the Times writer visited the Staten Island branch of Hanley’s, not the Manhattan one. But still—this is the kind of thing you find a way to work in!

Labels: Bryan Talbot, great comics stores, New York Times, severed limbs