B-Bop Comics’ midtown shop to close

The comic-book business isn’t what it used to be. After 11 years, B-Bop Comics’ midtown shop is closing at the end of March, or maybe a little later, according to B-Bop’s owner, Frank Mangiaracina.

Blame the recession. Blame the crappy comic-book market. Blame whatever you want, but it’s a damn shame. B-Bop Comics filled a niche in midtown — the need for artistic comic books. But that dropped off in 2008 and never really came back,

Mangiaracina says. Now when you need to find your girlfriend a copy of Alan Moore‘s Lost Girls,

where are you going to go?