In what might be considered a long overdue move, The New York Times has created a new list of bestselling books: graphic novels.

Of course, this is probably a defensive movie on the Times’ part, just as it was when the Harry Potter books threatened to dominate the Times’ fiction bestseller lists, and so the Times created a new, separate list for children’s literature.

See, the Watchmen graphic novel — which collects 12 issues of the limited-series comic book in one volume — is currently the No. 1 ranked book on Amazon. Which means it probably would have shown up in the Times regular bestseller list.

But the Times explains its creation of the graphic-novel list this way:

Comics have finally joined the mainstream.

Except comics have been the mainstream for quite a while — at least since the original publication of the collected Watchmen almost 20 years ago — and if the Times thought it was time to finally acknowledge that, it would have let Watchmen sit on its main list of book bestsellers.