漫画语言看起来好像很简单。

But in fact, it is not.
Hidden layers under the surface, is still the stereotypical message: we have to survive. Untainted by the modern consumerism, which paralyses and euthanatizes the new-generation's mind, the old are always drowned in their ever-lasting pains and drudgeries, without a tiny hint of redemption.
Indeed, we all know the facts: the persecuted Jew, the struggle, the ruthlessness and the cold. Nonetheless, the details in this book are rather shocking. Even in the most peculiar circumstances, people still endeavor so hard to grasp the meaning of their survival.

One thing, however, I felt unbalanced the equilibrium in the book.
MONEY. It still holds so much power that keeping alive became a possibility rather than a desperate dive. Spiegelman's riches guaranteed them a safer solution to escape, and their social position, their education made it quite likely that they appear more like what Germans supposed they were not. In other words, it's a story about how wealthy people, the society's foundations manage to avoid disasters so that they carried with them some heritage of the old world.
They are living exhibition of why the society should cherish all the more those with money and knowledge [not the wrong kind of knowledge, though].

I do like the book, apart from its constant repetitions and all the windings. It's very real, as if you're actually talking to people from far back, not so far, but enough to have been blurred and distorted.