sorry WKTF, I don't really read the reviews cos I get my comics monthly and don't want any spoilers.
I got the slipcase edition of Maus when I was out in America, and it is probably my favourite book.
The reason that Maus works so well, is the way that it is told. I got the first book out of the library this week to freshen up, and it was a fascinating read(you never get tired of reading it). There is no way that this book could have been told from a human's POV. That is it's materpiece. The way that Art substituted people for animals so that you could distinguish the different races and how they prey on each other.
when I first read Mause, I was a bit shocked at the starkness of the artwork, but now I realize how well it suits it.
some of my favourite scene include the parts where Vladek disguises himself as a Pole by putting on a Pig mask, as first seen on P. 64(how would that work if this was ordinary people?) - it's pure genius! and on P. 69 where vladek gives Art that cardigan after throwing out his old trenchcoat cracks me up
The picture on P.125 where Anja and Vladek come to what looks like a crossroads - but in the shape of a swastika, I think that was brilliant.
Although released in two volumes, Mause will always be one complete work to me, you cannot read one book without having to read the other.
There is part of me that longs to see this adapted in to an animated feature: black and white with grey tone, al hand drawn with absolutely no CGI at all, and virtually word for word text screenplay and it would have to be and r rated or even NC-17, but another half on me doesn't want to me to see this happen because anything less than perfection would be horrific
