In the Shadow of No Towers

I’m still trying to figure out if I liked this book or not. I have read comic books before so it really wasn’t that hard for me to read and I thought it had good content but for some reason I didn’t really care for it much. With that said there were a few things that I really did like about In the Shadow of No Towers.
I liked how Spiegelman used his art work to enhance the feeling of paranoia that his character is going though. It was weird because by the end of reading the first ten pages I was actually feeling a little anxious too. His use of his smoking increasing with every frame as he rants kind of help make clear two things for me; one… the topics are really important to him and two… that he’s even criticizing himself in his book.
I was also really interested after reading the ending compilation of comics to look back and see how he used characters and styles from those comics in his own story. It kind of reminded me of how Politician’s bring up historical examples to deal with the problems of today, but instead of using historical events he used historical comics. Also, along the lines of the comics he included at the end, it was odd to look at them just because they seem to still be relevant, and I didn’t really expect that. It kind of made me think that nothing’s changed which is kind of unnerving.