"Prisoner on the Hell Planet," is a little bit more intense than Maus. Both Maus and "Prisoner on the Hell Planet,"are dark and disturbing, but "Prisoner on the Hell Planet," has a way of cutting down to the most personal, heartbreaking reality of Art's life. He writes about when he was released from a mental hospital, only to hear that his mother had slit her wrists and OD'd on pills. Art's father, Vladek, had found her. The doctors told Art his mother had committed suicide. Art recalls the last time he saw Anja She came into Art's room and asked if he still loved her, to which he replied, "Sure." Art was affected by this so deeply, feeling that he would always have to live with the guilt of being part of the reason his mother had taken her own life. He says at the end of the comic, "You murdered me mommy, and you left me here to take the rap." This line is so powerful. It gives the reader a stronger sense of Anja and Art's relationship.
"Prisoner on the Hell Planet," and Maus are also different in that Art draws characters in Maus as mice, but in "Prisoner on the Hell Planet," as people.
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