It's a question of taste, I think - the good kind of question, that makes all this stuff fun. Some people like a linear, narrative comic-style approach, and this book isn't it. Some people like contemplative, abstract graphic literature where the art and the text combine for a very different sort of effect. Are You My Mother is more Chris Ware, less Spiegelman. It's ok to have that conversation I think, and unfair to call someone a "shitty critic" just on that. And I loved the new book.