Remember, though, that we’re not here to decide if the artists are good people or bad ones, and whether or not there is some shift in Crumb’s work, without a more comprehensive reading, biographical criticism will always be of a certain low quality, and should be avoided here. You were on to something there, though, with the movement towards understanding what he was doing with this comic—why give the voice to this woman at the end? What did that accomplish for the reader? Instead, you threw it up in the air right near the end, asking a rhetorical question instead of trying to make an assertion of what it would mean for a woman to get the last word after all of what came before. It’s difficult, but don’t be distracted by moral outrages in your critiques, or you won’t move past these discussions into a fuller interpretation of the work presented.