By: Alan Moore, David Lloyd Publisher: Vertigo Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Vertigo Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 01, 1995 Release Date: April 01, 1995
Product Description: V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back then!) and a Fascist government has taken over the U.K. The only blot on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed secret concentration camp. Codename V is out for vengeance ... and an awful lot more. V feels slightly dated like all past premonitions do. The original series was black and white and that added to the grittiness of the feel while the coloring here in the graphic novel sometimes blurs David Lloyd's fine drawing. But these are small concerns. Skillfully plotted, V is an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore. --Mark Thwaite
Amazon.com Review: V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back then!) and a Fascist government has taken over the U.K. The only blot on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed secret concentration camp. Codename V is out for vengeance ... and an awful lot more. V feels slightly dated like all past premonitions do. The original series was black and white and that added to the grittiness of the feel while the coloring here in the graphic novel sometimes blurs David Lloyd's fine drawing. But these are small concerns. Skillfully plotted, V is an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore. --Mark Thwaite
Remember remember To anyone that has seen the movie and enjoyed it, but has not read the book: DO IT NOW. The movie is not even the same story, it just has a similar message. So many changes were made for NO reason. God I wish I could film the story Alan Moore wrote here, instead of the wachowski's drivel. Seriously though, this is one of the greatest lessons in true patriotism and the power of symbols over the masses. For anyone as fed up with the current state of global affairs as I am, this book rings true in the same fashion that Orwell's "1984" or Huxley's "A Brave New World" did in their times. A man with a finger truly on the pulse, prophetic and foreboding, and a little too close to accurate. Read this now, and always remember the 5th of november.
good read this was a good read. it can be a little hard to follow at times, so i would advise watching the movie beforehand. this makes it a little easier to read.
V for Victory! I normally don't read fiction but I got to see the last half of the film with Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond and Hugo Weaving as the mysterious V figure who puts on a Guy Fawkes mask and seeks to save England from the New Order.
The book reminds me of George Orwell's novel, 1984, and in fact, John Hurt CBE who played Winston in the 1984 film version surfaces here as one of the country's leaders. How ironic is that or was that the purpose of casting him.
The book is an easy to read and a page-turner as well. You are wondering what is going to happen next and to whom. I do have some issues about V's character as to why we really don't know much about him. The book makes some revelations along the way to help explain his background without it being overdone.
Evey's character brilliantly played by Natalie Portman in the film is one of those borderline characters in the post-reclamation or revolutionary period in British history after the Queen is gone and the World Order takes shape in their own country. She starts off suspicious and aware of some of the lies fed by her government while working at a government television network.
One night, she meets V under terrible circumstances. He rescues her from being raped and maybe killed by the fingermen, government's dangerous law enforcers. V brings her to his home in the underground. They bond more like teacher and student or father and daughter than as lovers. Evey is old enough to be his daughter anyway. V is mysterious and loves the film, "The Count of Monte Cristo," and loves growing Violet Carson OBE roses.
If you don't know who Violet Carson OBE was, she was one of the Britain's best known actresses from television. She played busybody Ena Sharpes for years on Coronation Street. They named a rose after her.
Well, the book is a page-turner and I'm not usually reading fictional works but the movie got me interested by accident. I saw it on a flight to London.
The book that got me back into comics. There's nothing I can write here that hasn't been written before. So, I'll just say that this is an amazing work that comic and non-comic fans alike will really take to.
Fantastic Graphic Novel A must have in all collections, not just graphic novel but novel in general. V for Vendetta is about a Fascist government and a man's fight to stop it.
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