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I recently read this for the first time. Wow. What a great story! A very cool, unique hero. Somewhat like Batman, somewhat like the Joker. A vigilante, a terrorist. A hero, a villain.

Every story should have at least one "Moment of Awesome", and this story has lots of them. From the opening scene on, it's great stuff. The dialogue especially is exceptional.

I really liked the artwork also. It was a bit dark in some places, so it has to be studied sometimes. But it was still wonderfully done.

My only negative about this story is that for me, it was a bit difficult sometimes to understand who all the characters were. There were a lot of names thrown around, along with many inner monologues. This wasn't a bad thing exactly. It just took a while for all of it to click. Once it did, it was okay. I'm sure it will all make more sense to me on a reread.

The story is compelling. Even though you can often predict where it is going, it is still very satisfying. The near future envisioned also holds up well. This is surprising, considering how long ago this story was written. It seems some themes don't grow old.

I like how this book - at its core - is about ideas. Personal freedom, and the role of government. These are important things worth thinking about, and most comics don't go there. That's part of what makes "V for Vendetta" so special. It's not so much a typical action story - although it does have action. It's really more of a thought piece.

What makes a "terrorist", exactly? Would a government building bombing be morally acceptable, if done against an evil regime? What is anarchy, and is it ever appropriate?

This book raises these uneasy questions, and offers no answers. The protagonist suggests his own answers, but still leaves the final moral judgment up to the reader. This is compelling reading, and raises the story above usual comic fare.

The Guy Fawkes mask was a stroke of genius by the authors. Forever now, it will symbolize something great: Ideas of freedom, personal responsibility, and constrained government. It also represents the flip side of that: mob rule, anarchy, and anonymity. (And at worst, terrorism.) It's not easy to consider those things in full.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I highly recommend it.


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V for Vendetta Alan Moore David Lloyd 9781401207922 Books Reviews

In V for Vendetta authors Alan Moore and David Lloyd capture the reader’s attention from the start of the graphic novel and never let it go.  The book fully lived up to my expectations as my five-star rating reflects. One thing I especially appreciated was the interplay of word and text in the graphic novel. Graphic novels have more to offer than a novel in that they contain both text and image. Moore and Lloyd use this to their full advantage. One thing that particularly struck me was how the text and image combined to affect my reading experience. Specifically, how using different “camera” perspectives enhances the storyline, as they often can provide more information to the reader about the plot, or even foreshadow.
Not to give too much away, but two scenes that deftly highlight this dynamic are the Madam Justice scene and the Bishop Lilliman scene. In both scenes, the point of view of the panels had the aforementioned effects. I found what makes V for Vendetta, and graphic novels in general, compelling is that they’re like no literary work I’ve read before. The last time I read a book with images was in elementary school. The originality, in addition to the detailed excellence of the graphic novel as a whole, is what makes V for Vendetta compelling, and why I would recommend it to all.
This was controversial when it was released in the 80s and it's easy in retrospect to see why as even today at least some of the issues showcased here are still relevant and would resonate with readers. Alan Moore, a self-described "anarchist", presents us with his manifesto or world-view here in graphic novel form. This is certainly one comic that is meant for adults and like any true classic I found myself getting even more out of subsequent readings. Moore tells us that what ills the world is humankind's senseless need and desire to delegate the "chore" of thinking for itself to others and that the choices for these roles of authority frequently fall way short of the mark and end up making the collective ever more miserable while the few sociopathic individuals that are put into places of authority not only abuse their powers but also go to great lengths to hang on to said power requiring in the end painful sacrifices to be made by the masses to overcome the damage done. Frequently selfless individuals have to make great personal sacrifices to achieve this as leaders of a revolution but in the end is this just a vicious cycle doomed for repetition or will humankind ever learn and break this cycle?

Examples Moore uses here include the various kinds of authority from the top to the bottom i.e. the government, the police, organised religion down to the personal level of the abusive spouse in an organised structure called marriage. Moore shows that frequently when this happens it is the vulnerable in society such as the minorities of every kind be it racial. social strata or gender affiliation that are scapegoated and persecuted. Society ends up poorer for the lack of diversity while under the delusion that uniformity and conforming to one standard way of thinking is ideal. When one looks at nature, incredible diversity appears to be the norm and yet humankind appears to want to go the opposite way and Moore's apologetic for his brand of anarchy to the point of quoting Aleister Crowley appears to be saying that the current "natural order" of things is actually unnatural.

This library format release is pretty decent with a page size and texture about the same as your comic floppy. The binding is glued and a little tight but my copy on a flat surface stays open from page 9 i.e. the start of the story itself and there is little to no gutter loss for the most part. No dust cover here so what you see is the hard cover design itself. There are short intros by both Moore and Lloyd to start and an article by Moore from an issue of Warrior #17 at the end. David Lloyd's artwork here complements Moore's great story very well and brings across the feeling of dread and despondency very keenly for the reader to experience.

This ranks among the greatest adult graphic novels ever released and this version is a nice addition to your library.

Highly recommended!
I recently read this for the first time. Wow. What a great story! A very cool, unique hero. Somewhat like Batman, somewhat like the Joker. A vigilante, a terrorist. A hero, a villain.

Every story should have at least one "Moment of Awesome", and this story has lots of them. From the opening scene on, it's great stuff. The dialogue especially is exceptional.

I really liked the artwork also. It was a bit dark in some places, so it has to be studied sometimes. But it was still wonderfully done.

My only negative about this story is that for me, it was a bit difficult sometimes to understand who all the characters were. There were a lot of names thrown around, along with many inner monologues. This wasn't a bad thing exactly. It just took a while for all of it to click. Once it did, it was okay. I'm sure it will all make more sense to me on a reread.

The story is compelling. Even though you can often predict where it is going, it is still very satisfying. The near future envisioned also holds up well. This is surprising, considering how long ago this story was written. It seems some themes don't grow old.

I like how this book - at its core - is about ideas. Personal freedom, and the role of government. These are important things worth thinking about, and most comics don't go there. That's part of what makes "V for Vendetta" so special. It's not so much a typical action story - although it does have action. It's really more of a thought piece.

What makes a "terrorist", exactly? Would a government building bombing be morally acceptable, if done against an evil regime? What is anarchy, and is it ever appropriate?

This book raises these uneasy questions, and offers no answers. The protagonist suggests his own answers, but still leaves the final moral judgment up to the reader. This is compelling reading, and raises the story above usual comic fare.

The Guy Fawkes mask was a stroke of genius by the authors. Forever now, it will symbolize something great Ideas of freedom, personal responsibility, and constrained government. It also represents the flip side of that mob rule, anarchy, and anonymity. (And at worst, terrorism.) It's not easy to consider those things in full.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I highly recommend it.