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Dec 16, 2010

Elizabeth rated it:

This is my dad. He is with James Meredith just after Meredith had been shot in Mississippi in 1966. He’s the goofy-looking Jewish guy with the hat.

The way my dad tells the story, is that one day he gets a call from James, who he knew already, and James said, I’m going to march through Mississippi, for voter registration. You want to come? (Note: not direct quotes here).

My dad, Sure, who else is going?

James, Just us so far.

Then, according to my da More...

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Nov 16, 2011

Keely rated it:

I struggled for a long time with the growing notion that conservatives simply aren't funny. At first it seemed a silly idea, since conservatism draws from sources as varied as progressivism: all levels of intelligence and wealth, all kinds of people from all walks of life--yet none of them are funny.

Certainly they can tell jokes and be charming, but not satirical, not biting. Subversion doesn't come naturally to them, and it should have been clear why: Conservatism relies on ideals, More...

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Jan 17, 2012

Palice rated it:

17/1/2012: I've decided to change this from 3 to 3.7
Yes, now I don't feel so bad.

Spoilers and babies coming. You've been warned.

I had to think about this one for some time.

Maybe I missed something. Maybe I just need to think a bit more.

Even now, I really don’t know why I rated it 3 stars. Why not 4? No, why not 5?

When I started, I’m sure you can tell from my status updates, that I really liked it. Really liked it More...

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Jul 09, 2008

Evil_Dead_Junkie rated it:

If Watchmen is Alan Moore's Sergeant Pepper, and From Hell his Abbey Road (And in the end the love you take is equal to the number of prostitutes you disembowl) then V For Vendetta is his Rubber Soul.

Like Rubber Soul it tends to get overlooked and undervalued because it's "merely" a perfect pop record rather then a artform redefining masterpiece. V is simply put a potent piece of Pop Art. The story is bracing, the art beautiful, the way it plays with iconography of humanit More...

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Apr 20, 2011

Stephen rated it:

3.5 stars. For all of the criticism that is heaped on movie versions of novels and other literary works (well deserved criticism in many cases) there are times when the film-makers get it right (e.g., Lord of the Rings, the Princess Bride, Schindler’s List). The Graphic Novel, in particular, is a format that lends itself very well to adaptation and in the right hands a film version can actually IMPROVE on the source material. Examples of this IMHO would be From Hell, Road to Perditio More...

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Apr 29, 2008

Laura rated it:

Eh.

Okay. There's political writing, and then there's political comics (Watchmen, also by Moore). Pure political writing, essays or editorials or what have you, doesn't have to leave everyone satisfied. It can leave some angry or displeased or challenged, so long as it makes its point.

POLITICAL COMICS HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT.

A political comic must not only make a clear political point, but it must ALSO be interesting in a way that is peculiar to comics: it must ha More...

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Feb 08, 2011

htanzil rated it:

London, 5 November 1997, House of Parliamet, simbol kekuasaan pemerintah Inggris diledakkan oleh seseorang berinisial ‘V’ yang dalam aksinya berdandan dan menggenakan topeng ala Guy Fawkes. Selain peledakan, aksi V juga diikuti dengan atraksi kembang api yang mengagetkan seluruh penduduk London.
Di saat yang hampir bersamaan, V menyelamatkan Evey Hammond, seorang gadis dengan masa lalu yang kelam dari jebakan para intel polisi saat hendak melacur. Dalam aksinya ini beberapa intel polisi terb More...

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Jan 21, 2009

Meredith rated it:

Note: this is the longest book review I've written in a while. Forgive me if it's a bit difficult to navigate. A lot of this was typed up from notes I scribbled & I tried to make it as readable as possible. Also, if anyone is offended or in any way upset by this review, you know where you can put your whining....In the comments section of course! Dissenters welcome. I'm ready to argue my points.

V for Vendetta is essentially ‘Socialism vs. Fascism’. Well…more like anarchy vs. fascist More...

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Dec 29, 2007

Tony rated it:

Watchmen is one of my favorite novels of all time, so I was disapointed when I finished this. I felt that Watchmen was heavily layered and had very complex characters. Veidt, Rorschach, and Manhattan can all be read an interpreted in different ways, and there's a moral ambiguity to the themes and messages of the work. None of that can be said about Vendetta.

V, who comes to represent anarchy, and the British government, who represent facism, are both one dimensional. The fascists More...

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Jan 22, 2012

Vanessa rated it:

What I like about this book is its creativity. There are creative juxtapositions and creative leaps. Alan Moore's creativity emerges visually, in the story's presentation, in its structure, and in the influences upon which it draws. Conventional political thinking tends to be dogmatic and narrow-minded. If you define the book in iterms of political ideology, I think you do it an injustice. I don't see any dogma here. I see an open-minded, free-thinking, untrammelled creator, playing confidently More...

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Aug 09, 2011

Nadine rated it:

Die Geschichte spielt in einem fiktiven England in den 90er Jahren, wo nach dem 3. Weltkrieg bei dem ein Großteil Europas durch Atombomben ausradiert worden war, eine faschistische Partei die Macht an sich gerissen hat. V ein als Guy Fawkes (der 1605 ein Attentat auf das englische Parlament geplant hatte und noch heute auf Platz 30 der „100 wichtigsten Briten“ rangiert, das aber vereitelt wurde) verkleideter Anarchist verübt Anschläge auf verschiedene Gebäude in London und desweiteren ein paar d More...

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Apr 01, 2011

Julian rated it:

This is a quite remarkable book, because not only is it supremely satisfying, but it manages to break a whole load of apparent rules for the genre in the process. The 'big event' (the destruction of the Houses of Parliament) is over in the first few pages, and the ending is anything but conclusive. And yet it works, extremely effectively, as a story.

And yet underneath that there is an examination the nature of the society. Moore shows us not a conflict between anarchist chaos and to More...

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Aug 20, 2008

Meave rated it:

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Dec 19, 2008

Ken rated it:

Admittedly, I am a latecomer to the cult of Alan Moore. I was barely aware of him back in the late 80s/early 90s, and other than Killing Joke, my introduction to him was actually in the superb D.R. and Quinch series for 2000 A.D. I missed out on the original releases of his Swamp Thing run, V for Vendetta, and The Watchmen.

Later, I rediscovered Moore with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I was already a fan of Kevin O'Neill from his work on Marshal Law (which is still one of More...

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Aug 20, 2008

Ruka rated it:

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Jul 27, 2008

Caroline rated it:

This was very good, if somewhat convoluted at times. The biggest hurdle for me was actually the art--it took me a while to get the swing of who was who, and once I did it went a lot smoother. I also think having seen the movie was a bit of a disadvantage, since the movie combined characters and took out a number of sub-plots, so I was a bit confused at times.

I loved the fact that V is such an ambiguous character--you never really get any clue what his story is, other than the bare mi More...

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Jul 04, 2008

John rated it:

I picked up V for Vendetta for a variety of reasons. Of course, there is the movie that came out with Hugo Weaving & Natalie Portman. Alan Moore, a fantastic comic/graphic novel writer, also wrote the book. Finally, I'm doing some research on the graphic novel's form and this one was highly recommended (and close at hand).

Through the course of the story, we follow V from when he saves Evey from rape and being killed for prostitution by the government police - The Finger (after he has More...

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Nov 22, 2008

Rob rated it:

Once durring a conversation, one that seems to occur often in my life, between a handful of my most geeky aquaintances, someone (cannot recall who) said this of V For Vendetta:

"It's like the redheaded stepbrother to Watchmen."

And it's true. I've found it's commonly overlooked, not quoted or mentioned or honored nearly as often as Alan Moore's Watchmen, yet it is still among the most groundbreaking graphic novels ever to travel from dream to page.

If y More...

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Jun 11, 2007

Mandy rated it:

I have been copiously lectured on the importance of Alan Moore and the moving-and-shaking he did towards revamping the legitimacy of comic books. Consider my opinion here limited because I have only read Vendetta -- I don't think he's that terrific of a writer. He's not bad, but the appellation of "best writer in the comic book industry Ever" just doesn't ring terribly true with me. I enjoyed Vendetta, but to be honest I enjoyed the movie more, and his out-spoken bitching about the More...

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Nov 04, 2008

Kerry rated it:

Eh.

The art was mediocre, the colors muddy. (I wish they had included the cover art before each chapter, too.) I had a hard time distinguishing one English dude in a suit from the next, but didn't care enough to make an effort. Thank goodness for that guy at the end with the cockney (?) accent.

I guess anarchy just isn't that interesting. I mean . . . here's the plot: there was a war, which allowed a crazy bureaucracy to develop with little personal freedoms allowed. More...

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Jan 13, 2008

Dave rated it:

i wasnt sure how i'd like these. but i actually did really enjoy them. i saw the movie first, but i enjoy the graphic novel a lot more. after hearing what alan moore had to say about the movie adaptation, i tend to agree with him. they turned his novel on fascism and despotic rule into a political movie about Bush. the novel is great, though. you arent sure whether V is insane or heroic. this book's themes resonate on many different levels, and the art is very good. a little traditional in its d More...

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Feb 11, 2011

Klytia rated it:

Benché Moore l’abbia scritto avendo in mente una precisa realtà storico-sociale dell’Inghilterra degli anni ‘80, non è difficile collocarlo in altre nazioni o in altri periodi anche più recenti, come ad esempio è stato fatto nel film che ho trovato strepitoso.</p>

Aspetto grafico: per quello che mi riguarda, questo è uno dei casi in cui la storia mi è piaciuta così tanto che ho sorvolato sul disegno che infatti non incontra i miei gusti estetici.
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Jan 06, 2011

Travis rated it:

In the post-apocalyptic "future" of the late 1990s, Britain is under totalitarian rule, but a mysterious man known only as V is about to change all that.[return][return]This is pretty much right up my alley storywise. The art...well, it was bearable to get the story. I would have much preferred it as a novel, though, because the art definitely didn't add anything to me. I'm not a fan of most western comic styles and this seemed worse than most in that it was so dark and everyone's face More...

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Mar 12, 2009

Brett rated it:

This book was a true classic in my opinion. The very nature of it is thought provoking and it's frighteningly accurate by the state of affairs in the world. America is on a slow decline towards this sort of government. Instead of a fair and equal amount of representatives on each side, there is an unfair advantage from leading political party leaders. Even the system for elections is capable of being rigged, since only a few out of several thousands of people per area vote. Every man has his pri More...

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Feb 02, 2009

Annie rated it:

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Feb 12, 2012

Lissa rated it:

Ok I never expected to read a graphic novel, much less post about it. But this has been one of my favorite films for a very long time, so I decided to read...gasp...a graphic novel, something I was forbidden to touch as a child. The differences in the film and the book are many, so I will leave that to people more obsessed with that type of thing-the most important of which I found to be the lack of a government conspiracy to make the population sick and drug dependent. Some catagorized this fil More...

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Jan 27, 2012

Subham rated it:

This is one of those Novels that kept me stuck to it till the very last word (or in this case strip). I must admit I watched the movie before reading the novel. And the movie was damn good. I was half expecting to either be horrendously let down or feel about the same after the read. But it was completely different from the movie (I know, I know a very redundant statement. Which ever book is the same as the movie ? ) But still it was awesome.

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Jan 11, 2012

Jc rated it:

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Jan 07, 2012

Mark rated it:

Although I have original "Warrior" comics from the 80s and the first few original V comics, I never read the entire original story from end to end. After seeing the movie I assumed the comic would be the same and I'd be satisfied. After finishing the graphic novel, I have been reminded that this is rarely the case.

The comic is very little like the movie except for a few key scenes that are almost identical (think Evey with the clergyman, blowing up major London destination More...

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Jan 07, 2012

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