V for Vendetta in The Alternative Worlds

Mar 26, 2008 Brad rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: graphic-novel, anarchism, comic-books, dystopian, sci-fi

Alan Moore's V for Vendetta is to his Watchmen what Tolkien's Hobbit is to his The Silmarillion: an inferior work of superior satisfaction.

I should point out before going any further, however, that I am in no way suggesting V for Vendetta or The Hobbit are anything less than classics. As works of literature both are vastly superior to most books written, particularly within their genres. They simply don't match the literary heights of their more lofty relations.

But this is about V for Vendetta, ...more

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Jan 08, 2010 Nicky rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels-and-manga, historical-fiction-alternatehistory, speculative-fiction, dystopia

I saw the movie a while ago and remembered only one thing from it, really: the scene with Evey with her hair all cut off, reading the note from Valerie. As far as I remember, that whole bit was more or less the same between both the graphic novel and the movie. It's a very very powerful bit, for me, and I imagine it's the bit that's going to stick with me from the book, too.

I hit a certain point with this book, around the end of 'volume one', where I didn't want to stop -- where I had to keep re ...more

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Jun 19, 2008 Terence rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: graphic-novels-picture-books

Umpteenth reread - October 2020: Apropos of nothing really, except perhaps for unconscious recollections, I've been rereading V for Vendetta this weekend.

For the few who might not be aware of this thirty years after publication, the setting is a post-holocaust Britain that's been taken over by a white-supremacist, fascist dictatorship. And with that in mind and considering the worrisome political trends in Europe and the US as of this writing, this quote stood out to me in this read:

[I]t is the

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Mar 12, 2009 The Crimson Fucker rated it it was amazing

This one is fucking awesome!!! And I know who is behind the mask… Is Seth!!!

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Jul 08, 2008 This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, apocalyptic, graphic-novels

An England of the near future, post nuclear-war, run by a dictatorship which is a mix of "1984" and Nazi Germany. A single crusader/terrorist, codenamed V, tries to wake up the population.

There's a good concept behind this graphic novel, but it falls somewhat flat in execution. It was one of the earliest of Alan Moore's books and it shows, the writing lacking a polish of some of his better works. ...more

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