V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of V for Vendetta
Book Review: The best graphic novel ever written - amazing.
Summary: 5 Stars
The prejudice that many people will have about a graphic novel will prevent them from reading this book. That will be their loss - as a work of literature, as art, as a comment on the nature of government, and as a page-turning thriller, this book belongs with the very best. As the central character wreaks havoc and revenge on the fascist government who tried to destroy and dehumanise, Alan Moore shows how a society ultimately pays the price for its own actions. If you've heard about this book but were put off by thinking it's a beefed up comic, it isn't. I wish I could read it again for the first time - a true great.Book Review: dark
Summary: 5 Stars
the best 'comic book' I have ever read and one of my favourite books of all time. And the art is fantastic!Book Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
What can one say? This is quite simply storytelling at it's best.Full of well rounded characters and situations that make you gasp.
The overall bleakness of the story is wonderfully exploited and even though you know how it's going to end, it still packs a big bang.
Worth reading for the scene between V and The Doctor and the diaries of the prison camp.
Book Review: A wonderful portrayal of a fascistic Britain.
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember buying this as it came out month by month, and loving the wait between issues. It still has the same power, when you hold the whole book in your hands, to make you ache a little after each chapter. The art is wonderful, the style is noticably different after the first few chapters, but as Alan Moore says, it was more honest to leave it as it was, than to change it. I think this is amongst his best work.Book Review: Literary acid...
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this as it was first published - month by month in Warrior comic - and it absolutely blew my mind. Not only was it a whirlwind tour around English (and specifically English 20th century) culture, with quoted lyrics from The Velvet Underground (Waiting For My Man), The Rolling Stones (Sympathy For The Devil) and many others, but the whole mood, the sombre facistic society with the brooding Leader controlling it all - or thinking he does, anyway ('He hungers in his secret dreams/For the harsh embrace of cruel machines/But his lover is not what she seems/And she will not leave a note') just blew the mind of a fifteen-year old. Of course the story never finished in Warrior - the comic went bust and it was to be nearly ten years before I read the whole thing collected in this edition, by which time I (hopefully) wasn't _quite_ as impressionable as I had been, but it still made for fantastic reading.
This is one of the best things Moore has done IMHO, along with Watchmen (and, specifically, the 'Dr Manhattan on Mars' and 'Rorschach' episodes), DR & Quinch, The Bojeffries saga and, possibly, Top 10, although that hasn't concluded yet (and although I really enjoyed From Hell, it seemed all a bit clinical, like it was just Moore showing off his wide reading and ability to join strange facts together - which isn't a criticism per se).
So, if you haven't already, buy it, you're in for a treat. Even if the 1998 Show never did hapen quite that way...