![]() ![]() The story, set in a partially post apocalyptic Britain, follows V and his protege Evey Hammond as V unleashes a series of ‘terrorist attacks’ on a 1984-like London as a form of revenge, all while seemingly training Evey and bringing her to his way of thinking before encouraging an anarchistic revolution against the ruling facist party, Norsefire. ![]() picked them up and printed the complete series a few years later, V For Vendetta is as revolutionary as Moore’s superhero deconstruction but in a different way. ![]() Written partially before Watchmen and partially after as it’s first two thirds were originally published in British magazine Warrior before D.C. While the image of lead ‘hero’ V’s mask has become world famous thanks to the Anonymous hacking group it remains a striking image here in its own right from the cover onwards and the work within the book is just as powerful. After recently rereading Watchmen I had the urge to go back to another seminal work of Alan Moore’s from the same era, his collaboration with artist David Lloyd, V For Vendetta. ![]()
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