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Title: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd ISBN: 0-930289-52-8 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (70 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite graphic novel of all time
Comment: If you ask most people who the greatest living writer in comics is, they'll reply without hesitation Alan Moore for his role in taking comics beyond their ordinary roots and single-handedly expanding the potential of an entire medium. If you then ask what work of Moore's best exemplifies this contribution, most will again not waver before responding that Watchmen is not only Moore's greatest work but quite possibly the best comic book ever produced.
And in the case of Moore's gift to comics, these people would be one hundred percent correct. It is not possible to laud this man and his genius enough. However, in naming his best work, they have fallen short. Yes Watchmen is brilliant, and yes it is quite possibly the best exploration of the superhero that has been or can ever be written. But Moore's best work? Not by a long shot.
And no, his best work is not either of his tenures on Miracleman or Swamp Thing, as groundbreaking and innovative as those runs were. Nor can it be found in painstakingly researched books like From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which are crafted with such time and care that they require extensive notes to fully grasp all the details dropped in by this master craftsman and his collaborators.
Rather, Moore's best work comes in the form of a novel about the fascist government in the England of the future and the man who rebels against the system, a man named only V. The book is V for Vendetta, reprinted today by DC from their ten-part series of 1988, which in turn was made up of reprints of work originally seen in England in the early 1980s in the magazine Warrior as well as new material to close the story out. It is not only my favorite graphic novel but quite possibly also the best work written to date in this medium.
Now admittedly, I am quite biased in claiming it is the best comic ever written, because my love for it is so deep. V for Vendetta marked a first for my collection, as it was the first book I owned as both individual issues and in trade paperback form. I have given away my trade paperback before, only to buy a new copy when I missed it so much. I hope to someday own the original Warrior issues and I would be more than happy, should DC ever decide to release a hardcover version, I would pay top dollar for that as well.
It is also the only comic book I read repeatedly. I have probably read V for Vendetta at least ten times if not more, and I know that I shall read it again. Very few books I read in any form are deemed worthy of repeat perusals. Breakfast of Champions is one, A Prayer for Owen Meany another, Catch-22 yet another-these are all books that I come back to many times to read again and again, gaining new perspectives on both the text and myself each time we cross paths. And V for Vendetta is among them, a book I cannot go more than a year without opening anew.
Shall I give you tons of reasons why I think it's so brilliant? Shall I tell you of the deep philosophical mind of the main character V, a man who takes a meaningful stand against the system for the betterment of mankind? Shall I inform you of the beautiful portrayal of Evey, a young girl who has lost all to the system and whom V takes under his wing? Shall I tell you of David Lloyd's exquisite artwork which makes the cityscapes of London seem familiar and which, through the use of his muted colors, creates an almost tangible atmosphere of the dim, dull existence of life under this fascist regime?
No. Instead I shall choose not to spoil your reading experience and leave you to discover these things for yourself. Just one warning, though: do your damnedest not to cry when you read Valerie's letter, composed on toilet paper. It gets me every time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything comic books weren't supposed to be.
Comment: V for Vendetta is the story of an ideal. Not a man, for a man is flesh and blood, but an ideal. You can't kill an ideal.
These are the ideas presented in this very intruguing and fast-paced story. One of comic writer ALAN MOORE's greatest works, "V for Vendetta" is a story that will compell and haunt the reader.
After a devastating nuclear war in 1988, England is brought back together by the facists who have banded and formed the new government that rules with an iron fist. The concentration camps have been set up, and out of them comes a mysterious and almost insane vigilante. "To tell the truth, I do not have a name," he says. "You can call me 'V.' He cavorts about London wearing his Guy Fawkes costume with its smiling paper-mache mask. V sets about his grisly work of vengeance upon the people who wronged him and the system that killed his former self. "I am the Devil, and I come to do the Devil's work." But he has much more up his grey sleeve, as he tells the girl he rescues from police brutality.
Full of believable characters and a gripping plot, V for Vendetta is a look into the human soul, on what drives a man so far, until he pushes himself farther...
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow.
Comment: Wow.
That is the only word you can think of when trying to describe Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
I don't mean Wow as in "Wow, that's so cool" or "Wow, look at that!". More like an amazed "Wow...", the kind of Wow one will utter when seeing something neither joyful nor sad, but simply amazing. Something like Alan Moore's and David Lloyd's
V for Vendetta.
This extraordinary epic tells us the tale of a masked avenger, a frightened little girl, a fascist state where control of citizens is total and the people in charge unforgiving.
I am not going to tell you the story of the book, not even a little bit of it, because doing that would take away some of the fun in reading it.
All I am going to tell you is that this book isn't like usual comic books. This book doesn't try to add as much fighting to the story as possible just for the sake of it. This book is great because it has an interesting story and great art work. The art is the kind of art that is realistic but still special. This is a book that everyone should read.
(By the way, if you own a copy of Tori Amos' CD "Strange little girls" I really recommend listenong to the last song, "Real men", when you read V for Vendetta. Believe me, it's really fitting.)
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Title: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons ISBN: 0930289234 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: FROM HELL by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell ISBN: 0958578346 Publisher: Eddie Campbell Comics Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Top Ten (Book 1) by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563896680 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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