V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, illustrated by David Lloyd
ISBN: 9781401208417
The classic english dystopian/anarchist graphic novel.
Read November 2015
When you have a graphic novel book club, and it's November, you sort of have to pick V for Vendetta the first year. It's only natural. If you're only familiar with the story from the movie, you really owe it to yourself to check out the much deeper and much more morally complex original. Moore tapped into serious fears of mid 1980s England, and used them to craft an ambiguous story about a larger-than-life figure that uses government abuses as a moral justification (to himself and to others) for wreaking a very personal vendetta. It's powerful and unsettling, and very much a product of it's time (and politics). It's like the English graphic novel version of Fahrenheit 451.
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