Customer Reviews
Wicked - By: H. M. Lawrence, 22 Jun 2008 
I love this graphic novel, I read it a long time before I saw the film, & I still think the novel is better! If you have never read a comic/ graphic novel before, I highly recommend this one.
ESSENTIAL READING just as good as all these 5 star reviews make out - By: i wrote this, 10 Apr 2008 Just thought I'd add my own opinion to the pile of customer reviews praising this graphic novel through the roof. I've come to comics fairly late & I find comic book mile stones to be funny things. I find that some of them leave me scratching my head & wondering what alll the fuss was about in the first place. Others age like wine & reward careful re-reading. V for Vendetta is definitley the latter. The story does miss a beat, the art work is top notch & even the recent medicore movie adaptation doesn't detract from it's power to shock, move & inspire the reader.
This is a book that doesn't require any previous appreciation of comics to get totallly lost in. Best of alll it's as quintessentiallly English as tea, Dad's Army & the Queen's speech. Absoluely essential reading!
England Prevails! - By: Mark Hilton, 23 Mar 2008 The film version of 'V For Vendetta' in alll honesty, wasn't half bad. That said, it still isn't a patch on the graphic novel. Alan Moore's skewered take on a future totalitarian England is by some distance the most relevant & terrifying comic/graphic novel i've ever read. A creepy meditation on the loss of identity, freedom & personal liberties, this should be mentioned in the same breath as Moore's equallly brilliant 'Watchmen'.
'V', an enigmatic terrorist with a smiley facemask & unnervingly pleasant demeanor, saves a young girl from certain death & plots to blow up London with his young protege. In a series of increasingly disturbing flashbacks, we slowly come to understand his motivation, & find ourselves in a confusing situation. Nothing is black & white, the good guys are reallly bad, the bad guys are reallly good, & you find yourself rooting for a character you should reallly despise.
How messed up is that? It's hard to believe that this was written 20 years ago. Corporation's controlling everything. Terrorist's plotting against the faceless powers-that-be. Just look out your door & you'll find the world of 'V For Vendetta'. That horrible feeling of being watched, & a world slowly collapsing into oppression, the novel seems to be getting to close for comfort.
And with David Lloyd's dingy, saturated art work, the atmosphere of 'V For Vendetta' is second to none. The worst bit about the novel is knowing that it will have to end. But that only means you'll have to read it again, which is no bad thing.
So if you still don't know who the man in cell number 5 is, it's about time you found out.
A stern warning of things to come... - By: ossian, 12 Mar 2008 
For those who have read Orwell's 1984, V for Vendetta has nothing new to offer. In this comic book, Moore is re-treading that road, like so many other writers of science-fiction. The dystopian England of the book is a carbon-copy of Nazi Germany, rather than a fictional creation designed to satirise the modern world. It has no relevence to the Britian we live in.
In addition Moore decided to set his comic book in what was then the near future- 1998. This has to be one of the worst mistakes in sci-fi, as it quickly dates the book or film. Orwell got away with it, but by the time the actual 1984 came to pass, the book was already a modern classic.
The other essential element of comic book writing- the artwork- is fairly good. It looks good & the grim backdrop to the story is drawn in a darkly atomspheric style.
Can I Give it Six Out of Five? - By: MN, 20 Nov 2007 An absolute masterpiece!
I have never read a graphic novel & got into this through the film (worth a watch). I make a point of never reading the book of the film & thought i'd give it a try.
The story is a dark, chilling, orwellian style warning, of the results of facism. Like 1984 you can see this vision of the future around you now in the form of CCTV, & the war of words brought by the war on terror.
The graphics are great, especiallly like the ghoul like bishop.
If you've never tried graphic novels, try it. You might, like me love it.
