![]() The story, written jointly by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, takes place in the late 1990s. If John Hughes captured our most adolescent suburban libertine longings, V for Vendetta re-made them into our most terrifying libertarian nightmare. ![]() Written in the first third of the 1980s but not published as a graphic novel until 1988, V for Vendetta broke into the cultural mindset of the intellectual rising generation like nothing else.įor someone coming of age in that decade-with New Wave, Blade Runner, Ronald Reagan, The Day After, Rush, Macintosh, Red Rain, and Nuclear Winter- V for Vendetta took the extreme desires and fears of a whole generation and made them into a coherent (mostly) tale. ![]() You probably still would not end up with the disturbing masterpiece that is V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() Throw together an English Roman Catholic terrorist from 1605, a 1930s noir atmosphere, a damsel who is only somewhat in distress, a government that makes Ingsoc look humane, some psychedelics, some fortuitous but random evangelical proof texting of The Collected Works of William Shakespeare, some references to the mass killings of the twentieth century, a bit of Ray Bradbury, Max Ernst, and Patrick McGoohan, a rather tame lesbian romance, some raging pagan will power, a fictional 1980s that went exactly against what actually happened, some inspiration from William Butler Yeats and “anarchy loosed upon the world,” and two young cocksure perfectionist English artists who wanted to avoid mimicking their American counterparts. ![]()
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