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V for Vendetta is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd , set in a dystopian future Britain where a mysterious anarchist works to destroy the fascist government and profoundly affects the people he encounters. It was originally published between 1982 and 1983, in black and white, in the UK comic Warrior, but was unfinished when that magazine ceased publication. In 1988, at the instigation of DC Comics, Moore and Lloyd returned to the series and completed it with the addition of color art. The entire series was then collected as a graphic novel, published in the US by DC (BooksEnthsiast.com) and in the UK by Titan Books (BooksEnthsiast.com).The series is set in a future Britain where, in the chaos following a limited nuclear war that left the country mostly physically intact, a fascist one-party state has arisen. It resembles the Nazi regime—including government-controlled media, secret police, and concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internes for racial and sexual minorities—but with a British cultural flavor, and a greater reliance on technology, especially closed-circuit televisionClosed-circuit television CCTV , as a collection surveillance cameras doing video surveillance is the use of television cameras for surveillance. It differs from broadcast television in that all components are directly linked via cables or other direct me monitoring in the mode of George OrwellGeorge Orwell was the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 21 January 1950). Noted as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century, though he is be's 1984Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984 BooksEnthsiast.com) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell. The story takes place in a nightmarish dystopia, in which an ever-surveillant State enforces perfect conformity among citizens through indoctrina. (CCTV had not yet become common in England at the time Moore wrote the series.) When the series begins, political conflict has ended, the death camps have finished their work and been closed, and the public is largely complacent, until "V"—a terrorist and self-proclaimed anarchist, who wears a Guy FawkesThis article is about Guido (Guy) Fawkes. For the annual celebration named after him, see Guy Fawkes night. Guido (Guy) Fawkes (also spelt contemporaneously Faukes ( April 13, 1570 January 31, 1606), who also used the pseudonym John Johnson, was a member mask and has an improbable array of abilities and resources—begins an elaborate, violent, and theatrical campaign to bring down the government.
V himself is something of a cypher, whose history is only hinted at; it is strongly suggested that he is physically and mentally abnormal. The bulk of the story is told from the viewpoints of other characters: V's admirer and apprentice Evey, a world-weary policeman who is hunting V, and several contenders for power within the fascist party. V's destructive acts are morally ambiguous, and a central theme of the series is the rationalization of atrocities in the name of a higher goal, whether it is stability or freedom.
The series was Moore's first use of the densely detailed narrative and multiple plot lines that would feature heavily in WatchmenWatchmen is a 1986 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons. It is one of the most important superhero stories, ushering in a new era of adult-oriented mainstream comics. The title is a reference to the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ip. The backgrounds of panels are often crammed with clues and red herrings; literary allusions and wordplay are prominent in the chapter titles and in V's speech (which also often takes the form of iambic pentameterIambic pentameter is a meter in poetry, consisting of lines with five feet (hence " pentameter") in which the iamb is the dominant foot (hence "Iambic"). Iambic rhythms are quite easy to write in English and iambic pentameter is among the most common metr).
