After abandoning Watchmen and muddling through V for Vendetta I’ve come to the conclusion that Alan Moore is just not for me. I feel a little bad about this. Many people whose opinion I respect hold him up as one of the greats and while I believe they’re right, it doesn’t mean that I enjoy Moore’s work.

V for Vendetta is one of those dystopian future type tales ala 1984 or Brave New World. Only this future is 1997 (which was decade away when Moore first wrote this as a series of comics), and as is to be expected things aren’t going well. After a nuclear war England has fallen into the hands of a fascist regime that has killed off homosexuals and anyone of any non-white ethnicity. English citizens are closely monitored with cameras everywhere, and fed a steady line of propaganda by both Fate, the government’s computer system and the Church, which is also controlled by the government.

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