The bookcases are of Great Literature (Shakespeare, etc.) but the music is Motown - black culture as symbolic of primitive & freedom? Just as "The Villain" had the double-meaning of V who identified himself thusly and the Fingermen, so so this chapter opens with The Voice of Fate but then also I also dislike that I have difficulty telling when words are supposed to be capitalized or emphasized due to how comics text is in all caps. (I have a hell of a time keeping all the characters straight 'cause they all look so similar. I can't help thinking of "Prospero" everytime I read "Prothero." But going back to write down notes I realize he blew up the Houses of Parliament - succeeding where the originals had failed. The first time I read this I was confused because I thought V was saying he had been a part of the gunpowder treason plot, which of course he couldn't have been. I appreciated V/Moore including "Macbeth" in the passage quoted 'cause otherwise it was gonna bug me trying to recall where it was from. I didn't actually know if V was officially gendered, so I thought the blond girl getting costumed was V.
Nice juxtaposition of "The Queen was wearing a suit of peach silk created specially for the occasion by the royal couturier" with the girl smoothing her dress. I'm not an especially visual person, but I actually really noticed the yellow wash of this opening story and thought it very effective.
"It is the fifth of the eleventh, nineteen-ninety-seven." Primed by the movie ads, I was looking for this, but otherwise I would have just skimmed right past this contorted sterile articulation of a date, only registered that it was a date but not what the date was at all.Īll the surveillance cameras with "For Your Protection" signs reminded me of being in England summer of 2003 and how surveillance cameras were so prevalent and at a time when Americans were freaking out about increased government surveillance of civilians.
verso.All I knew from ads for the film (which I haven't seen) was that V wore a stylized Joker mask and a black cape and said "Remember, remember, the fifth of November" and "People should not be afraid of their governments governments should be afraid of their people" and that Evey was played by a shaved head Natalie Portman. Note "Originally published in single magazine form in the United States as V for Vendetta 1-10"-T.p. Allie posted photos of her V jack-o-lantern and I remembered that I never actually posted my writeup of this, despite having read it back in May of '06 and having the writeup sitting around since early December of that year.įrom Cary Memorial Library Title V for vendetta / written by Alan Moore art by David Lloyd coloring by David Lloyd, Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds.
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