One of the most influential graphic novels of all time is V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore, with lines by David Lloyd, although this masterpiece came close to having another name.
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V for Vendetta was originally published within Warrior magazine in England between 1982 and 1985, when the publication abruptly closed. In 1988 DC Comics took up V for Vendetta to publish it in 10 volumes, which allowed this story to be fully told.
In issue #17 of Warrior magazine, Alan Moore wrote an extensive essay entitled Behind the Painted Smile where the British revealed the original name by which this work would be known.
“I was thinking of a bunch of names, including ones like El Ace de las Sombras (The Ace of Shades), among others“.
Moore began writing this work alongside Miracleman for Marvel Comics, and for V for Vendetta, the name by which we know the work set in an England with a totalitarian government, the British author had defined the main character of this story
“A strange terrorist with white makeup on his face known by the name of The Doll (The Doll) and was waging a war against a totalitarian state.”
You can find this essay on page 369 of the deluxe edition of V for Vendetta that SMASH and Vertigo (today DC Black Label) published in 2019, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
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V for Vendetta, a powerful and powerful story about the loss of freedom and identity in a totalitarian world and terrifying in its realism, remains one of the greatest achievements in the comic medium and as a work that defined the racing Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
Set in an imagined future England that has surrendered to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life within an authoritarian state and the redemptive power of the human spirit that rises up against it.
Constructed with brilliant clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta it presents unmatched depth to its characters and believability in its uncompromising account of oppression and resistance.
SMASH and DC Black they have for you V for Vendettathe unmissable graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd in a special issue on its 30th anniversary.
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