Having read the handsome hardback edition of V for Vendetta this weekend, I have made a simple observation:
V for Vendetta is a superhero comic.
You know this to be true. You have the freedom to choose it if you only let yourself. You're so close to throwing off your chains.
(Spoiler warning, if such is necessary for a fifteen-year-old comic.)
V has a secret identity, a code name, superpowers, an origin, a costume, and a sidekick. He is a vigilante, punishing the guilty.
This is admittedly more true in the 1983 Warrior strips than it is in the 1989 DC Comics strips, but it is nonetheless true; V's last few chapters even include a reappearance of his superpowers and a sidekick who takes up her mentor's mantle.
It becomes somewhat evident that I like all of Moore's superhero work and I don't like everything else. I should probably try some of his non-superhero horror.
Posted by Greg at October 11, 2005 10:52 AM