"V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a
landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in
intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult
comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman)
at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back
then!) and a Fascist government has taken over the U.K. The only blot
on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically
killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed
secret concentration camp. Codename V is out for vengeance ... and an
awful lot more... an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore." - Mark Thwaite
