Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot...
Some of you may know that rhyme.
Most of you will know it from a movie, a Hollywood adaption of one of the most famous graphic novels of all time.
V for Vendetta started as single issue contributions to Warrior magazine in 1982. As it gained popularity, 10 issues were eventually consolidated as one graphic novel.
Those of you who have seen the movie; I have to say, it's done the graphic novel justice.
However, you can never, ever go past the original. Writer Alan Moore (my favourite author) and illustrator David Lloyd create a brilliantly dystopian United Kingdom.
Orwell's 1984 was an obvious inspiration for this totalitarian state, which was a not-so-subtle stab at the Thatcher government.
It is a story about a masked vigilante named 'V' who wages a bloody vendetta against a government who has wronged him. In doing so, he rallies the not-so-clueless citizens to his cause. They conjure up the courage to stand up to their oppressors, led by a symbol without an identity.
The final march on Parliament House is awe-inspiring, and has to be one of the best panels in comic history.
V's legacy has lived on today - the Guy Fawkes mask has become a modern symbol for activism. These masks were worn by almost every Occupy protestor around the world, and seems to be the unofficial logo of online hacktivist group Anonymous.
It's become one of the most prolific symbols of the past few years.
I would recommend buying the hard copy (it's only a few dollars more than the digital copy) from either King's Comics or overseas via The Book Depository.
Otherwise, it's available for digital download via Comixology and the respective apps.
This is one of the most critically-acclaimed, ideological graphic novels ever written. Whatever dogma you hold about comics will be buried beneath the rubble of heavy sketches, bloody activism and an ideology that is truer now than ever before.
DOWNLOAD IT HERE
Some of you may know that rhyme.
Most of you will know it from a movie, a Hollywood adaption of one of the most famous graphic novels of all time.
Those of you who have seen the movie; I have to say, it's done the graphic novel justice.
However, you can never, ever go past the original. Writer Alan Moore (my favourite author) and illustrator David Lloyd create a brilliantly dystopian United Kingdom.
Orwell's 1984 was an obvious inspiration for this totalitarian state, which was a not-so-subtle stab at the Thatcher government.
It is a story about a masked vigilante named 'V' who wages a bloody vendetta against a government who has wronged him. In doing so, he rallies the not-so-clueless citizens to his cause. They conjure up the courage to stand up to their oppressors, led by a symbol without an identity.
The final march on Parliament House is awe-inspiring, and has to be one of the best panels in comic history.
V's legacy has lived on today - the Guy Fawkes mask has become a modern symbol for activism. These masks were worn by almost every Occupy protestor around the world, and seems to be the unofficial logo of online hacktivist group Anonymous.
It's become one of the most prolific symbols of the past few years.
I would recommend buying the hard copy (it's only a few dollars more than the digital copy) from either King's Comics or overseas via The Book Depository.
Otherwise, it's available for digital download via Comixology and the respective apps.
This is one of the most critically-acclaimed, ideological graphic novels ever written. Whatever dogma you hold about comics will be buried beneath the rubble of heavy sketches, bloody activism and an ideology that is truer now than ever before.
DOWNLOAD IT HERE
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