V for Vendetta

1 About this book

V for Vendetta is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare). Initially published between 1982 and 1985 in black and white as an ongoing serial in the British anthology Warrior, its serialisation was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue colour limited series published by DC Comics in the United States. Subsequent collected editions were typically published under DC's specialised imprint, Vertigo, until that label was shut down in 2018. Since then it has been transferred to DC Black Label. The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The Nordic supremacist, neo-fascist, outwardly Christofascist, and homophobic fictional Norsefire political party has exterminated its opponents in concentration camps, and it now rules the country as a police state.

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Good for readers who want: science fiction and a mystery.

• Politics and government
• Science fiction
• Comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery
• Mystery
• Graphic novels
• Comic books, strips
• Anarchism
• England in fiction