V For Vendetta

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The graphic novel.

 

Very good, different from the film in many ways, characters are more developed, you get to see more of their relationships with other characters, wives and in the case of Chancellor Susan his infatutian with a supercomputer. Also more of his escapeis explained in the book, V was obviously an intelligent man. The film watered down some of the content, ie in the film V only kills those who were at Larkhill, plus some fingermen, in the graphic novel he kills anyone in the way, sme of whom may have been innocent. Also the scene where Ficng travels to Larkhill and takes LSDis removed as well.

 

The only problem i have is with some of the Scottish dialogue, the way it's written seems a bit naff, not really sounding phonetic but being too far from the original words to be easy to identify what they are.

 

If you liked the film this is worth checking out, it's not something thats critical to read but still very enjoyable.

 

 Hopefully i will be borrowing Watchmen soon, then i will give a review of this as well.

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Alan Moore is an amazing writer, I love the fact he's disowned every film so far that's been made of his comics....on another note check out his captain britain stuff, tre good

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The biggest thing that annoyed me about the movie was the fucking gaping ideological shift they put on it. In the comic book V is following what is essentially a fundamentalist version of anarchism. Of course in the movie all this is exchanged for those great American favourites 'hope' and 'freedom' etc. Utter utter bastards.

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I heard Alan Moore worships a Babylonian snake god, or something.

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you heard correctly

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darkish_angel87 wrote:
I heard Alan Moore worships a Babylonian snake god, or something.

 

He also calls himself Aleister Crowley's one and only true heir.

 

...so what?  Sticking out tongue

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GOD wrote:
you heard correctly

 

But, amusingly, it's one he made up.... 

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Just read Watchmen.

 

Pretty fucking good. I'm re reading this just to pick up on all the
little things that you miss the first time round (and you all will miss them too). The only thing i can really say from here is read it, it's way too complex for me to review in a short thread.

 

The only thing that i'm not a huge fan of is the Pirate Comic Book within a Comic Book bit. I can see the point of it but thought that it got dragged out far too long. Thats my only gripe with the book.

 

I'm coming round to liking graphic novels actually, any suggestions on what i should read next? I was thinking maybe Frank Miller's Batman or maybe The Sandman by Neil Gaiman?

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BY TOR wrote:

Just read Watchmen.

 

Pretty fucking good. I'm re reading this just to pick up on all thelittle things that you miss the first time round (and you all will miss them too). The only thing i can really say from here is read it, it's way too complex for me to review in a short thread.

 

The only thing that i'm not a huge fan of is the Pirate Comic Book within a Comic Book bit. I can see the point of it but thought that it got dragged out far too long. Thats my only gripe with the book.

 

I'm coming round to liking graphic novels actually, any suggestions on what i should read next? I was thinking maybe Frank Miller's Batman or maybe The Sandman by Neil Gaiman?

 

YEah, Sandman is always good, although be wary of book one. It's very good, but doesn't really give a sense of what it is as is too wrapped up in the reguar DC universe.  From Volume 2 it starts on it's own course and becomes a thing of beauty.  Also, try Bone, Tale of One Bad Rat, The first 10 books of Cerebus the Aardvark,  Parasyte, Black Holes, Wet Moon, The Enigma, Maus, The Last Sane Cowboy (although you'd probably have to get that off the e-merl website)....

I mean, I could go on forever!

And I know what you mean about the pirate bit in watchmen.  Apparently, that has been filmed specifically as an extra for the DVD and won't be i the movie. 

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you people need to read the ultimates/untimates 2 by mark millar and all of daredevil by bendis/maleev

 

 

that is all

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GOD wrote:

you people need to read the ultimates/untimates 2 by mark millar and all of daredevil by bendis/maleev

 

I would heartily agree with the Ultimates/Ultimates 2 (avoid 3 like the plague though...awful!). I've actually got a soft spot for all of the ultimate universe titles...

Never been a fan of Daredevil, though.  Never got Batman and Superman, either...

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i'm the same with most dc comics to be honest...i'm like 'what?' altho kevin smith has just started a new batman story which may (or may not) be worth a look at.

 

Daredevil is one of my favourite comics, its dark and gritty Smiling

 

talking of mark millar, he was at thought bubble on saturday, not only was he doing a signing, but we had millar hour, which was awesome, a truely funny guy