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The 80s were a magical time for dystopian near-future fiction

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

February 6, 2022 by KimMiE" 4 Comments

“I’m thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon, sometime over the next couple of years. It’s cold and it’s mean-spirited, and I don’t like it here anymore.” Surprisingly, the above quotation does not come from V for Vendetta, but from Alan Moore’s 1988 introduction to the graphic novel for the original DC Comics run. At the time, Margaret Thatcher was entering her third term as Prime Minster of the U.K., and Moore was despairing about, among other things, the treatment of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Alan Moore and David Lloyd, anarchy, cbr14, dystopian future, Graphic Novel, KimMiE", political

KimMiE"'s CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Alan Moore and David Lloyd, anarchy, cbr14, dystopian future, Graphic Novel, KimMiE", political ·
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