![]() ![]() He takes the girl to the must-have superhero luxury, the themed hideout. He blows up the Houses of Parliament before leaving his own version of a superhero logo in the sky, composed of fireworks: his signature V. And he follows up his act of kindness with something more spectacular. The men he kills are brutal government agents, about to rape the girl before killing her as punishment for her first, botched attempt to make money as a prostitute. It seems derivative to begin with, a caped and masked vigilante saving a sixteen-year-old girl in a noir setting that looks as much like Gotham as London. ![]() ![]() A chapter or two into the twelve that make up Book 1, things have settled down. What Moore’s 1990s England doesn’t owe to 1984 it owes to Nazi Germany….īut that’s ok. Climate change – but not for the reasons we now know about – have led to floods, food shortages and fascism, in that order. A global war in the mid-1980s means that Africa and mainland Europe are simply ‘gone’. It’s clunky for the early 1980s, looks decidedly retro, and there’s nothing subtle about the politics. ‘I trust you’ll bear with us during any initial clumsiness,’ he pleads, and I can sort of see why he’s a little embarrassed. Alan Moore, the writer of this ambitious graphic novel, issues a kind of apology for the early chapters. ![]()
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