V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
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V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The story follows V as he manipulates various elements to save a dystopian England, not so very far in the future (okay, "the future" being the 1990's ), from it's worst enemy: itself.
Without using the normal comic book fair of sound effects, this graphic novel relies more on the story and dialogue, and even descriptions such as you'd expect to find in a "regular" book. I loved this aspect very much.
Here's one such example that happens very early on:
I actually just love the whole thing.
I love when V argues with Justice. I love when Evey fights with herself about whether or not to unmask V. I love when Evey and V are on the roof, in the rain. And I love everything about Valerie Page. There's no end to how much I love this book.
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I also loved V, and all his interactions with Evey.
I seriously love this book
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I've never watched the movie though, so maybe the hype comes from the movie?
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There were a lot of different things that went on with dialogue in this comic. To take this in a slightly different direction, I felt like this was a huge step forward in how Moore approached dialogue. The series started with the Stan Lee bombastic wordy narration, and then the narrator just falls away. By the time Moore wrote Watchmen, he had discarded omniscient narration altogether.DFB wrote:I remember reading somewhere that this graphic novel really was a huge leap forwards for letterers. Mainly because it was so dialog heavy it created different ways to convey tone through text. See how the squiggly speech bubbles to convey that V was preforming a soliloquy? No one really did that before then, then for actual dialog you see the traditional square with tail dialog box, and for narration a box without a speech tail. It's kind of cool to look at
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