![]() ![]() On November 5th, 1997, a young woman named Evey Hammond, with a job that pays too little to live on and no prospect of anything better, goes out after curfew to try her hand at prostitution. Cameras are on every corner, surveillance vans roam the streets, and the government has long since rounded up any deviants or undesirable citizens that would otherwise taint the purity of Britain. ![]() It's the late 1990s in an Alternate History, and Britain is ruled by the Norsefire Party, a Christofascist government headed by "the Leader", Adam Susan, that came into power after World War III broke out in 1988, during which the United Kingdom avoided getting hit by any nuclear weapons, apparently the only European nation to do so. It features several of Alan Moore's trademarks: Anarchy portrayed as a positive force, mixing fiction and historical fact, and large amounts of cynicism. Starting in March, 1982, it originally ran in a British anthology comic called Warrior, and later in its own ten issue comic published by DC. ![]() V for Vendetta is a comic by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, ![]()
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