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V FOR VENDETTA HUH???


Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog post, hopefully you guys have been keeping up with my post about V is for Vendetta. Last time, I gave a brief summary (with the movie trailer), answered a few questions about what I assumed would happen, like a mini review before I read the comic. Today I’m giving my FULL review, since I’ve read the book from cover to cover ( if you know me than you know my excitement!) I started this journey not knowing what to expect with comics, but after reading V for Vendetta, I’ll have to be more open to reading more comics, so let’s get started with this review.

The first few pages of Vendetta grabbed my attention quickly! I am a sucker for love novels, and I was so sure that this one would be exactly that, but I was WRONG! Remember McClouds Understanding Comics? This is the blueprint we used to help us understand the basics of comics. In chapter three he talks about closure and the “gutter”. “Observing the parts but perceiving the whole” (pg. 63) that’s what he explained closure as and “the gutter” is in between the panels, helps with the dramatic pauses (pg. 66).  Reading this I automatically had this closure in my head, I just knew that once V found Evey, it would turn into this love scene that would end horribly and everyone dies. This was just based on the panels, pictures I saw. My brain had already made it to the ending of the comic, and I was just getting started. This is exactly what McCloud talks about in chapter two, how our brains already perceive whatever it is we see, even if it’s not that. SO this whole time, reading this comic I was trying to get my brain to focus on one panel at a time to grasp the understanding of what I am reading and not assuming what I was reading (pretty difficult task since we as humans are ALWAYS in our head). I will be honest it was times I didn’t understand why things happened the way they did BUT I had to keep reading to find out ( this comic was so good that I need to watch the movie to piece it all together). Once I grasped the understand of V the word Vendetta started to make more sense! I’ve heard of this word, used this word a million times, but the way it used in this comic was what caught my attention. “V” had a hard life, and he wanted nothing more than for people to be free, free from mental bondage. Therefore, I say that, you remember in the comic, when Mrs. Hammond felt as if she was a prisoner? And she wasn’t sure where she was or what was going on? V showed her how she was a prisoner of her own mind and that she didn’t have to be that way. Quick side bar, remember the camps? V was in a resettlement Camp, where he had specific treatment. Being trapped in that room/cell for so long (room v) made him feel like a prisoner of his own mind, and it was because of the people in charge, the government. V took it upon himself to go live on the new station in London to inform the people that they can have a better life, things can be much better if you stand up for yourself and use your voice, be heard! V wanted to show those horrible people that mistreated him in those camps that he was just as human as they were, he wanted them to feel how he felt during that time. I believed he killed them so they wouldn’t be able to harm anyone else., those in control always abuse their authority.

This was an interesting Comic to read and understand. It all boils down to treating people right, no matter what, you never know who they’ll turn out to be, and you never know if you’ll need them in the future.

We have MORE comics to discuss soon, so I hope you come back for more reviews on different topics I have, until next time… 😊




Works Cited
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: Writing and Art. Harper Perennial, 1994.
Lloyd, David, et al. V For Vendetta. DC Comics, 2012.

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