V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore and David Lloyd

It just occurred to me that I should have category listings for graphic novels and dystopian stories.  But if I do that, I'll have to go back and mess around with older posts, and I totally don't have it in me right now.

So.  It was time for me to read this; partly because at this point, it's a classic, and partly because they're releasing the movie this fall and Alan Moore is so pissed (for various reasons) that he's publicly disassociated himself from it, as well as pulling the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series from DC.

Alan gave some details about bits of the V For Vendetta shooting script he'd seen. "It was imbecilic; it had plot holes you couldn't have got away with in Whizzer And Chips in the nineteen sixties. Plot holes no one had noticed."

I'm really curious about how the movie will be received here--it is set in a post-nuclear war fascist Britain, and the title character is a terrorist.  (A terrorist that's fighting the corrupt and powerful government). 

Judging from what people have said, they've changed it from an intelligent, thoughtful (with plenty of action, don't get me wrong) story into a run-of-the-mill action movie.  (It doesn't help that I don't trust the Wachowski Brothers as far as I can throw them--the second two Matrix movies blew).  And I'm not looking forward to Natalie Portman playing Evey.  At all.