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I cannot wait to watch the movie! What I thought was most interesting about this book was the fact that I longed for more pictures. With the absence of narrative I thought that I would know what was happening more with the visuals, but the drawings were so dark that at parts I was left with a lot of questions about certain events. I am hoping that the movie will explain this to me, but I think I will read the novel next week to see if it explains things a bit better. For example, there were scenes in Book Two in which the dialogue jumped between V, Evie, and Finch, and I had trouble jumping from the pictures to the words to figure out what was going on. Also, the scene in which Mr. Finch took the LSD that I had a few questions about, and I think Alan Moore meant for me to question it. For example, was batch 5 LSD? Is that why V supposedly went crazy?
I am not used to reading comic books and I found this very interesting. I liked how V’s thought-bubbles were wispy to show that drama and Vaudevillian quality of his voice. Through most of the book I had to stop reading and yell, “WHAT?!” But, the theme was loud and clear. The most disturbing part of Alan Moore and David Lynch’s point was the introduction at the beginning about why they wrote V for Vendetta in the first place. The state of affairs in England under Margaret Thatcher was a scary time, not unlike the time we’re undergoing in America now. I can’t wait for someone to pick up where V for Vendetta left off in an American setting.