Dark and humourless, V for Vendetta is a sometimes wordy comic book that keeps on gabbing. I found myself trying not to skip some of the more verbose panels. Par for the course in Alan Moore's work, it does include superb character development.
It doesn't help that David Lloyd's expressionistic art is low key with a very atmospheric style and minimalist colour. It does get occasionally confusing and it feels cluttered in some passages with the aforementioned wordiness competing for space. You may have trouble telling some characters apart.
The original run was ten issues of 30 pages each; it feels as if the story could easily fit in eight or seven issues without losing much.
Meh
Dark and humourless, V for Vendetta is a sometimes wordy comic book that keeps on gabbing. I found myself trying not to skip some of the more verbose panels. Par for the course in Alan Moore's work, it does include superb character development.
It doesn't help that David Lloyd's expressionistic art is low key with a very atmospheric style and minimalist colour. It does get occasionally confusing and it feels cluttered in some passages with the aforementioned wordiness competing for space. You may have trouble telling some characters apart.
The original run was ten issues of 30 pages each; it feels as if the story could easily fit in eight or seven issues without losing much.