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VENDETTA
ALAN MOORE
Davip LLOYD
yar
‘COLLECTED BOOKS
Jenette Kehn
Dre Eder
Paul Levitz
Ero VP & Pacer
Karen Berger
ene Eder
Georg Brewer
Saga Doetr
Robbin Brosterman
AAD
Richard Bruning
‘e-treatve Director
Patrick Caldon
‘eines & Ofretions
Dorothy Grouch
‘eared Ptishing
Terri Cunningham
VeMenaging ator
Joel Ehrlich
Srnor UP Avoisig &Promstins
Alison Gill
Sree Dissaae Manaatrng
Lillian Laserson
YP 8 General Comel
im Lee
il ier NS
John Nes
Te anes Manager MidStarm
Bob Wayne
Pec Sake
v ron veNperta
feve nights ago. waked into a pub on my way home and
ordered a Guinness,
Tdi look at my watzn, but | krew ie was betore &
‘tcock. twas Tuescey and! could hear te tlevsion inthe Sack
‘10nd stl runing the latest episode of “Eastenders'—a soap
‘3b0ut the day-to-aay Ke of cheeky, cheery workhng-cess people
ina decaying: mythical par of Loncon,
Isat ns Booth and picked up ¢ copy of a free newspaper
semeore had left onthe seat beside me. reac it before. There
‘wasnt much news mf. pe down the peper and decides te sat
TR wasn'ta ousy night. coud hear the murmurng ofthe als
tant 1¥ above tre cneter of me people atthe ber and the clack-
ack of colaing snooker bal
‘after “Eastinders® came “Poriige"—e re-run of station
Ccemedty series ebcut a cheeiy cheery prioner i @ confotably
Uroepressive, decaying, Viton fon.
‘Arnost imperceplibiy, spits leaked fom the optics of
plumed Doses Wehind te Ber. Droplets of wnisky and voCke
Fened and fell sounctessy as watched
Trish ry dink. Hooked up sted Ce bere caught ny
eye, "Guinness? he eked, already reaching fox ares gas. Ino
ed
Te borman’s wife arved and began to help withthe wickle
‘customers ores,
‘AtE:20, following "Ponce," came “A Question Of Sparta
simple panel quiz seme teasurng chet, cheery spars celebrities
trawering questiors about ather spor eslebrites, many of whom
‘were as cheeky and cheery as themselves,
Joculriy reigned
"heel he barman about the leaking opts” thought.
“The Nine o'clock News" folovied "A Question OF Sport Or
‘test for 30 seconds It dd, before the television war switched
‘eff and cheeky, cheer/ pap music took ts pls.
Tookect over athe barman, "us: haf 2s ime" Isa
Ache'fled the gass, solely askes Fim wiy held switched
‘off the News, "Don't asl me—trat was the wife," he replied in @
‘cheeky cheery manner, a the subject of hs Payultargedng bus.
tled in a comer of the bar
‘The leaking optics hactceased to have anyimportance ferme.
fished my drink and le mort sertain the TV woud be
slentfor the test ofthe evening. For fter“The Nine o'Cock News"
‘would have come “The Bays From Bran," a fim with few cheeky,
‘cheery characters init, which fall abot a une of Narc eeating
84,clones of Ado Hitler
There arent many cheeky, cheery characters in V FOR VEN:
DETTA ether, and Is fr people wha don' switch of the News
David oye
+4 January 9
V FOR VENDETTA
began ¥ FOR VENDETTA in she summer of 1981, curng a
‘working holidey upon the Be of Wight. ay youngest
caughtey, Amber, was¢ few months ol "shed tin the
late winter of 1985, ater a sep hn publishing of nearly five years
from the ascontincation of friends Warrior magazine, i ini
home. Amber snow seven. don't know wh enone that.
Just one of those unremarkale fects that stke vou suddenly, with
Unexpected foree, 50 that you nave to 30 ans st down.
‘Along with Marvelman (now surcleman), V FOR VENDETTA
represents my fistaitenet ata continuing series, begun atte out-
‘tof my career, For this teason, amongst ote, there are things
that ng ody In earier episodes wen judced in the ight ofthe
Sinp’later development. trust ycu' bear with us drng ry nat
umsiness, and sre our opinion that's To" te bes to stow
the any episodes unrevses, wars and al rather tan go back
and eracate al race of youthful creative inexperience
‘There is a a certain amount of political Mexperience upen
my pare evcent In these early episodes Bock in 1981 the 2mm
“huelear winter” ha ol passed inte common currency, ane
although my guess about clmabe upheaval came pretty close to
the eventual muh ofthe station, tie foxtrenairs ial tre story
to hand suggests that a cies wor, ever a bmied one, might ee
survivable. To Une best of ny curent knowlecge, this is not the
Natveté can ako be detected in my supposition thet would
take comething es nelocremaic ata hearms nuclear confit to
hue England! towarcs fas. although names to myzlf ond
Devi there were no berrer or more aecurste predictions of our
‘county future valle n comiefor athe: me The sme fact
that much of the histories! background ofthe story proceeds Ton
1 predicted Conservative defea: in the 1988 General lection
Should tel you how reliable we were in our ole as Cassandra,
Tes 1988 now. Margaret Thstcher ls entering Pe third term of
‘office and taking content ofan unbroker Consenatve leader
thio wel ito the next century. My youngest daughters seven and
the tabloid prese are ciculetins the iden of concentaion camps
far persone with AIDS, The new rok police wear black sos, as 30
‘het homer, and! their ang hove rotting video cameras mounted
fon top. The Jovernment has expressed a desite:o eradicate
hhomecewusliy, even as an abstract concert, and one can only
peculate as to which minoiy wil be the nest legated against.
Fmthnking oftaking my femiy and geting ous ofthis country son,
ometie over the ext couple o years. fs cold aris mean spi
ited ena! I dort ke lehere anymore
‘Gooenight England. Gocnisht Home Sewice and V for
veto,
Helo the Voiee of Fate ana FOR VENDETIA,
Alan Noore
Northamoton, March +968
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