Tales From the Short Box #200 - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

We finally did it! We tackled one of our proverbial white whales: V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It's such a precise, dense, frustrating, and prophetic treatise on the escalation of fascism in a failed state. Simultaneously, it's a gorgeous, hopeful, and inspiring manifesto for building a world based around love and community care from the ashes of the fallen authoritarian empire. In our discussion, we talk about the way this book (and the subsequent movie) have been warped in the public eye, how Moore's political praxis is front and center, and how we can take up V's cause in the fight against fascism today. Oh, and please, for the love of god, don't do LSD in a concentration camp...