I'd forgotten that I had already read this and completely forgot that it is post-apocalyptic, that it centralises persecuted groups and allows our antihero to come from any combination of them and that V actually does some hacking on top of everything else. His abuse of Evey still doesn't seem particularly justified and while he casts himself as a villain the implication is that his ultimate intent is noble. His strand of anarchy seems distinctly individualistic, and there's no evidence that Evey's constructive anarchy would be any less so. So sure, smash the fascist state, but it's not particularly clear how this revolution is supposed to effect any permanent change, and what crumbs moore gives us suggests that life isn't going to get any better any time soon.

That aside, it really is very intricately when together and the voluminous verses of vivacious V-words are quite a feat that I clearly can't match. Lloyd's lines are clear and his scenes are great, but the hatching gets pretty murky in places to no useful effect. V is completely iconic and this is definitely worthy of its place in the cannon.