Moore must smile? (Not sure that’s the right word) a little inside every time he sees someone in a Guy Fawkes mask how often do comic writers so openly influence the public consciousness? It’s a monumental comic, it really deserves every bit of hype. The character development and personal histories. The structure of the book alone with the excerpts from biographies and news articles etc. fascism etc but Watchmen is a far bigger undertaking as a story. V might also be more complex intellectually, anarchy vs. Both are very temporally specific books but V is likely more incomprehensible to readers unfamiliar with British politics in the ‘80s Watchmen is a little easier to get. Click to expand.I’d would agree with you to a degree, V is one of my all time favorite comics ever (I just re-read it last month) but you probably need to be British to really understand it.
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