linkage between "v for vendetta" and "v"?

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Andreas John wrote:
> 
> >i am reading "v for vendetta" at the moment.
> >and during the reading - process there flashed a
> >question before my inner eye: is there a linking
> >between "v" of pynchon and this comic?
> >can anyone help to solve this mystery?
> 
> Don't know whether it's a mystery, exactly: At
> one point in Moore's comic, we see the main
> character actually reading (and quoting) Pynchon's
> novel, and at another point you can see the novel
> V. on the character V.'s bookshelf....

V reading Thomas Pynchon.

http://redelephant.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/alan-moore-v-for-vendetta/

In developing the original V For Vendetta series,
Moore and Lloyd "wanted to do something that would be
uniquely British rather than emulate the vast amount
of American material on the market," (Moore 270). Both
were political pessimists, and decided that the in
world they wanted to portray "the future would be
pretty grim, bleak and totalitarian, thus giving us a
convenient antagonist to play our hero off against,"
(Moore 270). They played with ideas, borrowing from
books like Farenheit 451, until Moore, in frustration,
compiled a list of the elements he wanted to draw
together for the piece. He writes: 

The list was something as follows: Orwell. Huxley.
Thomas Disch. Judge Dredd. Harlan Ellison's "Repent
Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman." "Catman" and
"Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" by the
same author. Vincent Price's Dr. Phibes and Theatre of
Blood. David Bowie. The Shadow. Nightraven. Batman.
Farenheit 451. The writings of the New Worlds school
of science fiction. Max Ernst's painting "Europe After
the Rains." Thomas Pynchon. The atmosphere of British
Second World War films. The Prisoner. Robin Hood. Dick
Turpin... (270)

http://madelyn.utahgoth.net/vendetta/vendetta1.html


 
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