V - a rich harvest

[Michael Bailey]

Say what you will, V. approaches a lot of subjects intelligently.

Paranoia doesn't really figure in this early opus, and maybe it's hard
to remember a time when paranoia wasn't as relevant as it is now.
JFK was still riding around in motorcades, McCarthyism had been beaten
back, weren't there some obscenity trials that the forces of free
speech had won? not to mention Brown v. Board of Education.

The problem set was different, back then, I'm suggesting.  From
today's perspective, it really does seem like simpler times.  To be
only plagued with changing mores, fear of thermonuclear war, and
malaise!

sometimes I wish I could go back to my youth, knowing what I know now.
But wouldn't it also be fun, maybe, to live now not knowing some of
the things one would rather not have learned since those times?

Return with us now, to those thrilling days of yesteryear...