Summary Of V For Vendetta And The Dark Knight Returns

Looking more at Moore’s characterisation, the online article I for Integrity outlines the subjective views of the sidekick characters in both Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, as put forth by Jordana Greenblatt. It questions the texts popularity amongst the graphic novel consumership and in turn the reason for that acclaim. Suggesting, in the case of V for Vendetta, that the due to the texts social questioning that Moore creates a deeply humanistic narrative that is more a social reflection of the time in which it was penned rather than usual escape from reality that the vast majority of the comic book medium offers.

“Insofar as Miller's and Moore's texts raise questions about the relationship between heroes and subjectivity, as well as the reader's position within that relationship, their texts represent significant interventions into theoretical and social questions about the formation and role of the subject that extend beyond the transformative effects of their work on the mainstream comics industry.” (Greenblatt 2009)

In the case of V for Vendetta, the sidekick character Evey being the vehicle through which the readership experiences the texts events, Jordanna puts forth that the hero/sidekick relationships are the viewers model in which they approach the broader social functions that the text offers. In one such instance, it highlights the pinnacle moment in which Evey is all but stripped of her humanity when the character of V inflicts the same torture methods that he himself was subjected