I Hate Writing Titles!

Any time you have something written by a follower of Glycon, a roman fertility puppet, you are going to have controversy. Alan Moore is, in addition to a worshiper of Glycon, an anarchist who has fought for council housing to stay under government control. It is interesting to note that V for Vendetta was written as a mainstream work to make money and was not written during one of his forays into the extremely controversial. V for Vendetta is nevertheless a controversial work for its views on government, religion and society. Alan Moore is a believer in the "reality" of ideas; this is epitomized in his worship of Glycon, a god who he admits to be a probable hoax. This belief, which includes fiction, really ups the controversy of everything he writes as his writings become fact. In his introduction for the novel he shows his belief that England is reaching that state and he writes "It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore." Many of his social views differ from the norm here in America, his views on sexuality especially (In conjunction with his wife and their mutual love he set up Mad Love Publishing which published such works as AARGH, Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia, and Lost Girls, which explored the hidden sexuality in works such as Peter Pan; the publishing company dissolved when his wife and Deborah Delano, their mutual lover, left him and took his children [this was after he wrote that he was going to move his family out of England, he still lives in England]). The themes of his life carry over to V for Vendetta and it is easy to see how a man with such controversial views and lifestyle choices could write something that is controversial in an extremely partisan country.

(This blog has been written without mentioning terrorism or the main character because everyone else wrote about that)