David’s Evil-er Than Most Blog

So here I stand, with the book more or less before me. I saw about half of the movie, and was quite enthralled with it. The hero somewhat reminds me of myself…But that’s not important. Having seen half the movie and loved it (and knowing that it was based off a book, and that usually what came first is better), I have even higher hopes for the book. It seems to be (from the back cover at least) a very gritty, “evil” book, the kind of which I am particularly fond. That mask on the cover creeps me out though…But no matter. It a movie that good was based on it, the actual source must be even better.

 I really want to finish the movie before the book, since it was so actiony and whatnot, but I’m afraid that I’ll spoil the ending of the book for myself. Likewise, I want to read and subsequently finish the book, but I don’t want to spoil the ending of the movie for myself. An interesting conundrum. Oh well that’s part of why I chose it. It was the source material for a thus-far fantastic movie, and in a structure (graphic novel FTW!) of which I’m a particularly big fan. That mask on the cover, while unnerving, is a big draw for me when I first looked at the book. I’ve only read one story about revolutionaries who try to blow up buildings (ala Guy Fawkes), but that story quickly evolved into a cross-continental schizophrenic memory-swapping war romp to find a genetically altered supersoldier out to destroy the earth by summoning a meteor, thus making him a god. Since I have the feeling that “V” is a bit more down to earth than that, I can’t really relate it.