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Before then, I was really into opera and show tunes. No, I’m not gay

Now, if you had told me back then that Image comics of all people would put together a Belle & Sebastian graphic novel anthology with some of the finest indie comics talent involved. Well, I’d have laughed you out of Yorkshire

Originally serialized in the British magazine Warrior in the early 1980’s, V For Vendetta is a story about a man who fears nothing going after those who would dismiss the individual right of life

With three cases of missing women (two of flesh and blood and one fictitious), things take a sinister turn and Clot finds himself facing the all-powerful Chopeitia Genomics – a genetic-engineering corporation that controls everything from the heart of the city.

We’ve also got the special re-release of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid 3, dubbed Subsistence, the oh so cute remake of Mega Man for the PSP, and the long awaited multiplayer frag-fest that is Metroid Hunters on the Nintendo DS.

The story is hardly anything to get excited about, in fact, its pretty standard RPG fare. The script is fairly decent, but does manage to fall into a well of clichés at times, almost to the point of following some hidden RPG writer’s manual.

John Mosby talks with Stephen Fry and Hugo Weaving about the film V for Vendetta.

The main plot (there are several) focuses around the death of Ritsuka’s brother, Seimei. Murdered for unknown reasons, one of Ritsuka’s goals is to find the killers and kill them himself.

Mega-City One, although seen as one of the sources for Blade Runner’s future dystopia, is not a totally bleak place to live. Far from it, we see the Judges enforcing law upon all, in an even-handed fashion that seems quite idealistic.

If you were to re-launch a series, a 14-part arc might not be the first option you think of, yet this is what Waid decided to do. It was done with a good deal of subtlety too.