10 Reasons B-List Comics Make Better Adaptations Than The A-List
3. Asking Difficult Questions: V For Vendetta
"Ideas are bulletproof"
Although the writer Alan Moore will not watch any adaptation of his comics or graphic novels, the legendary graphic novelist who penned The Killing Joke, Watchmen and From Hell is responsible for some of the greatest sources of comic book adaptation. His intelligent and realist takes on larger-than-life events make it incredibly easy to adapt one medium to the other.
Following a terrorist named simply 'V', V For Vendetta portrays a dystopian London that has been strangled by its own fear of the world and has given up its freedom in a desperate bid to feel safe. This has led to a totalitarian police state where all are censored and nobody will speak out, no matter what the injustice.
This work of art flips the script on what the modern, privileged world considers to be terrorism, and shows us in part what can spur an individual to violently rail against the system. Especially today, this is not a comfortable subject to bring up, let alone to challenge people's ideology on. But that's the point.
The fiction itself actually has a similar effect that V has, making people question their position in society and spurring them to take up their rightful responsibility for the world.