 stream. Let's just get a confirmation and there we are. Sweet, sweet, sweet. Hi everyone, this is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to the live stream. Today is July 19th, 2020 and we're doing another comic book reading. We did one last Sunday actually. We read Excalibur number one, it was a fantastic read from Marvel Comics, Chris Claremont and Alan Davis, I believe Excalibur. Alan Davis, yes, Alan Davis and Paul Neary. Okay so that was a really fun read and what I ended up doing on Charity Days, how are you doing? Hey Gicho, hope all is well. Doing good brother, doing good. I hope you're doing well as well just after the discussion on Discord, right? But what I ended up doing, because one of Vermont's Elder God pointed out that all the other comics that we had here were sort of heavier reads, so I replaced Excalibur number one because we're going to work our way through all of these comics. So we had a hole with Excalibur number one through the six choices, so I included Mario Brothers number one from Valiant Comics. Okay, added a light read to this. Aside from that, while we wait for people to start rolling in, Twitch notifications sometimes slow going out. Let me give everybody an intro that's going to be watching this after the live stream. I know you're watching this on Charity Days, that's fine. But if you want to find out who I am, where I'm sort of hosting a lot of content and how you can support this project and follow this work, Patreon is a great way to follow this work, it's a great way to support this work. Patreon.com backslash Gicho on Charity Days. This situation is sort of in limbo at the moment, just need to wait and see. Waiting and seeing, going slow is the best thing to do on Charity Days. Really, no Twitch notification so far. Okay Elder God, thanks. Spiderman, how you doing? These are mods rolling in right now. So if you want to follow this work, you want to support this work, now it came. Now, okay. So it's gone out. I'm so excited to see him here. Notice this, I replaced Excalibur number one with My Pleasure on Charity Days. My Pleasure, okay. I replaced it with Mario, Super Mario with his number one. Hey Elder. Okay, sweet. Notifications are going out, people are coming in. I'll finish off with the intro and we'll get to the chat because we're going to run a poll to find out which comic book everybody wants to read. But again, if you want to follow this work, if you want to support this work, Patreon is a fantastic way to do so. Patreon.com backslash Gicho. C-H-Y-C-H-O, okay. We are live streaming on Twitch. If you want to participate in these live streams, Twitch is where you want to be at and it's a great community we've got here. It's fantastic. Lots of fun and lots of participation, which is really good. A lot of people helping each other out. Spider-Man hosting. 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And all the links, again, will be in the description of this video if you want to follow the work and whatnot, okay. Aside from that, I'm going to take these notifications down because I attempt to forget every now and then. Let's get to some comic book reading. I'm just going to catch up on chat. Randall, how are you doing? How is life? I saw a couple other people popping void. How's life, brother? Let's go. I am Bond James Bond 007. I added the 007. How are you doing? Hope you're doing well. Slick Mac 99. Hey, Elder Man. Hey, Spider-Man. It's always good to have the boys here. Yeah, we need the mods every now and then. Schools out a lot of weak trolls are acting. I've been getting those rolling in sort of towards the end. Mods sharpening their swords. So gang, take a look at this thing. Okay, I'm not sure how many people are here yet. We usually give people about 10 minutes to roll in and we'll run a poll, let's say in 10 minutes. In another five minutes, we're going to run a poll, okay. Okay, comic books, we got a choice to read. Okay, watch your Dolma video. So nice. I have to try it myself. Thank you. My pleasure, James Bond. And it was fantastic. It fed us for like three, four days. It fed us. And we also gave some to family, just one family member a little bit and shared a couple with other people. So it was really good. Cook for one day, eat for four. Pretty good and healthy. And food that we're sort of growing ourselves, sort of the core ingredient of it. 22 humans. Do we know they're humans? Are we sure they're humans? 22 is good for me. Five is good for me. One is good for me reading a comic book. Gang, I gave sort of full intro to all these books except the Mario Brothers number one in the last stream. So I'm going to save us some time and just go through these speedy Gonzales. I won't give the full details. Four are choices of comic books to read. We got the cult, Batman the cult, with Jim Starlin, Burnley Wrightson and Bill Ray. Okay, let's find out. Hey, let's find out ASMR. How are you doing? Gang, if you want to follow ASMR channel, let's find out ASMR. He does some amazing work and informative. Okay, I don't know. I don't think let's find out is on live streaming on Twitch yet. But I'm pretty sure you will be. Hey, I've been bringing on Mario speedrun videos on YouTube. What was it? Really? What? Is that what you've been doing? No, I'm not. You're not yet. You should find your way here, brother. It's a different platform, different interaction, offers a certain amount of freedom that we do not get on YouTube. And it's always good to decentralize, right? Just in case YouTube goes full draconian and says, whatever it says, who knows what YouTube's gonna say, right? Jack, how are you doing? Hey, chichou, happy to be here. Happy to have you, man. Happy to have you. We got to do Mario. That sounds amazing. Mario for, oh my God, already everyone's on Mario. People want the light, light reads. Graham, how are you doing? Let's find out. Wow. Awesome. Cheryl, you know, let's find out. He does fantastic work and another, you know, male ASMR artist is more on the educational ASMR sort of format. So if you like that kind of work, sort of same type of work that I do, but he's better versed and better informed regarding certain topics. That's for sure. Okay. He's, you know, you do want to follow. You do want to follow. Strange. I was watching Hitman, Blood Money, Do Plan ASMR, Do Plan ASMR Gaining. Yeah, for sure it will be. No, I mean watching a lot of speed run videos. Oh, okay. I agree with decentralization. Susan W has made me very weary. Is that the CEO of YouTube? Is that the one? Let's find out. Yeah, I watched an interview with her. It was like cringe worthy. I was like, okay, I need to seriously, yeah, yeah, I need to seriously not put your eggs in her basket. She'll crack them all, man. She'll crack them all, right? They pushed our school to all virtual for three weeks. We will see what happens further. Wow, wow, wow. So again, the comic books we've got on choice to read. Batman, The Cult, number one. It was a mini series prestige format came out in 1988. Bernie Riteson, Jim Starlin, Bill Ray. We got Alan Moore and David Lloyds, V for Vendetta. Okay. First published in black and white in Warrior, number one in 1982, I believe in 1982. And it was published through DC Comics in color format in 1988. Super Mario Brothers, number one from Valiant Comics, published in April 1990. Okay. We can definitely read this. XO number one, published by Valiant Comics in 1991. Is it 1991? I got a list in 1992. Okay. First appearance of XO Man of War. We got Crime Does Not Pay. Published in 1952. Okay. And it's got a story about John Dillinger. And we've got Kid Colt. Okay. Published in 1962. Jack Kirby Cover, Stanley Story. Okay. Grab. Thanks for the bits. Hey, Chichohana. How are you doing? I want an afternoon walk today in the sun. Very nice. Yeah. It's very sunny here. I will definitely be going for a walk after reading. I'm going to make some strawberry jam, by the way, today. I got to share a picture. We bought a flat of strawberries to make liqueur. And it's a flat, so it's a lot of strawberries. I'm going to make some strawberry jam today. I was going to live stream it, but it's too much to live stream this live stream, liqueur tomorrow live stream. I'll be burnt out for the other stuff. So I'll take pictures of the strawberry jam and show it to you guys. When you're making jam, by the way, the strawberries we got are really ripe. So you really don't want ripe fruit to make jam, because it doesn't have enough pectin in it, right? So it becomes liquidy, but it is what it is. We'll use it more as a syrup for pancakes and ice cream and yogurt and breakfast, right? Been trying to pick up a copy of Batman that called, you know what Uncharted is? Batman the Cult, it was more expensive when I, like in the early 90s, than it is now. Batman the Cult, you should be able to get fairly cheap, okay? For now anyway. You could have, like a few months ago, you could have picked up a set of Batman the Cult, one, two, three, and four for like 10 bucks. Canadian even, or US, in very fine condition as well. I did know Valiant did Mario for sure, Spider-Man. Valiant did. Here, I'll show you this. These are my Valiant comic book. I'll show you this before we run the poll. We've got to run the poll. Here's Valiant Special Edition, number one. Here's Valiant Mario Brothers, number two. Here's Zelda, number one. Here's Captain N, number one. And here's Super Mario Brothers second series, number one. Okay, I got these on the side just in case these come off, so to show you guys the covers of these. Okay, I want to be the bad leader in this crowd. Cheryl, what are you doing? Oh man, I wasn't able to get a flat of strawberries to make jam this year. So jealous. Yeah, we got the, actually there were two different types. We got the small ones, the last batch of the small ones, and there's a new batch of larger strawberries coming out. And the larger ones would probably be better for jam, but we ended up picking up a flat. They gave us a good deal. We go to this farm regularly. Usually it's like 60 bucks, but this was the last, so they were really ripe. They gave it to us for $50 Canadian, and she goes, what are you guys going to use it for? We said we're going to make liqueur and jam, so they threw in a bunch more, so they loaded it up. It's nice to build connections locally. I can honestly tell you this, okay? Another busy day in the pub, finished on 7,000 pounds. Jesus, people are drinking their asses off Elder God. It's Sunday, life's going to match. Seriously, books have been going up so much, so much. Mystery first app will not go down. Jay, how are you doing? Mario had comics. Valiance did first Mario comics, as far as I know. Those books look amazing. Are we going to read those on stream? Only Mario. I was choosing between Mario. I'll give you the low down on those stuff later. Once we hit up, if we decide to read Mario now or in the future, what I know of them anyway. Smith, how are you doing? The man, the legend. I only have a team leader. What's up, guys? Okay, let's create a poll. The stream at a good time again. Let's go. Now, mods, do you guys want to do a poll, do this, or should I set this up? Zarya did it last time, and that was super sweet Zarya doing it, and I didn't realize we could do polls. I looked at it before we started the stream, and there was only five places, five spots to run the poll. I couldn't find six, so we might have to decrease the number of books we read. Hey, Gicho, how are you doing? Eileen, King, Divinity, how are you doing? Just pop in and say hello. Catholic traditionalists, how are you doing? Welcome, welcome, and hello. Saw the ballet pictures. Awesome. She can pretty high level. Let's see. Mods, do you guys want to look into the poll? Do you know how to do? I think we click on chat settings, or you go back slash poll. To which poll is five? For more, you got to go on a website. Okay, so again, first order of business, which splash poll? Splash poll? I don't know what a splash poll is. I know you go back slash poll in Twitch, so here's a question. Which one of these books don't we want to read? First, I can't do it. My mobile doesn't XO. XO, you don't want to have a mobile? Or I'm assuming that that's the one you want to read, Bram. So if we're going to do the poll on Twitch, we got to eliminate just going Mario. Oh my god, please. I want XO. You want XO? Okay, gang, I'm going to make an executive decision here, and I'm going to remove one of these. What is the last two? The last two are these guys. Crime does not pay. Okay, it's John Dillinger. Okay, and it's from 1952, and we got Kit Colt. Let me do it here. Kit Colt and Stanley Story. Okay, Jack Keller, most of the story in here, most of the artwork in here, and Dick Harris with a Jack Kirby cover. Okay, we should do a poll. Okay, gang, you know what? I'm going to take out Crime Does Not Pay. Too heavy. Let's keep it out for now. Okay, V for Vendetta or Kit Colt for me. For keeping in Mario. Okay, gang, I'm taking Crime Does Not Pay out. People are already putting their votes in. So let's run a poll with the following. Let's do the poll action. Instead of me doing a count, because the poll worked out well. Spiderman, can you do? Do you want to do? Poll it. Let's do it. We've got five choices. Sorry, John Dillinger. You're a bad guy. You're out. I can't do a poll. I think you might have to. Okay, I'm going to do it. I can do the poll. You can do the poll, Graham. That'd be awesome. I can't. Hold on. Okay, awesome, Cheryl. Graham, go ahead. Okay, Graham, you do. And let's say we've been going at this for eight minutes. I know you can put a 10-minute time in there. Let's make it five minutes. We don't need to wait 10 minutes. We've already been going. We've been already streaming for 18 minutes right now. Yeah, I'm on mobile. Okay, Alan Moore is dark, but interesting for sure. The Colt is Batman, which is cool. Which comic should we read? The polls up, gang. I'm not going to vote. I'm doing a reading. Super Mario is very family-oriented and late. XO is action and sci-fi heavy. Yeah. Right? So I'm going to pull down the poll. Let's see what we got. Mario's already at six. So hilarious. Mario is ahead of the pack. My long shot. Thank you, Graham, by the way. For sure. V for Vendetta coming up at number three. Okay. We got one for the rest. Batman's at number two. Two. V for Vendetta is catching up with number four. Four votes, but Mario's eight right now. My, oh my. Head of the pack. Head of the pack. We should do a betting on this. Gang. We should run some kind of money pool on this. Vagus would run seriously. Too funny. Too funny. So Colt heavy, dark. V for Vendetta, heavy, dark. Mario. Come on. Mario is Mario. XO man of war, sci-fi. Okay. Action packed. Well, V for Vendetta is up to number, up to five. XO is two. Okay. XO sci-fi. Fantastic. First appearance. And there's a first appearance here as well. And Mario, I believe that's the first comic book. Mario. Okay. So first appearance for Mario. Oh, V for Vendetta is six. Six people going for V for Vendetta. We got eight, six, two, two, and one for Kid Colt. Mario is too childish for me. Well, we haven't read it. We don't know. We don't know. Oh, we got seven for V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta is catching up to Mario. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. Look at this. Look at this. We're going down to the wire gang. We're going to go down to the wire. Let me read the comments. Let's see what's going on. I voted twice. Couldn't you? I thought you could only vote once. Let's go Mario. Chelsea beating man. Is that infant? Semifinal. Oh, Chelsea beating Manchester United. It's the semifinal right now. Wow. Wow. Wow. Thanks, Graham. You're the man with the plan. Yeah. Okay. Okay. If you read it in lieu of a voice or put a rubber band in your beard, I'll totally go for Super Mario hilarious Cheryl. I said it for 10 minutes. Okay. 10 minutes. We got 10 minutes. So we got a few more minutes to go with this 10 minutes by accident, but we can cut it out early in the, in the run up. That's okay. We do 10. Oh, look at this. V for Vendetta is up nine. V for Vendetta has taken over Mario. Look at this. Look at this. Mario's losing out. Mario. Mario Kart. Look like Mario Kart. He's got to get himself some kind of powers. Fire away. He should have used banana peels when he was ahead to throw V for Vendetta off track. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. Oh my V for Vendetta. Look at this. Look at this. We got nine for V for Vendetta. Let's see what's going to happen. I just finished reading the second book in the Dune series today, beginning the third one soon. I'm so immersed in the universe. Awesome, Jacoby. I still haven't read the second book yet. Where's the poll? I think the poll, if you, on top of the chat, you should be able to see it. It should say which comic book do you want to vote for, and then you click on it. Oh, we got a tie. It's a tie. Nine and nine. Mario and V for Vendetta. Oh my, what's it going to be? Is it going to be a Chitro tiebreaker? What are we going to do about this? Oh, Mario takes ahead 10 for 11 for Mario. 11 for Mario. Bring out the banana peels. V goes up to 10. Oh my god. It's a horse race. They're neck to neck. Oh, what's going on? Where's the time? Oh, the time is, it's counting down. I guess we got another five minutes or so to go down on the time, right? We got 11. We got 10. Two, two, one. Okay. I'm just going to catch up with the chat again. Tomorrow is too childish. No, no, no, no, no. Oh boy. Oh my god. 50 pound reward for V. Are you trying to bribe a Chitro tiebreaker vote? What's going on? I'm on mobile and watching on PS4. Awesome, boy. Yes. Randall says, V, there I hope. Cheryl says, what are we at now? No, it's still 11 and 10. 11 and 10. 11 and 10. How many people have we got casting votes? Five, 15. We've got 26 people have casted votes so far. We got 46, 45 people, 46, 45 people watching right now. So, gang, oh, look at this. V for Vendetta goes to 12. That's a serious pull. That's a serious pull forward. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Who's got the momentum? Who's got the momentum? Who's got the momentum? I lost, I lost, I lost. 0% win. Thought I'd throw my vote in for V. Okay. Visually interesting. Fun, fun. Grav is going, no, where's the Mario at? How is everyone doing good here, man? Thank you very much. Don't make me bring in all my alt-stuff votes. Smith, if it's allowed, if it's allowed, right? If the algorithm allows you to do alt-stuff votes, it's a loophole. As far as I'm concerned, any system that provides a loophole like that, as long as you're not screwing over individuals, right? Being totally destructive, it's okay. It's like you're filing taxes, right? The high chancellor can see your vote. The high chancellor can see your vote. I'm PayPal-ing $5 to people who vote Mario for now. Bring in the system. Well, there it is. V for victory, hopefully. I saw V for Vendetta on the list, yep. That's one of my favorite movies, indeed. It's fantastic. I feel blind. I can't see the poll. Oh no, J-operate. Let me give you an update. Let me give you an update. Oh, 13 at V and Mario's coming up at 12. Void must have paid somebody $5. These guys are way behind, way behind the pack, way behind the pack. We've got two leaders right now. 13 for V, 12 for Mario. Okay, 13 and 12. And by the way, this Mario copy is mint plus plus. It's a beautiful copy and we're going to read it. It's my only copy. If I had a secondary copy, we would read it. Read the secondary copy, but we sacrifice a 9.8 or a 10 grading for a comic book reading. I'm just putting out there. And if we don't read it today, we'll read it another day. No worries, no worries. 13, 12, 2, 2, 1, okay. 13, 12, 2, 2, 1. Kit Colt is way behind. He's got a bad horse. Man, the monster must have affected the horsey. I'm putting 100 on Kit Colt. Come on, pink money. The payout would be huge. The storm outside my house right now is insane. Nice lightning, I hope you get. The facilitator in me wants to know everyone's rationale on the worst way. This is great. Thrustril downpour. Hilarious, what have we got? Still, still 13 and 12. And we're coming down to the wire gang. There's probably another minute left. Oh, V is pulling up. V is pulling up. V is at 14. V is at 14 gang. Oh my, oh my. Look at this, look at this. 44% of the vote is for V. Oh, 13 for Mario. Oh, and V goes ahead more even. 15, 15 and 13. And we got a reading of, I did a whisper reading of Valerie's letter on YouTube on this. Oh, Mario's at 14. Look at this. It's almost, almost a tie. Coming down last few seconds, gang. 16. V is pulling forward. 15. Mario's going. Mario's going for it. Oh, and V wins with 16 votes. That's it. V takes it. 16 for V for Vendetta. 15 for Mario. Two for Batman. Two for XO and one for Kit Cold. That is surprising. That is fantastic. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Maybe a good time to test a ranked choice vote. Maybe a good time. Who's taking the bets? Awesome. Next time we'll vote using channel points. Yeah, you could. It has that option. Yes. Sacrifice. It looks like a money book. Nice. Yay, cow. Cheryl says, vote Mario now and extend your life by 25 minutes. Offer only available today. Don't miss out. Void says, time out. Thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub visually interesting. Vote Mario now, now, now. Graham says, Vendetta gang rise up. If Mario loses, they're going to have a Vendetta against our V for Vendetta voters. Hilarious. So close, so close. Rick, why V for victory. Oh my god. Too funny. That was way more exciting than that. Why is it so funny? Vote Mario just for the tie-up. Break the system. For Mario rigged. I won't be you guys later. Let's take this down. Good thing at 15, all three cows. Yeah, 15 all the cows carrying hilarious. V for victory. We can have Mario next time. Yeah, we can have and I'm not going to add another book for next time. So next time, we're going to have these choices. Okay. To vote for. And we'll see. Maybe we'll add more or just go with one more last or whatnot. So these five are going to be our next choices. Okay. For now though, V for Vendetta. Let's do this gang. Let me put these guys aside here on my side table. I did a bunch of research this morning for the Mario book because there's a few things I didn't know about it. I had to figure it out. I want to know if Mario finds the princess. Mario does find the princess, but Bowser comes and takes her again. Or is she in another castle? Can you read me the last page? You guys got me totally, totally laughing my ass off. Hilarious gang. Too funny. The electoral college was not involved in this vote or else the cult would have fun or something. Batman definitely has it next time. Visually interesting says the Russians hacked the vote. Too funny gang. Too funny. I'm like sweating, laughing so hard. Oh, Coolio, thank you very much for taking care of business. Oh, look at this. What is this? I'm going to ban this guy. Let's see. Oops. How do we do this? Let's kill this. Make sure my chat beat me. I'm going to ban this guy too. That's a spammer. Take him out. Take him out. Who is Mario? Who is Mario? Okay gang, let's do this. So we're 30 minutes in. The poll took us a while, but it was a good horse race. Fun messages gone, black for everyone. I still see chat. Yeah, I took out Vood. I took out Vassi with a bio by viewers or something. Let's just either auto spam or some guy trying to collect two cents per click or something. Not me. Love if this storm keeps up. Okay. You might have to reload Elder God. I'm going to take down notifications. With a message, when you ban a user, all their messages get deleted. I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. I'm going to take down chat so you won't see the chat popping up so we don't get interference in the reading. Okay. I'm going to take this video down and I'll come back after we do the reading to see what the discussion is. Okay. So let me take down my video. I'm working as well. So multitask. Okay. Take care of your customers, Elder God. They're there for a reason. They need refreshments. They need to de-stress. And make sure the chat is off. The chat is off. Okay gang. Let's do a reading. So gang, we're in our next comic book reading. And this book, V for Vendetta, is one of the comic books that we chose to read in comic book reading set number four. I believe this was one of the choices that the viewers made, the subscribers made. Okay. And it's one of your choices to read. And we just did a poll of five other comics in sort of a horse race on Twitch. And it was a horse race. It went right down to the wire. We had 16 votes for V for Vendetta to be read and 15 votes for Mario Brothers number one to be read. Okay. And V for Vendetta one. And this is Alan Moore. Okay. And David Lloyds V for Vendetta. Now the black and white version of the story appeared in Warrior number one. It was a UK comic book magazine that came out in 1982. Okay. And that was a black and white version. And this is the colored version that came out in the United States through DC publications. Okay. Vertical wasn't in play right now. They just said suggested for mature readers. If you can see this, this is suggested for mature readers. I believe Vertical was 1991, 1991, 1990, 1992 that Vertical the imprint came out through DC comics. And most of the mature titles they printed on their Vertical comics. Right. So this is pre Vertical. And this came out in 1988. Okay. Now if you've been following my work, some of the comic book videos we've been putting out, I did a whisper reading of Valerie's letter from V for Vendetta. Now Valerie's letter, it doesn't appear in this issue. Okay. I don't believe so anyway. I read this a long, long time ago. So it doesn't appear here. Valerie's letter appears more in the middle of the series. And this is number one out of 12 out of sorry out of 10 issues. Right. So we're going to have a read through this book. And this is a classic. And if you know your movies, this has come out as a movie. And it is sort of a cult. After the movie came out, it became a cult icon really, that is being used by anonymous. And during a lot of protests against centralized power. Okay. Centralized capital. And this is the mask that a lot of people are wearing. Right. But we won't go into the politics of it, even though V for Vendetta is very much about the politics of it with amazing storytelling. Okay. So let's crack this open and have a read through V for Vendetta. V for Vendetta. And just to let you know, one more little bit of info about this. The warrior, the issues that appeared in warrior comics. Okay. They were basically reprinting color in this series. Right. But from issue number eight of the series, there are new stories that were new material that was being printed. Right. So this series from number one to number 10, from number one to number seven, I believe, is the reprint in color of what was printed in warrior comics, warrior magazine from the UK. And then from number issue number eight, nine, and 10 is brand new stories. And Kulio, one of the mods on chat is mentioning that this is Guy Fox's mask. Okay. What V for Vendetta wears to protect his identity. Let's say. Okay. And Aldugat, one of our other mods is mentioning that the gang on the people that are watching on Twitch right now live are mentioning that we are living through V right now. Right. And as far as the grade for this book goes, it would definitely be. I mean, I'm just giving a getting the reflection off the lights. There is if you run your finger on the comic, oh, there's a little bit of just going my finger all the way down. So there's a little bit of a thingamajig on there. Where was it? A little bit, but the color hasn't broken or anything. Right. I don't know if you can see it. Let's check it out. Let's see if it focuses. There we go. See that? Maybe the color has broken a little bit. Right. So I would grade this at near mint minus just from the cover. And here's a back cover. I mean, I'll shoot a picture of this. I'm just checking the grade on this. I'm going to run the finger past this again. No creases there. The edges are sharp. There's a little bit of and these vertical comics with V and DC comics, the edges of these things had that effect. Right. So we're we would definitely grade this as or I would grade this as and this is a great gatefold cover. Check this out. I'm going to open this up for you guys. So you see it. Right. Beautiful. And the cover is done by David Lloyd. Let's have a read through this. Check this out. We're definitely going to read this. Okay. And this is Alan Moore. Oops. This is Alan Moore written little intro to V for Vendetta on March 1988 from Northampton. I'm just going to read the fine print and then we're going to read the letter to this. Okay, I'm going to, this requires a tilt. So I'm going to, unfortunately, I'm going to tilt it this way so I can read it properly. Okay. V for Vendetta one published monthly by DC Comics Incorporated 666 Fifth Avenue. A lot of stories to be had with 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10103 copyright 1988 DC Comics Incorporated all rights reserved. The stories characters and incidents mentioned in this magazine are entirely fictional. All characters featured in this issue and distinctive likeliness thereof are trademarks of DC Comics Incorporated V for Vendetta book one chapter one to four first published 1982 in the United Kingdom by quality communications limited DC Comics Inc. a Warner communication company printed in Canada. Okay. And let's read Alan Moore's little right up here as to why he began V for Vendetta. I began V for Vendetta in the summer of 1981 during a working holiday upon the Isle of Wight. My youngest daughter Amber was a few months old. I finished it in the late winter of 1988 after a gap in publishing of nearly five years from the discontinuation of England's Warrior magazine. It's initial home. Amber is now seven. I don't know why I mentioned that. It's just one of those unremarkable facts that strike you suddenly with unexpected force so that you have to go and sit down. Along with Marvel Man, now Miracle Man, V for Vendetta represents my first attempt at a continuing series began at the outset of my career. For this reason, amongst others there are things that ring oddly in earlier episodes when judged in the light of the strips later development. I trust you'll bear with us during any initial clumsiness and share our openness that it was for the best to show the early episodes unrevised, warts and all, rather than go back and eradicate all trace of youthful creative inexperience. There is also a certain amount of political experience upon my part evident in these early episodes. Back in 1981, the term nuclear winter had not passed into common currency and although my guess about climatic upheaval came pretty close to the eventual truth of the situation, the fact remains that the story to hand suggests that a nuclear war, even a limited one, might be survivable. To the best of my current knowledge, this is not the case. Naivety can also be detected in my superposition that it would take something as melodramatic as a near-miss nuclear conflict to nudge England towards fascism. Although in fairness to myself and David, there were no better or more accurate predictions of our country's future available in comic form at the time, the simple fact that much of the historical background of the story proceeds from a predicted conservative defeat in the 1982 general election should tell you how reliable we were in our role as Cassandra's. It's 1988 now. Margaret Thatcher is entering her third term of office and taking confident and talking confidently of an unbroken conservative leadership well into the next century. My youngest daughter is seven and the tabloid press are circulating the idea of concentration camps for persons with AIDS. The new riot police wear black visors as do their horses and their vans have rotting video rotating video cameras mounted on top. The government has expressed the desire to eradicate homosexuality even as an abstract concept and one can only speculate as to which minority will be the next legislated against. I'm thinking of taking my family and getting out of this country soon. Sometime over the next couple of years, it's sometimes the next couple of years, it's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore. Good night England, good night home service and we for victory. Hello hello the voice of fate and we for vendetta. Signed Alan Moore Northampton March 1988 by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, color artist David Lloyd, subhand dod, lettering Jerry O'Connor, Steve Kradock, Jordan Tower. I don't know if this is a real name of a tower in London or not or coloring. Good evening London, it's nine o'clock and this is the voice of fate broadcasting on 275 and 285 in the medium wave. It is the 5th of the 11th, 1997. The weather will be fine, the weather will be fine until 1207 a.m when a shower will commence lasting until 1.30 a.m. There's a ctv camera there that says for your protection. A whole bunch of people lined up. The temperature will vary between 13 and 14 degrees centigrade throughout the night for your protection. The people of London are advised that the Brixton and Stratham areas are quarantined. Quarantine zones as of today, it is suggested that these areas be avoided for reasons of health and safety. Productivity reports from here Fortshire indicate a possible end to meat rationing starting from mid-February 1998. This good news follows similar announcements concerning the increased production of both eggs and potatoes. Police raided seven homes in the Birmingham area early this morning uncovering what is believed to be a major terrorist ring. 20 people, 20 people, eight of the women are currently in the tension awaiting trial. I believe that's V's, it is V's sort of hideout. See the mask there and the hair on the desk. Queen Zara today appeared at the opening of a new waist reclaimment plant in Plastoni, Plasto. This was the Queen's first public appearance since her 16th birthday in June. The Queen was wearing a suit, 16th birthday in June. The Queen was wearing a suit of peach silk created especially for the occasion by the royal courtier. In a speech today, Mr Adrian Carroll, party minister for industry, stated that Britain's industrial prospects are brighter than at any time since the last war. Mr Carroll went on to say that it is the duty of every man in this country to seize the initiative and make Britain great again. And that is the face of London tonight. We remind you that tomorrow is the final date for the completion of your census forms. And the target date for the conclusion of the Dept Ford Marsh clearance project, this is the voice of fate signing off. Have a pleasant evening. Chapter one, the villain. Parliament's cold shadow fills on Westminster, falls on Westminster Bridge, and she shivers there. And she shivers. There was power here once, power that decided the destiny of millions. Her transactions, her decisions are insignificant. They affect no one. Mr, accept her. Oh, would you like sleep with me or anything? I mean, for money? Desperation, she's selling herself, right? Here's her putting on the makeup, getting stages of her makeup when she's gotten dressed, right? And then she's got the rouge on. That's the clumsiest, clumsiest piece of prostituting I ever heard. You've not been doing this very long, have you? Oh, God, I must be really terrible. Yeah, you're right. It's my first night. You're my first customer, he says. Customer. Yeah, she replies. I've got a job in munitions. But the money is, you know, it isn't enough. Look, Mr, I really need the money. I'd be okay. I mean, I'm 16. I know what I'm doing. No, you don't know what you're doing. He's reaching in his pocket, in his jacket. Because if you did, you would have have picked, you wouldn't have picked a vice detail on stakeout. Oh, Christ, your finger man, she says. That's right. And these are my colleagues, strenght through purity, purity through faith, the poster says. You know the laws of prostitution? That's a class H offense. That means we get to decide what happens to you. That's our prerogative. Oh, no. Look, please, Mr, it was my first time. I'll do anything, anything you want. Please, don't kill me. You've got it wrong, Miss. You'll do anything we want, and then we'll kill you. That's our prerogative. Oh, please, don't, oh, Jesus, no, please. The multiplying villains of nature do swarm upon him. Huda, there's a whole bunch of the finger men. There's like five of them there. And there's the scene, multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him. And fortune on his damn coral, smiling, showed like a rebel's whore. Who's he? One of the finger men says. I don't know. Must be some kind of retard gone out of hospital, you know. Hey, you, what all's too weak for brave Macbeth? Well, he deserves the name. What are you doing? The finger man says. You're in trouble, Chum. Big trouble. This woman is a criminal. We're police officers. She's wanted for interrogation. So keep your hands off up here when the guy grabbed V's hand. It was a fake hand. Let's pull it off, right? And V's ready to go. Distaining fortune with his brandish steel, which smoked with bloody execution. And the guy's still holding a hand. That's how fast he is. Like Valor's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave. Oh, she says, near shook hands, nor bade farewell to him of his hand. The gas, look at this tear gas cough. Holy Christ. It's tear gas. That's the cops saying that. And V's carrying her. I got his hand. What should I do with his? Oh, it was a bomb. Christ. One of the cops says. The other cops like burning. Look at that. Terrified. What the hell happened? He just came out of nowhere. And just what the hell happened? They're watching the colleague burn freaking out and V's already on his way out. That's it. Frank's dead. They're all dead. Oh Christ. What are we, what are we going to do? Oh, look at this. V took out three of them. So the guy holding the thing of holding his hand died, blew up, burned. And these two guys also got taken out. So there's only two out of five left. Look at this. So these two guys right here, those are the two that got taken out right away. They're dead. One motion. Boom, boom. Find him. We've got to find him or the head will, will have our guts. How did he do it? I never seen anybody move so fast. He killed Frank, that bastard. We've got to find him. You, you rescued me. Like in a story. I don't believe it. Who are you? She says. I'm the king of the 12th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villain. The black sheep of the family. Yeah. But where were you doing around? What were you doing around here? I didn't think anybody came to Westminster at night, except, you know, women. Tonight is special. Tonight is a celebration of grand opening, a grand opening, where you never taught the rhyme. Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plots. I know no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot, he says. Oh, oh, the houses of parliament. They've, they've been, did you do that? I did that, he says. That's against the law. They'll kill you. They'll, did you really do that? I really did that. Now hush, there's more. The rumble of the explosion has not yet died away. As far, as from far below comes the rattle of smaller reports. And suddenly the sky is a light with real fireworks. Oh God, they're so beautiful, she says. Look at her. That's a child and her coming out, right? She's so excited, the innocence of it all. And all over London, windows are thrown open and faces lit with awe and wonder. Gaze at the omen, scrambled in fire on the night, the overtures finished. Come, we must prepare for the first act. Me, but oh, okay. It is precisely 12 o' seven a.m. It begins to rain. November the sixth, 1997. It is six, six thirty in the morning. I will hear your reports now, gentlemen. Mr. Hare will speak for the eye. We have just under three minutes on usable footage, leader. The large majority of our video recorders were damaged in the explosion. To my left is an enlargement of the suspect's face. I'm afraid the mask makes retinal identification impossible. Close up, if you please, Mr. Hare, Mr. Hare, Mr. Hare will pronounce it Mr. Hare. Thank you, Mr. Hare. My enthridge will now speak for the ear. Mr. Enthridge will now speak for the ear. Phone surveillance indicates that a large portion of the HHS people are talking about the explosion that's inside London. All suspect or significant transcripts are being forwarded to Mr. Allmund at the finger. Mr. Allmund is with me at present. I shall inform him. Mr. Finch will speak for the nose. We found a device probably used to launch the fireworks and some spent casing, individually weighted flares, at a guess. Despite the sophistication, I should say that the device was almost certainly homemade and thus untraceable. Sorry, leader, nothing else yet. Thank you, Mr. Finch. The three of you will inform me of any further developments and await my directive. England prevails, gentlemen. Well, we have heard from the rest of the head. That leaves you, Mr. Allmund. Three fingermen were killed last night by one solitary lunatic. It is also highly probable that the same person had earlier planted an explosive device of startling capability within the houses of parliament. Leader, you will be silent, Mr. Allmund. Your incompetence has cost us our oldest symbol of authority and a jarring propaganda defeat. Do you understand what happened last night? Someone, someone did the unthinkable. Someone heard us and you allowed them to do it. I went. I want this creature and his associate found, Mr. Allmund. I want his head or, by God, I'll have yours instead. You will consult Mr. Dasgambi at Jordan Tower before making any official pronouncements. That will be all, Mr. Allmund. England prevails. England prevails, leader. Jordan Tower, seven o'clock. Of course you did, Lewis. We all got up early this morning, didn't we? Now if we can just run through it once more before we put it in the can then. Excuse me for a moment, Lewis. Who's that at? Put your trust in fate, Derek. We don't see you down here in the mouth very often. Or down in the mouth. I could have made a joke out of that, couldn't I? You have done Dasgambi several, you have done Dasgambi several times. What's fate putting out on the parliamentary bombing? Well, fate wants us to say it was a scheduled demolition undertaken at night to avoid traffic congestion. It's going out on the eight o'clock broadcast. I was just running through it with Lewis when you came in. Lewis, Lewis Prothero. He does the voice, the voice of fate, the voice. Good morning London. This is the voice of fate, broadcasting on 275 and 285 meters in the medium wave. What are you saying about the fireworks? Fate doesn't think we should mention the fireworks. If anyone asks later, we'll say it was a freak effect of the blast. Listen to Lewis. Isn't he marvelous? If fate really had a voice, it would sound just like that. If only people knew what a good job he's doing. Don't be stupid, Dasgambi. The whole idea is that people think it's fate talking. It makes fate appear more human, gives people confidence. He collects dolls, you know. Wouldn't think it. Would you? Big man like that collecting dolls. He's sensitive, you know, you see. You can tell by his voice. Yes, a lot of the media people are sensitive, aren't sensitive, aren't you? I don't know why the leader tolerates you. My dear Derek, the leader is the most sensitive of us all. In fact, when you'd finished explaining how a lone lunatic could kill three finger men and blow up parliament, I should imagine he was very sensitive, degenerate, Dasgambi. Your bitter almond. Bitter almond. Oh, dear me. Ha ha ha ha. If you've ever been eating a bitter almond, you know what that means. Please yourself. All right, Lewis. From the top. Bitter almond. Oh, dear me. Ha ha ha. Shadow gallery. This is V's hideout. Look at that. Look at all the books. Don't look. I don't want to sound ungrateful. I mean, after you rescued me, but I didn't, I don't understand any of this. Who, who are you? Or what you want or anything? I know you must have had a reason for blind, blind folding me when you brought me here. But couldn't you just tell me where we are? Are we still in London? We are in the shadow gallery. This is my home. Do you like it? I built it myself, you know. It, it's unbelievable. All these paintings and books. I didn't even know there were things like this. You couldn't be expected to know. They have eradicated culture, tossed it away like a fistful of dead roses. All the books, all the films, all the music, Shakespeare, divine comedy, French Revolution, nights, entertainment, essays of Elijah, Gulliver's, that's Gulliver's travel. The music is beautiful. You must think I'm really stupid. All I've ever heard is the military stuff they play on the radio. But all this stuff on your jukebox sounds so, I don't know, alive. What's this playing now? The woman's voice doesn't even sound English. It's not. And the word is jukebox with a J. Oh yeah, she said dukebox. This song is called Dancing in the Streets. It's been sung by Martha and the Vandellas. Perhaps the term Tamla motion is familiar to you? Tamla Motown is familiar to you. Obviously not. Hardly surprising, I suppose after all. They eradicated some cultures more thoroughly than they did others. No Tamla and no Trojan. No Billy Holiday or Black Uru. Just his master's voice every hour on the hour. Well, we'll have to see what we can do about that. Sorry, this compartment is full. Full. Don't be ridiculous man. It's empty. Apart from you three. There's plenty of. I said it's full crap head. Oh my god, I'm sorry. Didn't realize. Full. Yes, of course. Full. This is a 1230 train or subway ride. Real blocked. Ted. Can't have the carriage full of civilians. Civilians don't appreciate trains. Takes a military man to appreciate trains. Like dolls. Your average citizen does not give a monkey's about dolls. No appreciation, you see. Did I tell you I collect dolls, George? Yes, Mr. Pro Thero. I think you may have mentioned it once or twice. Very interesting. Interesting. That's exactly right, mind you. You're a military man. As your average citizen, he'd say dolls refer poofas. Ignorant, you see. Myself, I've always been a lady's man. Tales I could tell you about when I was in an addon. I remember once, Porky, Appley and myself met these two native jals. Jesus Christ, what the hell is that? That's a V they're seeing on the train. From the train. He's on the building right now. What was that? What was what? He asks. Just before we went into the tunnel, I thought I saw someone up on the bridge. I don't know. It could have been rags. Caught on the fence or something, I suppose. Hmm. So anyway, we both had a few tinctures by that time. And Porky says to one of these local bits, the eldest gel, I think it was, he says, excuse me, Mr. Pro Thero. Ted, did you just hear something that bang on the roof of the train? I say, we're stopping in, we're stopping. Is everything all right? Do you think I don't? What's happened to the lights? Oh, bloody hell. V's taking out the conductor, stopping the train. Shouldn't worry if I were you lads. British Rail acting up again. Light'll be back on in a minute, you'll see. Now, as I was saying, there was Parky with one hand. Just a minute, Mr. Pro Thero. Shooters out, Ted. Just in case. I'm sorry, Mr. Pro Thero. Please go on. And so the eldest gel says, with a monkey, should bloody cookle. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Good one, eh? Hmm. Hmm. They do seem to be taking their time, don't they? Don't they? Perhaps you should go and have a word with the driver, George. George, don't take offense. George, it was just a naughty yarn. We're all men of the world, eh, George? Oh my god, Ted. Is George, he's Ted? V's just taking out the two guards. Facial expressions are amazing, amazing. Horror. Look at this one, just pure pleasure, right? Page, the train. I'm assuming that's the compartment. November, November 6, 1997. So let's just hear it. Once more, in your own words, the train entered the tunnel, and then what? There's questioning happening in the building there, right? The bubbles, the word balloon is coming out of there. Well, I mean, it's difficult to say. It all happened so quick, didn't it? I didn't actually hear anything. Just sort of caught something moving out the corner of my eye. And by then, it was all over. Want it? Could you give us a description of your attacker, height, dress, anything like that? Well, it was just sort of black. Know what I mean? Just this big black shape coming at me from the side window of the cab. And it had a face, only not a proper face. See? Ain't it? Ain't it? Ain't it? It was smiling, and it was smiling. I see. And then what happened? Did it hit you? Strike you in any way? No, I mean, that was the funny bit. It just sort of touched me up here in my neck, on my neck. I felt this, it was like electric shock, sort of. And then I just passed out and came to an hour later when the security force arrived on the scene. I see. Well, I think that's about it, Mr. Bishop. The officer will take your address in case we need to contact you. Thank you for your trouble. Well, Mr. Finch, what do you think? Is it the same bloke who did the parliament bombing or what? I hope so, Dominic, because if it's not, then there must be two of them. And that's a possibility I rather not consider without a stiff drink to hand. Me neither, Mr. Finch. What exactly are we up against here? Who is this character? I mean, all this business about boarding, moving trains is like something out of the pictures. Normal people can't do things like that. You're right, Dominic. Or knock out a 13-stone train driver by touching him lightly on the neck. Normal people can't do things like that. In fact, I don't think it's going too far to say that most normal people have never even considered blowing up the houses of parliament. So what we're up against is someone who isn't normal people, either physically or mentally. It's the mentally bit that bothers me. Because if I'm going to crack this case, and I am, I'm going to have to get right inside his head to think the way he thinks, and that scares me. Ah, here we are. Anything been touched in there? He asks. No, sir. Everything's as we found it. When we've, when we got the train out of the tunnel. Chapter three, victims. That's the two guards I believe that are dead. Hmm. We'll need some photographs of this chest wound. It wasn't a knife or bullet that did it, that did this. In fact, I've got a nasty suspicion that whoever did, did that, did it with their fingers. And if you, I know, get a photograph of it and let me have some paint scrappings, scrapping for analysis. Oh, he's asking, what do you make of this? Oh, I forgot that word for a long take a look at this thing. So in this one, Mr. Finch is saying, what was Mr. Finch saying? In fact, I've got a nasty suspicion that whoever did that, did it with his fingers. And then his assistant, what do you make of this, Mr. Finch? We didn't even notice it, right? Didn't even notice it. There's the V. Beautiful pattern. Shows it from this side. And then they look back at the wall, at the V. Damn the final. Get a photograph of it. And let me have some paint scrappings for analysis. Perhaps the forensic people back at the nose will be able to tell us something about, something, although frankly, I doubt it. Other than that, just the usual stuff, dust the cartridge, carriage for dabs, get a path, path report on the bodies, fate will want a copy, remember. Hello, what's this? Oh, they found a rose on the seats. A rose, violet, Carson, rose, funny. I thought they'd be extinct since the war. They've been extinct since the war. Our friend in the mask has got quite the thing about the letter V, wouldn't you say? The letter V, violet, Carson, a rose, a violet, Carson. And unless we find the body in the next couple of hours, it looks like he's got Lewis Prothero as well. Blowing up the House of Parliament, kidnapping our top broadcaster. Do you think he's trying to tell us something? I don't know, sir. Jesus Christ. What he's done to those men. I've seen worse, Donique. Physically speaking, like I say, it's the mental side that bothers me, his attitude to killing. Think about it. He killed them ruthlessly, efficiently, and with a minimum of fuss. Whatever their faults, those were two human beings. And he slaughtered them like cattle. The Shadow Gallery is locking them up. Oh, no, that's just the cat. That's great. That was a TV series or a movie in the background. There's actually a comic book called The Cat and the Mark's Brothers. Waikiki Wedding. I think that's the girl passed out in front of the mirror. Beautiful, beautiful artwork. You see V in the front, the girl sitting on the chair passed out. And you see V in the reflection. Beautiful work, beautiful work. She wakes up. She's been crying. I'm sorry. You startled me. I didn't hear you come in. She says, nobody ever does. You've been crying, V asks. Yes, don't take any notice of me. I'm a baby, she says. It was when you went out earlier on and didn't say where you were going. I thought, I didn't think. That's it. I mean, I was scared. You wouldn't come back. I know I'm stupid, but my life suddenly become very strange. I don't know what's happening anymore. Last night, those men, they were going to, they said they kill me and you rescued me. You rescued me and brought me to this fantastic place and it's so beautiful and it makes me feel so safe and I didn't even know what your name is. I don't have a name. You can call me V. What shall I call you? My name is Eve. Evee Hammond. I'm nobody, nobody special, not like you. Everybody special, everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain, everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. Even every Hammond, even Evee Hammond, I should very much like to hear Evee Hammond's story, V asks. But there's nothing to tell. I'm only 16. I haven't done anything. 16. Then you were born in 1981. Yes, in September. We used to live on Shooters Hill in South London. It was nice there. I've got a photograph if you want to see. Just me and mom and dad. I didn't have any brothers or sisters. Dad said he couldn't afford any more kids. This was during the recession of the 80s. What the shirt says. Yeah, I don't remember much about that. I know that said things didn't get much better when labor, labor got into power. He said that the only election promise that they kept was getting rid of the American missiles that were stationed over here. And the war, Evee? Do you remember the war? V asks. Of course I do. I was only seven, but I remember when the news came over the radio. Dad kept on, kept telling mom not to worry. He was scared to death. It was about Poland and the Russians, wasn't it? And President Kennedy said he'd use the bomb if they didn't get out. That's what dad told me. It was horrible. Nobody knew if Britain would get bombed or not. I remember mom saying Africa's not there anymore. That's all she said. I thought about all the lions and elephants being dead. It made me cry. I was only seven. But Britain didn't get bombed. Not that it made much difference. All the bombs and things had done something to the weather. Something bad. I remember one day dad called mom. Mom and me into the back bedroom. He said he wanted to show us something we could see right across London from the bedroom window. It was nearly all underwater. The Thames barrier had burst. The sky was all yellow and black. I've never seen a sky like that like it. Dad said London was finished. He wanted to take mom and me to the country. Mom wouldn't go just as well I suppose. It turned out that the countryside was worse than the towns. The weather had destroyed all the crops. See. And there was no food coming from Europe because Europe had gone like Africa. I didn't like to think about the next four years. We got together with some neighbors in a protection committee. It didn't help much. There was no food and the sewers were flooded and everybody got sick. Mom died in 1991. Dad wouldn't let let me see her. Her from seeing her. There were riots and people with guns. Nobody knew what was going on. Everyone was waiting for the government to do something. But there wasn't any government anymore. Just lots of little gangs all trying to take over. And then in 1992 somebody, somebody finally did. It was all the fascist groups, the right, right wingers. They'd all got together and some of the big corporations that have survived. Norse fire they called themselves. I remember when they marched into London they had a flag with their symbol on. Everyone was cheering. I thought this was great. They were crazy. There's their flag. They were all crazy. They soon got things under control. But then they started taking people away. All the black people and the Pakistanis. White people too. All the radicals and the men who, you know, liked other men. The homosexuals. I don't know what they did with them all. Dad had been in the socialist group when he was younger. They came for him one September morning in 1993. It was my birthday. I was 12. I never saw him again. They made me go and work in a factory with a lot of other kids. We were putting matches into a box. I lived in a hostel. It was cold and dirty. And I just used to cry all the time. I wanted my dad Lucifer. There's their person watching over them. That's how it was for four years. Not enough food. Not enough money. Some of the older girls made money going with men. That's what I was going to do last night. But they were finger men. They were going. They were going to. They were going to rush. Going to rush. Hush child. Hush. It's over now. You're safe. The past can't hurt. Hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim. Evie. They made you into a statistic. Statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. Just trust me Evie. And we can wipe it all away. All the pain. All the cruelty. All the all the bereavement. We can start again. There. You see? He's looking in the mirror wiping her tears away. The mascara that's run over her. All gone. He says. Just a little bit of tear. And Evie haven't sobs like the child she is. Sobs because all because at long last her nightmare is over now. Now. Lewis pro-thero on the other hand. Where am I? What happened? What am I wearing? This uniform. Lockhill resettlement camp. Oh my god. He says. His nightmare is only just beginning. Peer. Just peer fear. November the 7th, 1997. The leader of Mr. Finch. I think he's a psychopath leader. I use the word in its most precise sense. I see. Then we can't assume that code name V will behave like a conventional terrorist. We can't assume that he will eventually issue set of demands or ask for the usual concessions. I don't think he's out for concessions leader. I think he's out for blood. Mr. Finch says. Then he's certainly certainly getting it. Isn't he, Mr. Finch? He's blown up the houses of parliament. Dispatch five of Mr. Almond's fingermen. And now he's abducted Ed, our top broadcaster. If pro-thero is unavailable to make his voice of faith broadcast as scheduled, our credibility will suffer. Today is Mr. Finch. That's all it's taken him. Couldn't Mr. Daskombi arrange a stand-in for pro-thero leader? Oh yes. But the problem is that Mr. Daskombi is too good at his work. The people actually believe that the voice of Louis Prothero is that of the faith computer. Britain's belief in the integrity of faith in the cornerstone of our new is the cornerstone of our new order. Any chance in any change in the voice and it just wouldn't be the same. So he represents the voice of a computer and AI system that's supposed to be governing. Britain's belief in the integrity of faith, faith, is the cornerstone of our new order. Let's read that panel again. Oh yes. But the problem is that Mr. Daskombi is too good at his work. The people actually believe that the voice of Louis Prothero is that of the faith computer. I see from a propaganda angle we've been put in a bit of a spot haven't we? Although personally I don't go much for this new order business. It's just my job to help Britain out of this mess. You already know that leader. Indeed. I do Mr. Finch. You have expressed such sentiments before that you are still alive is a mark of my respect for you and your craft. Leave me now. There are many problems to consider. I wish to speak with faith. England prevails Mr. Finch. England prevails leader. The shadow gallery. Evie Hammond. Hmm. I think V is changing his outfit right? Evie is sitting there. V? V replies. Oh nothing. I was just trying to get used to saying it out loud. V. It's a funny thing to call yourself. I'm a funny person Evie. You'll find out out when you've known me longer. A very funny person indeed. You're a kind person listening to me telling you my sob story. All about the war and mom and dad. All about my stupid life. What are you going to do V? The world is so big and horrible and there's just you and me I suppose. She whispers that part. Monty. Work on wise. You and me Evie. You and me against the world. Ha ha ha ha. Melodrama Evie. Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama? That's very important to you, isn't it? All that theatrical stuff. It's everything Evie. The perfect entrance. The grand illusion. It's everything and I'm going to bring the house down. They've forgotten the drama of it all. You see they abandon their script when the world withered in the glare of the nuclear footlights. I'm going to remember them about melodrama. I'm going to remind them about melodrama. About the too too too penny brush and the penny dreadful. You see Evie. All the world's a stage and everybody else. Everything else. There's Macbeth. Ha ha. Look at his outfit. And everything else is Vavati. Vavativille. Everything else is Vativille. Evie's like what the hell is that? Look at his outfit. And he's got his mask on too. The shadow gaavi. Lewis Prothero. Hero. I say is there anybody there? Hello. I say is there anybody there? Not hero. Hello. Chapter 4. Vavativille. Characters we've seen that are dressed like that. One main character, right? He has funny. Ha ha ha ha. Look at her face. She's like oh my. I suppose you think all this is bloody funny. All this resentment camp. Malarkey. Resettlement camp. Malarkey. All this putting me in a uniform. Well, all I can say is that you've got the damn queer sense of humor. Damn queer. You've got the wrong man, chummy. The resettlement camps mean bugger all to me. Bugger all. You've got the wrong man. Oh god. Is there anybody there? Good morning campers. Ha ha ha. There's V. Uniform all brushed, pressed, and ready for duty I see. Good man, commander. Prothero. Prothero. Good man. Let's get to work, shall we? These concentration camps, sorry. These resettlement camps don't run themselves, do they? Look, I didn't know who you, I don't know who you are or how you got this bloody silly idea into your bonnet, but you've got the wrong man. I'm a broadcaster. I didn't have anything to do with the con, with the resettlement camps. I, ah, Larkill. 1993. I was there, commander. Prothero. You were the, oh god. Look, smart commander. We've got to make the tour of inspection now. You remember the way you used to make it every evening back in the good old days? Oh god. All coming back to you, huh? The main body of the prisoners would be gathered in the yard, awaiting your inspection. You simply had to walk from your office down past the, past the Nissenhutz turned corner. All lying down. Easy person, that's why it probably collects dolls. My dolls. That's part of my doll collection. How did you, they were all safely locked away when I left for work yesterday? What are you doing with my dolls? My god, if you've damaged any of them, they're priceless. Hardly any of the big collections survive the war. If you've damaged them, ah, Meribor concern, commander. Yet it's, yet it's deuce, odds, odd, isn't it? How much can, how you can show so much concern for porcelain and plastic, visas and show so little for flesh and blood? Do you remember commander? Do you remember when it was people gathered in the soared little enclosure? People half dead with starvation and the, the sentry? Thy sentry? Look, you know as well as I do. We had to do what we did. All the darkies, the nanny boys at the beatnecks. It was us or them. Us or them. Don't you understand? He says perfectly. Come along commander. Your tour isn't over yet. There are still the special prisoners to see. The ones in the medical compound. Just along here, this is where you kept the ones who taken part in your scientist experiments. I believe they used to, they used to call them. You had to walk past this row of doors every night. Room one, room two, room three, room four, room five, room five. But that was where they kept, where they kept. Oh no. That was you, wasn't it? You're, you're the man. You're the man from room five. Remember you used to call out to us sometimes. Little jokes, you had a special name for the medical block. You used to call it the funny farm. Remember what a good voice you had? I imagine that's why they picked you to do the fake broadcast. A man of many talents, huh commander? And then of course, there was that other little job you used to do. The ovens commander. He used to work the ovens. Remember you used to call out, oh, dolls are in there. Oh no. My dolls, please, you can't, please. I'm begging you, please. All the voices of the dolls, right? Not my doll. He's got more waiting on the side here. Eyes melting. No, he says. New Scotland yard later. Oh, hello, Sarge. It's never the end of my shift already. Is it? I was just, just V touching the guy on the shoulder. Oh, there's his feet. Hello, Sargeant. Yes. This is Godard at the front. Could you get out here quickly, please? Yes. I think it's an emergency. Yes. I've got something out here. No, I'm not sure what. Jordan Tower. Roger, this Gombe. Who? Haven't I told you that I mustn't be disturbed while? Oh, it's you. Good old bitter almond. Do come in. If you've come to tell me what a thoroughly miserable job you've made of finding poor Louis, then spare me the agony I expect as much. Oh no, the contrary, Roger. Old boy. We found him. You, I don't believe it. Wheel him in, boys. Oh, we found him all right, or at least we found what's left of him. Mama, he's saying, totally mentally shattered. Louis, that's all he said for the past three hours. Good luck with tonight's broadcast, Roger, old boy. Mama, mama, mama. The voice of fate is recorded 48 hours in advance. The pre-recordings ran out at 10 o'clock. It is now 11. Good evening, London. This is the voice of fate broadcasting on 275 and 285 in the medium wave. And the capital listens. There's something wrong. There's something wrong with the voice of fate. Such a small thing to cast, such a long and uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain. It just won't be the same. Ah, look at this. Ver, V, E, R. I don't know what that is, the last letter. Was that also present in the front? That we missed? No, there wasn't. This is Jordan Tower in the front. And we've got Jordan Tower in the back as well, but it's zoomed out a little bit, right? I can't remember if the following issues have the same. That was a fantastic read. That was a fantastic read. And the story unfolds differently than the movie. The theme is there, but Evie is made to appear to be more dignified than a 16 year old going off for the first time to sell her body to be able to buy food, pay rent, right? Beautiful book, beautiful reading. Wow, wow, wow. I had read this a long, long time ago. I had totally forgotten how incredible it was. Totally awesome, totally awesome. And I highly recommend if you like that issue, you can buy all issues, all of the V for Vendetta story as a trade paperback if you like. And of course, they are available to be bought as back issues, but they are expensive. Okay. But they are expensive. Well, you can buy rear copies if you like. There's nothing like holding a comic book at this caliber in your hands and reading it. Absolutely magnificent. I hope you enjoyed gang. That was a great read. Fantastic read. A good read for our times, I would say. A good read for our times. And if you like it, I hope you track the rest of the story down and have a read through it. Right. Fantastic. Gang, I'm going to go back to chat. I'm going to turn on my camera and on the chat. Let's turn on the chat first. Looks like there's a lot of discussion being taking place. Chat bomb. That was a great read. What a read. What a read. Right. I'm not gonna, I can't go back and read all the chat. I hope you guys enjoyed gang. I hope you guys enjoyed. That was fun. That was fun. What a beautiful panel with V, with Evie just jumping down and V catching her ride in the silhouette. Absolutely beautiful. Chicho, I found a local comic shop and I'm going to start collecting. You have really opened my eyes to the beautiful stories and come. I'm very happy, Dorothy, and I'm sorry it's going to cost you money. So start putting money aside. Okay, but I'm glad that you're enjoying these to a level that you're going to start enjoying this medium. It's underappreciated as far as I'm concerned. As you can tell, if you've seen the V for Vendetta movie, it is absolutely magnificent. It's a great movie, but the comic books, they're something else with all medium, all written work and stories and poetry and comic books that have turned into movies. The original source is usually much more superior to the new renditions of the stories. V for Vendetta is one of them. Salawiski, welcome to our live stream. I hope you enjoy. Thank you, Cheryl. My pleasure. I'm very glad. I like all the other comics, but I think this was a good read for our times. Okay, I think this was a good read for our times. The Black TriStar, there's always so much more in comics, so much more. And the panel work and the background information, right? I love the read Elder God says. So glad it wasn't the Mario creature. He's a creature, right? Mario? No, he's a plumber, Mario. Cyberpunk, the story in the comic was way better than the movie, to be honest. Cyberpunk, I agree. The story in the comic is way more powerful than the movie. The movie is brilliant, fantastic, but it has gone through Hollywood. It has the filters on. It is not as raw. It is not as pure. It is not as real, right? It is a fairy tale. And we know that from the first get go, Evie in V for Vendetta is a 16 year old selling her body to be able to live, to be able to buy food, pay rent. She is a child becoming a prostitute. In the movie, she's working in the industry, in the film industry, in the movie industry, trying to make her way up the ladder. That is capitalism. This is survival. Different game, different game. Okay, I read it back in 1989, Cyberpunk says, when it came out the 10 part series, awesome. Yep, was awesome, awesome. I'm glad you guys enjoyed. Oh God, the thing next time it would be Mario. Why not? Or it could be the cult, or it could be one of the other five comics we have, right? What a magnificent comic. Never read this before on charter days. We'll definitely get the trade. And if possible, at some point, pick up the issues awesome on charter days. Movies are limited with budget, unfortunately. And Black Star, Black TriStar is not just budget, it's the filters, right? It's the filters, right? Hollywood filters, capital filters. We won't go into the politics of it. The movies are limited with, yeah. I think no matter how popular comics have been or will become, they are always underappreciated generally. I agree. Visually interesting, I agree. Extremely underappreciated. Okay. Zoot says, Cheryl, went into my first comic store last month because of watching Chicho, felt like a fish out of water. Everything I wanted was very expensive. I pictured my new puppy turning it into confetti. Yeah, Zoot, listen, anybody that's getting a new into comics, find yourself a comic store where you feel comfortable. It's a business, it's an industry. It's like going to restaurants, right? Some restaurants, you like the people that are running the restaurant. Some restaurants, you don't, right? Some restaurants serve this more, some restaurants serve that more. So find a place where you're comfortable. If you feel overwhelmed, ask for help. Go online. There's a lot of comic book people that are out there to help people discover comics for the first time, right? That's the main catalyst, the main reason I started to create comic book videos to share my love of comics, right? And there are many, many other people that are doing the same, okay? Don't be discouraged if you have some bad experiences. Find what you love. It's part of a treasure hunt. It's part of life experience, really. I guess the parallel with Evie prostitute versus movie is still selling herself to get higher. It is, it is. So the theme, the background is still there, but it is not as brutal, right? The V, if you, like I did the whisper reading of Valerie's letter, right? That Evie reads that V, I'm not going to give a spoiler, but there's a, I did a whisper reading of Valerie's letter. Take a look at that video, Valerie's letter, and listen to Valerie's letter in the movie. It's different. There are subtle differences, right? I won't go into the detail of the subtle differences, but one of the more differences is that in the comic book, because she's writing on limited space, it's very rough. It's raw. It cuts short, ends. In the movie, it's more fluffed out, right? It's different. It's different. Cheryl says, Zoot, no doubt. As much as I think it's important to support the local stores, check your local library. I agree with that as well. And libraries, by the way, I'm cutting that Cheryl's comment short a little bit, but I'll read it. Libraries buy the rights to have the books in their collection for people to read. So as they get checked out, the artists, the creators do get more credit, right? I've read a lot of comic books from the library, trade paperbacks. I read all of Transmetropolitan from the library. I read a huge chunk of why the last man from the library, a lot of comic books from the library, a lot of lone wolf and cub manga from the library. Absolutely brilliant. They often have a decent selection of trade paperbacks, Cheryl says. It's a great way to try different genres and see what you really like and what may be worth the investment for back issues. It also provides a great place to start when asking for recommendations at local stores. Agree, agree, agree. McBorders, thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub. Elder God, I watched Umbrake will last night. Mr. Glass would disagree. Mr. Glass is magnificent. And I really liked Umbrakeable. Toilet mail. Indeed, Elder God. Libraries are amazing. Just finished the rereading Batman year one. And that is a fantastic read. It is indeed Uncharted Ace. But this might be on another level. This is, Viva Vendetta is one of the great literally works of the 20th century. Okay. In my personal opinion, the Viva Vendetta superior to the Watchman. Okay. Just slightly, but superior to the Watchman because it is darker. It is emotional. There's a like really this series just rips through you. The library in Birmingham is the biggest in Europe. Nice. Has a lot of graphic novels. Awesome, Elder God. Cheryl says, Elder God. Ah, with John Lukosamo. Yeah. I was thinking of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show with Lou Albano and WWF Super Stardom. The movie was horrendous. The Mario movie. Gang, should we call the string? I'm going to do my little ending. 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I got to do a lot of fruit washing today to get everything prepped up for tomorrow. Okay. So we're going to do a live stream tomorrow. That's Monday. On Tuesday, we're doing a movie live stream, I believe. On Wednesday, I think we're doing, we're going to talk about COVID-19 or politics. And on Thursday morning, I think we're either doing COVID-19 or politics or whatnot. I do announce the live streams on our Discord page and on Patreon. And I do share out the links on Twitter, Gaps, Mines, VK and all. Aside from that gang, thanks for being here. And if you can make it, I'll see you guys tomorrow during the liqueur live stream. Bye gang. Fantastic choice. Fantastic choice. I hope you guys have a fantastic weekend. Bye everyone.