I'm really not quite sure I "get" this GN. I read Watchmen and really had no trouble understanding it; this one is similarly dystopian and has the same alternate-future-from-the-1980s-which-is-now-past-so-its-weird kind of thing going on, but I'm just not sure I ever really clued in on this world. There are so many characters that look so similar (because of the artwork style) that it was hard for me to differentiate one fat guy in a suit from another; the only characters I had a good clear bead on were V and Evey. I appreciate the careful artistry, for sure, and maybe for someone with more of a taste for classic literature and political thrillers this GN might be a masterpiece. I read the whole thing, and I wanted to know what happened at the end, don't get be wrong... but I never did really get sucked in. Except for Evey, I didn't really care about any of the characters, and I didn't understand the settings and events well enough to care about them either. More than one star because I can tell that there is something larger going on in the story than what I really clued in on, but no more than two because it ultimately didn't get me to the destination to which it was headed.