Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
In this first installment of the Anon Comic Club, I invite every Anon of The Great Awakening community on an adventure through Detective Comics "V for Vendetta."
As quoted from the Amazon store page:
Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he’s called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for…
A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated storytelling, this powerful tale detailing the loss and fight for individuality has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring allegory for current events. Master storytellers Alan Moore and David Lloyd are at the top of their craft in this terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance.
Majic Eyes Qnly's Law of War Series 7 prompted the idea for this thread. His most recent series of decodes leans heavily into the comms present in Alan Moore's V comic.
The complete V for Vendetta comic series can be found by following this link.
https://www.comicextra.com/v-for-vendetta/issue-1/full
The series is broken down into 10 installments. You can navigate through each of them using the drop down menu, or by changing the number in the provided URL.
I implore each Anon who has yet to read V for Vendetta to do so. The film is also quite brilliant, but the comic has many more layers of important narrative and comms that are pertinent to The Great Awakening, and to the decoding of Q posts, as Majic Eyes Qnly analyzes in his Series 7.
Final Fantasy?!?!
Love it, but that's not the ones.
Valkyrie Profile, Xenogears, Suikoden 1&2 are the first ones that come to mind.
This generation, I'd throw Yakuza and Trails of Cold Steel in there too. 😆
I don't plan on dying anytime soon though.
But not Chrono Cross. Fuck Chrono Cross.
Stupid dooming nihilistic pile of shit plot...
Everyone went nuts for that game. I think its the intro music and the multiple characters.
Which is also weird, because Suikoden has more characters, better story, and (in my opinion) better music (it used the same soundfonts as Symphony of the Night.)
I prefer Chrono Trigger over Cross. Always have, always will. Perfect JRPG right there. Here's a tip - the DS version is cheaper and better. The anime cutscenes from the PSX version are there without the load times, and the screen is less cluttered because the menus use space on the other screen. I bought mine for $10 bucks, but those days are long gone.
But I digress...
The DS version is NOT better.
It goes out of its way to ensure that nihilistic "kill yourself to save the planet" Cross remains canon.
You might sing a different tune once the symbolism in these old gems are revealed.
Learning Sports were fake? Didn't hit me hard. Same with dinosaurs. Same with nuclear bombs. NSYNC's "I want it that way" relating to JFK Jr's death? Sure.
What really got to me was the decode of Inspector Gadget and the decode of Lufia & the Fortress of Doom. That hit me. Hard.
Got some sauce?
https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/pock-et-ben-et/ Ctrl+F 'Lufia', its a smaller decode than most of his.
Inspector Gadet: https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/coded-childrens-cartoons/
The Inspector Gadget one is one of the darkest decodes I've come across.