In the nuclear winter that follows the fascist Norsefire party rise to power and establish a brutal police state. It’s 1997, and Great Britain, having opted out of the nuclear arms race, has survived a war that has laid waste to many other countries, including the USA. It’s noteworthy that Alan Moore wrote two of the books often trotted out as exemplars of the craft, and many more since, some of them more polished and mature, but few more enjoyable. Sadly, that new age never really materialised. They appeared within a few years of each other, in the late 1980s, and seemed to herald a glorious new age for comics, and their chance of being taken seriously by mainstream audiences and critics. Whenever anyone is making a case for comics not being just for children, the examples usually given are The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Maus and V for Vendetta.
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