V for Vendetta #9

Penultimate in the ten-part series, V for Vendetta #9 arrives in March 1989 as Alan Moore and David Lloyd's dystopian masterwork nears its conclusion. David Lloyd's cover renders a desperate, screaming figure clutching a revolver and recoiling beneath heavy draped curtains — all rendered in Lloyd's characteristically subdued, shadow-drenched palette that gives the scene an almost cinematic dread. With "Book 3: The Land of Do-As-You-Please" drawing toward its close in Chapter 4: "Vestiges," this issue promises the same uncompromising tension that defines one of DC's most mature and ambitious titles of the era.