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The Movement #1 Echoes V For Vendetta And Court Of The Owls

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The Movement #1 by Gail Simone and Freddie Williams II is published today. And despite certain publicity machines painting it as an Occupy Comics book, it isn't that.

Indeed, rather than a liberal fantasy, it has elements of Tea Party politics, superpowers being held my a group of people forming a militia against invasive government operations that harm the people they are meant to be serving and protecting.

But there's one thing that does speak to Occupy, with their V For Vendetta masks, but also via the recent Bat crossover Court of The Owls. A new, featureless mask, worn by the movement, as well as social network media used as an offensive weapon. A weapon which everyone has, and a mask that can remain hidden until the last moment.

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They're everywhere. Just as you can buy V For Vendetta and Court Of The Owls masks, how long before The Movement joins them? If nothing else, it will make one hell of an easy cosplay for San Diego.

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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