Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
In the past twenty years or so this poem has gotten connected to and celebrated in the masterpiece V FOR VENDETTA written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. It truly is one of the greatest graphic novels ever created.
If you've never read the book or have only seen the very good film version I highly recommend it. It is brilliant.
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Unpopular opinions:
Guy Fawkes was a reactionary religious lunatic, and an incompetent one, at that.
If the revolution comes, it won't be thanks to one superhero who does the whole thing while everyone else looks on.
It's an entertaining enough comic book, but its politics are infantile.
I always read the "Guy Fawkes" mask as just a device V used (that also, perhaps, covered his scars). The main point of the story, I always thought, was about how totalitarian regimes can happen.