V for Vendetta is a ten-issue graphic comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd , set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s . V for Vendetta is a ten-issue dystopian graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd , set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s .