V is always for Vendetta

Remember, remember, the fifth of November...

here's a little history for you:
In the early 1600's a small-ish group of catholics (today they might be called extremists) decided to blow up Parliament and King James I, for religious purposes. They came very, very close. they gained access to an undercroft under the house of lords. They brought massive amounts of gunpowder and Guy Fawkes was to guard it until they decided to light it.
Luckily (or unluckily depending on your perspective) the police got an anonymous note telling them all about the plot. (you can see the wiki article here)
the 5th of November became guy fawkes day, where his effigy is burned, and there's loads of lovely fireworks.

The writers of the graphic novel I'm currently reading, V for Vendetta, thought that Guy Fawkes should be worshipped, not burned, and this view is pretty much supported by the book.V for Vendetta takes place in a kind of dystopian future, but the near future, where a nuclear war has dominated most of the world, and Britain has a fascist government.
the book is mostly about a girl called Evey Hammond, and her life after she's saved from being raped and murdered by 'fingermen' (police) by V. V is a terrorist who wears a guy fawkes mask and costume (because at some point in his past he was in a government concentration camp and was disfigured and burned), and has a personal vendetta against the government officials who put him in the concentration camp.

V does things in an interesting way. He seems to have a sort of 'the punishment should fir the crime' rule.
for example, one man, general prothero, who tortured him when he was in the camp, and fed many other humans to the ovens. (V was not burned because he was part of a medical experiment.) Prothero collects dolls, so when V gets to him he pretends that they're back at the concentration camp, and burns all of the dolls, slowly. Eventually Prothero goes mad. He is not always so cruel. For the medical examiner who experimented on them he only injects her with a poison her sleep, waking her up to say goodbye.

But he isn't just taking it out on people for his own anger. He's also decided to bring down the government. But by taking out his vendetta on the people who ruined his life, he's already there.

It's easy to see that the government are the bad guys in this novel. But who is the good guy? V kills loads of people. Innocent people. But so did the government. does that make it OK?
I'm not sure what to think. instead of a basic bad vs. good, this story is an intricate web of angry vs. insanity, fueled by fear and hate.

I'm not sure if I want anyone to win anymore. I'm not sure if I want to see the end of this book. But the thing is, this seems almost painfully possible. more then anything, this makes me think:
politics are messy. and a decision costs lives.