Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s timely adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents is a powerful graphic recreation of the science fiction visionary’s prescient dystopian masterwork. The book is a sequel to Butler’s Parable of the Sower, set during a time of violence and chaos across a war-ravaged United States under the rule of a fascist Christian nationalist president of the United States. The book offers a continuation of the story of the book’s central figure, Lauren Olamina; Acorn, the visionary community centered around Earthseed, the religion she founded; and the plight of Olamina’s daughter, Larkin. In this 10-page excerpt, Lauren’s journal entries retell the story of Larkin’s birth and describe the grim world that awaits her. Parable of the Talents by Damian Duffy and John Jennings is out now from Abrams ComicArts.