Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s well timed adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Skills is a robust graphic recreation of the science fiction visionary’s prescient dystopian masterwork. The ebook is a sequel to Butler’s Parable of the Sower, set throughout a time of violence and chaos throughout a war-ravaged United States underneath the rule of a fascist Christian nationalist president of the US. The ebook provides a continuation of the story of the ebook’s central determine, Lauren Olamina; Acorn, the visionary neighborhood centered round Earthseed, the faith she based; and the plight of Olamina’s daughter, Larkin. On this 10-page excerpt, Lauren’s journal entries retell the story of Larkin’s start and describe the grim world that awaits her. Parable of the Skills by Damian Duffy and John Jennings is out now from Abrams ComicArts.