Parable of the Talents Spotlight with Damian Duffy

The Comic Source Podcast · May 6, 2025 · 30m

Jace is joined by author Damian Duffy to talk about his recently released graphic novel adaption of Octavia E. Butler's classic science fiction novel, Parable of the Talents. Butler is incredible prescient in her ability to predict the current cultural and political state of the world in 2025, even though her novel was published in 1998. It deals of concepts of personal, religious and economic freedoms as well as Afro-Futurism. With evocative art by John Jennings this adapation faithfully captures the feel fo the prose work. Damian talks about the challenges of adapting such a rich work and…