This has such an amazing cover, all credit to the artist here because John Jennings has done a fantastic job. So much of Parable is misery and flame that in my head, at least, the palette of this story has always been ashy. Art-wise, there's more colour here than I expected, but it's still quite muted; the cover's an outlier in that regard.

Assessing adaptations is always interesting. I remember reading the novel a while back, and it (like much of Butler's work) was a five star read for me. Her prose is just so good, and I wonder now if this graphic novel adaptation loses a star for me because so much of that prose isn't there. Maybe knowing the story has lessened the surprise of it, or maybe it was because the inclusion of the Earthseed writings felt a little less organic in this form. This is a substantial adaptation, running to over two hundred pages, but even so the format means there's just less space for words. It's been a while since I've read the novel, so I could be misremembering, but it feels as if the ratio between the religious elements and the rest of the text isn't quite the same. Given how perfectly the original worked for me, any deviation is likely to be something I find a little less appealing. That being said, the strength of Butler's vision still shines through here, and it's a reminder to go read Talents... because I haven't yet, and I've been meaning to.