891 reviews for:

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy

4.0 AVERAGE

mpiehl's review

3.5

challenging hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kiki_lomein's review

3.0

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Very cool to see a comic portray characters who are almost all POC, and to get a glimpse of some of the action. I will say that I preferred the prose form, just because it was nice to feel fully immersed. This version felt vivid, but rushed.

turn_the_page_sage's review

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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i liked the art style and the story was thoughtful and compelling (also insane how much quicker i'll read a book if it's a graphic novel)

sheena_sherburn's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rileepickle's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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God I love Octavia E. Butler. And god I love Parable of the Sower. God is change—“The Self must create Its own reasons for being. To shape God, Shape Self.”

bestdamnloser's review

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This was a good book. It was very interesting to see the parallels between what was written and what is currently happening in our world. While not quite the dystopian future this book describes, it definitely isn't that far from the truth. Octavia E. Butler definitely had great insight into where our world was heading. 

asch's review

4.75

dark reflective fast-paced

kfish3's review

3.0

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Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late November.

Chapters/issues that take place 2024-2027 with material drawn on lined notebook paper, most others in rectangular cells through grey and blue marker-like sketches and scribbles, handwritten and Times New Roman quotations, dialogue, and journal-like narrative from Lauren, a preacher’s daughter who questions the status quo, cares for and teaches others, holds inner turmoil on the nature of God, overwhelmed but confident that she can make changes. It's very dismal with themes of huge class stratification, hardship, acts of violence, earthquakes, martial law, wide use of drugs and guns, losses and gains within power structures, and missions to Mars in order to escape Earth; thought its primary conflict is of migrants travelling to somewhere better or to stay in one place within a penetrable, vulnerable fortress.

jbrwn's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

beedee13's review

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful sad medium-paced