“Zola” director Janicza Bravo executive produced and helmed the pilot. Jacobs-Jenkins executive produces with “The Americans” creators Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, Courtney Lee-Mitchell, Jules Jackson, and filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel for Protozoa Pictures. The strong themes make this a book geared toward high school teens, and its stunning graphic novel presentation makes it perfect to tempt reluctant readers as well.‘The Great’ Pulled Off Its Own ‘Succession’-Like Shocker to Perfection

Duffy and Jennings have opened a new generation's eyes to Butler's work while encouraging Butler's fans to experience the story in a whole new way.

There's much to unpack in the story: Duffy's adaptation, Jennings' use of color, and the science-fiction, Afrofuturistic, feminist, and racial aspects of the book. Some passages feel like a gut punch to the soul. Jennings' art increases the intensity for readers. Illustrator John Jennings brings intricate, layered, and at times deliberately heavy, dazed, and frazzled-feeling illustrations to Butler's work, allowing readers another deeply emotional connection to the story and Dana's experiences. It's tough to take on a widely acclaimed and deeply loved work, and Duffy has done it splendidly, making the story come alive in a different art form. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel, which is intense, heart-stopping, thought-provoking, and powerful, Damian Duffy boils Butler's work down to 240 pages while not losing any of the strife, terror, ambiguity, and movement of the original. Parents should be prepared for emotional reactions to intense scenes in the book as well as discussions surrounding the issues of feminism, science-fiction and fantasy, race, history, the treatment of women, and Afrofuturism. The violence is not gratuitous instead it is an unvarnished look at the reality of life for both people who are enslaved and their enslavers in America. There are intense scenes of attempted rape and discussion of rapes, both single-incident and habitual, and the results and injuries are shown. There are intense scenes of violence with blood, body blows, and the results shown. It's an intense, emotional, visceral sci-fi story that sends a modern black woman to pre-Civil War Maryland to a plantation that relies on the labor of enslaved people, where she's confronted with the realities of slavery as both an observer and a subjugated participant. Parents need to know that New York Times best-selling Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation is based on Octavia E.

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