Jennings

When the reptiles arrived safely in Los Angeles, they were escorted to the zoo’s Jennings Veterinary Hospital for in-depth health assessments and quarantine.

David Jennings, CEO of York Archaeology, said: "We may never know what brought this man to the arena where we believe he may have been fighting for the entertainment of others, but it is remarkable that the first osteoarchaeological evidence for this kind of gladiatorial combat has been found so far from the Colosseum of Rome, which would have been the classical world's Wembley Stadium of combat."

Created by Eisner-award winners Damian Duffy and Jennings, alongside artist David Brame, “Talents” is a graphic novel follow-up to their Hugo Award-winning adaptation of Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” and continues painting a picture of a war-torn United States under the control of a Christian fundamentalist fascist state.

Influenced by everyone from Steve Ditko to Bill Sienkiewicz to Denys Cowan, and even fine artists and printmakers, Jennings is a professor of media and cultural studies at UC Riverside.

It may be a daunting task adapting a beloved literary figure, but Jennings and Duffy have had a successful run so far.