Exorcism Island Vol.1

by Jordan Thomas, Chris Matthews (Cover Art)

Following a confrontation with a possessed young woman Catholic priest Gigi Amato finds himself being sent to an island where the Vatican keep all of the long term possession cases under the charge of a gang of psychologically and emotionally bruised priests. The priests attempt to keep the madness of the island under control but dark forces are working against them from all sides as evil digs its nails into their spiritually poisoned, isolated home.

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2026

Reviews

[Alokita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got to read it thanks to Amazon Prime Reading. One of the few graphic novel that i have read in the past few years.
The art is unique and very descriptive. The structure of the panels is also a bit different from other novels. The use of bright orange and purple to demarcate places is a good narrative tool. However I found it a bit jarring and difficult to look at during some reading sessions.
Story wise, it is a mix of exorcism and pagan myth combines, leading onto expected plotlines. There is an island where possessed people are kept, not for being cured for sure, as the group of priests that try to exorcise them fail over and over again. Another young priest is sent there at the start of the story and through his arrival we are introduced to the island, its possessed population and the conspiracy behind it all. The priests are not only trying to save the lives of others but themselves. Whether they succeed, forms the crux of the story. However as horror is the theme of the work, there is less exploration of the characters rather than a slide show of all the macabre and gore usually associated with exorcism movies. I, am for one glad to see it in graphic format over visual media.
The Volume 1 ends in a setup for a continuation, but I am not interested in any of the characters to feel compelled to read it.

[Alex Sarll]

Very much a Ronseal title, there: continuing a history of cover-ups older than most countries, the Catholic Church turns out to have a remote island where it dumps the persistently possessed, with damaged and disgraced priests set to watch and, at least in theory, save them. Especially given the intersection of private tropical islands, and what we know happens there, with priests, and what we know they get up to, the disgrace is all pretty PG: even the one who's there for sins of lust engaged in them with a consenting adult (possibly that's precisely why he got more than a slap on the wrist). But this is the one attempt at keeping in light in a comic whose isolated protagonists, engaged in a soul-sapping attempt to manage the unmanageable, beset by constant degradation and malice, feel stuck in a deeply 2020s situation. And then, much like said decade, things keep finding new ways to suck even more. But the real star is Chris Matthews' angular, design-led art, each panel restricted to black, off-white and one colour, which will sometimes change suddenly, with powerful impact. It really gets across the teeth-on-edge, what-now mood of the whole shitshow.

[MaddiE DawsoN · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the color coding.

Looks like someone put JOKER in a Catholic Horror Story! The artwork is mundane tho, compared to manga the sketching are superficial.

[Hela Bergstrom · Rating 4 out of 5]

There really wasn't much of a plot to speak of but the vibes and the art were immaculate