Writer: Jordan Thomas
Artist, Colorist & Letterer: Chris Matthews
Publisher: Comixology Originals
Price: $2.99 (Free for Amazon Prime members)
Release Date: January 27, 2026
Father Gianluca Amato tried his best. Still, he broke his vows. While that trauma haunts him, the young priest does his penance on a tortured isle. A team of priests stands guard over thirteen souls possessed by demons. Even before a strange statue arrived, the priests felt more like jailers than deliverers. How will the statue's arrival affect the demon-possessed victims on this Caribbean Island? And can Father Gianluca Amato forgive himself for the deaths he caused? Let’s grab our rosaries and holy water, leap into Exorcism Island #4, and see!
Story
Father Pyre doesn't care if anyone lives or dies. When he drops the statue off on the island, Pyre wonders why Father Howt and the priests don’t just kill the possessed people. Father Howt comforts Gianluca Amato when the statue shocks the young priest. Father Pyre didn't tell the priests what happened to the excavation crew that found the statue. But after spending so long in the presence of evil, Father Howt doubts the statue will calm their charges in Exorcism Island #4.
Cardinal Litarri sent Father Amato to the island after the young priest ministered to Lucia. But like the other priests stationed on Exorcist Island, Gianluca failed to cast the demon out of the troubled young woman. Despite the priests’ rigorous schedule of religious practices, one of the demon-possessed people killed Father Borra. And Father Jacob Miller won't let anyone else into one cabin, where another priest sits in chains.
In Jordan Thomas's story, the priests feel like they are failing. Still, things are about to change in Exorcism Island #4. After the Dancing Prince slips out of the MesoAmerican-style statue, the demon finds a host in one of the already possessed inmates. The Dancing Prince frees his subject, then sets off to free more. When violence erupts, the priests realize they must abandon the procedures and practices that made their lives a trial without delivering a single success.
Art
Father Howt, the island's leader, evokes Christopher Lee with a beard. Jacob Miller, a tall, bald man with a talent for sarcasm, often criticizes blonde-haired William Pell. Gert Juncter resembles a younger Father Howt, but the tall Austrian has a more closely trimmed beard. Like Pascal Garrow from Kenya, Italian priest Gianluca Amato is a slender young man with dark hair. Most of the priests wear coats, and all sit near fires when they gather for meals on this sunny, tropical island. The inmates don't feel the pervading cold. Like the pigs that attack their neighbors when a demon inhabits them, the possessed people feel no shame in nakedness.
Chris Matthews draws characters and backgrounds into beige panels. Yellow, green, blue, and pink differentiated memories, places, and time periods in previous issues. In Exorcism Island #4, orange dominates the upheaval on the island, while purple attends the curious discoveries at the Vatican. By using orange to heighten the gleeful George Washington-like Dancing Priest, Chris Matthews reminds us of the realm the demons call home.
Black uppercase letters inhabit white dialogue balloons, while the host of the Dancing Prince speaks white letters into black balloons and narrative boxes. Words occasionally grow bold for intonation, and balloons change shape when demons interact with the priests. Sound effects rock panels as the Dancing Priest surprises priests more than John Travolta shocked parents of disco dancing teens in Saturday Night Fever. Thanks to Comixology and Superfan Promotions for providing a review copy.
Final Thoughts
As the deadly forces threatening the priests build into a supernatural storm, the priests who feel like failures become Humanity's only hope of preventing an Army of Darkness from invading the Earth in Exorcism Island #4.
Rating 8.8/10
To look inside see my preview of Exorcism Island #4.
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