ROOK EXODUS #8: Enter Stag, a Warden on a Revenge Tour

The Essentials:

• What/Where is EXODUS?
• What is an Earth Farmer?

ROOK EXODUS #8:

In Rook Exodus #8, we continue our journey following the new Crow Warden, Rook, on Exodus, a planet where humans control nature through technology and struggle to survive after the world engine has mysteriously shut down, leaving the world’s inhabitants with weeks to survive.

Looming in the background are the Better-World corporation – the rich and powerful, who just abandoned Exodus – the rest of the animal wardens fighting amongst each other and a plan from Rook, our reluctant hero, and Dire Wolf to unite them all against this evil corporation.

Creative Team:

Creators: Jason Fabok & Geoff Johns

Color Artist: Brad Anderson

Letters: Rob Leigh

Publisher: IMAGE COMICS/ GHOST MACHINE

The Art:

The art in Rook Exodus continues to be expansive, gorgeous and full of beautiful life. The wonders of this new planet, including its wildlife, are on full display.

The panels are creative in their own right, as you seamlessly move from spalsh pages to dialogue and back. The reader is offered up not only a compelling story that feels so timely, but a master class in creating a new world visually.

In this issue, we get to explore the depths of this world, which allows the creative team to explore even more and truly unleash their creativity.

READ MORE: ROOK Exodus #7 – ‘We Have an Army to Build’

The Writing:

As you find out more about Rook, Dire Wolf and more of this rag tag bunch trying to save their world, you really start to unravel the depths of this incredible book and their backstories.

It almost reminds me a little of the first season of “Lost,” where we continued to find out a character’s backstory each episode and all these seamingly disconnected backstories all combine into one powerful, larger epic.

As the group unite and try to same Dire Wolf’s father from his own delusions, things get even trickier as a new warden emerges, Stag, but he has no plans to save anyone! Will he join the group or destroy it.

Overall Grade: 9.5/10

This book continues to impress. The reader is never without suspense or action (you pick your poison), as we meet new and wonderful characters, learn more about the mystery behind Exodus and are left wondering what will happen next with each and every issue’s close.