I Know The End - A “Rad As Heck” Comic (2025)
I Know The End, a comic by Sage Groves and Noah Wagner with art by Isobel Rees, had a limited print run with Rad As Heck Productions and is now available on Gumroad as an online comic. We believe art should be accessible to everyone — so you pay what you can!
Midnight Mass meets Annihilation in I KNOW THE END, a 40 page cosmic horror one shot comic written by Sage Groves and Noah Wagner with art by Isobel Rees (Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures).
Amidst the age of space exploration and colonization, the Cosmos Mapping and Planetary Networking Industries (or The Company) leads the expansion. The Company receives a distress signal from the planet Eden and sends a response team to investigate. Leading the team is anthropologist Lola Madani, Company representative Silo Sanchez, and navigational robot Unit-10. But when the team reaches Eden, they immediately sense something is amiss. The inhabitants of the planet act strangely and the leader of the local church seems to be hiding something sinister. The team senses danger lurking at every corner but can they escape the planet before the planet claims them for itself…
Reviews:
I KNOW THE END is a tense, poignant tale from Sage Groves and Noah Wagner that forces readers to question their own perceptions of humanity and the human conscience. Set among the stars, the horror that unfurls is a slow-creeping sense of dread that carries through each panel of this gorgeously drawn comic. Isobel Rees’ art works in perfect harmony with the haunting plot that leaches through each page. The final panel will leave readers with such a tragic sense of unrealized loss. — Maggie Lovitt, Collider Magazine
Both haunting and hilarious — I Know The End is a beautifully rendered story of discovery and disaster that builds a whole world only to turn it all upside down. This talented team found their synergy and made creepy sci-fi magic on every page. Can't wait to see what they do next! — Daniel José Older, NYT Bestselling Author
The book may be called, I Know The End, but I guarantee you won't be prepared for the twists and turns that await in this sci-fi horror tale courtesy of Sage Groves, Noah Wagner, and Isobel Rees, An awesome debut for the next generation of comic talents. — Ethan Sacks, Marvel: Old Man Hawkeye, Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
These three together are a formidable force in storytelling… Groves, Wagner, and Rees demonstrate not just their talent, but their insight and intelligence in the creation of this comic. They are pushing the science-fiction genre in directions that make your brain work. — Claire Lewis, Claire’s Extraordinary Journal Blog
The Team:
Sage Groves is a 23 year old multi-hyphenate creative. Primarily a writer, Groves is focused on creating short fiction and comics, but is currently in the throes of a novel. They began their writing career as an assistant to NYT Best Selling Author Daniel José Older, writer and actor Brittany N. Williams, and Nebula Award-winning comic writer Alyssa Wong. To read more of Groves’s work, visit their website athttps://www.sagegroves.com/Isobel Rees is a recently graduated Illustration Major from Falmouth University, United Kingdom. Specializing in splash and cover illustration, Rees takes inspiration from SFF comics when creating her striking sequential artwork. Rees’s published work includes two covers for Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures by Dark Horse Comics. To see more of her art, visit her digital portfolio athttps://www.isobelreesillustration.com/
A recent UMass Boston graduate, Noah Wagner is primarily a scientist researching cardio-oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. In his limited free time, Wagner is a Science Fiction Literature enthusiast. He was pleased to exercise his fiction writing muscles in creating I Know the End, and looks forward to writing more in the future.