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Event Horizon: Dark Descent #4
by Christian Ward, Tristan Jones (Artist)
The Horror and everything you needed to know about the first flight of the Event Horizon—and its last.
Event Horizon: Dark Descent #4 is a vicious, lore-rich descent into pure cosmic blasphemy, and it absolutely revels in it. With nearly all of the Event Horizon’s crew dead or consumed by Paimon’s servant—a demonic, ever-expanding wheel of writhing human bodies—the focus narrows to Captain Kilpack, a man whose faith is about to be shattered on a truly infernal scale. Watching a God-fearing captain confront the King of Hell himself is as harrowing as it is fascinating, turning belief into a weapon, a weakness, and ultimately a curse.
The issue’s beating, blood-soaked heart is its promise: to finally show us the truth behind the film’s infamous blood orgy. Instead of reducing it to mere shock, Ward and Jones frame it as the inevitable culmination of the ship’s corruption—an eruption of everything dark, depraved, and unbound the Event Horizon brought back from the void. The result feels less like fan service and more like a forbidden chapter the film could only hint at.
Jones’s art sells every grotesque detail, from the churning mass of Paimon’s servant to the intimate horror etched across Kilpack’s face as he realizes there are worse things than damnation. Ward’s storytelling leans hard into cosmic horror and theological dread, making this not just a continuation of the film’s legacy but a deepening of it. It’s bleak, operatic, and weirdly beautiful in its cruelty.
This issue doesn’t just answer a long-standing question; it makes that answer hurt. For fans of the original movie and anyone who loves their horror grand, grotesque, and unapologetically hellbound, this is essential reading.
An unholy, unforgettable expansion of a cult classic. 5/5.
Happy reading from The Void 🚀🪐📚