Event Horizon: Dark Descent Prequel Series Gets Horrifying New Cover Artwork

It's harmless to accidental Event Horizon: Dark Descent has been a large deed for IDW Publishing. The archetypal 2 chapters of the bid (which serves arsenic a prequel to the 1997 fearfulness movie) are some going backmost to people successful November 2025, and they're getting immoderate horrifying caller screen creation to people the occasion.

IGN tin exclusively debut the caller screen creation to the 3rd printing of Event Horizon Dark Descent #1 and the 2nd printing of Dark Descent #2, some of which signifier a connecting image. Check them retired successful the slideshow assemblage below, on with an exclusive caller leafage from contented #3:

Event Horizon: Dark Descent is written by Christian Ward and drawn by Tristan Jones, with colors by Pip Martin and colors by Alex Ray. The bid explores the events starring up to the archetypal film, showing the acheronian destiny that befell the archetypal unit of the doomed spacecraft. The bid is portion of the IDW Dark fearfulness imprint, which includes different spinoffs of fashionable films similar Sleepy Hollow, A Quiet Place, and Smile arsenic good arsenic archetypal projects similar Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees.

"When I came aboard Event Horizon, I thought it would beryllium a nice, quiescent small publication that would possibly person a coagulated small built successful pursuing and possibly I could marque thing that idiosyncratic down the way would find and beryllium wowed by successful a backmost contented bin and beryllium compelled to find the remainder the aforesaid mode I was with each those rad licensed fearfulness comics backmost successful the precocious '80s and aboriginal '90s..." Jones tells IGN. "If you'd told maine past that we'd beryllium opening to not 1 but 2 sold retired issues, and 1 of those being sent backmost to people doubly I'd person thanked you for being precise benignant but decidedly scoffed...! So here's maine now, genuinely humbled by the effect this happening has received merchandise aft release, and endlessly thankful for the cult that makes Event Horizon a cult movie turning up period aft period and showing their enactment for this thing! Everyone connected this happening has fixed their each to marque the champion publication we tin with this, and it's truly large to spot it striking specified a chord with readers."

Jones adds, "And I'll accidental this, if you haven't deed your stores and preordered #3 and #4, you're going to privation to bash that ASAP, due to the fact that knowing however those issues spell and seeing however the effect has been is going to marque those the ones you'll beryllium kicking yourself for not locking down!"

"I had 4 goals successful caput erstwhile I approached Event Horizon: to observe the bequest of the movie, to marque it accessible to caller readers, to marque it emotionally impactful, AND astir importantly, SCARY arsenic F**K! In short, a publication that anyone could bask that would determination and terrify successful adjacent measure," Ward says. "Seeing the hype and occurrence of Event Horizon: Dark Descent physique and physique arsenic it finds caller readers is truthful fantastic and truthful gratifying and I person to convey my co-pilots, Tristan Jones and Pip Martin, without whom this publication would not soar astir arsenic precocious arsenic it does. Most breathtaking of each however, is that the champion is yet to come. Both contented 3 and successful peculiar contented 4 (did idiosyncratic accidental 'Blood Orgy'?) volition person readers shedding tears arsenic they work betwixt their fingers and of course, this publication answers what happened earlier the film, present I'm pondering 'what happens after?' So get connected committee now... it's a agelong travel to hell."

Both caller printings volition beryllium released connected November 12, with a preorder deadline of October 27. You tin preorder these reprints astatine your section comic shop.

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