Event Horizon: Pandemonium Takes the Iconic Horror Franchise From Hell to Heaven | Comic Con 2026

IDW precocious launched the IDW Dark line, which focuses connected publishing caller fearfulness comics built astir some archetypal ideas and established movie properties. Of these books, writer Christian Ward's Event Horizon books person arguably been the breakout hits. They beryllium conscionable however bare Event Horizon fans are for caller tales acceptable successful this cosmic fearfulness universe.

Today astatine Comic-Con, IDW revealed the 3rd and last section successful Ward's trilogy of Event Horizon follow-ups. The saga that began successful 2025's Event Horizon: Dark Descent and is presently continuing successful Event Horizon: Inferno volition reason successful a caller constricted bid called Event Horizon: Pandemonium. What's more, this 3rd measurement has easy the champion elevator transportation of them all. We've already experienced the Hell of this terrifying universe. But what if Heaven besides existed, and were someway adjacent worse?

Art by Christian Ward. (Image Credit: IDW/Paramount)

Event Horizon: Pandemonium is written by Ward and features creation by Hernán González (John Carpenter’s Tales for a Halloween Night). Ward besides draws the screen art.

IGN was capable to talk to Ward astatine SDCC to larn much astir this caller bid and however Pandemonium was ever the endgame of his Event Horizon plans. As helium explains, helium was laying the groundwork for Pandemonium adjacent successful Dark Descent.

"My presumption was, I request to present thing that answers immoderate questions, but opens up a batch more," Ward tells IGN. "And by doing that, erstwhile I did that, it exploded the law. Okay, good past what is the journey? Are we going to bash Dark Descent, which is what happened to the vessel [before the film]? But past what happened aft the ship? And past wherever bash we spell from there? So erstwhile I enactment the transportation successful of what I wanted for Dark Descent, determination was an appendix that suggested, wherever would we go? And that's what we're doing. We're pursuing that roadmap. It's been truly satisfying."

Again, Pandemonium has a precise evocative premise successful a franchise that's already built astir a beardown cardinal idea. In the archetypal film, humanity's find of faster-than-light question virtually tears unfastened the barriers betwixt our world and a Lovecraftian Hell dimension. But Pandemonium posits that this beingness besides has its ain mentation of Heaven, and it's 1 that's someway adjacent worse than Hell. Ward reveals that helium was inspired by Biblical descriptions of angels and God for his depiction of this realm.

"Heaven is worse. Heaven is decidedly worse," Ward teases. "So yeah, fundamentally it was the full thing. The happening that is my Event Horizon, my rules that I've acceptable successful spot is this thought of older news. All the fearfulness is based astir tons of truly aged Biblical notions of Heaven and Hell. So it was astir then, and if you look astatine a Biblically close statement of an angel, it is terrifying. Terrifying."

Ward continues, "So it wasn't hard to past go, OK, but I'm treating Heaven arsenic a benignant of alien place, a spot wherever humans truly shouldn't be. It's much of a spot of it's alien - it's overwhelmingly cosmic horror. So I'm truly benignant of leaning into that and I'm benignant of connecting it with the threads that I've benignant of been laying with Inferno, with Dark Descent. But it's precise overmuch going backmost to benignant of Biblically close and going, OK, but that's scary. And adjacent if you look astatine immoderate of the descriptions of God, he's described arsenic you cannot look astatine his face."

Obviously, with Event Horizon: Inferno inactive successful progress, Ward tin lone uncover truthful overmuch astir however the bid ends and sets the signifier for Pandemonium. But helium does tease that contented #4 (due retired August 5) is simply a watershed infinitesimal for the series.

"Issue #4, which we're getting adjacent to now, is the 1 that's the existent swing," Ward says. "Because I deliberation what's truly absorbing astir the Event Horizon movie is consecutive disconnected the bat, we're talking astir the vessel being alive. Yeah. The ship's alive. So if the ship's alive, past it's a character. And Dark Descent was precise overmuch astir truly the root of however is the vessel alive. And truthful we're going to benignant of ellipse backmost to that rather a batch and woody with that. But arsenic acold arsenic contented #5 goes, I mean, I would accidental each hellhole hits that fan. I said close from the get-go that this was my Aliens to Alien."

Finally, Ward teases that the artwork successful Pandemonium is going to beryllium a large departure from what fans person seen successful the erstwhile 2 books, describing it arsenic different "big swing" that takes the bid successful immoderate astonishing ocular and communicative directions.

"When radical spot the archetypal leafage of Volume 3, Issue #1, they are going to beryllium surprised," Ward promises. "I emotion that. Because we're not going to beryllium successful a spot you expect. We're going to unfastened successful 17th period London. What? And the archetypal quality we spot volition beryllium a Sir Isaac Newton. Wow. Because arsenic you know, he's precise overmuch associated with a small happening called gravity. I don't cognize whether Dr. Ware would've been the archetypal 1 to person created the Gravity Drive. Maybe. Maybe determination mightiness person been idiosyncratic earlier that that had a spell with it. Who knows?"

Event Horizon: Pandemonium #1 volition beryllium released successful December 2026, with a last bid cutoff of October 19. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

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