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Thursday, June 5, 2025

‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent’ Inked Pages Preview Upcoming Prequel Comic [Exclusive]

Discover what happened to the original Event Horizon crew in Event Horizon: Dark Descent, a five-part comic prequel to the 1997 cosmic horror film launching August 20 from IDW Publishing.

Bloody Disgusting has an early look at three inked pages — pre-coloring and lettering — by artist Tristan Jones (Aliens: Defiance), who’s working on the series with writer Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness) and colorist Pip Martin (That Texas Blood).

Taking place prior to the movie’s 2047 setting, the comic will uncover what really happened to Captain Kilpack and the first Event Horizon crew as their ship journeyed across a nightmarish realm of torments beyond imagining.

“Event Horizon is one of those films that everyone remembers for a very specific reason… that scene,” Jones tells Bloody Disgusting. “On a surface level, what that scene implies is something that people have really only been left to imagine, and because that’s where we’re going, it immediately takes the comic into really precarious ground as a creator to go beyond that surface.

“What’s exciting for me is trying to find a way to take all of that stuff in the film and what Christian’s put into the scripts, and figure out what that dimension might’ve looked like based on what the filmmakers were drawing inspiration from, what effects might’ve been used, etc., if they’d had the budget to do it. It’s exciting to be entrusted with that because you can go crazy with it, but also a massive responsibility to make sure it works with the film, so it provides a really interesting challenge you don’t get all that often in these things.”

“As soon as I got the gig writing Event Horizon there was one artist I wanted to draw the book: Tristan Jones,” Ward adds. “Tristan is no stranger to bringing cinematic comics horror to the comic page. He made his name on the Aliens comics, but there’s one thing he draws better than a Xenomorph and that’s the industrial gothic aesthetic of Event Horizon. He is literally perfect for this book.

“And Pip Martin is one of the most exciting new colorists working today. Her work is fresh and exciting and unlike anything on the stands. Together their work takes the visuals of the movie to unexpected and very very cool places. You’ve never seen such horrific images look so good!”

Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 features a primary cover by Jeffrey Alan Love, variant covers by Ward, Martin Simmonds, and Joshua Hixson, a foil art variant of Ward’s cover, and a sketch cover.

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) and written by Philip Eisner (Mutant Chronicles), Event Horizon follows a rescue squad as it investigates a spaceship that got sucked into a black hole and resurfaced with a strange new presence.

Event Horizon: Dark Descent is part IDW Dark, a horror imprint expanding Paramount properties in comic book form. Other titles will include A Quiet Place, Smile, Sleepy Hollow, and “The Twilight Zone.”