Event Horizon: Pandemonium is the trilogy finale where Heaven is worse than Hell

IDW announced Event Horizon: Pandemonium at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — the third and final chapter in writer Christian Ward's trilogy of Event Horizon comics, closing out a saga that started with Event Horizon: Dark Descent in 2025 and is currently running in Event Horizon: Inferno.

Pandemonium is written by Ward with interior art by Hernán González, known for John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night, and Ward himself handles the cover art. The premise flips the franchise's established cosmology: where the original 1997 film built its horror around a faster-than-light drive that tears open a portal to a Lovecraftian Hell dimension, Pandemonium posits that this universe also has a Heaven — and it's somehow even worse. Ward draws directly on Biblically accurate descriptions of angels and God for the look and feel of this new realm. "If you look at a Biblically accurate description of an angel, it is terrifying," Ward told IGN at SDCC. "I'm treating Heaven as a kind of alien place, a place where humans really shouldn't be. It's overwhelmingly cosmic horror." He adds that even descriptions of God fed into the concept — "he's described as you cannot look at his face."

Ward says the roadmap for Pandemonium was baked into his original pitch for Dark Descent from the start, with an appendix outlining where the trilogy would eventually go. The Event Horizon comics are part of IDW's recently launched IDW Dark imprint, which publishes horror titles built around both original concepts and established film properties. The franchise has been dormant on screen since Paul W.S. Anderson's cult 1997 film, making Ward's trilogy the most substantial expansion of the Event Horizon universe in decades.

With Inferno still ongoing — issue 4 is due August 5 — Ward is keeping the specifics of how that series sets up Pandemonium close to his chest for now. But he describes the whole project as following a deliberate roadmap, and says it's been "really satisfying" to see it come together.