In our review of Event Horizon: Inferno #2, we learn more about Skylar, and how in the hell she wound up with Durante, as the Event Horizon awakes.
Event Horizon: Inferno #2
Writer: Christian Ward
Artist and Main Cover: Robert Carey
Variant Cover: Carla Wyzgala, Pablo Tunica
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: June 3, 2026
This review contain spoilers
Three weeks before the story kicks off, Durante stops by the mental health facility his family owns to check on Skylar, to ensure she’s ready to send into space. The doctors think she may not be as sick as he claims, but he’s insistent.
On the ship, the crew’s facing off against Starck, as Skylar’s trying to get her bearings. Starck tells them who she is, and that the ship’s intent on taking them to Hell.
Then we get to Skylar’s history. She was born into servitude toward the Durantes, Throughout her life, she’s been told to know her place. At 22, she decided to try striking out on her own, despite there being so few jobs.
But eventually, Daniel finds her again, and they get to talking. She’s pushed past his whole “sacrifice her to the demons” thing, thinking that the adults were right and that was all just youthful mischief. They eventually marry.
And then the gaslighting truly kicks in, as he keeps pushing the narrative that she’s mentally ill. He has her committed, she insists she’s sane, keeps escaping and getting brought back in.
On the ship, Melissa points out that Starck can’t be the only survivor: the guy in the tank’s awake now. But he’s not human anymore, and Starck knows that the ship feeds on trauma. And Skylar happens to be a wonderful source for that.
Starck prepares to kill her, but Skylar quickly states that she’s good at getting out of places. And as they all run from the increasing number of demons, Annabelle wonders if they should step in. But no. Daniel and his own demon pal figure they can work with this.
The themes of rich-and-evil are still going strong, here. It’s not a subtle thread for this part of the Event Horizon series…but at the same time, there’s a reason that theme is so evergreen. I mean, even that far in the future, the gap between rich and poor is huge. And with this being a sci-fi franchise, it’s stated that automation has made it harder to make a living.
The reveal of Skylar’s history shows that the odds have pretty much always been against her. The constant bombardment of “Know your place” she’d been hit with? It definitely makes me angry on her behalf. As does her being told that Daniel and Benedict trying to use her to summon demons wasn’t the massive red flag that it totally was.
Even with the presence of demons and Hell, here, I’d have to say that the most chilling aspect of this story may have to be Daniel’s treatment of Skylar after they get married. Just because there’s so much precedent for it. Men would have their wives involuntarily committed for whatever BS reasons.
And honestly, Daniel’s may have to be the most intentionally harmful. He was actively out to traumatize this woman for the sake of summoning demons and getting immortality. If he’s looking to secure his own little place in Hell, I’d say it’s very well set.
The elements taking place in the present took a little bit of a backseat, here, in comparison to what Skylar went through. But those brief moments make the most of their time. The demons shown in those segments are just as horrific to look at as ever (points for those designs), and there’s just something so wonderfully twisted about the Event Horizon herself coming back to life and gleefully inviting all of her new friends to come back to Neptune/Hell with her.
Final Thoughts
At this point, it’s a question of what’s scarier: actual demons from Hell or the spouse that wants his own place there. Either way, “Event Horizon: Inferno” continues to prove itself a worthy successor to the cult classic film. The supernatural horror elements are there, with an undercurrent of all-too-realistic horror mixed in, and it all makes for a harrowing ride.
