Review: Infinite Dark
The universe has ended. Entropic decay - a wave of darkness destroying reality itself - swept through all of space, annihilating everything in its path. Two thousand human survivors live in a huge space station, the Orpheus, protected by a pseudoreality field. Outside is absolute nothingness: not the void of empty space but a total absence of existence.
Security Director Deva Karrell is haunted by the cosmic apocalypse that drove the remnants of humanity to this final oasis, and is shocked when the Orpheus turns out to be not the safe haven it was meant to be. In a deactivated district of the vast station a dead body is uncovered; a scientist brutally murdered, the crime scene covered in strange, rune-like symbols...
Infinite Dark by writer Ryan Cady and artist Andrea Mutti is a sci-fi/horror drama which exploits the primal fears of the dark, the unknown and the existential dread of the void. Given their circumstances, paranoia and delusions are to be expected. Hysteria and even violence are understandable when your universe has contracted to such a limited range. Karrell and her colleagues are faced with the challenges of policing the population as the fruits of these fears manifest in unpredictable ways. The Orpheus - envisaged as a sanctuary - can feel very much like a prison when you can never leave. Some of the inmates are bound to go stir crazy...
But then there are disturbing hints that, on top of all this, it seems that the projected fears of 'something' sinister and malevolent outside are more than just fevered fantasies. The evidence slowly begins to mount up: there really is something out there...
Mutti creates suitably creepy, atmospheric tableaux of nightmares crawling from the claustraphobic/agoraphobic darkness. Our high-tech heroes find themselves pitted against an enemy beyond their comprehension; some shapeless, atavistic boogeyman from ancient mythology.
The survival of the last remnants of humanity is at stake. The officers of the Orpheus stand between them and the threat of final annihilation ... but how do you fight an enemy who is made of pure nothingness?
Zak Webber
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