There's an unexpected death in this issue, and though it's ostensibly of one of the "bad guys," I was sad to see this character go.
Badrock emerges and strange things ensue with Troll. What I find really quite awful is that all of the small planetoid-like children of McCall are destroyed by Badrock's re-entry into normal space. Not really a great way to treat one's kids.
There's lots of neat space combat in this issue, and it ends (SPOILER ALERT) with a scuttling group of space pirates - once again reminding us that even though there's this really rather epic saga taking place in the series, it's set in a much larger universe. In many superhero titles, it seems the universe revolves around the superhero, that everything that happens to other characters or in other locations is simply background for the main character. That's not the case with this series. There are other things going on in this universe, and other creatures are living their lives oblivious to the epic superhero story playing out before our eyes. It gives the comic a nice sense of perspective. Just because the story of the Prophets is the one that we're following doesn't mean it's the only one happening in this universe.
To be continued.
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