I was impressed by Annihilation Conquest: Prologue, the first issue in Marvel Comics's world-spanning science fiction series. Although the writers seems to have borrowed some ideas from Star Trek's Borg, they at least picked a good source to take from. The first issue was meaty and engrossing; my only hesitation with this series is that it's yet another crossover epic that will require me to read many different titles--in this case, five--to get the whole story: Wraith, Nova, Quasar, Star-Lord and Annihilation Conquest.

I'm definitely going to pick up Quasar, the title named after one-half of the lesbian hero couple featured in Annihilation Conquest: Prologue. Quasar is clearly meant to be the focus of the two, since she's going to have her own title, but I really like her bald girlfriend, Heather, shown here. Actually, she likes to be called Moondragon, rather than Heather, which I think is very lesbian of her. I guess she's meant to be a crunchy-granola type lesbian. That makes sense, in a way, because she has powerful psychic abilities, as well as a mean high kick.