It just so happens that the blanket of darkness cast by the sorcerers falls as Saturn Girl is giving birth. While Mordru is summarily dealt with thanks to the White Witch, their work is not without its consequences. I’ve loved every time the Legion has dealt the magical, fantastic, or medieval, one of my biggest surprises of this Legion run. It’s a fairly simple plot, but one that Colan draws the hell out of. Literal darkness, in this case, as the group kidnaps Shadow Woman and her cousin to tap into their inherent control of darkness. Following his defeat by Darkseid, a group of sorcerers seeks to revive him using dark magics. This is the third time we’ve seen Levitz turn to Mordru for conflict with the Legion.
The oversized issue, featuring artwork by Curt Swan and Romeo Tanghal, features two plots the imminent birth of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl’s child(ren?) and the return of Mordru. However, just a couple of months later, the third “Legion of Super-Heroes Annual” was published, and it acts as a better denouement. The volume is rebranded as “Tales of the Legion” with issue #314, which runs alongside the new “Legion of Super-Heroes” #1. It’s a poor end to this era of Legion stories. Even overlooking the particularly problematic sections where Element Lad adorns black-face while impersonating a Science Police officer, there’s just not much to enjoy in this story. However, it’s definitely no Minority Report. It’s a rather generic story about the Legion and the Science Police teaming up to solve the mystery of a number of bombings the the SP crime computer has been unable to predict. Issues #312 and #313 feature one of the least interesting stories in this entire run. While it’s great to see Dawnstar and Wildfire enter into this relationship, the story doesn’t hold up well on a modern reading. Again, this plays into an antiquated notion that a sexual relationship is inherently preferable to a non-sexual relationship. When Wildfire and Dawnstar finally reconnect and give in to each other, the duo makes a big point of their inability to have a physical relationship. Even disregarding the big heteronormativity of Dawnstar’s pilgrimage, this particular plot point is not particularly engaging. The second chapter features artwork from guest penciller Gene Colan sees Wildfire throw caution to the wind and sets out to intercept Dawnstar on her pilgrimage.
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