In the future, the Legion of Super-Heroes is in a resting period for most of the team as we see Chameleon Boy and his father R.J. Brande return to the highly toxic and xenophobic tribal world of their origin, Durla.

The team also gets a few new costumes as showcased here on this cover, a tribute to an older Legion cover from its Silver Age origins in Adventure Comics.    When the father/son pair arrive on Durla, immediately they are set upon by their fellow tribal Durlans for leaving Durla.  The Durlans appear as a race in large purple robes with tentacles come from the hood, presumably these tentacles transform into the antennae we see Cham wear.  R.J. Brande, Cham’s father, is also powerless at this time and has been stuck in his form of an older humanoid male since the origin of the Legion when the founders stopped the assassination attempt on his life.

R.J. had arranged for Reep/Chameleon Boy to join the Legion in its early days as a way of helping Durlan relations with the rest of the United Planets, but Durla itself remains a reluctant world.  A toxic atmosphere laced with radiation and pollution, the counsel of Durla imprisons Chameleon Boy and R.J. Brande and drops them into one of the largest cess pools on the planet, forcing them to claw their way back to freedom.

Chameleon Boy manages to regain his powers through a very bizarre alien ritual, as is fitting a Durlan, and the two leave (escape) from their homeworld again, strangers in a strange land indeed.

While we leave the father/son fun behind, we find we have a brother/brother heart-to-heart as the evil Lightning Lord comes looking for his little sister Ayla, who if you will remember is Light Lass and who left the Legion not too long ago.  Lightning Lord attacks the Legion in an effort to find Ayla, his motives remain a mystery for the time being, however it is soon revealed that Light Lass was to be captured for the burgeoning Legion of Super-Villains and Lightning Lord intended to protect his little sister from the other villains’ evil designs.

At the end of the story, Lightning Lad reveals that he does not know where Ayla is and he only hopes that she is happy, which she is, while off panel, but we will get to that revelation later.

 

 

With Supergirl still in the future (hey, check the Superman III ad!!!!  Finally a Superman movie without Lex Luthor.. just Richard Pryor.. fine.. moving on).. she Brainiac Five, Colossal Boy, Sun Boy, and Shrinking Violet find themselves on the artificially created Weber’s World which has been usurped by The Emerald Empress, formerly of the Fatal Five and her collaborator, the Dark Circle’s Science Police mole, Ontirr.

Additionally, the sub plot of the Legion imposter moves forward as evidence piles up that perhaps there is someone masquerading as a Legionnaire, which leaves the questions, who is it and where is the original Legionnaire?  But enough time to worry about that in a few issues, because first we have a wedding to attend.

 

Welcome all, to the wedding of Queen Projectra and her consort Karate Kid.  They wed in relative peace and quiet, as the drama in this issue is brought on by the fact that when Superboy pops through the time stream he sends a cruiser full of Legionnaires back in time to fight the Olympian Gods.  Dream Girl’s precognition reveals that the Olympian Gods in question are actually Durlans masquerading as Gods on Earth and she forsees the cataclysm they bring to Durla in the Six-Minute War, a veiled reference to what a nuclear war and aftermath might look like.

The Legionnaires manage to get forward in the future, however they miss the royal wedding event of the United Planets!  Oh well, better luck next time.

Next up:  The Legion Academy!  The Missing Legionnaire Revealed!  Focus on Star Boy!