The Legion’s stories continue in a four part story featuring two very esoteric characters called Omen and Prophet.  The story is my least favorite of the Legion stories that I have read in the original Levitz run, but it does have some interesting art pieces and some twists and turns that pay off later.

As the Legion deals with Prophet foretelling the coming of his Master, Omen, a few other Legionnaires deal with personal matters as we see Colossal Boy taking his new Durlan wife Yera home to meet mom and dad in a revisit of “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?”  Gim reveals to his dad and mom, mom being the President of Earth, that his wife is actually Yera, a Durlan actress.

On their honeymoon, Queen Projectra and Karate Kid are on a honeymoon planet, only to find that Projectra’s cousin Pharoxx is there making trouble for the couple.  Karate Kid (King?) and Queen Projectra make short work of the usurping cousin, but before they can do anything with him, he disappears in a space warp.  A plot hole to be continued later.

The ending of the Prophet and Omen story brings us another sub plot to be solved later.. Lyle Norg, the original Invisible Kid, appears in a warp and appears to be alive and well.

The most amusing part of this four parter is the fact that Element Lad is told by several people he was elected leader, but he doesn’t believe it form anyone until he gets yelled at by Chief Zendak of the Science Police.  He was a write-in vote after all and had been runner-up four times prior, so I understand his wish not to be the brunt of a cruel hazing from his Legion teammates.

This is what I call seeding the future, the Legion is due to “end” soon and branch into two titles, one called Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the other being printed on a better quality of paper called Baxter paper, and that book being called Legion of Super-Heroes, which actually is their first #1 issue ever after starting way back in Adventure #247, prior to the creation of the Justice League of America.  The Legion went from a long stint in Adventure, to Action, to sharing Superboy and the book eventually became to be called Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and then finally became Legion of Super-Heroes in #259 as Superboy left the regular Legion cast.

While the Prophet and Omen story did nothing for me personally (see how much you found out about those two while we’ve been talking?) the seeds planted are about to bear some deadly fruit.

Next Up:  More Legion as Brainiac Five blows up the headquarters again, this time with a little help from C.O.M.P.U.T.O. and the regular LSH title comes to a close.