The Great Darkness Saga was the big Legion of Super-Heroes event of the eighties for most, and is one of the better Legion stories overall. Great artwork by Keith Giffen (having finally decided on a style for the moment) and an excellent story by Paul Levitz, with some nice plot twists and uses of some interesting characters. My one complaint about the story was that it was so obvious who the main villain was (spoiler alert: Darkseid) from the very beginning that I can't believe it was a "secret...

One of the better LSH stories of the pre-Crisis era. I remember how this blew me away when it was revealed who the villain was. How could Darkseid be alive in the 30th century? (Unfortunately, DC blew that reveal with the cover of this collection.) The pacing feels a bit off in places compared to modern stories. The book is mainly build up and Darkseid doesn't really show up until the end. It's also glossed over how he takes over Daxam, but there sure are some incredible moments when the Substit...

This was one of the most important comic series I ever read. It totally connected me to the Legion for all time. I admit, I had already read it for years before this happened, but this is the thing that carries it on into my adult life.

I have loved the Legion for a very long time and this is my favorite storyline. Keith Giffen could still draw back then and Paul Levitz hadn't been burnt out of good ideas. Sure, the Legion is complicated, that's part of the fun.

Enormous influence on Young Barry. This was my first exposure to the sort of sprawling epic that only truly great creators can conjure, and it absolutely blew my mind.

Oh man. Great story with a slow build. Great interior art and covers like so and so. It is always interesting to go back and read a comics from before the time when more dialog was included and not every page was treated as a poster.

the BEST L.O.S.H. storyline ever! Levitz and Giffen deliver a great futuristic tale that still stands up in this day and age, and only gets better!

A lot of build up and melodrama but it remained entertaining through to the end.

Another notch in the high part of the Stink-O'-Meter of 2019. The writing is abysmal, with some very sexist remarks just to spice things up a little that, unlike the one found in the Jonah Hex story "The meadow springs crusade" by Michael Fleischer , don't fit with the character(s) ("vacuum cleaners are the best friends of a woman!", says a woman) or the fictional hystorical period AT ALL. If this is what the general consensus see as the best story with the Legion of Superheroes, I'm happy I've

In my opinion, this was by far the best LSH storyline in the books many incarnations. It has it all with a mystery, drama, humor, action, surprises, a heaping helping of all the Legion including the substitutes and other friends, great villains, and literally every single member gets to actually do something. Levitz, Giffen, and everyone else involved touches all the right buttons to deliver an epic story that pits the team against foes that they don't recognize or know. I was reading this bo

If I wasn't browsing Alejandro's rating of Legion of Superheroes, I didn't find this book info in GR. I was so little when read this comic, that belonged to my neighbour. Thank you so much, neighbour!This saga was beyond descriptions when I first read it. So many firsts when I read this saga:1. My first LOSH comic read -> so many superheroes! a futuristic superheroes story in space!2. My first Darkseid story-> such a powerful enemy! Whoa! He made whole population of a planet to become his army!

The Legion of Super-Heroes is the long-time on-again/off-again series about the heroes of the far future of the DCU, or DC (Comics) Universe. Through many periods of spikes and declines in popularity, they have gone through different permutations, having many adventures along the way. Possibly one of the most popular story-lines of this title was The Great Darkness Saga.This story began simply enough for our heroes, with scouting missions in various enemy and uncharted territories. One of these

One of the best storylines ever from DC and possibly the best LSH storyline period. I'll leave the review at that, because you really should read it for yourself.

My favorite comic book story. Mr. Levitz really hit his stride as the scribe of the Legion. And Keith Giffen brought a distinctive technological look to the 30th century. The book holds up well over time. I think the GDS is responsible for the major role Darkseid has today. Check out the script in the back to see how the creative partnership between Levitz and Giffen evolved over the course of the project.

I have this feeling, after reading this book, that Legion of Superheroes is a phenomenally difficult series to write. There are something like 30 different characters in the Legion (okay, I exaggerate) that each individual fan wants to know about! So we have this plot, but instead of a few characters it gets muddled by the legion. You can only really choose to focus on a few, then wonder why they weren't fighting a particular battle.Despite this problem, Paul does a great job of working with a s...

It took me like 18 years to be able to read the final chapter of this saga. No, I'm not a slow reader, hehehe. Let me explain my experience with this story. I started to read it when I was a kid, maybe I was like 10 years old. At that time, the comics that reached my country, Costa Rica, were Mexican editions translated to Spanish. I was already a huge fan of The Legion of Super-Heroes. And when I started to read the issues of this saga, I was totally mesmerized. The Legion was facing some myste...

I am a huge LOSH fan and this is one of if not the best storyline they had. Excellent plot and art. Very recommended

Along with Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, this was one of the grittier "events" for DC Comics before Crisis on Infinite Earths. Basically Darkseid has minions cloned from heroes harvest mystical objects so he can rise and take over the universe. And only the dysfunctional group of young heroes called the Legion of Super-Heroes can stop him. Though it was a little disappointing to me that the final battle doesn't really involve the main Legion members all that much. Mostly it's two heroes from

I've been a Legion fan for many years. I haven't exactly loved their constant reboots, preferring when Jim Shooter and Dave Cockrum were doing the book. I found this a bit tedious at times and over long. A little editing might have made this a better story.

I didn't know much of the legion of superheroes before this, only that they are from the 30th century and Superman did meet hem when he was still superboy. It seems X-Men took a bit of inspiration from them, as they are a supergroup with mutantlike powers. I can see how this is their creative highpoint, even when i didn't read any of their other adventures.Even back then, the 'reveal' that Darkseid was the villain of this story would have been obvious, for everyone that did read Kirby's new God