#Great Darkness Saga

[splooosh]

“The servant”

Keith Giffen - Frank Giacoia

[vertigoartgore]

The worshipers of Darkseid by Chris Bachalo.

[sprockyeahlegion]

“fate”

[x-mensirens]

[kara-zor-els]

He fumbled so badly 😭

[chernobog13]

The Super-cousins during the climatic battle between the Legion of Super-Heroes and Darkseid in The Great Darkness Saga. The story ran in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #290-294 in 1982. Written by Paul Levitz, art by the late Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt.

[androxys]

The idea that comics are constantly rebooting, or have too many characters, or are too lore-laden to be accessible to new readers is a statistical error. Legion of Super-Heroes Georg is an outlier and

[cantsayidont]

August 1982. In 1982, Keith Giffen became the regular penciller of THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, to which writer Paul Levitz had recently returned. Aided by much-improved physical production, Giffen, inked by Larry Mahlstedt, gave the book a sleek new look, a science fiction setting that no longer felt like a holdover from the 1950s. Before long, he was also contributing so much to the stories that he began receiving co-plotter credit. This issue marked the official beginning of what's often considered Levitz and Giffen's defining Legion story: "The Great Darkness Saga," whose wheels had been set in motion a few months earlier.

[velvetjune]

if there’s an Alan Wake III, I desperately need it to focus on Alice and Barry

[duckapus]

Mario and the Spaghetti Revival

Mario returns to the ruins of the old Tubby Spaghetti Factory alongside Meggy and the Guards in yet another desperate attempt to discover the secret to creating Orange Spaghetti, only to find that a dark splinter group of Toadsworth's Flying Spaghetti Monster cult has set up shop there and is creating horrific Black Spaghetti monsters in an attempt to recreate and control their God so they can take over the world. So now they're dealing with that.

Two of these monsters happen to be resurrected, mutated forms of familiar faces, namely the factory's owner and the Guards' former boss Tubby Wonka (who's none-too-pleased to see those morons again and is siding with the cult), and the old mascot Bendy the Ink Demon (who is happy to see that Mario is still doing well after Bendy sacrificed himself to save him from the spaghetti flood of 2017, and sides with the good guys).

[all-action-all-picture]

RIP Keith Giffen. Personally I'll remember him best from Ambush Bug, the early years of Justice League/Justice League International and his run on Legion of Super-Heroes which gave us The Great Darkness Saga. I can remember being on a family holiday in the early 1980's and picking up random issues of this at a newsagents in Portstewart in Northern Ireland. They even had them on a spinner rack. For some reason that particular newsagents only seemed to have DC titles but no Marvel (while other shops had the reverse). The issues never seemed to be in any order and it wasn't until years later that I got to read the whole thing in a trade collection. It is only about 5 or 6 issues long but in those days it wasn't easy where I lived to pick up consecutive issues of US comics. This collection is from 1989. I think I've another collection of it somewhere but this one was handy.

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[vertigoartgore]

Uncanny X-Force by artist Declan Shalvey and colorist Jordie Bellaire. Source Source

Declan Shalvey (February 9 2011) : "I'm on a mad X-buzz after reading the first 4 issues of Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña, with great covers by Esad Ribic. It's bloody brilliant. I've lost track of what's happening in the X-world of late, but this is a great series that you can just pick up without having to know everything that's going on elsewhere."

[iconuk01]

Late for the eclipse party darnit!

[tve-creates]

broke: runaway noble's daughter

woke: runaway necromancer's daughter

bespoke: necromancer's daughter who has a very awkward relationship with her father for various reasons, the least of which being that he creates undead abominations and she tripped her way into heroism

[evilhorse]

Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #2