I'm still a freak for the Legion of Super-Heroes, and still have crushes on many cute future girls, but there is no grokkin' way I want to read what DC are doing with the Legion right now
They've made them a bunch of evil bastards, which misses the point of the team to an astronomical degree. Even when things were at their worst for the greater universe - and they got pretty damn bleak at times - the kids of the Legion were the beacon in the night, the hope for a better future, even as the moon is exploding in the sky.
There is a long tradition of doing this sort of thing to heroes, there have been evil version of all the great super heroes, they have formed their own societies and gangs, but I don't want to read about a nasty Shrinking Violet. That's what the Legion of Super Villains was for.
If this is your thing - if this is your kink - then all power to you. It's obviously appealing to somebody, but I'm not that somebody.
And fortunately, there have been decades and decades of Legion comics published by DC, and I'm sure I haven't read them all yet. The Legion have benefitted from the company's most recent trawls through its wonderful archives, and I was so repulsed by the evil version that I immediately bought Zap Goes the Legion, a chunky collection of the team at their very eaerly-70s best, before they got deconstructed into incoherence.
The stories are old and simplistic and sometimes very, very dated, but they're bright and energetic and get straight to the point, with some of the most wonderful art the comic has ever had.
Turns out I'm still a freak for the future, even if that future was published 50 years ago.
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