What was it with comics in the late '80s? I'm not sure why I pulled out the 15 issues I had of the Legion of Superheroes "5 Years Later" reboot and it's incomprehensibly bad. And just generally incomprehensible.
In issue 1... nothing happens. Our focus is on occupied Brall, conquered by Imsk - the shrinking people took over the magnetic powers people - and by the end we're off the planet and know everything sucks. We're spending a year to get the band back together. 1/3
Issue 2 opens telling us that Ultra Boy is now even more badass. How? By killing Phantom Girl offscreen so Jo can be shacking up with a hooker/exotic dancer, and having an adoring snarky teen sidekick as he wages a one man war on Rimbor's corrupt govt.
Don't worry, his hooker with a heart of gold is killed 2-pages later so our badass rogue cop hero in a leather jacket is unencumbered. No space in this issue is spent mourning her.
Plus 1 page of last issues plots. 2/3
I don't know if I can bring myself to keep reading. I know I read these when they came out, and at least once later in the 90's up through a borrowed issue 50, and I didn't like it then.
This isn't even "Batman should be more serious". This is "Hey, this setting is by design Utopian, the one space where we let ourselves do that." "Well, we should BURN THAT THE FUCK DOWN!" It's incomprehensible.
And I don't know that the Legion ever recovered. 3/3