I recently finished Levitz's LOSH and ADVENTURE 'pre 52' runs.

I enjoy Levitz's work (just like the Shooter arc before him) because those gentlemen are consummate pros who give you value in each every issue.  They can balance over-arching multi-issue intertwined story lines with compelling and logical character interaction. 

The tragedy of the DC Reboot was the wholesale train wreck it caused in Levitz's LEGION OF SUPERHEROES story.  He had carefully laid out and built brick-by-brick a complex quest story featuring the Legion of Super-Villains (and three worlds of powerful significance), complete with a couple of wonderful annuals/specials providing background.  Then what felt like 6-8 more issues of potential story was crammed into a hastily conceived and thoroughly unsatisfying conclusive issue.     

The ADVENTURE run featuring the Legion Academy was a smaller scale story -- still wonderfully executed with vibrant characterization -- and it reached a more natural and satisfying conclusion -- even intersecting with and supporting the LOSH story line.

I guess I'm mystified why fans idolize the old Shooter and Levitz LOSH stories, but the new Legion work by these gentlemen has garnered a lackluster reception and poor sales.  I don't see a fall-off in the quality of their work in the least bit -- and frankly, these are the only two 70/80's writers for which I can say that.

Perhaps it is simply that the Legion concept is too impenetrable for most readers.

I am enthusiastically looking forward to Levitz's new work on the DC 52 LOSH title.  I am less optimistic about LEGION LOST, as it strikes me as taking the name/concept of a GREAT story and trying to recapture lightning twice.....