I still think we should've had the Legion Academy spinoff way back in 1985, to take the place of Tales of the Legion. Legion Academy on the newsstands, Veteran Legion at the specialty stores...maybe I'm naïve, but I really believe it could've worked.
The trick would be to make it stand out from the New Mutants...
#1 Pol's dad, who also has magnetic powers is brought into the academy as an instructor. The Legion think he's gone villainous and things are tense between the teams.
#2 Timberwolf guest stars and threatens to eviscerate some of the youngsters.
#3 Chuck 7 Lu are off on a mission when it dawns on them that no one ever seems to teach the kids. No wonder so few get into the Legion.
#4 Myg kidnaps them all to Lythyl, from where they access various realms of the gods. It turns out that the student with the helmet is the kid of one of them.
#5 part two of #4. It's not a long story, but the writer is needlessly verbose "to the ultimate extent."
#6 The kids return, only to find that Timberwolf has conveniently forgotten who they are and tries to eviscerate them again. Ayla guests waving some lotus fruit and a copy of The Water Margin to lure Brin away.
#7 The Academy vs The Subs who have now become a group attached to a rival UP Academy.
Hmmmm… it's tougher to separate them than I thought...