The only thing I can really say positively about this series is the suit is being drawn better and starting to grow on me. Still don't like the random billowing they do with the cape (like how it will be full and flapping around when Supes is flying so it should be streamlined against his back) and think it would look cooler if the cape was more connected to his back but other than that I'm starting to get onboard with the new look and the fact it highlights his alien heritage more than the old one did.
But I disagree with a lot of you that Action Comics is a better series. Not saying Superman is better, just that I don't rate Action Comics that high right now either. I've never been a great fan of Morrison and Action Comics does not have a cohesion nor seeming progression that I would expect from the book. One major problem for me is the constant switching of costumes, which makes no sense and just makes the series feel disjointed. The other is no sense of timeline (though that's a general 52 complaint but is highlighted in Action Comics by the interactions Supes has with other heroes in some panels and yet in others making it feel like he hasn't met any of them yet and is still getting his feet wet.....again a problem compounded by the switching of costumes).
Overall I hope DC will get these two titles on a better track soon. One of the things I hope they figure out sooner than Marvel is how to present a single Clark Kent. When Marvel broke Peter and MJ up it took far too long for them to come around to a writer (Dan Slott) that could present a now single Peter in a mature and believable way than the head pounding fans suffered from following One More Day/Brand New Day and what is going on with Clark and Lois right now feels exactly the same way (making it even more painful to read because I had a few years of having to read it in Spider-Man titles).
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