I think the original, I guess "not real" cover looked a bit better.

@Primmaster64: I was talking about the TV show... For the last 4 seasons the Kents were not part of his life, Clark couldn't fly and Lois was a young reporter who dated her editor (Not Perry White), Green Arrow, Aquaman and NOT Clark.

The Powers sound very much Smallville-esq

Wonder how powerful he'll be on the Man Of tommorow title.

The loss of the Supemran-Lois marriage is what is bothering me. As comic fans change can be very worrying to us but really the question has to be asked: Was the current direction worth keeping? For the past few years so many Superman stories have not had much execution with the creative teams leaving mid story was this the creator or the direction? Change in the books is needed somehow some way it's better than nothing and continuing Grounded and Doomslayer.

Wonder if the guy Lois is dating is Jimmy Olsen...

After the update reveals the marriage anullment, etc All I can say is - I'm glad I'm into Batman and not Supes.  So I really don't care that he's the one that being the most rebooted in Sept.  If I get into it now, this'll be the Superman I know.  
 
One question about the Kents, though.  in the current continuity - they were alive when he went to Metropolis, right?  The update up there seems to state the're dead when he first gets there.
 
Whether or not they'd decided to get rid of the marriage, I was very excited about Morrison on Action comics and the fact that he's the first super hero excites me.  How would a superman that came about in the 2000s (assuming they've updated the dates) deal?  How would the 24-hour news networks deal with him?  Works very well with the fact that JLA is also exploring the formation dates.  
 
It is in that aspect that the DC revamp ahs been most successful.  It would have been annoying if all the Batman books rebooted and we had kid Dick again.  But if one of them had done it, that would have been ok.  And it seems like that's what they're doing with Supes.  One book is reboot and one is modern.  Except, in the case of Superman, they got rid of the marriage and that sucks.  Hopefully they explain it well.  PERSONALLY, I'd prefer if they got divorced rather than have it never happen.  I feel the same way about Spidey.

man there are times when you see one of Morrison's crazy ideas and you think "that's awesome!" then there are times where it just makes him look like a complete nutball.....I am not a fan of this....doesn't really matter if it's a pre-Superman story...the costume sucks....highwater pants, what appear to be loafers in this picture, a half cape, and a t-shirt do not mix well

So that was a Real Costume? I thought it was just for publicity purposes. And that's the real cover? I don't like it

Garsh.

So young yes and the cape is to short

Update

DC's The Source reveals some more information that is going to upset some readers.

In the pages of ACTION COMICS, writer Grant Morrison and artist Rags Morales will present humanity’s first encounters with Superman, before he became one of the World’s Greatest Super Heroes. Set a few years in the past, it’s a bold new take on a classic hero.
* This Superman is very much an alien, one struggling to adjust to his adopted home. In the series, he must come to terms with both the loss of his home world, as well as the loss of both of his adopted parents. He is more Kal-El from the planet Krypton than Clark Kent from Kansas. He’s a loner trying to find his place in the world.
* The series’ first storyline will explore the origins of Superman’s costume, as it evolves from a look that includes jeans and work boots to a new look: a suit of battle armor that pays tribute to his Kryptonian past.
* His great powers have limits. When the series begins, Superman can leap tall buildings, but his ability to fly is in its infancy.
And in the SUPERMAN ongoing comic book series, by writer George Perez and artist Jesus Merino, will be set in present day continuity and will unleash a series of new challenges for Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent.
* Clark Kent is single and living on his own. He has never been married.
* Lois Lane is dating a colleague at the DAILY PLANET (and his name isn’t Clark Kent) and she has a new position with the paper.
Timeless and modern, classic and contemporary, but younger, brasher and more brooding, this is Superman. The New Man of Tomorrow.

Before people grab their pitchforks over the marriage being nonexistent, I suggest reading the first few issues first to see if it matters.

This style seems more modern, the old costume is still better in my opinion though.

Can't really say I like any of this.

LMAO yup, this' officially a reBOOT, folk!

Ok so will action comics ever catch up to Superman comics?

Nooooooo! Isn't marriage a sacred thing anymore? First Spidey and MJ and now Clark and Lois.
 
I usually love Morrison's crazy ideas but not this time, I have a bad feeling about all this but its got to be better than current storylines like Grounded.

If they're trying to reestablish the DCU, who better to anchor that inception with than Superman. This could be amazing or terrible, but so far there isn't enough to go on to make any qualitative statements. That short cape does look kind of goofy though, but so did the underwear-on-the-outside look that somehow survived 80's years.

The October issues are out!

Yes indeed, DC and Marvel are both going the way of undoing their most famous marriages! How can DC possibly keep describing this as not a reboot???

Didn't we just spend the last 10 years watching this on Smallville? Yes well look how that turned out. Noooo Thank you.

@xkoenig:  
Well, they didn't erase it out of existence like Marvel did 
They are just returning to a point in time when it didn't happen yet  
 
@Farley Deering:  at least no deal with the devil is involved 

I like that the police is shooting him like the freaky alien he is!  
Just kidding - but it's nice to see that he will have to earn the respect. Let him feel a taste of Pete's life for a moment. 

so is this kinda like "super not boy, but not yet a man"? 

If it were anyone but Grant --

 I'm OK with them splitting up the two books. One for early in his career and one for current continuity with the rest of the DCU.
 As far as marriage to Lois I just think of it as a time before they fall in love and get married. Just as many stories have been done in that time period as have not and we get to watch them fall in love again.
 
One thing that that has always bugged me and it sounds like they are going to make it worse is how they portray him identifying to himself as a Kryptonian and not and not an Earthman. I say this because he came here as a baby at worst a very young toddler. Most every memory that he has that make him the person he is comes from earth. There is no struggling to adjust to his adopted home because that's all he knows. How can he be more Kal-El from Krypton when the only thing he knows of Krypton are a few data crystals.

Looks like a cross between Superboy and Superman =)

LMAO WTF This is awful. also this seems very silverage like with Clark's parents both dead and him just living single with not being married to Lois. I wonder why they got rid of that aspect of his character? With Spiderman he had the excuse of having stories where he gets kicked around emotionally but Superman? I don't think it works well.
 
And that early years costume is stupid, I've actully seen a guy once wearing jeans with a superman t shirt with a red bit of cloth as a cape and really it's worser than his classic costume.
 
I find it also kinda stupid that he is the world's first superhero in this timeline, So the likes of Alan Scott never existed as Green Lantern? Or Jay Garrick as The Flash? DC seriously this is a REBOOT not a reamp. A revamp is when you update origins to a modan era, this is compleately changing backstories and taking heroes out of DC main continuity Thats a REBOOT!!!
 
I will buy this but I have a bad feeling about some of this reboot opps sorry Revamp. 
 
One last thing ARMOUR WTF ARMOUR???? WHY WHY DOES A GUY WHO CAN SURVIVE THE CORE OF THE SUN NEED ARMOUR?

@Darthtravis: Very good point. I'm thinking it might confuse the new readers that DC is trying to bring in with this reboot and could backfire a bit. All these Supermen in different timelines may confuse and turn off new readers.

But I'm very much looking forward to the reboot. I've been a long time Marvel fanboy, but these 52 #1'S have be excited about DC for the first time since Geoff Johns starting writing Green Lantern. Can't wait!

well now i no its a revamp and this sounds indof cool.

This look is ridiculous!  It looks like a little kid running around in the backyard, with a towel tied around his neck, pretending to be Superman.  I'm surprised he's not making a "wooshing" sound while he's flying through the air.

The amazing thing about story telling, no matter the format, is that if a story isn't good you can tell another one. Some are great and some aren't. Of course you'll never know until the story is told. Glimpses and peeks make not a story. I reserve judgement for the final product. I mean it's Grant Morrison and George freakin' Perez. These guys have told some amazing tales. Geez, I'll give these dudes a chance to tell an interesting Superman tale any day.

that mini cape is dumb looking but im still excited

I liked it all until I read about Supes becoming 'Brooding' ugh. Save it for JMS' Earth 1.

I've never read DC stuff, but I might start because this does sound interesting to me. That said, it looks like he was scared so he tied his security blanket to the back of his costume and called it a cape so no one makes fun of his blankie.

Why are the cops shooting superman?