I thought this was an interesting take on the current Man of Steel:
http://ifanboy.com/articles/reflections-on-supermans-sad-decline/
http://ifanboy.com/articles/reflections-on-supermans-sad-decline/
Is Superman destined to be a character who creators just throw BIG PROBLEMS at? Is that what Superman is now, just a collection of powers beyond mortal men? Do modern creators look at Superman and consider it a fool’s errand to try to do something different? I mean, I’m a fan of Grant Morrison, but his recent issues of Action Comics have been confounding, with random, gibberish-ridden word balloons, convoluted action sequences and lackluster, saccharin resolutions. If the writer behind All Star Superman can’t tell a compelling Superman story for modern audiences, where does that leave us?Also, this part in the discussion under the main problem was interesting:

I sometimes wonder if Superman’s problem isn’t him, it’s us. I feel like, for decades now, there are more cynics than optimists. I just mentioned to my wife that I sometimes think my generation mistakes cynicism for intelligence and sarcasm for humor (obviously, a cynic can be smart and a sarcasm can be funny, but one does not equal the other all times and in every situation). I consider myself an optimist and I run into people all the time who look at me like an oddity.
How can Superman seem relevant to a pessimist? Most people don’t think that he could possibly exist. I don’t mean this in the “alien that rocketed to Earth and has super powers” sense, I mean it in the “anyone with that much power couldn’t possibly be that good and if they were they would become corrupted” sense.
Of course, I could be wrong, maybe there are as many optimists as cynics and all the optimists are just quieter.