Superman. Shame. I was expecting it to be at least solid enough of a story. But it wasn't. More than half of this book has to do with Daily Planet and Lois than Superman himself. I don't need to read about Daily Planet's whereabouts and reconstruction, achievements and whatnot. with 10+ pages full of reporters and news about it from radio and tv and whatever, complete crap to fill the pages with nonsense. The whole book had that feeling that you're reading a comic from the 80s-90s and NOT in a good way. Superman fights elemental aliens, and that's all there is to the villains for the most part, and it's just... not.. good. At all. Boring stuff all the way till the end. I won't spoil it to say what happens at the end, but it's not interesting and it's not surprising. I wouldn't recommend this at all. Sadness.

Holy cow, is this a new52 trade I actually enjoyed?!?! Aside from making Clark a bit too angsty for my taste, this was actually pretty fun for a DC 52 reboot. Not the best of the Superman stories, but readable without causing me to twitch or be cranky!

Attempts to place Superman in the modern age one piece of his supporting life at a time, first with the acquisition of the Daily Planet and then with the hook-up culture version of Lois Lane. Yes, Superman isn't that happy but in context it makes sense he isn't a smiling boy wonder anymore, and it is obviously where this story is trying to head towards. I thought having villains who are a) alien, b) know about Krypton and c) require a sense of intelligence to beat before just brute strength was really interesting and well executed, even if they seemed a bit rushed. Overall, the story just didn't grab me in its setup and payoffs, but was a good self-contained first arc with good art.