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... and pretty much takes care of all of your issues with the character. It seems pretty silly that you think all Superman stories must suck just because of the character featured within, when there have been umpteen variations on the guy throughout the decades. No character sucks; there's just bad writing.
While it's harder for Superman to have physical setbacks like Spidey or Batman ("I have to fight crime with the flu!" "Some asshole broke my spine!"), it doesn't mean he's less interesting. This is comics-- the good guys are never in any danger, they always win. It's a narrative conceit. Therefore Superman has to deal with emotional trauma, or intellectual problems, rather than just punch things. Punching things is boring.
I suppose it's all a matter of suspension of disbelief, and you sound pretty disbelieving, which is fine, I guess, but will clearly limit your enjoyment of silly genre ficton. Me, I love silly genre fiction. Your disinterest in characters like Darkseid make me sad, because New Gods is one of my favorite comics ever, and Darkseid under Kirby's pen was very human, even though he hid it under a face of granite.
And heck, I'm even sort of enjoying Spider-Man comics now, and I'm not usually a Spider-Man guy. Yeah, they played stupid, needless games with continuity to get us to this point, but all I really care about is if the stories are good. I like some of what Slott's going for, anyway; the issues drawn by Marcos Martin are bolstered by the art, and look amazing.
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First off, Bill, how are you? It's been too long.
I haven't read All Star Superman. It's entirely possible that the Superman being written today is a superior interpretation to the one I read in the 90's which bored me senseless and even at age 12 seemed ridiculous.
As I told Shrike, this also boils down to a matter of personal taste. I like street level stories and generally hate cosmic stories. I have never dug the Darkseid/Galactus kinda threats, because I can't relate to them. Their motivations, powers and stature are all too epic in scope for me. To me, the most intriguing and disturbing villains are the ones who are all too human.
Don't care for new Spider-Man, but haven't really cared for him since the 90's. The occasional book I read of his (about one a year) just reinforces my opinion. It's not really a matter of continuity. It's a matter of characterization. He doesn't sound or act like the Peter Parker I read growing up. These days I'm much more into Vertigo stuff like DMZ and Y the Last Man (before it ended).
