Spend any amount of time discussing Superman with superhero fans and you're bound to hear the same complaints. Superman is lame. He's too over-powered. He's not relatable. As far as many people are concerned, Superman is an outdated relic of a simpler and more sentimental time in comics. These criticisms speak more to an ignorance of the source material than anything wrong with the character himself. But at the same time, shouldn't DC be doing a better job of proving to its audience that Superman is still a relevant and vital character? Between the sorry state of the Superman comics over the past five years and the atrocious portrayal of the character in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, it's no wonder people are finding it so difficult to connect with Superman. It really shouldn't be this hard to tell good Superman stories.
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