8 issues in and both Superman and Action are a wash. Still no synergy between the titles and one is still taking place in the past. If they are going to be using concepts from the Superman 2000 proposal, then bloody well hire Mark Waid to write Superman. The Giffen/Jurgens team is just subbing until another long-term team can be put together anyway.
Supergirl has the best storytelling out of the bunch so far, but it is hamstrung by the decompression. The first 6 issues could have easily been done in half that.
Superboy has the most potential (being the most interesting take on the character to date), but the writer keeps losing focus on the main character.
I don't think I could disagree with you more.
Eight issues in and
Action is fantastic. The fact that Action takes place "five years ago" doesn't mean anything to me except that it's more of a continuity comic than
Superman. The extended story of the last eight issues, chronicling Superman's shift in focus from a hero who fights corruption, organized crime and tries to help out the little guy (not that he stops doing any of those things) into a more cosmic hero, was pretty interesting to me, and I look forward to more.
I think
Superman is pretty fun and interesting too, especially in moments like the one in the most recent issue where Superman has to tell someone not to take a picture for their Facebook page while he's in the middle of a fistfight in downtown Metropolis, or when a robot breaks into Kent's office building and he leaves to enter in another window to fight it. It's great world-building.
Supergirl is okay from what I've read, though you're right about the decompression, which in my mind ruins it.
As for Superboy though, it's probably one of only three New 52 things I'm bitter about: losing Conner was a pretty big blow, and I'm not feeling anything close to a similar attitude from the new Superboy. (The other two were Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing again and Wally West disappearing seemingly forever.)
In addition, I'm looking forward to the upcoming
Superman Family Adventures the way a kid looks forward to Christmas.
Overall though, I'm a pretty big fan of the New 52 and most of what it's done, even as I continue to enjoy Superman's classic adventures.
(how I feel expressing support for those comics around here)