This is a sweet Thread
My own comments, I have to agree on them powering down Superman, he gets his butt handed to him alot, but he also deals out alot of pain, I guess it all depends on the needs of the story.
My own thoughts are about Hawkgirl, she really is a flat character to me, they have yet to do anything that I have seen to give her more dimension, outside of a few stories, it seems like each of the characters gets a story that focuses on one of them outside of her, have I missed one that sheds more light on Hawkgirl... and is it me or is there some tensions between her and GL?
Batman I agree, he runs that show, but pushes himself hard to keep up. Martian Manhunter, is just well all over the place, sometimes he is tough, and sometimes not, i guess him and Superman suffer from the same maladity?