Some of my favorite comics to read include mostly superhero comics. One of my favorites is the original Wonder Women comic created by William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman's original story involves her being sculpted out of clay by her mother Queen Hippolyta and was given life in the Amazon. She was also gifted with super human powers as gifts by the Greek gods.
Interestingly, this story of Wonder Woman's conception is actually very reminiscent of an actual Greek myth where a character named Pygmalion carved a woman out of ivory then fell in love with her, despite not at all being interested in women prior to sculpting.
The stories of Wonder Woman are very empowering in a tasteful way. It makes the older comics all the more better when you look into it and see that it came out in the early 1940's, a time where female empowerment was much more scarce and society had very specific expectations of women. While it is a positive thing to be happening, I feel in today's culture it's easy to make something like female empowerment come off as cheesy when not approached in a way that makes sense.
I also read some Ducktales comics, which I wasn't expecting to be too excited for since I prefer superhero stories when reading comics rather then straight up cartoons. Though, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get into. The stories were cute and comical, and it was a very easy read. (no surprise there) Overall, the Ducktales comics are incredibly charming, very much like early Disney was known to be.
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