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I like a really wide variety of comics, and have for a pretty long time. In terms of superheroes, I know a lot about DC and not very much about Marvel, and a few of my favorite characters are Superman, Animal Man, and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner is my favorite Green Lantern, and Green Lantern is definitely my favorite superhero right now).
More recently, I've been getting into Disney's Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck comics, originally created by Carl Barks. These comics are made by companies which license the rights to these characters from Disney, and not Disney itself, which means they tend to have a little bit more "bite" to them than actual Disney cartoons a lot of the time, with stuff like social satire being present pretty often. Interestingly, these comics were super popular in the world as a whole, but their popularity fizzled out in America pretty soon after Carl Barks first created them. This means a lot of the newer Duck comics are from European artists and writers, even though the one who created them was an American (Carl Barks). The biggest exception is Don Rosa, an American artist/writer who is often regarded as the best person other than Barks himself to write Duck comics.
I really like these Duck comics because they very effectively capture a feeling of adventure. A pretty common story formula for the Donald Duck stories is that Donald ends up having to go on a hunt for some sort of treasure, often due to some sort of bureaucratic failure (there's the social satire :omg:k:smile:. In these stories, they'll often go through 3 or 4 different settings all around the world, and they always feel very distinct. There's a lot of comedy in these stories as well, but the emphasis of the stories usually feels like it's more about the adventure than the comedy. I don't like Scrooge McDuck comics as much as Donald Duck comics, but his comics are also pretty great, most of them having Scrooge either trying to defend his riches against a perceived threat (real or otherwise) or trying a new scheme to make more money.
What's also nice about the Duck comics is that they're pretty loose on continuity, and there's no specific reading order. It's a nice breath of fresh air from superhero comics, where each story is building on 70+ years of continuity. In the Duck comics, there's just a consistent setup, and each story is a standalone thing, which can pick up elements from earlier stories or not, depending on what the writer feels like doing! This means you can just read any story you find interesting in any order.
Disney comics fans have also created a really helpful index with information about the different comics stories called Inducks, which I consider one of the coolest sites on the internet.
Anyway, this turned into a long post about Duck comics, which wasn't quite what I intended, but that's alright haha. If anyone else likes to read comics, please reply and talk about what you've been reading lately!
