My comic first-time was a trade of Sandman: Fables and Reflections - it was a good start (sooo pretty) and I did a fair bit of browsing after that. I had my own hold-box for several years before drifting off to other hobbies, and I still remember those years fondly.
Umm, don't know if it counts as a power fantasy, but you might like J F Rivkin's Silverglass series. Two women (big-and-boisterous and sly-and-witty) wandering around a fantasy world having adventures and bromancing it up, while tracking down someone's fiance in an enchanted wood, solving riddles for the hell of it, exploring haunted ruins of doomed cults while taking time off from a grape harvest... Both of them get laid a lot (setting is easygoing about such things), but the sexualisation is for them, I feel.
Speaking of twitch-flinch reactions - I refuse to feel ashamed of liking the Barbie movies. (Pretty music and independent female characters. I like what I like.)
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Date: 2015-07-08 11:42 am (UTC)Umm, don't know if it counts as a power fantasy, but you might like J F Rivkin's Silverglass series. Two women (big-and-boisterous and sly-and-witty) wandering around a fantasy world having adventures and bromancing it up, while tracking down someone's fiance in an enchanted wood, solving riddles for the hell of it, exploring haunted ruins of doomed cults while taking time off from a grape harvest... Both of them get laid a lot (setting is easygoing about such things), but the sexualisation is for them, I feel.
Speaking of twitch-flinch reactions - I refuse to feel ashamed of liking the Barbie movies. (Pretty music and independent female characters. I like what I like.)