I’ve been thinking about superhero comics, too, and writing about them: Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), for example.
I’ve also been listening to a podcast about them, and it’s so good that I wrote about that too: Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. (It is totally plausible to me, as a teacher, that if you want to learn how to explain something complicated or how to do a compelling, fun podcast you will love this podcast even if you don’t care about the X-Men. But I’m not really in a position to know.)
Oh, and I read artsy non-superhero comics too. I even tried to explain them this summer in Artforum (subscriber login may be required).