Whoopi Goldberg publishes comic book featuring a hero who embraces menopausal powers

When it comes to comics, Whoopi Goldberg chose to become the change she wished to see in the industry.

On the July 9 episode of The View, the 68-year-old actress and TV personality revealed that her comic book, The Change, has been released and shared some details about its distinctive protagonist, a character she initially hoped to play herself.

The Sister Act star shared with her co-hosts that she was inspired to write the book, co-authored by screenwriter Jaime Paglia and illustrated by Sunkanmi Akinboye, to see herself better represented in a medium she has always loved.

“I love comic books,” she said. “I’ve always loved comic books since I was a little kid. But none of the comic books seemed to speak to me, so I wrote my own.”

Goldberg, who recently released her memoir Bits & Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me, also disclosed that she wrote the comic book project “25 years ago — because I was in the midst of going through the change,” she said. “It’s about a woman who embraces the superpowers that she gains through menopause.”

When co-host Joy Behar inquired about the superpowers of the main character, Isabel Frost, Goldberg referred to a specific scene from the book to illustrate. “She’s in the middle of an argument with her husband and he’s irritating the poo out of her,” she said.

Then, the husband begins to get hot because Frost is “basically cooking him,” Goldberg explained, adding that at that point in The Change, the hero “doesn’t know she has these powers.”

Whoopi Goldberg’s debut comic book, The Change, is available now.