The Most Important Motherhood Story In Comics Happened Last Year (And You Probably Missed It)
The Most Important Motherhood Story In Comics Happened Last Year (And You Probably Missed It) Comics Emily Harding January 8, 202 1 Let’s face it: comics have never been a beacon of good parenting. Whether they’re sending their kids into the future to escape a techno-organic virus or just trying to remember they have kids at all, superheroes making time to be even moderately acceptable parents is much more the exception than the rule. This is especially true when writers try to tackle motherhood, a role which they rarely give our heroes the chance–or the inclination–to get right. That is, except for last year. In 2020 we saw what was probably the most important motherhood story in comics. You might have missed it, and that would have nothing to do with the fact that we were all pretty distracted by the runaway dumpster fire that was last year. It’s because this particular story wasn’t a main arc. In fact, it barely took up two pages in one issue. Tini Howard’s first arc of Exca