Happy Mothers Day!

Mothers in Comics

In this issue we talk about our moms. Our view on how they take on our nerdiness. Learn to accept or live with it and eventually become part of it.

Pete’s mother would take him to shops. But would give him a time limit to peruse around. Now she helps and participates in events run by Pete.

While I had a mother who was ok with me and what I did. My grandma, the matriarch of the family, who I was always afraid that she would judge me. While that fear persisted. She learned to accept what I loved to do.

Mothers are an essential part of all our existence. They are our first teachers and mentors. Without them we might not be the big nerds we are today.  

Even with all the grief we gave them they still love us. And we are grateful for that.

We talk about mothers in comics. From having a family and maintaining the status of heroine and going beyond the call of what a woman could or should do. We talk comic moms such as Fantastic Fours Sus Storm. To the sudo mothers that pick up the mantle to raise a child that is not there. Martha Kent raises an alien from a distant planet and learned to love and worry for him in the way only a mother could do.

And not to mention Aunt may and Aunt ana who if they weren’t neighbors and friends and raised children that weren’t theirs. Spiderman and Mary Jane would have not gotten together. And become parents themselves.

And while not every mother in the comic world is the nurturing caring positive reinforcement in the lives of certain characters, we have to also acknowledge the evil queens that while intentions are selfish, they manage to raise children who are good. Such as X-mens Rouge whose mother was one of the baddest villains ever to grace the pages of comics.  To the more recent issues in Disneys Moon Knight with the mother literally being the cause of the main characters split personalities.

So from step guardians to nannies like batman’s aunt Harriet to nannies that took care of baby Muppets we are blessed to have such fictitious role models.

Talking to Marisol’s Mom

In the second segment we talk with the or pals Marisol’s mom Maria. We cover such topics as growing up a nerd in the 80s. what type of media was consumed.  She watched cartoons every Saturday growing up. Read books that were filled with fantasy. And was into classic films going all the way to silent films.  As much media as there is now. Back then there was less to consume but she made the best of what she got.

How it’s different consuming media today as compared to when she was younger. Cartoons to books to videogames. watching and loving cartoons such as the groovy ghoulies every Saturday. Switched it up as a teen going into fantasy books like Lord of the Rings. And even now she can school me on Dr. Who lore.

She will talk to us about raising an eccentric child. Some tips, tricks and advice. Thoughts on parents that don’t support the nerdy part of children. Also, how sometimes the eccentricity skips a generation. Nerdy parents that don’t have nerdy kids it happens.  She finds that there must be a balance in raising children. Where you can share what you love with them and still raise them proper.

A strong positive woman who has lived a very eccentric life. And are blessed to have with us.