Best and worst MOTHERS in comics?

[AnthonyO'Brien]

My graphic novel group at the library is having an upcoming discussion on the role of mothers in comics. They will be covering a lot of artsy books like Alison Bechdel's Are you my mother? (I might suggest Mom's cancer)

With mothers day stories coming up : What are some great stories involving mothers? Who are some of the best and worst mothers in comics history?

All too often the mother dies young and is used as a plot device. I must read up on the role of mothers in Joseph Campbells Hero of a thousand faces, they are often minimal in stories there as well.

Newsarama had a good list :

Jesse's mother and grandmother (Preacher)
Hippolyta (Wonder woman)

Jessica's recent motherhood (Spider-woman), mums from Runaways (what are the TV ones like?), backstabbing mum in the Blade movie etc.etc.

YOUR views on this topic?

[MyriVerse]

Worst: Rorshach's mom

Best: Martha Kent

[Nschornhorst]

You could mention "Other Mother" from Coraline-- but I've only seen the movie, not the graphic novel it's based on.

[mogwen]

For worst mother I would say Mist2 (Nash) in the Starman comics. Because raping a man to have a child with him and make his life miserable and getting revenge on him for killing her father is NOT a good reason to become a mother, no?

[KOSLOX]

The baddest mother of them all.

[mogwen]

Not that fan of the article but it fits the subject:
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...arvel-universe