FuzzyBoots
from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of
Since: Jan, 2001
Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#2: Apr 14th 2015 at 3:15:00 AM
Incidentally, Tropes page is up.
Total posts: 2
Supermom
Aw man... this means I'm going to have to write a tropes page for this, huh? The webcomic follows one Elisabeth Lang-Ramiro, formerly known as the Flying Brick, "Paragon", then known to be the fourth of that legacy (although she learns in the course of the webcomic that the legacy actually stretches back much further, hundreds of years), now retired to raise a family. She's married a Mexican analog to George R. R. Martin who has a successful fantasy book series that's in its second season of television adaptation with all of the usual troubles. Her kids are developing powers (which randomly cause her own powers to go away), she's struck up a friendship with a Badass Normal named Desert Fox, and she's currently putting up (and putting up with) the foster child of the Batmanalogue of the setting.
It's an interesting read. There are some aspects of traditional superhero comics, and how Elisabeth's powers affect what she can and can't do for her children, but there's also an undercurrent of the difficulties of going from a full-time job to being a "stay at home Mom", especially when your spouse who does work works out of the house and is at it nearly 24/7 because he never knows when inspiration will strike. You can see where Elisabeth is happy to be a mother, but also sometimes longs to be back out saving the world, at least on occasion, and she wonders if she's squandering her talents where she is.