5 Emilia Clarke’s menstrual superhero
Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke’s first comic is a noble endeavor as her particular motivation was to bring more women into comics, not only as characters but also as creators (the entire creative team is female, helping to strike a balance to manufacture historical inequality). It’s crazy too. MOM: Mother of Madness (2021) was described by Variety as the story of “a single mother whose secret weapon is her period”. As in, for a few magical days a month, she gains powers based on the common ailments associated with menstruation, such as breasts swelling so much that they can lop off someone’s head. Clarke likened the character to Deadpool, but we don’t recall him attacking villains by swinging his oversized sack around (admittedly, we may have just overlooked this issue).
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The whole idea was to turn time from a nuisance into something that is literally empowering. Depending on the mood, the character receives different powers: “When Maya is scared, she becomes invisible, when she is angry, she has superhuman strength. She can swing from her armpit hair like Spider-Man.” Considering Spider-Man has always been a pretty obvious metaphor for puberty, that’s probably an idea Stan Lee would have liked to have had. I’m not sure he would have liked the “tangible pubic hair” part though.
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