By Bruno Savill De Jong — Moms opens on a street fight between two middle-aged women. The graphic novel is rarely this dramatic, but after Soyeon and Myeonghui began arguing over text messages, it quickly spills over from the virtual to the physical. Soyeon wonders “How did my life turn out this way?”, and Moms next proceeds to show the build-up to this undignified brawl, the daily struggles that chipped away at these average women until they exploded. It shows Soyeon’s early arranged marriage, their financial strain and her husband’s gambling, up until her current divorced status. In Korean society she has extended her ‘usefulness’, and is seen as toiling away as a cleaner, while her adult son still lives at home.