This chapter centers on two experimental, dystopic graphic novels which depict, in non-realist terms, the notion of a motherless world and its implications. It draws on the work of psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin and suggests the possibility of moving beyond the binarisms that structure the agonistic mother-child relations often found in graphic novels or graphic memoirs. The chapter analyzes how Emma Rendel’s The Vicar Woman (2012) and Rob Davis’s The Motherless Oven (2014) articulate the problematics of motherless worlds. These worlds are dystopic in part through their sequestration and enclosure which, by virtue of that very fact, encourage the inhuman, posthuman social structures they display. The chapter argues that the construction of motherless worlds in these novels functions to envision dehumanized spaces beyond redemption, and that the novels thereby suggest that what might be required to move towards redemption is the capacity to act empathetically.