Fictional Obituary: Martha Kent (Absolute Superman comic spoilers)

Fictional Obituary: Martha Kent (Absolute Superman comic spoilers) Martha Kent of Smallville has died in her sleep. She had been living in a nursing home and was preceded in death by her husband, Jonathan. Together, Martha and Jonathan offered shelter to Kal-El after his arrival on Earth. He came to them carrying a history and losses they had not shared, and they gave him care at a time when he had little reason to expect safety. Their time together was interrupted, but Martha continued to regard him as her son. Illness affected her later years. Even as dementia made familiar things harder to hold on to, she spoke of him during her lucid moments. She also began making a suit for him, entrusting it to a nurse so that he would receive it when he returned. The sewing remained unfinished when she died. Kal-El arrived afterward and was given what she had made, a final expression of the welcome she and Jonathan had offered him years earlier. Martha leaves her memory with the young man she loved as a son. The home she helped give him lasted in his life long after he could safely remain in it.