Fictional Obituary: Jonathan Kent (Absolute Superman comic spoilers)

Fictional Obituary: Jonathan Kent (Absolute Superman comic spoilers) Jonathan Kent, the Smallville farmer who shared his home with his wife, Martha, and briefly gave refuge to Kal-El, is remembered for the welcome he offered a young stranger far from home. Kal arrived at the Kent farm as a teenager. Jonathan and Martha met him after he had already known his own family and suffered the loss of his world. They offered him a place in theirs. The time they shared was short, but it was long enough for the possibility of becoming a family to matter to all of them. Their home became dangerous when the Peacemakers came looking for Kal. Jonathan and Martha understood the threat and urged him to escape. Letting him go meant losing the future they had begun to imagine together, but his safety came first. Jonathan died before Kal could return openly to that life. Martha outlived him, carrying her own memories of the young man they had welcomed and continuing to think of him as their son. His place in Kal’s life rests on ordinary acts of care performed under extraordinary circumstances: making room for someone, offering safety, and protecting him when that welcome brought danger to the door. The life they might have shared was interrupted. The kindness Jonathan had already shown remained.