When we first launched our new website back in January 2008, we featured Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee, which is a solid illustration of our longterm love affair with comic books. As the summer movie season is on the horizon, there are many new ways for us to get our comic book kicks, such as the blockbuster Iron Man, re-invented Hulk, darker Dark Knight, and our personal favorite: Hellboy. What a great time for old school comic book fans, and new students of the comic universe.
As you’ve already made it through the first bit of the narrative, you’ve probably seen the various pictures of geriatric comic book heroes, from Spiderman to Thor and Wonder Woman. All colourful products of the famous Italian cartoonist, Donald Soffritti, they demonstrate the fragility of old age, and moreso of our men and women of steel. We really love his style, and the appropriate mix of old age stereotypes he manages to intertwine. That being said, Stan Lee might not approve.