With rare exception, characters in superhero comics seldom age. Sure, there's Savage Dragon and, once upon a time, DC's Justice Society and former sidekicks like Dick Grayson, Wally West and Donna Troy, but by and large, publishers (and creators and readers) like only the illusion of change; the heroes can't actually age (or, in several cases, get married, as that mysteriously makes them older as well).

However, no one apparently told that to Lesley Vamos, artist for Lion Forge Entertainment's Punky Brewster comic, who this month has been depicting costumed in their golden years in a series of wonderful illustrations on her Facebook page. From Storm to Iron Man to The Phantom, Vamos captures them and their wrinkles, gray hairs, liver spots and bulging midsections.

Check out Ant-Man and Rogue below, and even more on Vamos' Facebook page.

(via The Source)