Stan Lee came to China.

He is unfamiliar with China. Maybe Americans know about the Mandarins and Chinatown, but they don't know what the life of Chinese people should be like.

When looking at the sparse buildings and the spectacular flow of bicycles on the road, Stan Lee couldn't help but sigh: "amazing!" As a nation walking in cars, he rarely saw such strange and spectacular sights.

It seems that every stream of people will eventually converge into an unrivaled force.

For a moment, he had the illusion that this nation must have a spiritual core that he could not grasp.

When he arrived at Zhanlong, this was what surprised him even more.

It is full of a sense of modern technology.

It's not the kind of copycat, laughable imitation of Hollywood's future technology.

It is a kind of retro science fiction, which should only exist in the writings of science fiction novelists, not in front of our own eyes.

This is inseparable from the personal taste of its creator.

For example, several painters he knows always prefer this kind of postmodern architecture, or it is a futuristic postmodern style. This style was popular in the 1960s, and that era was also called "space architecture".

"Era". If there is no concept, it is probably a combination of "2001: A Space Odyssey" + "Star Trek" series.

Su Butong was waiting for him on the first floor.

The guard at the door seemed to have trouble with his legs and feet, but that didn't stop him from looking at Stan Lee with a sense of pride that he was the God of Fighting Dragons.

"Hello, Subudong." Stan Lee knew that the unprepossessing young man in front of him had acquired Marvel. As the president, he put aside all the arrogance of the empire and came to China to meet him. But this did not prevent him from being

A stock of arrogance.

"Hello, Mr. Stan Lee." Su Butong said with a smile.

Subudong took him into his office and asked: "Tea? Coffee or Springbank (Genting)?"

"Springbank? Can you drink in your office?" Everyone knows that Stan Lee has three major hobbies: smoking, drinking and drawing comics.

"Of course, I knew you were here, so I specially brought a bottle of wine." Su Butong just took a bottle of unknown wine from Lin Muyu's wine cellar.

"This wine has been discontinued." Seeing the wine, Stan Lee could be said to have seen his favorite thing, and he couldn't stop talking.

"Ah, has it been discontinued?" Su Butong was stunned. He didn't know as much about wine as Lin Muyu. Lin Muyu had collected all these wines.

"You can tell that you don't drink it often. Springbank is a family business. It has stopped production twice, in 1926 and 1979. There is no sign of continuing to open now. And its liquor is distilled 2.5 times."

"2.5 times? What's that 0.5?" Su Butong got a glass of wine and asked, "Do you want to add ice?"

"Of course." Stan Lee nodded, took out a cigar from his arms, cut it open and lit it with a match. "After the second distillation, it will flow back to the still instead of directly out of the still. As a result, there will be 'half'

The wine actually goes through the condenser twice.”

"Sounds super cool!"

"Of course, the reason why this wine is famous is that they insist on completing the floor-type germination, so the cost and production capacity are astonishingly low." Stan Lee took a sip. The taste was the average taste of Scotch whiskey. It had everything, but everything

Not overdone. It has peat, salty and a touch of sweetness. It has a suitable taste when paired with ice cubes.

"Mr. Su, I'm here to talk to you about the future of Marvel." When it came to the topic, Stan Lee said seriously.

"What do you think is the origin of comics?" Su Butong suddenly asked a philosophical question, where did comics come from.

Stan was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "Human beings seem to have had the ability to paint from the day they were born."

"Yes, the origin of comics comes from the murals used by ancient humans to record their lives as sacrifices. Then with the advancement of material civilization, humans gradually had the impulse to record nature. This impulse is through writing and painting. And then,

It transcends the record of existing material life and sublimates it again into strange imagination."

"It's hard not to agree with you."

"So, why do I want to acquire the equity of Marvel?" Su Butong seemed to be asking someone, but also seemed to be asking himself.

"I'm sorry, I don't know this."

"Comics can actually be more than just comics, but they can promote the human spirit and discuss what fairness, justice, equality, and what is a hero are?"

"There is a pattern." Stan Lee said this, but he didn't think so in his heart. After all, he drew more superheroes than Su Butong had ever seen.

At this time, Wan Lao strolled to Su Butong's office and supervised Su Butong's continued study of painting.

"Teacher." Su Butong stood up quickly and gave up his seat to Wan Lao. He forgot to inform Wan Lao that he had a guest here.

"Hey, why is there a foreign Japanese here?" Wan Lao asked, pointing at Stan Lee.

"Who is this?" Stan Lee asked strangely in English.

"This is Mr. Wan, the Chinese animation master. He started animating in the 1940s and is also my teacher. This is Mr. Stan Lee, the president of American Marvel. I acquired their company." Su Butong said.

Introduce to both parties in Chinese and English.

When Stan Lee heard about people who were doing animation in the 1940s, he was immediately in awe.

After all, the 1940s was the beginning of cinema, and those who could create animation at that time were pioneers of animation.

"You bought the American Comics Company? Do you have the money to burn it?" When Wan Lao heard that Su Butong bought the American Comics Company, he immediately felt a little resentful. Do you look down on us Chinese animators? Why are you looking down on us Chinese animators?

"Teacher, Marvel is the largest comic company in the United States."

"I don't care whether it's the first or the second largest. You told me honestly today, why did you buy a comic company in the United States? Don't we have excellent painters? Gu Bingxin, He Youzhi, Zhao Sandao, Zhao Hongben...

...Which one of them is not a master?" Wan Lao asked.

Su Butong knew that the comics he was talking about were all comic book authors, and their comic books could be said to be full of fun. But that was not the way it looked. In order to promote Chinese culture, the acquisition of Marvel was a must.

Although I have only purchased part of the shares now, it is enough to lay the foundation for the next comprehensive acquisition.

"Teacher, when I buy Marvel, I don't mean that Americans draw better than us, but that their characters have unparalleled influence. For example, the characters they paint may be more famous than the painters." Su Butong gave a detailed introduction.

American comics and the heroes in them.

Stan Lee looked at Su Butong and Mr. Wan in confusion as they spoke Chinese, but could not understand a word and could only stare.

"Moreover, this Mr. Stan Lee is also a famous painter. He has created many heroic characters. I think we can have an exchange today."

"Oh?" Upon hearing that the other party was also a painter, Mr. Wan also became interested.

"Tell him that when I get older, I will stop bullying him and send you to compete with him."

Su Butong told Stan Lee that Mr. Wan wanted to have a painting exchange with him.

Stan Lee was energetic, but he said distressedly: "I didn't bring a paintbrush." ​​After becoming president, he rarely painted by himself.

American comics generally use brushes, pen tips and Milli Pens to draw.

Su Butong took out a set of pen tips and ink he bought from Japan and handed it to Stan Lee: "Let's make do with it."

"What do you use?"

"Chinese people, of course, use brushes." There is also a set of paperweights, Shengxuan and Langhao in Su Butong's office. This is also Mr. Wan's request for him, let him draw proficiently with brushes, starting from the basic skills of drawing cross lines

Harmony with circles and waves. Mr. Wan said this is called "building bones with lines".

"What is this? Soft nib? Damn it!" Stan Lee was like seeing a monster. It is actually difficult to master the soft nib in comics, but if you master it, it can bring out the beauty and artistic conception of the picture better than the hard nib.

"Let's draw a cartoon character based on the image of both parties. The requirements are that they must be similar." Mr. Wan suggested.

Under the guidance of Mr. Wan, Su Butong began to draw Stan Lee.

"Pay attention to the expressive power of the line, and use the length, thickness, turning, setback, weight, speed, hardness and softness, strength, weakness, shade, light hair and other changes of the line to express the character's expression, shape, texture, momentum and rhythm.

, space and other aspects of modeling factors..." Su Butong was painting while Mr. Wan was guiding beside him.

After Stan Lee conceived some ideas, he began to draw an image of Su Butong wearing a yellow tights. This image is somewhat similar to Bruce Lee, but more like the Kung Fu master Shang-Chi.

In the minds of Americans, kung fu seems to be a kind of superpower, which can make people fly over walls and walls, and have infinite strength. Stan Lee's idea is undoubtedly a trick, using characters he is familiar with to create. So when he had completed the bust of the character, he found that

Su Butong was already sketching the background.

Finally, Su Butong wrote four Chinese characters "Hero of the World", which was unrivaled in his momentum.

After Stan Lee finished the painting, the two put their paintings together, and Wan Lao said with a smile: "This can be called a good story."

Originally he had a certain prejudice against Stan Lee, but heroes cherish heroes the most. Seeing Stan Lee's skillful brushwork, which he had never seen before, made him happy and kept pulling Su Butong to ask.

Stan Lee's techniques for drawing beautiful comics.

Instead, it delayed the business a lot.

When Wan Lao was tired, Su Butong invited Stan Lee to their cafeteria for a meal, and then chatted while eating.

"My idea is to acquire DC and then set up a film and television company to produce a TV series about the origin of heroes."

"The origin of the hero?"

"For example, Spider-Man, Hulk, Superman, Batman... and then combine them into a world view..." Su Butong explained his thoughts.

"But now Superman and Batman are not popular in the United States."
Chapter completed!