Mario, Not So Super at Forty

Shouts & Murmurs by Simon Rich: Decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head takes its toll. Sorry, Princess, it’s spinal-fusion time.

The New Yorker Cartoons on Instagram: “To be honest, I'm-a not doing so great.” Now in his 40s, Mario throws out his back, asks Luigi for money, reconsiders his relationship with the

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