Star Trek Artist Juan Ortiz Was EVERYWHERE as Comic Con

 

Ortiz is the artist behind the colorful and inventive Star Trek: The Original Series Art Prints, which have inspired posters, books, shot glasses, tee-shirts, coasters, wine bottle labels and more. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that this year’s Comic-Con should have been the Juan Ortiz 2013 World Tour. 

For Comic-Con, he created the Klingon House postcards that StarTrek.com gave away to fans throughout weekend, and he beamed to San Diego for autograph signings on Sunday at the Titan (The Art of Juan Ortiz), Mighty Fine (posters) and Entertainment Earth/Bif Bang Pow! (coasters) booths.

[read the entire article @ StarTrek.com]

Superman, Vol. 3, No. 1

Man of Steel [PG-13]
2013 Warner Bros.
Directed by Zack Snyder

Grade C-
Down-graded from C.

+1: Superman/ Clark Kent (played by Henry Cavill)
+1: Kryptonians fight.
-1: Pace.
-1: Tone.
-1: Fun?

IMAX 3D Grade: par

[overview on Fandango]

epic

epic [PG]
2013 Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Chris Wedge

Grade: C+
Up-graded from C

par: Theme, environmentalism.
+1: Comedic supporting cast, Aziz Ansari (voice of Mub), Chris O’Dowd (Grub).
-1: Science, improbable device to speak in real time with people moving too fast to see.
+1: Battle scenes.
par: Score (Danny Elfman).

[overview on Fandango]

Matt Ferguson's Orginal Cast Stark Trek Movie Posters

Matt currently exhibits his art all around the world including galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and of course his home country the UK.

[link]
Matt’s site: http://www.cakesandcomics.com/

How to Use Math to Dominate Monopoly

by Walter Hickey
Business Insider, June 20, 2013

Monopoly is one of the classic American games.
It’s played amongst close friends, loved ones, and trusted business partners.
It’s also one of the few times in life where it’s perfectly acceptable to want to systematically annihilate and crush the aforementioned friends, loved ones and partners.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/math-monopoly-statistics-2013-6?op=1#ixzz2WzFLGZ4z

Star Trek, vol. 2, no. 2

Star Trek Into Darkness 

2013 Paramount

Directed by J. J. Abrams

Grade: B+

Up-graded from B.

+1: Character development: Capt. James Kirk (played by Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto).

par: Adversaries, John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), Klingons.

+1: Almost any scene with Scotty (Simon Pegg) or Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban).

-1: Bending physics (space suits flying like rockets in space, big things falling into coastal bays, space ships exiting a collapsing warp field, etc.).

par: Franchise serial installment.

[overview on Fandango]

Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 [PG-13]

2013 Paramount, Marvel Studios

Directed by Shane Black

Grade: A-

Up-graded from B.

+1: Cast: Robert Downey, Jr. (as Tony Stark/ Iron Man), Ben Kingsley (The Mandarin).

+1: Iron Man upgrades.

par: Story structure (James Bond styled international intrigue).

par: Parenting/ mentoring styles of Tony Stark (giving a “mild” explosive device to boy to deal with bullies at school which is later shown to have the power to shock an Extremis super soldier)

par: Conclusions (vague allusions to main characters fates, and no information about The Avengers Initiative).

[overview on Fandango]

Bonus scene after end credits: D.