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Risk is Our Business
So with Skydance's acquisition of Paramount, it looks like we're going to get some new Star Trek. They want to reboot it because the license is a mess. But why is such a durable IP struggling so hard? Do we need more modern jokes? More self-aware references? More explosions? How about more revenge plots? What will fix it? Well first off, redshirts, you can stay. But all you red hats, you won't like my answer: Star Trek isn't struggling because its “gone woke.” It’s always b

Daniel Thron
Jan 64 min read
Are You There?
I started out as a natural media illustrator, self-taught, largely working in pen and ink. I was able to draw since I was young, but it took a lot of regular day-in-day-out grinding to actually get good with the tools, and my art got better and better. It started to make (very little) money for me, and I got jobs like illustrating the contents of patio furniture crates. They were pretty good drawings of patio furniture. Were they art? There was a lot of craft and time put in

Daniel Thron
Nov 20, 20254 min read
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