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Just the Ticket #215: Godzilla vs Hedorah

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. This is what I've been waiting for, Ticketholders! Like, I wasn't waiting to get to this specific movie in the Goj -Year- ra lineup, but I swiped away my media player with an incredible sense of hype and emotional disturbance that I hadn't felt since Minus One or the original Godzilla . Emitted into the world in 1971 as a visceral and blatant commentary piece the likes of which the franchise hadn't attempted in nearly a generation, Godzilla vs Hedorah ( Godzilla vs the Smog Monster in the U.S.) was directed and co-written by franchise first-timer Yoshimitsu Banno , with Haruo Nakajima returning as Godzilla, and Gigan and Heisei era Godzilla suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma as Hedorah. None of the human actors here are recognizable to Godzilla fans, nor have any notable roles outside the franchise, so I'll just be referring to them by name or archetype going forward. Between the epic Bond -alike banger of a them...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #54: Myths & Legends - The Gathering

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. Now that I've deviated from normalcy with looks at Zenescope 's April Fools Editions and the canceled Chronicles Of Dr. Herbert West , it's time to get back into chronological order (puns?) by looking at something that’s been collected out of order. I make sense! So let's make sense of what I'm talking about with Myths & Legends: The Gathering . To get caught up (something that I've started doing myself this week ), Myths & Legends is a long, limited series that serves a two-fold purpose (at minimum) of being both a Samantha Darren -led title (in apology for the prematurely canceled Grimm Tales ongoing series we never got because Samantha is a lesser Sela) and a pseudo-anthology sequel series to some of Grimm Fairy Tales ' most popular early issues, with its story arcs thus far collected as follows: Volume One collected the first five issues (the Red Riding Hood sequel). Issues six and seven (s...
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Stay Tuned #63: Dexter - Resurrection

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Dark Ticket-Ripper. It's going to happen tonight. I don't know what it is, But it's going to happen. Or maybe it's going to happen in two weeks. Anyway, that's my segue from a Dexter reference to me bringing a meme back from the dead so I can beat a dead horse with it. I'm not the only one who's tried and failed to beat the Annoying Orange to death with dead horse memes, but it hasn't worked yet and it doesn't hurt to try (it just drives you insane). Also, it's still April, and Easter was last week, so I'm reviewing Dexter: Resurrection today. We didn't get a second season of Original Sin (probably for a good reason), but we did get a return to, and escalation of, formula with Dexter: Resurrection , which is getting a second season at an unspecified point, with Brian Cox taking a break from narrating McDonald's commercials to play the forthcoming season's main villain, though, whether ...
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Anime Spotlight #74: ReZER0 (2026 Update)

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re:AN1M315T3R. It's April, the month of pranks thwarting a Lovecraftian apocalypse , pagan fertility symbolism that defies animal classification (rabbits laying eggs‽), Judeo-Christian rebirth (though whether that means the tomb is supposed to re-open for His Only Begotten Son to walk the Earth again like a magic zombie hippie or His soul is supposed to isekai into a newborn baby remains a subject up for secular debate), and getting stoned on Hitler's birthday. So these last three weeks will feature isekai anime, starting with today's series. My original review of Re:ZER0 FROM June 7, 2021 ( Isekai " Quartet " #1: Re: Zero: Starting Life In Another World : SD::SUV:: ) —but I forgot to make a reference to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie —asked a lot of relevant and stupid questions about number-words, poorly named punctuation, and other topics of existence, and was the beginning of my coverage of the series featured in the fir...
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Just the Ticket #214: Re-Animator

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re-Ticketmaster. Over the past two years of Just the Ticket 's history, there have been many recurring elements to my reviews, like my sarcasm, the Jaws beach-closure joke, subtlety, and unorthodox cops. But the two that come to mind as we conclude Wester Week are H.P. Lovecraft and the moon. And by the moon, I mean Full Moon , and by Full Moon, I mean Charles Band , and by Charles Band, I mean your internal organs. Yes, I know Charles Band isn't Tom Cruise , but I had to go there because you really don't want Herbert West (or Tom Cruise) anywhere near your internal organs. Given life a year after me, in 1985, Re-Animator is a loose adaptation of the "Plague-Dæmon" (if you count the first chapter recap as well), "Horror From the Shadows" (in part), and "Tomb-Legions" chapters of Lovecraft's original story, directed by Stuart Gordon ( Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ) based on a script he co-wrote with frequent coll...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #53: The Chronicles Of Dr. Herbert West

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster Wester Week  continues, Ticketholders! Yes, that's what I'm going with, two days into a three-part theme week where I'm celebrating Easter by looking at three versions of the Reanimator story, beginning with yesterday's review of H.P. Lovecraft 's original, Herbert West: Reanimator . That's why Easter Week is now  Wester Week , get it? Anyway, today, I'll be setting fresh eyes on the discontinued corpse (but according to the Wikipedia article on Lovecraft's story , it's just on an almost twenty-year hiatus, which is hilarious) of Zenescope Entertainment 's The Chronicles Of Dr. Herbert West . First referenced in Retrospective continuity as a film that Tracy Russell is watching in the first Wonderland Annual , Chronicles was meant to be a six-issue miniseries that began releasing in September 2008. Only three issues were published before the series was canceled (or put on indefinite yatus, if a...
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Cover Charge #17: Herbert West - Re-Animator

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Pagemaster. It's the week of Easter , and since I kind of got into Lovecraft last year (pseudo-academically, not necessarily as a fan, as you'll see if you check out my other reviews of his writings), I decided to make a theme week of it, starting with Lovecraft's original, serialized novella, Herbert West: Reanimator . First published episodically throughout the first half of 1922, H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator was written as an intentional parody and homage of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , and I like it more than its long-winded inspiration. But, as it is a serial narrative, an irritating aspect of reading it, even in my modern, audiobook fashion of doing so (the Gates Of Imagination reading got hidden, so I had to start over with the audiobook I linked above, read by Mike Bennett , though as I write this, I've discovered a reading by West himself, Jeffrey Combs , that I'm kicking myself for not noticing...
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