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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Last Omnibuster. I keep forgetting to mention this, but I intended to call this month Hook and Book  January (for the obvious reason that I'm reading The Jungle Book Trilogy and Neverland : Hook , and...). So, better two weeks late than never, I guess? I'm honestly struggling because my review of the first Jungle Book Volume  felt so good and back to form last week, and impostor syndrome is setting in that I won't be able to capture that natural feeling again by trying. And I started off reading Last Of the Species in kind of a negative state of mind anyway because right from the first issue, I encountered negative things to say about the production. The cover for the Jungle Book: Last Of the Species Trade Paperback is by frequent Zenescope contributors  Ale Garza  and  Sanju Nivangune , and was first used as the Digital Edition and A Cover for the miniseries' first issue. The Table Of Contents background is t...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The No. 1 Animeister Back on July 8, 2024, I gave the Anime Spotlight to the first season of Kaiju No. 8 , where I talked about the meaning of the word " kaiju " (and the underestimated intricacies of the Japanese language), the proper use of the term " Kafka -esque" (because that's the title character's name, his job is menial and disgusting, and he undergoes a metamorphosis ), the effect of Warner Bros. on the animation industry at the time (they've since become a potential acquisition of  Netflix , and although their popular Rooster Teeth series RWBY was saved by Viz Media —its Volumes, soundtracks, and other merch are seeing new distribution in the year since—there is no news of a Volume Ten greenlight yet), and gave particular focus to the anime's plot similarity to My Hero Academia . You might remember (or you can click the link above to refresh yourself and give me some more views) that I dropped that rev...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of January 11, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Decisive Ticketmaster. It is with a heavy heart and the discarding of many a sunk cost that I have elected to terminate my over three-year partnership with the paid SEO service provider, BlogPros. They were a big contributor to my analytics boom throughout 2024 , but beginning late in that year, I started to see diminishing returns that continued through the new year, and as you may recall from a few of my posts in late 2025 , my BlogPros Dashboard had not updated since the last week of November, and my attempts to contact their service department went unanswered to this day despite my account still being charged for their services. I may seek out an alternative, or try my luck without a SEO provider for awhile. We shall see.... The future of the  Gachiakuta  review remains uncertain because the dub season hasn't finished airing yet, but I did finally watch the second season of Kaiju No...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets. After all of my planning, procrastination, crunch, burnout, and delays (you can remind yourselves of the details by reading the State Of the Ticketverse 2025 and the most recent edition of Time Drops ), I'm glad it worked out that I'm starting off Goj-Year-ra by reviewing the 1954 classic as my two hundredth Just the Ticket post. Directed and co-written by kaiju genre legend Ishirō Honda , 1954's Gojira was a statement piece about the trauma inflicted upon the Japanese people by the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, as well as the potential for global annihilation should the nuclear arms race escalate further. Somewhere off the coast of Odo (the maintenance island attacked by Godzilla at the beginning of Minus One , but here, it's home to a fishing village because Gojira is set in its year of release, rather than during the end of the war), several ships are sunk a...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, A Wild Omnibuster Has Appeared! Welcome to the Jungle , Ticketholders! Take a look around while you're here. It won't bring you to your shananana-knees and you're not gonna die, because I've taken this Limp Bizkit / Guns 'n' Roses gimmick as far as it can go without crashing around to the tune of "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" like Jim Carrey forgetting his lines. Yeah; my Wonderland madness hasn't worn off yet, so I'm still kinda random right now. When I originally talked about Zenescope comics in Cover Charge #3: Grimm Fairy Tales  (FROM June 8, 2014) , I briefly summarized it and its sequel (I will be covering that next week) as follows: "I don't yet see how it's connected to the Grimm Universe. The story is decent and the action is easy enough to follow, but all they did was make Mowgli a girl so there would be an excuse to write an unrequited lesbian romance between her and a human mongoose." ...