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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. I'm super-excited for AniMonday, Ticketholders! Not because H.P. Lovecraft has replaced the moon as this year's "thing I can't escape from" (I clearly have the opposite reaction to the inescapable), but because of what I get to review today. I have a huge seasonal BAWklog from everything I've been putting off to catch up with My Hero Academia , Tower Of God , Solo Leveling , and other series I've reviewed so far this year, to say nothing of the movies, books, and live-action series I've consumed. And sometimes, when you can't decide where to start (like me), it's best to just go alphabetically. Clevatess (with the spoilery Japanese subtitle of The King Of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero ) is based on an ongoing 2020 manga by Yūji Iwahara ( Darker Than Black , Dimension W ), and is confirmed to be getting a second season for good reason. In a world surrounded by shadowy, Beast-in...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of October 5, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. You might remember my admission last week that I was starting to feel aimless, pointless, and overwhelmed (outside of work; I had already been venting about that for weeks, if not months) as a content creator despite my view analytics seeing a marked recovery since this time last year. That feeling has nothing to do with you fine Ticketholders; I just kept letting the list in my head build up without documenting it anywhere. I still have my plans for the rest of the year ( reviewing the two good  Urban Legend movies for Halloween, the Fall Of / Winter Wonderland  "event," plus  X-Men  and the  It's Alive!  movies for December), but the future is a big, scary  place  and hypotheticals are the greatest terror since moving (the current, literal understatement of the century because we have a senile, demented, shit-filled pumpkin running the last...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. Today is kind of a perfect day to start this, Ticketholders! It's the first of a new month (which happens to be October; the month of Halloween) and I'm reviewing the first issue of a new (at its time) comic series' first Volume. So there are plenty of ones involved here, if you have a weird numerology brain like mine. Welcome to October, and welcome back to Wonderland ! The first Volume of the Wonderland Ongoing series is a standard compilation affair with no specially redesigned covers or in-between pages, and the ComiXology version and the scanned version are identical, so sorry if that doesn't leave me with much of an intro in which to critique or complain about the overall TPB experience. I will include a bonus tidbit at the end of the Omnibusted compilation because Volume One's extra content is a preview of the sixth issue, in much the same way as the Call Of Wonderland Trade had a preview ...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of September 28, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I've kind of hit a point of aimlessness, Ticketholders. Like, I know that I'm going to review the two good Urban Legend movies in October, and I have the whole Wonderland thing scheduled for the rest of the year, plus X-Men and the It's Alive! movies for December...but with I Know What You Did Last Summer behind me and 2026 looming in the distance (and so many shows, anime, and movies that I want or "need" to catch up on, and the major projects that I have allowed to languish on my list), I feel that dangerous mix of "what next?" and "why bother?" gnawing at the back of my brain. So it's time to start slowing down so I can catch up, and get things in a more organized state than just a list. That means a scant few Anime Spotlight entries and only one Just the Ticket in October and nothing but Zenescope content in November. Otherwise...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Who Doesn't Know What You Did Last Summer. I did not like these movies, Ticketholders! I mean, I liked the first two when they came out almost thirty years ago, which is why the third one disappointed me so much that I only ever watched it once and didn't even want to watch it for this review (but I watched the Children Of the Corn franchise and most of The Curse movies, so it's nothing by comparison). The second time I watched the first two movies, I thought the core four were unsympathetic, the villain reveal came out of nowhere, the second movie was obvious and stupid, and Julie James was the worst final girl of all time. But has my opinion changed with time, book knowledge , and exposure to eight hours of Amazon-produced zoomer torture ? Let's find out, and then check out this year's legacy sequel to see if it's as bad as everyone says. Directed by Jim Gillespie ( Joyride —not to be confused with Joy Ri...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. Remember, Ticketholders: the people and things in our immediate lives, and in the larger world, can only affect us (for good or ill) if we grant them the power to do so. I know that I'm attributing a metaphysical philosophy to real, tangible things and that it sounds like I'm boiling broad, complex global issues down to "ignore it and it will go away," but what I'm really speaking to is our rights as people to reinforce what makes us happy, to make choices that benefit ourselves and those we love, and to withhold support from that which means us harm. Evil triumphs where good men do nothing, and the most insidious trick of evil is convincing the world that it doesn't exist. The means by which my country came to be what it was may not have been the most noble, but the intent behind looking at the rest of the world and saying, "we don't want to be that because we've been on the bad ...