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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Non-Martial, Non-Outlaw, Ticketmaster. Welcome to the final week of March- al Law Month , Ticketholders! Despite the few Italian cover images I found online billing it as Codice Marziale 4 , 1993's Martial Outlaw is not a true Martial Law sequel in the majority of the world, and is instead a case of Italian cinema using star recognition and the barest threads of plot similarity ( Jeff Wincott playing a martial artist with a badge who seeks justice when another character dies) to get a high return on low investment; something I touched on in my Last Man Standing and Mission Of Justice reviews as a common practice of the time (and earlier), particularly in European markets like Italy, home of the "Spaghetti Western" and countless ripoffs of such 70s and 80s classics as Conan , Mad Max , and Escape From New York (including a few that ripped off all three at once; thanks to Josh Spiegel of Movie Timelines for his videos on the subject), beca...

Article By Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective Dreamer, Fernal Ticketmaster. "Infernal" can be traced through old English and French precursors back to Latin, literally meaning "underground" or "nether region" (yes, I'm serious), as a general descriptive term for the underworld or hell...rather than genitalia (though with the whole, ignorance of nudity in the Garden of Eden, Virgin Mary, Deadly Sin of Lust business, who's to say old Western religions didn't think of reproductive anatomy as a gateway to Hell?). The Hell association still lingers to the modern day, thanks in no small part to Dante Allighieri's "Inferno" and "Divine Comedy," as well as John Milton's "Paradise Lost."  It's also been used as a flowery substitute for another hellish adjective, "damned," to refer to something or someone who is irritating or tiresome (e.g.: "Cut out that infernal racket!"). But then someone t...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of March 23, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster For the first time since probably Fall 2023 , there won't be any AniMonday content this week. I intended to do a response to Geekdom101 's DAIMA Season 2 Plot Pitch video, but in the moment I felt like it would have been too short-notice and not good enough because I got too excited about too many concepts that wouldn't have meshed together that well. So instead, I'm just going to refer you to the link to Danny's video above, and bullet-point some of the ideas I had right here: The main villain should have three generals (similar plot structure to DAIMA , just with villains instead of the Tamagamis), each with one of the Tertian Oculi from the bug shop. Rock, Paper, Scissors should be a recurring joke/theme. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo use it to decide who fights each Dark Namekian General, with Piccolo, then Gohan, then Vegeta getting a turn. When they defeat th...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a The Ticketmaster. Welcome to the third week of March- al Law Month , Ticketholders! The 90s were a simpler time in America, when you didn't have to worry about the government (blatantly) lying to you or technology being both so smart and so dumb that it could be programmed to lie to you (or for you). In the 90s, you could think professional wrestling was real. Cartoons were kind of allowed to sell your children articulated hunks of plastic. Radical dudes in their twenties and thirties could convince children and teens that a crappy 8-bit movie tie-in game was so awesome that it could farm enough aura to blow up the Earth through your television. And the movie industry could get away with exploiting name recognition and minor plot similarities to convince the renting public that a completely unrelated movie was a sequel to their favorite franchise. It's the reason behind the whole Troll / Ator clusterfuck. It's why there are so many Amityv...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective Dream er, and Ticketmaster. I feel like I missed all of the "important" March "holidays" this year, Ticketholders. I didn't play any Nintendo games on Mar10 Day , I didn't make or eat any pie on March 14 (which is totally irrational of me), and I didn't do anything drunken, Catholic, or Irish (but I repeat myself) on St. Patrick's Day . I guess I did fall victim to the Ides Of March earlier in the month when my store's poultry supplier went out of business without telling anyone the same week we had to cater a huge fried chicken order, I almost got thrown under the bus for it for no reason, and got my hours cut. And I did make that 311 joke in my Dexter: Original Sin review (go read it when you're done here). But that's nowhere near as positive or satisfying as fueling a day of retro gaming with some corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, beer, whiskey, and pie. Apparently, there's more Black...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Master Of Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Welcome back to the world of the One Piece  Multi-Piece , Ticketholders! I had honestly thought about putting this off until 2026 because of One Piece 's timeskip being two years and my impressions of the arc no longer being as fresh as it was in 2024. But here I am, putting fingers to keys once more, as I take some advantage of One Piece  being in reruns as I write this and Dragon Ball DAIMA  being over as of earlier in March. So let's get back on course by remembering to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, commenting at the bottom of this post, helping out my ad revenue as you read to slowly raise my Bounty above Chopper levels, and joining my Crew on BlueSky , Tumblr , Reddit , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , and LinkedIn to like what you see and receive the latest snail transmissions of news on my content. I love how the Fishman Island arc begins by taking advantage of how stu...