Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Wonderful, Retrospective, Apologetic Ticketmaster. We were so  close to the 10k mark last month, Ticketholders! Like, despite having less content density overall, Just the Ticket racked up three thousand more views for November than I had in October, and I came away just six hundred views short of my goal...which is still to have a ten thousand view month before the end of 2025. That's the wonderful, retrospective part. The apologetic part comes with the issue that I am reviewing today. When I began writing the Grimm Fairy Tales ( GFT ) Retrospective , it was a journey of comparison between my memory of my first readthrough, things I noticed on this re-read, and searching out the original source materials (folk and fairy tales, classic literature, etc.). There comes a certain point in any literary journey (like with my One Piece Multi-Piece  series) where the little details shift from foreshadowing that hits different to things you have ...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of November 30, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Festive Ticketmaster. Thirty days hath November, so now, it's time to schedule for December! At least, I think that's how the rhyme goes.... Since my last Time Drops post, I have made it to the middle of X-Men: The Animated Series Season Five in terms of both watching and reviewing, which leaves six more episodes, plus the ten in X-Men '97 (at which point I'll have a massive amount of editing to do before I publish, including my draft of the  Rascal Does Not Dream Of Santa Claus review), and I haven't even touched the It's Alive! movies yet (or the second cour of that anime I want to review after Christmas if it finishes airing in time) or settled on how I want to present my plans for 2026 when the time comes. But I will still be putting out weekly GFT Retrospectives for the Fall Of Wonderland and Wonderland Winter as planned, keeping you updated on my progress on ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Destiny's Ticketmaster. I can't consciously explain why, but out of nowhere, I've had "Jumpin' Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child stuck in my head for days now. Maybe it's because I've gone insane from my X-Men binge and lack of sleep finally catching up with me. Or maybe it's my brain reminding me to stop chasing waterfalls like a scrub (yes, I know those are TLC songs, so I'm gonna need you to get that monkey all the way off my back about it ) and pay my bills (and my bills, and my bills ), [insert all other Destiny's Child song references I forgot over the past twenty-plus years here], and get my crazy ass to writing this review because this is the issue where Violet and Harmony sneak out to hit up Club Excess like a pair of bootylicious independent women before Violet's survivor / soldier mother wakes up and says "no no no no no." I guess I'll just free my mind and see if t...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of November 23, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The final week of  No Effort November  is upon us, Ticketholders! And I'm still working my way through the massive, messy third season of X-Men: The Animated Series , in addition to continuing my single-issue GFT  Retrospectives on the Wonderland Ongoing series (because the Fall Of   Wonderland and Wonderland   Winter will  continue as planned), keeping you updated on my progress on a weekly basis, and doing TBT '25  pushes on social media to promote my old posts one Thursday at a time (because communication and consistency continue to matter and I "enjoy" justifying my own continued existence). I'll get to why my progress on Season Three has been so sluggish (aside from its size, the obvious energy-sapping nature of my paying job, and the sleep I'm not getting while I try to watch and review an entire cartoon series in a month) in ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. As I'm writing this, it's Sunday afternoon following an incredibly stressful workday of being responsible for something important that I've never done by myself before, and when it was all behind me, I was greeted by the pleasant surprise of a 500-plus-view day before noon. Thank you so much to everyone on BlueSky , Tumblr , Facebook , Pinterest , Instagram , YouTube , and LinkedIn (and yes, even those of you who come by my content at random) for helping me start my roving weekend a little brighter than sunlight can currently provide in my part of the world. And thank you to Zenescope for starting off this week's issue by giving me so much to talk about. Wonderland #7 First of all, there's the cover art, starting with the Sean Chen and Sanju Nivangune cover (and not just because the line artist has the same first name as me). It's a whimsical take on The Birth Of Venus with Spades and Hearts ...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of November 16, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. No Effort November  continues, Ticketholders! Now with even less effort than before (which makes it Negative Effort November , but because it's impossible to make negative effort, that underflows back around to Nearly Infinite Effort November , I guess?) because I didn't have the energy to edit this after work yesterday even though it's basically a copypasta, and I'm stretching and coping and a lame set theory joke is the best I could come up with at three in the morning to justify this post's existence. Differentiation matters in this business I don't get paid for yet, after all. Sorry; having to work with the young adult human equivalent of an AI learning model who can't remember how to properly cook his own shoelaces is getting to me again...still. Anyway, in addition to continuing my single-issue GFT  Retrospectives on the Wonderland Ongoing series (b...