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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective Dreamer, Disappointed Ticketmaster. Apologies for spoiling my opinions right out of the gate, but one thing I do not miss being reminded of is how much hype Zenescope (and comic book companies at large, and even Japanese media sometimes) build with big events like this, promising to shake things up, escalate threat levels, and make good on forgotten plot elements, only to trade an epic final battle and impactful moments for a pointless squabble and a slow winding down after the seemingly unstoppable, world-ending threat suffers from a plot armor malfunction out of nowhere and can be defeated by a random extra poking it with a stick or something. It's not like the Zenescope team are or were bad at things like this. The eighteen-plus-issue Wonderland trilogy, for all of its scattershot lore and endgame contrivances, managed a thematically powerful ending. Even Neverland , before the Tales came along to shit the bed with underwhelming retco...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. A MasakoX Fan This was kind of a spur of the moment thing that I came up with while scrolling through YouTube in 2023, and I came across a poll that asked when Dragon Ball Z  should have ended, giving the Cell Saga and the Buu Saga as its options. I wasn't able to find the poll recently, as it is too old, but I started writing this the same week the poll was posted, so I know that the majority of voters said that the Cell Saga was the better ending point, so I thought about what the series would have been like if we went from the Cell Saga into Super , and here we go: The most obvious thing to do would be to cover some adaptation of the post-Cell movies, starting with Bojack Unbound . Future Trunks would have gone back to his timeline after the Cell Games and used his newly gained strength to wipe out the Androids and Cell, but not  returned to participate in X.S. Cash's "Intergalactic" Tournament (because that was stupid in the movi...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of March 30, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. As I mentioned yesterday in my Martial Outlaw review, April will be a month of relative rest and relaxation for me outside of work and my other content, as I won't be doing a themed movie month this year. Call it Spring cleaning, but my fluctuating financial position has led to me consuming visual media "any way I can," and I literally won't have the space to do anything like that until I get other reviews written and can dump the reviewed material from my drive. Thankfully, my tax refund came and work hours are picking up again, so I'm going to have the resources (if not always the time) to remedy that going forward. The first step will be getting that Punk Hazard review ready for publication by week two or three of April. Again, I promise it won't be such a point of procrastination like Fishman Island was. My  Instagram  journey is going well so far. It isn...

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...