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Just the Ticket #208: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. When I tasked myself with watching every Godzilla film ever ( Minus One ) for Goj -Year- ra , I was not prepared for the franchise to get this weird this fast, but here we are, five movies in with Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster , and it's thanks in large part to screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa ( King Kong vs Godzilla and Mothra vs Godzilla ) being bored with nuclear dinosaurs and tribal stereotypes. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (also known by its Japanese title, Three Giant Monsters, Earth's Greatest Battle ) once again features the work of Toho 's kaiju director/effects/suit actor dream team ( Ishirō Honda ,  Eiji Tsubaraya ,  Haruo Nakajima , Katsumi Tezuka , and Kong suit actor  Shoichi Hirose ) and brings recurring franchise actors (in similar roles to their previous appearances but with different names, making this viewer wonder if Godzilla is some kind of looping Hell punishment continuity or fourt...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #47: Robyn Hood - Legend

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. I'm a little disappointed in myself, Ticketholders! The purpose of the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective and its Zenescope - Omnibusted counterpart was to not only revisit Zenescope 's comics from a nostalgic, comparative, and scholarly perspective, but to cover them in something approaching a canonical order. Had I not chosen a thematic approach to these past two months of content (all of the Jungle Book miniseries together, all of the Robyn Hood miniseries together), I might have adhered to that a bit more closely, but that was not to be in the cards, on account of an Editor's Note I saw in the first issue of the Robyn Hood Origin Trilogy's finale, subtitled: Legend . Robyn Hood  Volume Three Legend I'll get to that soon, but first, there's the matter of introducing the Trade Paperback itself. As is often the case with spinoff Trades like this (the main Grimm Fairy Tales Volumes have always released with...
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Anime Spotlight #72: May I Ask For One Final Thing?

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. Some people in my professional life have said some pretty soul-crushing things to me, about me, to my face this past week. That's slightly better than me being ignorant of things people say behind my back, I guess, but since punching them in the face is a terrible idea, and this is the last week of the Month Of Love , and it's best I move past my feelings in a professional manner, I'm glad I get to live vicariously through the protagonist of today's Spotlighted Anime . I chose to review it at the end of the month on its title alone, but May I Ask For One Final Thing? is a currently finished, one-season anime based on an ongoing novel/light-novel/ manga franchise written by Nana Ōtori and published by frequent Anime Spotlight subjects AlphaPolis , and watching it was a blast. The opening ("Senjō no Hana" by CHiCO & HoneyWorks ) and ending music ( "Inferior" by Shiyui ) are Anime Banger honor...
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Time Drops #141: Week Of February 22, 2026

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Content Calendar Announcement, Week of February 22, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It's the final week of the  Month Of Love , Ticketholders, and I am well ahead of the game, aside from having to stop my binge of May I Ask For One Final Thing? to edit this post with only the final episode remaining because it's Friday evening as I'm doing so. I didn't want to stop because I was really enjoying myself, but sometimes (more often than we'd like, really), happiness must take a backseat to obligation. I want to keep this brief so I can get back to the fun part of my recreational "job," but I must offer apologies for the audio quality of the  Like A Storm / Dem Franchize Boyz  mashup in my St. Valentine's Day MassacReMixtape playlist , and not noticing it sooner. I had hoped to fix the...mashup issue and have a more pleasant version ready to include in this post, but the apps I have available to me, given my limited time and financial re...
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Just the Ticket #207: Mothra vs Godzilla

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It's only fitting that the Month Of Love would feature not just relationship-themed anime and comic books about archers and jilted lovers , but also a movie starring the King and Queen Of the Monsters. Mothra vs Godzilla (censored and Americanized as Godzilla vs The Thing —which just makes me want to see Godzilla fight a kaiju -sized Ben Grimm , or John Carpenter's arctic parasite monster , or the disembodied hand from The Addams Family —and not to be confused with Godzilla vs Mothra ) is Mothra's second film and Godzilla's fourth, chosen in place of a Kong sequel after the success of Mothra's debut . The team of Honda , Tsubaraya , Nakajima , and Tezuka returned yet again, bringing with them some of the same themes and setpieces that were present in King Kong vs Godzilla , such as commercial greed, characters visiting an island populated by kaiju -worshipping tribal stereotypes, the humans trying to defeat ...
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Zenescope - Omnibusted #46: Robyn Hood - Wanted

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. To put your minds at ease if you're a new reader, I assure you that I use my bevy of aliases for my various columns to differentiate them from one another while identifying my singular self, not because I'm secretly Sean Combs or a wanted criminal (unless it's a crime to repeat myself, or to enter the state of Minnesota with slightly darker than average skin, the latter of which I am currently too terrified and transportation-deficient to do, so, lucky me?). But enough biting topical remarks; now that I've made it uncomfortable to remind you that Valentine's Day is behind us and it's still the Month Of Love (because I recently learned that "Love" was one of Combs' aliases—that he probably kept changing so he'd be harder to sue or prosecute, but that's just layman speculation on my part), it's time to revisit my favorite fictional sociopath who derives empty joy from putting arrows in ri...
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Anime Spotlight #71: Tales Of Wedding Rings

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. It's week three of the Month Of Love , Ticketholders! And the anime selections this month followed a particular progression, from imperial romance in The Apothecary Diaries , to modern romance and costume design in My Dress-Up Darling , and now that the dress is made, it's time for some Tales Of Wedding Rings ! If you've been waiting for smutty, generic isekai harem trash with just enough intelligent differentiation to garner a curious glance, Tales Of Wedding Rings is a finished two-season anime (at least, it feels that way) based on a finished manga by Maybe (yes, I'm serious, but they also did To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts , which I vaguely remember being of some quality) that asks "what if Conception was kinda good, less cringe, and also more than half-animated?" As a boy, Haruto Satou witnessed Krystal Nokonatika and her grandfather Alabaster (yes, I'm pretty sure all of the characters are named ...
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