Just the Ticket

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! It's the Final Piece of Dressrosa and the final day of August ...and what a time it's been. The month has been huge on view traffic (final tally on Wednesday—that's a lot of finals for one paragraph already!), so thank you to everyone I didn't exile to the shame-grass last week . The denouement of the Dressrosa Arc (I was looking for a fancy way to not say final again, and the definition of denouement mentioned strands, so I went with it because Doflamingo) Multi-Piece will mostly be a discussion of Luffy's new ability because much of the arc's wrap-up is fighting and waiting for the story to get back to the fight while the animation budget is saved by waggling and sliding character png files, reskinned scenery destruction, yapping, and run cycles (as you do when churning out over a hundred thirteen-minute episodes—plus OPs, recaps, bumpers, and previews—of an...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 30, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. For the fourth month in a row now, Just the Ticket has surpassed my long-standing goal of ten thousand views, and as you can see in the "Last Month" category, as of yesterday evening,  August is just over fifteen thousand. A final tally will be included in Wednesday's Zenescope - Omnibusted . So, yet another big thank you to my (growing) reading/sharing audience for continuing to be the best pseudo-silent minority on the internet, being who you are, and doing what you do (unless what you do is farm and steal content for AI training). It makes the challenges of real life weigh a little less because professional responsibility has not run out of ways to complicate my existence and wear down the façade that I am a well-adjusted, competent leader who can handle anything, do everything, and knows what it feels like to have a shit-eating grin on my face. Chocolate, not chocolate...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I'm not mad; just disappointed. Last week, I praised Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla for its world-building, strong female lead, thematically rich writing, and compelling action sequences. This week, I feel like I've been anesthetized by radioactive bug pollen. And that was before we lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the span of less than two days. Rest in peace and power, legends! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a lot of shit upon my chest that needs to be sent to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.... After  Toho  sent four scripts that he rejected, director and co-writer  Masaaki Tezuka  drafted a new script overnight (presumably refined later with GMK co-writer  Masahiro Yokotani ), and we got the only direct sequel of the Millennium Era, with 2003's Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (known in Japan by the GMK -esque title, Godzilla×Mothra×Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. ). Besides Tezuka an...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. I suppose that when you're playing a Game of any kind, turnabout is fair play. So because last week, I reviewed (as much as I could, given its length) the A Shadow Falls prelude to Unleashed (which was first included with four seemingly random reprints as part of the Best Of Zenescope Special Edition ) as an Omnibusted post, I'm reprinting that review, along with my thoughts on Unleashed #0: The Game , as a Retrospective post today. Unleashed Volume One Unleashed is the second largest of the three Zenescope events I have read before ( The Dream Eater Saga was a straightforward enough twelve-issue series with a few One-Shots, and that was it, while the Age Of Darkness will have more content to it than the Being has torso muscles), with several short stories and crossover issues, and five Tie-In comic series, as well as an intervening One-Shot that I'll probably get to next month, and a huge batch of character bios...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! Friday ended up being my first thousand-plus-view day in awhile (since 2024 , I think). In One Piece Pirate fashion, I'd like to say that if you're actually a human reading what I write (or at least giving me clicks out of pity because I'm still bothering to blog in 2026 ), thank you very much. But if you're just following me on social media to farm my content for AI training, unfollow me immediately, go to an actual farm, touch grass until you find a particularly tall patch of it, and hide therein while you go fuck yourself. When we last left things , Trafalgar Law was in a rematch with Donquixote Doflamingo while Luffy was stuck between a String double of Doflamingo and a puppeteered Bellamy the Hyena. And because the Dressrosa Arc in particular (though it's happened before on a smaller scale in shorter arcs) likes to ruin the pacing of its fights and the impac...