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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. Happy Bastille Day (yesterday) to my twenty-one French Ticketholders-to-be, and happy New Comic Book Day to all! If it's summer in your hemisphere right now, what you're feeling unfortunately isn't the fires of passion, but the fires of...actual fires, or maybe just a general feeling of heat and sweatiness because climate change (or global warming, or whatever politically correct language you want to boil it down to so you feel better) is real, and it's pet-cookingly hot right now for me as well. On a lighter note, though, it's also convention season, and after Warner Bros. got Zaslav'd to pieces for financial gain, reducing Rooster Teeth to a barely functioning archival husk of its former self (among other things, but I'm following a specific thread here), a beloved piece of indie animation found sanctuary with Viz Media and has been sharing semi-regular updates on its renewing infrastructure, until a...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I guess this turned out to be the week of crystal-themed villains , huh? Though I saw today's  Goj -Year- ra entry almost a week ago, and took notes as I watched, I didn't write this review until early Thursday morning (like, at 2am because it's too hot to sleep and deadlines exist) because I didn't have anything interesting to say for an intro (and considering I put myself in a time crunch so I could spend the intro talking about how and why I put myself in a time crunch, I still don't) besides the Polish title being Godzilla vs CosmicGodzilla (not to be confused with Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster ).  No quirky production history to speak of, no other international title weirdness; just a mostly successful attempt at making a good Heisei Era kaiju movie where the humans and monsters both matter and the villain isn't just Showa nostalgia bait. Coming to Earth in 1994 (a year after Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla I...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. I said last week that the first half of Grimm Fairy Tales Volume Fourteen is where Sela goes back to work. And that's true in the sense that she was returned to her mentor role (with an...unfavorable outcome because her assigned charge was a self-important Highborn with no desire to listen to the advice of a failed Falseblood Guardian). But in the two-parter I'm looking at this week, the "back to work" theme literally applies. Let's remind myself how that went.... Grimm Fairy Tales #83 & 84: Jack Frost This two-part story wastes no time in getting things back to relative normalcy for Grimm Fairy Tales , and that's kind of a bad thing. From page one, we find out that Sela has been given a teaching position offer by the mysterious dean of a prestigious Boston prep school, which, Sela and prep school deans have gone together like torches and napalm up to this point , so she accepts the offer like it's...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Happy Birthday to my America, Ticketholders! I guess you'd call me a liberal, or "left-wing," if you had to put me in a binary box, but the one conservative hope I have is that we as a country can get back to a time resembling what we had before this past decade of insanity, hate, and fear, because twelve score and ten years ago, our founding fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. And then women, eventually, once all the witchcraft paranoia got hung out to die and one of them made our flag. It took a lot longer than four score and seven years to even approach that equality, and a mere handful of years, plus at least as many acts of upheaval to affect a frankly superficial level of social change before the next manufactured boogeyman of the month instigated a mass fear response of, by, and for the wrong people to ge...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. Welcome to July, Ticketholders! I've been back from vacation for a few days, and Sela Mathers is back from an alternate Realm , Limbo , prison , and helping save the world at least three more times ( The Dream Eater Saga , Bad Girls , and The Summoning ) to continue her mentoring role in the first fairy tale adaptation that Zenescope 's main title has done in quite some time (so I'm not the only one who's come back to work). But before I get into that, I promised a final view count for June , and here it is: Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 14 TPB (Part One) As you can see from the above text and banner image, the Volume Fourteen Trade Paperback is where collection of the main Grimm Fairy Tales series' issues starts to get a little wonky. We've seen numbered GFT and Myths & Legends issues show up in an event before ( The Dream Eater Saga ), but the Trades around them ended prior to the event and resumed numberi...