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Anime Spotlight #81: Fire Force (2026 Update)

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. In my neck of the woods (a phrase that is biologically impossible, if not also psychologically scarring to imagine in a literal, body horror sense, especially if you take into account the arboreal hydra that would be given shape by multiple points of view, but I dye grass when I'm overcaffeinated), I can breathe the smoky flames of Canada as we speak. But I did not choose this Anime Spotlight update for July because of some future-sighted state I achieved by tapping into a parallel Hell dimension; rather, it was because July is the month of independent rebellion (in at least two countries), which we celebrate with fireworks. Fireworks, Fire Force ; it was as simple as that. And then I started watching the third (and final?) season of Fire Force , and was reminded of the rebel authority role that Company Eight has in the series and how the themes of the new season comment on modern government, politics, and culture. So Fire Force f...
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Just the Ticket #228: Godzilla vs Destoroyah

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Today, the Heisei Era of  Goj -Year- ra  comes to an end. And one question that had been going through my mind since Godzilla vs Mothra is "what's going to happen with the meteor?" It wasn't mentioned in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II , and even though the plot of Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla could have easily been altered so that SpaceGodzilla was the meteor, perhaps sent by an opportunistic alien race (or by the evil alternate future Japan from Godzilla vs King Ghidorah , or by the kaiju ruler of a supermassive sister planet to Earth that hid in Saturn's shadow or something) to kill Godzilla and conquer Earth, that wasn't the case, either. Nor, as I now understand, does Godzilla vs Destoroyah have anything to do with it. So again, what happened with the meteor? Well, apparently, some time between Godzilla vs Mothra and Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla , Mothra just...took care of it offscreen, I guess. But as di...
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GFT Retrospective #127: St. Patrick's Day 2013

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Lucky Retrospectre? Said "luck" is more like a fifty-fifty occurrence. Or rather, twenty-five percent and slowly rising. See, because of how Facebook and Instagram work, my promotions for these blog articles get pushed on Threads , too, and when a Thread gets popular enough (like my push of last Friday's Superman review ), I see notifications as it passes fifty or a hundred views (the last notification I received). That particular thread also got nine likes and a comment written in emojis. But can you guess how many views the actual review itself got in that time? Less than thirty. No likes. No comments. I appreciate the blind social media engagement, but maybe click the link to the post before you react to it? I don't even think you have to read anything of mine (but I hope you do) for the views to count. The internet (and the world) could do with a bit more literacy, reality, and truth. So let's talk about a fairy tale...
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Just the Ticket #227: Superman (2025)

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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Yes, I'm reviewing Superman (2025) for Bastille Day week in 2026. I know that I'm a year late to the conversation (which, I am painfully aware, was mostly conducted by sentient neckbeards, cyborg monkeys, angry Snyder apologists, and self-brainwashed, self-reporting grifters who think prometheotic bigotry equivocates to credible criticism), and that by virtue of my tardiness, there isn't much, if anything, approaching novelty that I can say about it. Aside from the Donner Superman films, Man Of Steel , the Burton / Schumacher and Nolan Batman films , the DCAU , Teen Titans ( but not Go! ), The Batman ( the cartoon , not the movie ), the broadcast seasons of Young Justice , Gotham   (until my priorities shifted and I lost interest), and the Arrowverse (through "Crisis On Infinite Earths"), I am more of a Marvel fan, and if my Retrospective / Omnibusted series isn't a big enough clue, my imprint of ...
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GFT Retrospective #126: Valentine's 2013

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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...
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Just the Ticket #226: Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla

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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...
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