Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It was my intent to kick off May last week with today's review of the next movie I watched for the  Goj -Year- ra  project, but time and energy were not permitting. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did despite its imperfections and the vehemently mixed reception it received for its tonally inappropriate mouth-harp score, not having enough Godzilla, using too much stock footage (is All Monsters Attack a joke to you? Because it is to me!),  and meme-ifying everything that's "wrong" with the Shōwa Era. Making me think of  Mega Man  for the first time since Invasion Of Astro-Monster because a scientist creates a sentient robot (designed with the help of a fan art contest) to save humanity from a monster that looks like the lovechild of Tunnel Rhino and Gravity Beetle and has a name that starts with Mega, 1973's Godzilla vs Megalon is perhaps the gem of writer/director Jun Fukuda 's kaiju career s...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. It's finally here, Ticketholders! Ever since  the Limbo arc  concluded, the combined forces of Venus , the Goblin Queen , the Limbo Queen, the Queen Of Spades , and Baba Yaga (whom I had trouble thinking of for some reason) have been scheming on and off the page to amass power for a coming war, and raising their pack of Flesh-Reaving Wrath Beasts to one day unleash upon the Nexus, and in today's five-issue miniseries up for review, the alliance between the five titular Bad Girls (because "titular" sounds just a little dirty, and Zenescope just had to name their all-female Legion Of Doom facsimile like it's a special, industry-focused issue of Penthouse or a Barely Legal knockoff or something) is put to the test. Written by Joey Esposito ( Batman: Urban Legends ), Bad Girls is a minor event that I don't remember in that much detail beyond what I wrote in my Cover Charge Quickie collection on Grimm Fa...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 3, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. You may have been expecting to see my review of Godzilla vs Megalon drop yesterday, and I did start writing it on Thursday after a grueling day of misinformation, missed connections, and mass transit, but I decided to put it off for a week and give my brain a few days of rest in preparation for the month when I get older, which it now is, so I have to come up with a plan for the content to come in the weeks ahead. As for the month gone by, according to the following image, Just the Ticket finished April nearly three hundred views short of my goal of ten thousand, as of 5pm Pacific Standard Time on April 30. But that figure is nothing to sneeze at (seasonal allergy pun not intended, but I'll take it), and my reading/sharing audience continues to be the best pseudo-silent minority on the internet, so thank you all for doing what you do. All I can do at this point is reset my goal for a n...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. As of this writing, Just the Ticket is roughly 1,000 views away from my monthly goal of ten thousand, which I haven't hit, let alone surpassed, in two years. But whether or not guardian angels and magic get involved, I think we can totally pull it off, so I'm bringing back the doubled call to action in hopes that you  Stay Tuned  and remember to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, leave a comment at the bottom of this post and any others you have opinions about, help out my ad revenue as you read onward, and follow me on  BlueSky ,  Tumblr ,  Facebook ,  Instagram ,  Pinterest ,  YouTube , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see, receive the latest news on my content, and get me closer to that goal. Getting into today's content, I'd also like to preface this review/summary/ Retrospective thing by noting that there is no such collection of Zenescope comics from the 201...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. You know I love a good pun , Ticketholders; especially puns that work on multiple levels, because it takes more than a simple homophone to create. For example, the title of today's isekai getting the Anime Spotlight treatment for the month of April takes advantage of the interchangeable phoenetics of katakana to make a bilingual pun out of its English subtitle ("birth" and "verse" are spelled with the same characters in Japanese). Unfortunately, the anime itself ended up as a double- entendre of trying too hard and not trying hard enough. Heh; trying.... Onmyō Kaiten Re:Bāsu ( Re-birth / Reverse ) is a rare case of a Japanese property starting as an anime and being adapted into manga form later. Created by Fujiko Sakuno (who also writes the manga ) and series director Hideya Takahashi with animation by David Production ( Fire Force and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ), it follows Narihira Takeru (a loud...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I was not alive yet, but the 70s were a strange time, if these last two  Goj -Year- ra  selections (and A Clockwork Orange ) are anything to go by. The architecture (before it's kicked over, smashed, cut through, and/or exploded), the hair and fashion that looks androgynous (feathered bangs! Dracula collars! Even the pant-legs are dresses!) and either over-patterned with intense primary colors or monochromatic with pastels (fittingly for the latter this month) like the designers were trying to blind you with Easter , and the...enhanced thinking it takes to come up with a plot where alien cockroaches try to conquer Earth with a cyborg buzzsaw chicken while two monsters talk to each other with see-through speech bubbles and rewinding tape noises. Directed by former franchise black sheep (before Yoshimitsu Banno "ruined" it with last week's entry )  Jun Fukuda  ( Ebirah and Son Of Godzilla ), Godzilla vs Gigan (pref...