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Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! Just a friendly, hypothetical warning for you before we set sail for the Second Piece of the Dressrosa Arc: sometimes, being a team player means having to play as the team while they hide, complain, blame you for their failures, and act stupid (or are stupid) because they claim to have it harder than you, whatever "it" may be and whether or not "it" actually exists. Do what you can and what you know is right because regardless of the burden expected of you, that is really all you can do. Patience and right will prevail in the end. I hope. When we last left the Dressrosa Arc , twenty-four episodes had elapsed, setting up the world-building, important characters, and plot points that could be relevant going forward. One of the biggest was whether or not Doflamingo Donquixote is a Celestial Dragon, and it turns out that, yeah, he is. At least, by blood. And by acti...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Today, the  Goj -Year- ra  project ends the first week of August with the second film, and second continuity reboot, of the Millennium Era, which the fandom often ranks with Some Monsters Almost Attack , Godzilla Raids Again , Godzilla '98 , and Ebirah, Horror Of the Deep as among the franchise's worst entries. I'm not quite so severe on it, but in contrast to Godzilla 2000 (which I reviewed last week), it gave me a strong first impression and spun into a rapid decline from there, for numerous reasons I will get into later. Godzilla vs Megaguirus (released in 2000 under a Japanese title that translates as Godzilla×Megaguirus: The G Extermination Strategy , so I guess the multiplication symbol is a Millennium Era "versus" thing?) was the directorial debut of Masaaki Tezuka ( Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. , a.k.a. "the Kiryu Saga") and written by the team of  Hiroshi Kash...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. From what I recall , today's miniseries up for review has little or nothing to do with Zenescope 's Grimm Fairy Tales canon beyond maybe having a mental gymnastics-heavy stretch of a connection to the Jack O' Lantern story from the 2012 Halloween Special  (which is barely canon outside of a Dark One appearance anyway), and only features GFT branding for deceptively associative marketing purposes. I also recall from my first reading that its interior art was dark, dreary, unintelligible, joyless garbage. So why am I bothering with it again? Let's find out.... Sleepy Hollow At the time I originally read this miniseries, my only vivid experiences with the Sleepy Hollow narrative were the Johnny Depp film and the supernatural procedural series from the 2010s where Ichabod Crane woke up in modern times to stop his cursed father from helping a secret society of Revolutionary War-era British proto-Nazis from reviving the...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! It's been a long time since the One Piece  Multi-Piece  graced the waves with my look at the Punk Hazard Arc (a.k.a. the short "half" of the Dressrosa Saga, a.k.a. the One Piece Running Simulator Arc). First up on the travel itinerary, even though I published it on Saturday, I chose to delay promoting the August Time Drops calendar so I could devote my time and energy to bingeing this week's chunk of the Dressrosa Arc, which, thanks to a decent portion of each episode being devoted to theme music (the high-energy "Wake Up" by AAA , accompanied by visuals of the Straw Hat Crew in flashy vacation attire fighting the massive supporting/fodder cast of Marines, gladiators, Pirates, and other villains, including an interlude dialogue exchange between Luffy and Blackbeard that may or may not actually impact the plot of the arc, but I don't know for sure ye...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 2, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. For the third month in a row,  Just the Ticket  has surpassed my long-standing goal of ten thousand views, and as you can see in the "Last Month" category, the final tally for  July  is just over eleven thousand. 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. It makes the challenges of real life weigh a little less because the heat and constant overnight smoke are testing my physical health, and workplace nonsense continues to test my sanity, patience, and stress threshold on five out of seven days that end with "day." How is one supposed to maintain a positive attitude and customer service standard with a braindead subordinate to babysit? How is one supposed to make more money with less product and fewer scheduled opportunities to make...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I will warn you now that today's  Goj -Year- ra review is going to be pretty negative and cynical in tone because there was a kaiju -sized amount of things I did not like about this movie, and I'm apparently in the minority on this. But there were some positives, too, so don't expect a pure rage-fest. When money became the deciding factor in ending the Godzilla franchise with the Heisei Era (not the overstuffed, derivative human plots, the mishandling of the franchise's second most important character for six films in a row, the snail-shit pacing, the safe monster choices, the brain-melting continuity, the soulless beam struggles, or the repetitive, idiotic, shovel-fed morality..., but money), and Roland Emmerich thought it was a good idea to have Ferris Beuller , The Professional , and a bunch of Simpsons characters fight a nuclear iguana with resting dick-face in 1998 ,  Toho  immediately responded to fans calli...