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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...

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 ...

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...