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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. Welcome to June, Ticketholders! If you're reading this on or after the first Wednesday of the month, consider yourselves lucky because a combination of high winds and electrical storms has caused utility and service outages in my area and it's taking a long time to get repaired (I'm drafting this up in Notepad as of Sunday night because there's no internet, my data plan is running on fumes, and we can't get anything fixed until Tuesday at the earliest, assuming that goes well). That's also why I was able to post the June Time Drops calendar but not promote it, so if the repair goes smoothly, I will have been able to copy all of this text, add formatting, and include a link to that post , where I said I would have an image in this post sharing the final view count for May 2026 , and it should probably go right here: Again, thank you all for the love and continuing support you give me every single day; I overus...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 31, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. As of Friday evening (which Blogger counts as Saturday morning because time zones exist), it is still May for one more day, but the month I get older has gone far beyond my expectations in terms of views, despite my professional life seeing to it that I have very little to give on a daily basis because I now supervise a man-child who insists on giving me the size, shape, and color every time he goes to the bathroom (which is three times per shift if I'm lucky), can't read, can't remember anything, can't multitask or understand directions, interprets jokes with the same level of comprehension as Drax the Destroyer, can't gender voices by sound, doesn't know how to use a phone, probably doesn't have a Food Handler card, and once asked me if anyone is working in the department he's working in . So I'm peachy-fucking cheeks at the moment; thanks for asking. ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I'm kind of glad I ended up delaying my Godzilla vs Megalon review, because it means I'm ending the month of my birth by entering a new Era of the  Goj -Year- ra  project with a film that premiered in my year of birth, and it's among my favorite Godzilla films that I've seen so far. Nearly ten years after Terror Of Mechagodzilla closed the Shōwa Era with a polarizing commentary on mid-70s gender politics, the Heisei Era kicked off with a thirtieth anniversary reboot sequel to 1954's Gojira , titled The Return Of Godzilla (which was just called Gojira in Japan, proving that the most recent generation of Hollywood didn't invent the "let's do a reboot sequel with the same title as the original genre film" concept , and complicating matters further, we also got an Ameri- satsu version with Raymond Burr returning as Steve Martin , titled Godzilla 1985 ). Directed by Koji Hashimoto (in his sec...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. We did it, Ticketholders! As of the morning of Tuesday May 26, Just the Ticket has crossed the twenty-thousand-view threshold for the month. I cannot thank you all enough for what you do for the traffic here, even on days when I can't entirely keep to schedule (like today). As for the next goalpost? Well, at the height of my anniversary year , I hit over twenty-one thousand, so twenty-two thousand seems nice and achievable. Being ambitious and optimistic, though, let's aim for twenty-five thousand views by the end of May. Plus Ultra , Ticketholders! Now, let's continue what I started last week in the Eye Of the Storm review (my first single-issue Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective since last December ), as the Grimm Universe series gets into Feature/One-Shot mode with an issue that's as much about its place in the Zenescope timeline as it is about character...because  Pat Shand  is the writer. Grimm Universe #2 Fea...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. I intended to include this  Anime Spotlight  in last year's Superhero Ani-May as a companion piece to my review of The Red Ranger Becomes An Adventurer In Another World , but I got anxious from waiting for my new phone and work pressures, and I forgot how to count, so I put this review on the back burner for a year, put the Anime Spotlight on hold until last August, and saved the fiftieth Spotlight (that would have gone to Red Ranger Isekai ) for my big update on My Hero Academia (which just got a Final Update last week, except that I just learned that Eri is getting her own epilogue spinoff, so I'll have to go back and Thunderbolts* that post when the new series/short/OVA/whatever comes out). But for now, I'd like to bring you an edited reprint of my intro to the Red Ranger Isekai Spotlight as we head into my thoughts on  Go! Go! Loser Ranger! I failed to realize that I had fewer Mondays than Fridays to work with...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. This week in  Goj -Year- ra , the Shōwa Era comes to an end with a few firsts. Terror Of Mechagodzilla is the first Godzilla film to both have "Godzilla" in the title and not have "Godzilla" in the title. It's the first in the franchise to have nudity, the first with an explicitly stated non-sexual romance, the first to have a human mad scientist villain, and the first to be written by a woman. Getting back to the title, it's also the first occurrence of a definitive sequel where both Godzilla films have the villain in the title. Yes, I know Godzilla was still kind of a villain in Raids Again , and that King Ghidorah was the Astro-Monster , but I'm not counting those instances for technicality reasons. Released in 1975 based on a script by Yukiko Takayama , Terror Of Mechagodzilla ( Mechagodzilla's Counterattack in Japanese, mirroring the Japanese title of Raids Again ) was the final entry of...