Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. I hope everyone had a happy Mother's Day on Sunday because I did (even though I didn't make space to mention it in Monday's post ). Most of the gifting was already taken care of before the big day (onions, tomato, pepper, mint, and fennel plants for our above-ground garden), which left the focus on food, so I made breakfast (my specialty meal of eggs, bacon, fruit, and the best waffles I've made or eaten since the last time I made waffles) and some store-bought shrimp and onion rings for lunch so she wouldn't have to cook...much. A fairly stress-free day, and I'm happy she enjoyed it. The question now is whether or not I will enjoy the final arc of Myths & Legends (until Zenescope brought the branding back for quarterly One-Shots in the 2020s). Grimm Fairy Tales - Myths & Legends: The Summoning As a reminder, Myths & Legends was a long, limited series that serves a two-fold purpose (at minimum) of ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Quirky Animeister As of last year (and since I don't really get out to watch MCU movies theatrically anymore), I've devoted the AniMonday portion of my birth month to Superhero Ani-May , covering series like SSSS.Gridman , SHY , ZENSHU , and  The Red Ranger Becomes An Adventurer In Another World . And since I'm behind the ball on catching up with the recently concluded My Hero Academia (the focus of my fiftieth Anime Spotlight ) and it's an anime about superheroes, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do that. I'll cover the entire franchise so far next week, including the eighth and final season and the epilogue special. But today, I'm talking about the spinoff prequel,  Vigilantes  (a.k.a.  Illegals , because calling undocumented people who perform a public service without compensation "illegals" is totally a culturally sensitive word choice in the 2020s). My Hero Academia: Vigilantes  is a preq...

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...