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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...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. Yeah, I'm trying out a new alias for my Retrospective byline today. Already don't know if I'm really feeling it, though, so suggestions are welcome. Maybe I should just let it grow on me? Also, another milestone get as I just passed the fifteen thousand view mark for May, so let's move the goalpost again and try for the Road To 20k! Thank you all again for the support this month. Whoever you Ticketholders are, you're my heroes. And speaking of heroes, it's been months since I did a Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective instead of Zenescope - Omnibusted , so let's keep the train rolling with the Grimm Universe series! The first thing you'll probably notice is the labeling of this collection of One-Shots as Volume One, possibly hinting that there was supposed to be a Volume Two at some point that was canceled. Like Myths & Legends , though, the Grimm Universe branding would be revived at the beginnin...