Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospectre. There's some sort of appropriate timing here, what with Doomsday coming out soon and the first Avengers having premiered to franchise-defining success a year before the comic I'm reviewing today hit shelves. It's not so perfectly "coincidental" as Supernatural 's suspected influence on the Unleashed event , but the pieces are there to speculate that someone at Zenescope said, "this is a big pop culture thing right now; we should make our own team!" And it's not like it's an abrupt thing, either. Before Marvel 's The Avengers was even a thought, Zenescope were dabbling with shared continuity when they shipped Belinda and Charles Dodgson . And had Belinda ruin Sinbad's life repeatedly . And dismantled the Council Of the Realms . And had the Dream Eater thin out their library (not that one ). Robyn vs. Britney was one of the best things they ever put out. So was Quest . But the...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I had planned to watch and review this movie in August as a continuation of a theme from previous years ( Yojimbo in 2025 and its American adaptation Last Man Standing in 2024 ), but chose to push into September in favor of finishing out the Kiryu Saga ( Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. ) instead. Before we get to  Sanjuro , though, I have great news: as you are reading this, I have made my last payment toward resolving my gambling debts (which I confessed to in Isekai " Quartet " #2 and touched on the backlash and burnout of in my  MCU Back From Burnout  post). I also have an employee who's worth a damn now, and I recently stumbled upon a poem from my childhood that I wrote and have been seeking out for many years that will make its way into the calendar this month. It's not just bad things that come in threes, Ticketholders! Retooled into a Yojimbo sequel from a planned screenplay...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. This is just a fleeting memory and a supposition on my part, but I think the creative team behind the Unleashed event were Supernatural fans because it (and this Hunters Tie-In miniseries in particular) were released in 2013, the same year Season Eight (which dealt with the ancient monster realm of Purgatory) finished airing. Unleashed Tie-In Hunters: The Shadowlands The awesome Volume cover you see here is also the B Cover for Part One, by Paolo Siquiera and Sean Ellery . Interestingly enough (for the purposes of incentivizing people to buy and read every series so they give Zenescope their money and don't miss any of the story), the A Cover of Part One connects with the Part One A Covers for Vampires , Zombies , Werewolves , and Demons to make a massive banner poster (that I couldn't find online or figure out how to make with the digital versions I have access to) by  Anthony Spay  and  Ivan Nunes , and was used a...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! It's the Final Piece of Dressrosa and the final day of August ...and what a time it's been. The month has been huge on view traffic (final tally on Wednesday—that's a lot of finals for one paragraph already!), so thank you to everyone I didn't exile to the shame-grass last week . The denouement of the Dressrosa Arc (I was looking for a fancy way to not say final again, and the definition of denouement mentioned strands, so I went with it because Doflamingo) Multi-Piece will mostly be a discussion of Luffy's new ability because much of the arc's wrap-up is fighting and waiting for the story to get back to the fight while the animation budget is saved by waggling and sliding character png files, reskinned scenery destruction, yapping, and run cycles (as you do when churning out over a hundred thirteen-minute episodes—plus OPs, recaps, bumpers, and previews—of an...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 30, 2026 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. For the fourth month in a row now, Just the Ticket has surpassed my long-standing goal of ten thousand views, and as you can see in the "Last Month" category, as of yesterday evening,  August is just over fifteen thousand. A final tally will be included in Wednesday's Zenescope - Omnibusted . 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 (unless what you do is farm and steal content for AI training). It makes the challenges of real life weigh a little less because professional responsibility has not run out of ways to complicate my existence and wear down the façade that I am a well-adjusted, competent leader who can handle anything, do everything, and knows what it feels like to have a shit-eating grin on my face. Chocolate, not chocolate...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I'm not mad; just disappointed. Last week, I praised Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla for its world-building, strong female lead, thematically rich writing, and compelling action sequences. This week, I feel like I've been anesthetized by radioactive bug pollen. And that was before we lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the span of less than two days. Rest in peace and power, legends! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a lot of shit upon my chest that needs to be sent to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.... After  Toho  sent four scripts that he rejected, director and co-writer  Masaaki Tezuka  drafted a new script overnight (presumably refined later with GMK co-writer  Masahiro Yokotani ), and we got the only direct sequel of the Millennium Era, with 2003's Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (known in Japan by the GMK -esque title, Godzilla×Mothra×Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. ). Besides Tezuka an...