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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re:AN1M315T3R. It's April, the month of pranks thwarting a Lovecraftian apocalypse , pagan fertility symbolism that defies animal classification (rabbits laying eggs‽), Judeo-Christian rebirth (though whether that means the tomb is supposed to re-open for His Only Begotten Son to walk the Earth again like a magic zombie hippie or His soul is supposed to isekai into a newborn baby remains a subject up for secular debate), and getting stoned on Hitler's birthday. So these last three weeks will feature isekai anime, starting with today's series. My original review of Re:ZER0 FROM June 7, 2021 ( Isekai " Quartet " #1: Re: Zero: Starting Life In Another World : SD::SUV:: ) —but I forgot to make a reference to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie —asked a lot of relevant and stupid questions about number-words, poorly named punctuation, and other topics of existence, and was the beginning of my coverage of the series featured in the fir...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re-Ticketmaster. Over the past two years of Just the Ticket 's history, there have been many recurring elements to my reviews, like my sarcasm, the Jaws beach-closure joke, subtlety, and unorthodox cops. But the two that come to mind as we conclude Wester Week are H.P. Lovecraft and the moon. And by the moon, I mean Full Moon , and by Full Moon, I mean Charles Band , and by Charles Band, I mean your internal organs. Yes, I know Charles Band isn't Tom Cruise , but I had to go there because you really don't want Herbert West (or Tom Cruise) anywhere near your internal organs. Given life a year after me, in 1985, Re-Animator is a loose adaptation of the "Plague-Dæmon" (if you count the first chapter recap as well), "Horror From the Shadows" (in part), and "Tomb-Legions" chapters of Lovecraft's original story, directed by Stuart Gordon ( Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ) based on a script he co-wrote with frequent coll...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster Wester Week  continues, Ticketholders! Yes, that's what I'm going with, two days into a three-part theme week where I'm celebrating Easter by looking at three versions of the Reanimator story, beginning with yesterday's review of H.P. Lovecraft 's original, Herbert West: Reanimator . That's why Easter Week is now  Wester Week , get it? Anyway, today, I'll be setting fresh eyes on the discontinued corpse (but according to the Wikipedia article on Lovecraft's story , it's just on an almost twenty-year hiatus, which is hilarious) of Zenescope Entertainment 's The Chronicles Of Dr. Herbert West . First referenced in Retrospective continuity as a film that Tracy Russell is watching in the first Wonderland Annual , Chronicles was meant to be a six-issue miniseries that began releasing in September 2008. Only three issues were published before the series was canceled (or put on indefinite yatus, if a...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Pagemaster. It's the week of Easter , and since I kind of got into Lovecraft last year (pseudo-academically, not necessarily as a fan, as you'll see if you check out my other reviews of his writings), I decided to make a theme week of it, starting with Lovecraft's original, serialized novella, Herbert West: Reanimator . First published episodically throughout the first half of 1922, H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator was written as an intentional parody and homage of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , and I like it more than its long-winded inspiration. But, as it is a serial narrative, an irritating aspect of reading it, even in my modern, audiobook fashion of doing so (the Gates Of Imagination reading got hidden, so I had to start over with the audiobook I linked above, read by Mike Bennett , though as I write this, I've discovered a reading by West himself, Jeffrey Combs , that I'm kicking myself for not noticing...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. After Wednesday's wackiness , I think I'm trying to still be in a whimsical mood today, because the banner is a lie, the title of this week's Goj -Year- ra entry is a lie, and in the face of something so cheap, annoying, and challenging to sit through that gives me little of substance to say, I feel inclined to be as positive as I can about it. Last week's Destroy All Monsters was intended to be the final Godzilla film at the time, due to various global and economic factors shifting general interests away from theatrical viewing. Toho were also intent on making the ancient, destructive monster allegory for nuclear war PTSD into a children's icon into the foreseeable future, including talks with Filmation to produce an animated series (that fell through in the 60s, but would lead to the 1978 Godzilla Power Hour in partnership with Hanna-Barbera ...🎶and Godzooky!🎶). So in under three months, Honda and Sekiza...

Zenebusted Omniscope by Sean Article Wilkinson Shakespeare once wrote that life is a tale told by an idiot. Tom Cochrane once wrote that life is a highway. I once wrote that life is a desert, so vast and disorienting and full of impossible things trying to survive in a place so inhospitable that even the persistent rainfall vaporizes before it can accomplish anything. I was maybe six or seven at the time. Now, over thirty years later, I wrote these last three sentences because I needed an intro and they were the first things I could think of. So, yeah; life is a desert highway told by an idiot, full of farts and stubborn raindrops, signifying that I'm gonna ride it all night long. [Insert Jaws beach-closure joke here], just like my sarcasm. Subtle. And hyphens and exclamation points. And justice for Mole ! And Floppy-Hatted Redneck Guy ! And without further adieu (except for when this post is over), let's get dangerous! Grimm Fairy Tales April Fools Editions If April Fool...