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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Happy Halloween, Ticketholders! My last attempt at this sort of special (the weekly Chucky coverage debacle of last year) didn't go so well. So this year, I decided to watch all four films in the Jeepers Creepers franchise (the equivalent runtime to the entire first season of Chucky ) in one week and write a series review with a hard deadline because I am smart and always treat myself with the utmost care and respect.... I also did a daily review countdown to Halloween (which was also the hundred issue milestone of Just the Ticket ) back in 2015. But that was seven years ago because math, so I was younger, and I had more of a review backlog to draw from, meaning I wasn't creating as much new content as I am having to do now. Check this link for my past Halloween special efforts. Of course, the inherent issue with this...issue you are about to read has to do with the original trilogy's controversial director, if that con

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster I've had bad luck with doing Halloween specials in the past, but I've at least given it a shot. This year's shot is going pretty well, as I have already watched and written reviews for the original Jeepers Creepers  trilogy, and begun watching the Reborn  reboot. So as a lead-up, I thought I'd do a chronological link list of all my past Halloween special efforts. Fittingly, this is the thirteenth issue of  Ticketverse Trades . So like and comment down below,  step on a crack, break a mirror, spill the salt... , because this list is about to begin! getty images, https://www.history.com Countdown to Hallows Eve  (Halloween 2015) was not just a Halloween countdown, it was a countdown to my flagship series' one hundredth issue. Countdown to Hallows' Eve #1: Found Dead Near Countdown to Hallows' Eve #2: Amityville - High On Tension , Low On Horror Countdown to Hallows' Eve #3: Exorcise Your Rights Countdow

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a,k,a, The Animeister The Anime Spotlight  returns after a week of absence, controversial detours, less-than-Marvelous reviews, and some Throwback Thursday bull to bring you the awaited reviews of Studio Trigger's best executed works ever (well, one was well executed, but we'll get to that a bit later): SSSS.Gridman and SSSS.Dynazenon . But before they were Studio Trigger, the folks behind the SSSS eries previously created anime as members of Gainax (whose other founding members went on to form GONZO). To check out my thoughts on some other Gainax, GONZO, and Trigger anime, click the following links: Rosario+Vampire  (GONZO):  Anime-BAW #4: Harem Genre (Part 3) My Bride Is A Mermaid  (GONZO):  Anime-WTF? #2: Attack Of the Clowns FLCL  (Gainax):  Anime-WTF #3: Revenge Of the Shith Darling In the FRANXX  (Studio Trigger):  Anime-WTF? #4: Uhh...No Hope Full Metal Panic!  (GONZO):  Anime-BAW #6: Full Metal Panic! 18if , Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blu

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Happy Throwback Thursday, Ticketholders! When writing the first draft of my last post , I mistakenly referred to El Aguila as "The Matador" (perhaps channeling my inner Man-Bull?), which inspired me to create this post about the 2005 film, The Matador . This review is a big milestone in my long history as an online critical voice of varying success, not for any anniversary significance like a fifty-post milestone, but as the last review I would ever contribute on the now-defunct Yahoo! Groups platform, back when I was still calling my column SW@ Ticket . I stopped writing the column for awhile to focus on getting myself graduated from San Diego State University, and later resumed it on Today.com (a former blogging site that was soon purchased and repurposed by NBC as the online home of The Today Show ) before moving the column to MySpace. Boy, do I know how to pick 'em or what? Remember to like and comment down below beca

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster To everyone who's still here after I went back on my promise of a giant-robot-versus- kaiju   Anime Spotlight  so I could vent on cancel culture and the Bill Murray issue in my last post , thank you for your continued readership. Also, remember to like and comment down below, and check out my previous blurbs on She-Hulk: Attorney At Law  in the following links: She-Hulk  Episode 1 & 2, Defenders reboot speculation:  Just the Ticket #114: The Black Phone (& MCU Stuff) She-Hulk  Episode 3:  Ticket Stubs #42: Run, Lola, Run Abomination, Leader, and Red Hulk speculation:  Theoretical Tuesday: D23 Piece Offerings More Red Hulk speculation:  Stay Tuned #44: Marvel's Werewolf By Night Also, Spoilers if you live under a rock, in an Amish community, or are an ostrich in a sandy area, because it's coarse and rough, and it gets everywhere. Oh, and go watch the series on Disney+ . Here's the image break: Through the rest o

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster The Anime Spotlight  on Gridman  and Dynazenon  will have to wait because, like the title says, I have some New Piece Offerings  that I'd like to get out of my head. I was going to do this all in one, big article, which would be great for the little ad revenue I'm getting (all-time, less than two dollars), but I decided to split it up into three smaller articles to give the individual subjects the attention they deserve, and to improve impression analytics. So like and comment down below if this engages you, and get ready for some tough subject matter (and some polarizing opinions on my part). In my D23 reaction piece , I speculated on the identity of Bill Murray's character in 2023's Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania . As it turns out, the MCU went totally obscure yet again (as they had before with Guardians of the Galaxy  and the recently aired Werewolf by Night  special) in choosing a rarely used Hulk villain named

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Ticketmaster By Night For this (hopefully) brief installment of my Stay Tuned  series of articles, I thought I'd take a cue from last decade's Marvel Comics run by bringing back the old title and numbering sequence. I toyed around with updated, day-of-the-week-themed branding in Streaming Saturday , content-themed titles like Timely Thorsday , and even took a crack at the limited series format when covering What If...?  and Chucky . But even though it's antiquated terminology, I still use Stay Tuned  as a sign-off suggestion in almost every post, and it's just part of my brand identity. So I went back through my post list, counted up the articles that fit into the Stay Tuned  mold, and here we are at Stay Tuned #44 . If you haven't seen it yet, go check out the new Marvel Studios Special Presentation: Werewolf By Night , now streaming on Disney+ . I don't want to spoil anything because it's a single episode/short film/ whate