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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Omnibuster In  Cover Charge #3: Grimm Fairy Tales  (FROM June 8, 2014) , I gave this week's Omnibusted  miniseries a Critical Quickie -style review that amounted to the following: The Piper : The redhead from the Timepiece  short story has a hand in unleashing The Pied Piper ( issue #12 ) on the modern world, and the results are less than satisfactory or impactful on the "Grimm Universe" at large. At least it was a fun read. The Retrospective  review, on the other hand, was much less forgiving and ambivalent. You can give the original post and the Ticketverse Trades  link-list (where it was paired with next week's Sinbad --which will come Omnibusted  with Volume Two's as-yet-unreleased review as well) at the following links: GFT Retrospective #12: The Piper TicketVerse Trades #4: Two For None Special And now, on to the review: The Piper Breaking from tradition,  The Piper  four-part miniseries opens with the fairy tale and le

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. A MasakoX fan I forgot to mention it in last week's post, but the reason I started Dragon Blog Z 's numbering at three is because it's a re-branding of what I originally called AniMonday Filler , and it has a similar concept to the NP-BAW  post I did on Dragon Ball  transformations and hair colors . Also, Dragon Ball is popular and good for metrics. Or will be. The titular fanfiction will continue after the image. Last time, on Dragon Blog Z , I gave some critiques of MasakoX 's video, "What If GOKU Was NEVER BORN?" , and began my own take on the story, which changed Bulma's motivations for her wish and gave Kami and the human fighters more focus through the Pilaf, 21st Budokai, Red Ribbon Army, Demon King Piccolo, and Underworld Tournament arcs of Dragon Ball . Into the DBZ  era, we saw Kami take center stage against Freiza, a few relationships develop, and Jaco and the humans participate in a modified Black Star Dragon B

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster I'm making an effort to be nicer than I am naughty this year, and to keep out of Krampus' clutches (maybe I should do a Krampus series review next year?), I'm committing myself to yet another special: my first Christmas (or Holiday, if you like that better) series. So in the spirit of the season, I've made a list. I might have to check twice on a thing or two because of local availability and lack of streaming access, but here's the plan for the  Days of Christmas  so far: history.com, getty images Ticket Stubs: Winter Passing Ticket Stubs: The Big White Ticket Stubs: Be Cool Ticket Stubs: Click Stay Tuned: GOtG Holiday Special Just the Ticket: The Retaliators Bring Back the Soundtrack: The Retaliators Just the Ticket: Violent Night  ? I might also re-release some Christmas, snow, religion, candy, or otherwise seasonally themed posts from this blog to fill out the other four to five days, so Stay Tuned  for that, li

Article by Sean Wilkinson Welcome backward, Ticketholders and Fairy Tale fans! With the end of 2022 upon us, it seems like an appropriate time to get creatively retroactive. Now, there's nothing wrong with looking back (unless there's a vicious animal chasing you down), so long as you move forward. If the arts have taught us anything, it's that if you progress forward enough, what was old will eventually be new again. Case in point, my re-release of these old   Grimm Fairy Tales   comics reviews as part of the Zenescope - Omnibusted  series . With the Volume One trade behind us, let's move forward in the past to Volume Two , where some of the cliffhangers from Volume One pay off rather quickly. GFT #7: Snow White This issue follows directly after the  Legacy  short story, with Sela visiting a sick girl named Stephanie, whose stepmother Terry is poisoning her as the means to a Munchausen by proxy scheme. Of course, Sela knows all about it and stops by to loan the book

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. A MasakoX Fan I love anime! I love Dragon Ball ! I love Dragon Ball Z: Abridged ! And for the past five years, the voice of Goku and Gohan in Abridged , Lawrence "MasakoX" Simpson, has been pondering alternative scenarios from the world of Dragon Ball  (and analyzing the franchise for even longer). Among these speculative scenarios, he has considered what would happen if certain, short-lived villains were spared and turned good, if background characters were made more relevant by "training like Goku" or "becoming a Z-Fighter," if the story had a different protagonist, or if certain key moments happened slightly differently, as well as the subject of today's article: the "What If ___ Never Existed" trope (which was also the subject of his first foray into the genre). I've watched other What If? YouTubers, like SmugStick and Salad Saiyan, and they just don't compare to MasakoX in terms of voice talent,

Article by Sean Wilkinson Zenescope comics have been a great source of joy and misery for me over the years, especially the continuity of the Grimm Universe . And I miss reading them. I miss doing the Grimm Fairy Tales ( GFT ) Retrospective , too. So instead of succumbing to my usual annual feelings of, "I accomplished that! Now what do I do with myself for the rest of the year?" because I get overwhelmed by all the things I want to do and undersupplied with the energy and motivation required to do them, I'm going to do what I said at the beginning of the Retrospective  that I would not do: put an entire Trade Paperback Volume's worth of analyses into one post, along with some text selections from other Zenescope-related posts, like Cover Charge #3: Grimm Fairy Tales , to create this new compilation-and-catch-up series, called Zenescope - Omnibusted . Much like my Ticketverse Trades  posts (a series which I started as a way of collecting each Volume of reviews in a mi