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  Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. A MaskoX Fan Between the last Dragon  Blog Super   and now, I realized what an effect putting goal conditions on your work can have on the quality and passion behind the work itself. And it's not a good effect. I went from enjoying the journey of creation to feeling the pressure to create something  once those goals were reached, to feeling disappointment and gratitude that what I churned out wasn't received to the same standard as the part before it. I also realized that I had worked my way into a pattern of shipping characters just for the sake of it, and I was neglecting some characters and plots (the kids, Broly, Bulma, Vomi and her family, the digital Gero, the Cell Project, etc.). I was also neglecting the entirety of Earth as a setting. So let's fix some of that, shall we? Last time in Dragon Blog Super , Vegeta got some much-needed redemption when a realization about his own past behavior toward his subordinates led to him...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Wondering if I should even call this an article? Apologies for being a day late with this one. Work has been relatively hellish as of late, and yesterday was one of those days where you just want to be done with everything as fast as possible so you can collapse until today becomes tomorrow again. On the Blogger front, it's been a full week, and January has been a full month. I'm not sure about actual readership, but the clickthrough rate (views) is triple what it was in December, so I must be doing something right. As we close out the month and head into February, here are the Time Drops for the coming week: Monday (January 30) - Dragon Blog Super #10: What If GOKU Was NEVER BORN? (Second Coming Arc) Wednesday (February 1) - GFT Retrospective #38: Puss In Boots Thursday (February 2) - TBT 2023: Fast Five (Tumblr, Reddit, and Facebook) AND Ticket Stubs #50: Spanglish Friday (February 3) - Just the Ticket #122: M3gan Saturday (February 4) - Time D...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster The theme of me doing things in 2023 that I should have done in 2022 continues, as my 2011/2012 review of Scream 4  ended with my final thoughts being negative to mixed, saying "Perhaps I will feel differently in another ten years when  Scream 5  comes out." It was actually eleven years, but I still feel like my tendency to making jokes that sort of come true can be scary-good. I predicted The Expendables  (including most of the main cast of the trilogy) six years in advance of the actual film 's release, so I'm no stranger to making off-hand prognostications. But enough about me; let's talk Scream (2022) ! The original trilogy (and to a minor extent, Scream 4 ) focused on the family drama of Neve Campbell 's Sidney Prescott, specifically the murder of her mother at the hands of original Scream  villains Billy Loomis ( Skeet Ulrich ) and Stu Macher ( Matthew Lillard ), the vengeance of Billy's mother ( Lau...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster It's been a long time since I last did an entry in the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective , and continuing in the tradition of doing things in 2023 that I should have done in 2022 (or 2021, for that matter), today's return to the Retrospective  covers a property that received three cinematic interpretations last year (which I have not seen, nor do I plan to see): a live-action/CGI remake by Disney , a dark, Guillermo del Toro version ..., and a " True Story " from Russia that was dubbed over by Pauly Shore ( A Goofy Movie ) and Jon Heder ( Napoleon Dynamite , gosh!), and looks like a third-party, direct-to-video children's movie from twenty years ago. Of course, I'm talking about Pinocchio . To avoid getting too repetitive before I even start the review, let's skip any further introductions by getting Omnibusted   with some repetitive introduction: GFT Annual #1 (2007): Pinocchio Prologue Somewhere, at some...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. He Who Starts Doing Things In 2023 That He Should Have Done Last Year I considered doing this as a repurposing of my Coming Distractions  column (originally a little-used first impression/trailer reaction series titled the SW@ Sniperscope  in my Yahoo! Groups days), but I intend to use that for something else coming up, so instead (and because all kinds of brand recognition conveniences are just falling into my lap this year), I'm starting anew with Time Drops  (no relation to the YouTube channel  or the line of aquatic sports products ), a schedule announcement for the coming week, which will also give me a set of concrete content goals to follow. Monday (January 23): We surpassed the hundred view goal for  Dragon Blog Super #9: What If GOKU Was NEVER BORN? (Sacred World Arc) , but it didn't garner any Facebook likes, nor were there enough upvotes on Reddit, for me to work on or release another part. So nothing for AniMonday ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. My last two issues of Zenescope - Omnibusted  hit amazing viewership numbers (thanks in no small part to the Zenescope subReddit ), and it didn't hurt that I had been including reviews of titles that I previously wrote offline, but never released as part of the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective  before my ambitions and vices got the worst of me. To better plan out what I would include in each Omnibusted  post, I began re-referring to the Grimm Fairy Tales  Wikipedia page for publication dates, and I realized that there was a series (ultimately of minor consequence, but still part of the " Grimm  Universe") that I had never read, nor written a review of. So I tracked down some digital copies of its two Trade Volumes, and got to reading: Salem's Daughter  and Salem's Daughter: The Haunting . Taking place in the old West, the Salem's Daughter   comics focus on Anna Williams, the titular Massachusetts reside...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister and MasakoX Fan Last time in Dragon Blog Z , the human fighters, Bulma, Piccolo, and the Saiyans worked together to cleanse Vomi, who had taken on a Janemba-like form after absorbing Majin Buu and the evil ki from the Otherworld Check-In Station. The Earth's population was wished back with the Dragon Balls, their memories of Buu's feeding frenzy and the Earth Extinction Attack were erased, and Good Buu, Dr. Gero, and Gevo were wished back to life, as well. Some details to keep in mind going forward: Broly is presumably still training on Yardrat; after consulting with Paragus, Vegeta elected to travel to Vampa in search of his own new power; Paragus and Piccolo are training their Ultimate forms; Gero and Vomi are still artificially enhanced, while Gevo is human; Videl is pregnant (it's going to be a boy this time, named Caltrop, after the Water Caltrop, a.k.a. the Devil Nut); and Beerus and Whis are not going to be a part of ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster Thanks so much to all my Ticketholders on Tumblr , Reddit , and Facebook for getting last week's Zenescope - Omnibusted  to over four hundred views! Please continue reading, and start liking, commenting, and following me on the above platforms. To recapitulate and recapture the latest re-focus of the TicketVerse, Sela Mathers is dead, leaving Belinda with free reign over the lost souls of the world as we head into the fifth volume of the first volume of  Grimm Fairy Tales , beginning with this pair of milestone issues. GFT #25 & 26: The Little Mermaid Collection Next on Belinda's list is the mother of a college student named Sara. After reading some of  The Little Mermaid  (which is not technically one of the Brothers’ Grimm’s original Fairy Tales, but instead a work of Hans Christian Anderson), Sara’s mother gets impatient waiting for her education to pay off and convinces Sara that quicker, easier money can be...