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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster I just realized that when I rescheduled the last  Time Drops  to the second full week of February, I forgot to change the lead-in to reflect that. Too late! Anyway, here's the content schedule for the coming week: Wednesday (March 1) -  Zenescope - Omnibusted #11:  The Monster Hunter's Survival Guide Thursday (March 2) -  TBT 2023: Transformers: Dark Of the Moon  and Thor   (on  Tumblr ,  Reddit , and  Facebook ) Saturday (March 4) -  Time Drops #6: Week Of March 5, 2023 Moreso than last week, this is going to be a thin week of mostly re-posts and compilations so I can focus more on academia.  Remember to like, comment, subscribe, join, follow, click up my ad revenue, and answer all those calls to action that you know so well. Ticketmaster, Out.

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster Hey, Ticketholders! Yes, I realize that you all spent the past several weeks reading these reviews already, but Fear Not , for if you read to the end of the post, there will be some new content ready for you! Read it all again anyway, and remember to like, comment, subscribe, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit , and  Facebook  for the latest news and updates on my content. Speaking of content, let's get Omnibusted  with Volume Six of Grimm Fairy Tales ! GFT  #31 & 32: The  Pinocchio  Collection It seems Belinda is still interested in homicidal children. Meet Jacob Freemont, a boy who kills every woman his father shows an interest in. Teachers, a therapist, his own mother; it doesn’t seem to matter as long as his father becomes romantically involved with them. Makes me wonder why the kid killed the class hamster…. His father, Mark, finds that Jacob has borrowed “Lynn’s” (Belinda’s) book of fairy tales and begins reading  Pinocchio

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. One Dean Koontz fan. I miss reading. I haven't touched a physical book in over five years, and I haven't read a properly edited digital book in months, unless you count my fanfiction blog posts, which is both a stretch and an ego flex. Maybe I'll go back to my Kindle app when this whole school thing is behind me. This sort of fits my "twisted love" theme for the month of February, I needed a retro thing to post this week, and I published this post exactly eleven years ago on a side-blog that I no longer post to, so let's take a look back at Piece Offerings #15: Why I Like Reading Dean Koontz Novels FROM July 22, 2011 OR February 20, 2012 (Blogger Date):   Dean Koontz writes the strangest things in the most deadpan, matter-of-fact tone. Case in point, the following excerpt from  The Good Guy , page 41: "Linda, the reason I'm here--" "Come along. I'm working in the kitchen." Leading him across the l

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster I just realized that when I rescheduled the last Time Drops  to the second full week of February, I forgot to change the lead-in to reflect that. Too late! Anyway, here's the content schedule for the coming week: Monday (February 20) -  NPO #20: Why I Liked Reading Dean Koontz Novels Wednesday (February 22) -  Zenescope - Omnibusted #10: Grimm Fairy Tales TPB Volume 6 Thursday (February 23) -  TBT 2023:  Leaves of Grass, and Nightmare s Best Forgotten  (on  Tumblr ,  Reddit , and  Facebook ) Saturday (February 18) -  Time Drops #5: Week Of February 26, 2023 As you can see, this is going to be a thin week of mostly re-posts and compilations so I can focus more on academia. I have a few fun ideas for What If GOKU Was NEVER BORN?  kicking around that give more focus to the younger generation (Bahdo, Straps, Marin, Bulla, Kumu, Gevo, Caltrop, Piccolo, and some others who haven't been born in the story yet) and the human fighters w

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Apologies for the low resolution on some of the images here, Ticketholders! I recently re-watched City Island , and I stand by a lot of what I said in my review . Some of the subject matter and tropes (fat-shaming/fetishization, the "liar revealed" plot, certain actors) haven't aged well socially or cinematically, but Andy Garcia and his character are still high points for me. That said, seeing a young Ezra Miller (also the titular school shooter in We Need to Talk About Kevin ) wearing a red-and-gold sweatshirt (foreshadowing of his role in the DCU as The Flash ?) and playing a teenager with a Big, Beautiful Women/feeder fetish who spends most of City Island  spying on an overweight porn star and casually stalking his would-be girlfriend? Well...let's just say I gained some understanding of Ezra Miller's recent behavior. And speaking of actors with questionable-to-repugnant reputations who starred in DC project

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Welcome back to Throwback Thursday, Ticketholders! Back in my Countdown to TixMas  special last year, I made reference to the Adam Sandler movie, Click , being a Happy Madison knockoff of Bruce Almighty , starring Jim Carrey . I also recently did a sort-of-Valentine's-themed issue of Ticket Stubs  on the Adam Sandler-led comedy, Spanglish  (complete with a modern contrarian satire review just for "fun"). So now, we come to the Jim Carrey-led drama, Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind , which was paired with Envy  (another Countdown to TixMas  inclusion) back in SWAT Ticket #20: Eternal Envy Of the Spotless Mind   (FROM October 15, 2004).  This is going to be uncouth and unedited, so get ready for juvenile word choices, plot spoilers, and everything else that I would have left out of a Greatest Hits  version (so much of it that I never did a Greatest Hits  version). Thanks to another unoriginal issue title, now you don

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Fairy Tale Fan GFT #36, Cover A Happy New Old Comic Book Day, Ticketholders! Valentine's Day may be behind us, but the Month Of Love is still in full swing (just not in the key party sense), which means it's time for more content themed around twisted love! Specifically, today's foray into the GFT  Retrospective  tackles the evils, ills, and other consequences of basing romantic feelings on pure, physical attraction, presented in Zenescope's classically simple, yet raunchy and bloody fashion. Back in GFT Retrospective #32: The Ugly Duckling?  and Zenescope - Omnibusted #8: Grimm Fairy Tales  TPB Volume 5 , I covered the first part of the Story Of Ted (all who enter here shall tremble in fear at the name of the mighty Ted, my second cousin's uncle's former roommate!). It was quite similar to a duck or swan, fittingly enough: Grace and beauty on the surface, but underneath, it was unfaithful mutton diarrhea struggling not to drown in its

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Home again, home again, jiggety-gigawatt, and Happy Valentine's Day, Ticketholders! I did not plan for this particular post to be the Valentine's Day release, nor for it to be the subject of my 420th post on Blogger (not that I had a Valentine's Day or 420 special in mind), but here we are! Last Monday, my mother had rotator cuff surgery. I took three days off from work and the entire week off from blogging so that I could be there for her to provide moral support and keep my father from doing something stupid, like detract from my mother getting her health needs met by inducing himself into another seizure because he isn't getting enough attention. So, we reserved a room at the Inn On Third in Moses Lake, WA, using Expedia , packed up all necessities, including my peach-front conure, Doodle (at left, hanging on to the bars of his travel cage for dear life and enjoying every minute of the journey with enthusiastic trills, yips, and kissing n