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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster Welcome to December, Ticketholders! It's the final month of my twenty-year anniversary as a part of the service industry and the critical content creation community, as well as week three of No Hours & No Analytics Winter. As a result, I have been forced to apply for financial hardship and delay my gambling debt payoff for two months. I'm continuing to reduce my content intake down to a movie a week, plus a  DAIMA  episode and a Zenescope issue, so I just need to stop being disordered and seasonally affected, get my ass out of bed on the five days I don't work now, start preparing in earnest for next year, and use my increased time at home to polish up my job hunting documents in hopes that I can make a late-stage pivot into a career that I love before the written word becomes obsolete and I have even more debt responsibilities on my shoulders. This next part is just a reminder of everything anime-related that I plan...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster Happy Thanksgiving, Ticketholders! By the time you read this, I will most likely have cooked and eaten a balanced breakfast (balanced on a large waffle, that is), composed my social media promotional materials, and begun helping prepare a meal of pork tenderloin, rice, stuffing, biscuits, gravy, cranberry sauce, and bacon-wrapped peppers for an early dinner. I am thankful to still have a job and income, a place to live, and a family who is willing to support me in these challenging times. And I am thankful to whatever source of strength I am able to call upon that I have not succumbed to the temptations of financially crippling RNG in the face of a potentially catastrophic future for the country I love and reap the benefits of living in every single day. Now that our senile, sadistic, pathological, McCarthyist President-elect has seemingly had all legal action against him dropped because people who presumably went to prestigious schoo...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective  Dreamer & Ticketmaster The Dream Eater makes its first official appearance in today's issue up for review, with its Bio from Dream Eater Saga #0 reading as follows: This will start to have context once I get into talking about the issue itself (which was the random insert from the first Myths and Legends  Volume , and the short story from the Tales From Neverland Trade , a review where I mistakenly referred to it as issue #0), but I must first get the call-to-action nonsense out of the way by asking that you please  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, leave a comment at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue as you read so my dreams don't get eaten by cosmic forces, and follow me on Tumblr , Reddit , Facebook , and LinkedIn to like what you see and receive the latest  Grimm  news on my content. And for those who have been putting requests on my socials for a link to all of my...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Animeister. I mentioned last week  that I felt like  Dragon Ball DAIMA   was starting to repeat itself, which was causing me  to repeat myself. And although the action that we had seen ramp up over the past month felt lacking here, the flow of the episode was refreshingly different, even if the plot only got nudged forward a tiny bit in the process. Also, the lore validated some of my assumptions from previous episodes, and as a content creator, I enjoy the feeling of validation, so please  give me your energy and grant my wish by  clicking the Follow button to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, commenting at the bottom of this post, helping out my ad revenue as you read so I don't have to deal with Third Demon World problems, and following me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest news on my content. As you can see in...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster No Hours November continues, Ticketholders! And it's shaping up to be more like No Hours Winter...and No Analytics Winter. I'm down to a movie or two a week, plus a DAIMA  episode and a Zenescope issue, so I just need to stop being disordered and seasonally affected, get my ass out of bed on the five days I don't work now, start preparing in earnest for next year, and use my increased time at home to polish up my job hunting documents in hopes that I can make a late-stage pivot into a career that I love before the written word becomes obsolete. This next part is just a reminder of everything anime-related that I plan to release next year, so skip it if you have it committed to memory by now. I have the first part of my new  Dragon  Blog  Z  What If finished and scheduled for release next April, with a second concept kicking around in my brain, and my other projects still floating in the pipeline, including ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster I posted this review over the Thanksgiving weekend in 2012, my first year on Blogger, as part of Ticket Stubs #33: Sex Wax  and Books On Tape , back when Barack Obama was re-elected as President, Niki Minaj was famous, Toddlers & Tiaras  was still popular, and Christina Aguilera was still on The Voice . It was also originally posted on Yahoo! Groups way back on  May 12, 2005 (SW@ Ticket #37: Sex Wax ,  Sideways  Stories, and the Star- Spanglish  Banner) , which I uploaded in separate blogs, the SWAT Ticket Archive  and SWAT Ticket's Greatest Hits . As part of my effort to streamline my blogs into Just the Ticket , I've decided to revisit the 2005 "remake" of House Of Wax , similar to what I did for Sideways  in July. Prepare for a long read, as I will first reprint the Greatest Hits  edit from Ticket Stubs #33 , followed by the Yahoo! Groups original from the SWAT Ticket Archive ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Retrospective Dreamer & Ticketmaster The Dream Eater Saga was Zenescope Entertainment 's first big, "let's pare down our Universe" event, introducing an ancient, unstoppable force with the power to wipe entire franchises out of existence, kill the previously unkillable, and give good and evil no other choice than to work together to ensure their own survival. It's why Belinda abducted Sela from Myst , and why Samantha Darren and Baba Yaga were at odds over the fate of Britney Waters (that still feels wrong to me). And thankfully for my word count, the Dream Eater isn't a wholly original concept, so I get to talk about its origins in myth, folklore, and popular culture, which Grimm Fairy Tales hasn't given me much opportunity to do lately. In the Pokémon series of games, Dream Eater is an attack used on sleeping Pokémon to heal the user's HP for half of the damage dealt. In the Kingdom Hearts games, Dream Eaters are ...