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Content Calendar Announcement, Week of June 29, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The increase in my work hours is no longer a projection, Ticketholders!  As of this week, I am back up to a financially functioning level, so I will be posting less content and consuming more in the weeks ahead. That means nothing but Retrospective / Omnibusted posts and TBT '25 pushes until I get caught back up on My Hero Academia . This content trend will also continue into July, but for a 4th of July review of a slasher classic and the possibility of a series review or two you should  Stay Tuned   for. No bullshit. You'll also be happy to know that Just the Ticket passed three hundred thousand all-time views this past weekend, and you can check out my New Piece Offerings post on the subject here . Even with the massive slowdown in traffic at the end of 2024 that has continued into this year, we managed to reach another hundred thousand in less than a year's time. M...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Summer Ticketmaster. You all know by now that I am a critical but stalwart Zenescope fan, meaning that I can appreciate their work for its big moments and ambition despite its many flaws and early missteps. But rarely has the company's output led me to consume external media that I hate, and my research for Wednesday's Retrospective on The Winter Witch has done just that. In the article I mentioned there , the author shares the history of the character Mother Holle, a.k.a Frau Perchta, a witch of winter and fate who rewards the beautiful, industrious, and kind with riches and sweets, and punishes those who are ugly, evil, and lazy by disembowelment and filling their stomach cavities with stones. Let's just say that despite its apparent lack of budget, I won't be giving 2022's The Winter Witch any riches or sweets today. Written and directed by Richard John Taylor (director of three of the many, many low-budget British film...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Summer Ticketmaster. Yeah, this isn't really the appropriate season to be reviewing a comic book titled The Winter Witch  (let alone a movie with that title , which I will be eviscerating on Friday), but it's also maybe the perfect season for it because we modern humans are such wimps about temperatures that summer heat makes us beg for winter and the winter chill makes us pray for an early thaw. So to any of my Ticketholders who are living with triple-digit heat right now, you're welcome for the next four weeks of making you think about winter; I hope the power of suggestion will help you cool off when air conditioning fails. As you can see from the above and right images, the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective is now officially into Volume Twelve, and I discovered something amiss with the ComiXology edition that I mentioned in my review of A Drink and A Tale from a few weeks ago. Said issue not being mentioned in the Table Of Conten...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I don't know exactly which Tuesday I'm posting this on because at the time I am writing this, Just the Ticket is around two hundred views short of hitting 300K. But back when I did a TBT '25 push of Just the Ticket #66: State of the Grand Address , I promised to do an updated version to show you all where things are thirteen years later. First, let's look at every stat and review I mentioned in that original post and compare them to how far the blog has come since. In 2012, Just the Ticket had passed eight thousand all-time pageviews for its first ten months. As of now, well, you know what milestone we're at now because it's in the title. And that's a hundred thousand more views than I had around this time last year. My  Slither   review, then just past the 200 mark, now sits at over 2100 views. After a dirty joke about the disturbing love life of an egg, my A Little Bit Of Heaven  issue went on a little...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of June 22, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. As I mentioned yesterday at the end of my Final Destination: Bloodlines review, my work hours are projected to pick back up to financially functioning levels, so I will be posting less content and consuming more in the weeks ahead. That means nothing but Retrospective / Omnibusted  posts and TBT '25  pushes until I get caught back up on My Hero Academia (with the exception of one  Piece Offering that you will see below because I've probably hit a big milestone by the time you're reading this, and a movie that I decided to review last minute. This content trend will also continue into July, but for a 4th of July review of a slasher classic and the possibility of a series review or two you should Stay Tuned for. No bullshit. Also, please remember to comment at the bottom of my Blogger posts, Become A Ticketholder because I know you haven't already, help out my ad reve...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. There are countless movies, television shows, video games, and other media with Bloodline or Bloodlines in the title , and it's a fairly common subtitle for horror movie sequels. It's even more common than setting a horror sequel in space ! Just look at Hellraiser: Bloodline , Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines , Tremors 5: Bloodlines , Pet Sematary: Bloodlines , Day Of the Dead: Bloodline , and of course, today's movie up for review (if you couldn't tell from the post title, the thumbnail, or this week's Zenescope - Omnibusted ), Final Destination: Bloodlines . One would think that a horror movie sequel that has been in various stages of development for fourteen years with three credited writers, modern Warner Bros. in charge of distribution, the SAG-AFTRA strike delaying filming, recurring actor Tony Todd passing away, and the directors of Kim Possible and the WWE Leprechaun movie ( Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein ) b...

Review by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Sinful Ticketmaster. Happy Juneteenth , Ticketholders! As a fractionally indigenous—but not enough of any tribe to qualify for reservation status—and mostly Caucasian child of the 80s and 90s, I must admit that I had never been educated on the holiday despite it being centuries old. Sure, I learned about the American Civil War and slavery, but until I got into high school, I had never been taught beyond the perspective of that Winston Churchill quote , like, it was always taught as just the Civil War, as if civil wars didn't happen anywhere but America and comic books , with a focus on things that happened, the dates they happened, and the famous white people who did them. Black and Asian Americans were just groups of people that bad things happened to (unless you were a smuggler or you invented peanut butter or something). If you wanted to learn that ending slavery didn't instantly fix white people or make things better for minorities, you...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. Death never takes a vacation, Ticketholders! That is, unless he takes it from the living.... In belated honor of the release of the new Bloodlines entry, I thought I'd take a break this week (still puns!) from Grimm Fairy Tales to look at one of Zenescope Entertainment 's early side projects: Final Destination ! They've done a few licensed tie-ins over the years, including Spike TV 's "we have The Darwin Awards at home" masterpiece, 1,000 Ways To Die , a two-"Season" continuation of the original Charmed , and Se7en . They even did a bit of their own, legally distinct,  Final Destination -esque storytelling with the No Tomorrow series (which I will get to eventually). But the company's short partnership with New Line Cinema began in 2006 when they released a One-Shot, limited edition comic that was bundled with seventy-five thousand release day copies of Final Destination 3 (the multiple-choi...

Article by Wilkinson D. Sean, Master Of Tickets, Meister Of Anime. I've yet to watch an episode of the ridiculously long Dressrosa arc, as I've been going back through the Punk Hazard episodes to capture screenshots for this review, so expect a long wait before the next piece of the One Piece Multi-Piece . As I said in the June 8 edition of Time Drops , I'm focusing on My Hero Academia next. After departing Fishman Island and engaging in some filler that I kind of wish I had watched because Giant Luffy (and according to Totally Not Mark in his 100% Blind Review , the anime episode from Fishman Island where they resurface amidst what could be Laboon's old pod, and which was marked as Filler , is the opening of this arc in the manga), the Straw Hats have returned to the surface (still with no Jinbei, and not heading straight for Big Mom as we were promised before, and therefore sailing aimlessly at the whim of Nami's new, multiple choice Log Pose and Luffy's d...