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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I didn't originally have this movie planned into the October schedule , but as I was going through my content library to figure out what 2026 will look like, I stumbled across Longlegs and went, "oh, shit; I've been meaning to watch that so I can finally learn what MovieBob was talking about" ( review , spoilers ), and because it's allegedly a horror movie and daddy longlegs is a kind of spider and Halloween is coming up, "guess I'd better watch this now." Directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Norman Bates actor Anthony Perkins ) and starring Maika Monroe (adding to her bad movie résumé after It Follows and Independence Day: Resurgence ), Blair Underwood (whom I last saw in an Elsbeth episode that I thought was a Poker Face episode), Alicia Witt (next week's Urban Legend ) reminding me how old I am by playing Monroe's religious fanatic mother, and Nicolas Cage ( Renfield and Willy...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. This is the kind of issue I like reviewing, Ticketholders! I said in a previous review that Wonderland issues have a three-location structure that bounces between Wonderland with the Queen Of Spades, the new Liddle house with Calie and Violet, and the town at large (literally), and that I would probably be using the two Superfriends memes a lot going forward. But since then (almost immediately into the next issue ), this structure has begun to blur and waver with the encroaching madness. There's a lot to get into this week, so let's...get into it! Wonderland #4 Though I don't much talk about cover art anymore, the Chen / Nunes  cover featured here is kind of plot-relevant, as it's a bait/foreshadowing image of what would happen if Johnny successfully overtakes Violet's body (he doesn't) and what will become of Violet following a future miniseries. Also, we get pseudo-confirmation on the credit...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of October 19, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I've been productive again this week, Ticketholders, though I can't say I've really finished anything. I continue to make and curate image assets for my 2014 reviews (this was a time of diverse creativity and manic spending for me, when I "cared" "more" about what I "had"—because digital content won by gambling is a pointless illusion of a thing, like assigning monetary value to cryptocurrency—and just posting  something  to share my thoughts, rather than how that something looked, so as my TBT pushes have recently hit this period of my life, I have had to edit these un-formatted, text-only posts to include visual assets, emphasis, and links, which has often involved creating banner logos with the aid of generative A.I. or by editing existing images) as well as for upcoming reviews. These include my Sequel-itis logo, the hilarious Posse In Dem...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. This is where I run into issues with scheduling Fall Of Wonderland and Wonderland Winter posts before I've read (or, because this is the Grimm Fairy Tales Retrospective , re -read) the comics that I intend to review. See, I don't have any introspective thoughts or "profound" messaging about any particular thing that's currently pissing me off (except that you should be kind to any female, cis-female, or female-identifying people you encounter because misogyny and conservative sexism are gross-to-evil behaviors) nor does the issue (a comic book one, not a sociopolitical one, though again, it's disturbing that basic human decency needs to be re-taught to grown-ass adults like they're primally hateful infants because the metric bar for humanity is rusting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench as we speak) that I'll be talking about today give me much to...talk about in terms of plot or re...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of October 12, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. So...good news this past week, Ticketholders! I'm still not back to the consistently high level of traffic I had for the majority of my anniversary year last year, but I am experiencing seemingly random boosts in traffic for a day or two at a time, mostly averaging over a hundred views a day with the occasional two hundred-plus view day, including a crazy 514-view day last Friday. So thank you; thank you; always thank you for the analytics. I'd still do this without you, but the engagement makes it all the better and more worthwhile. On top of the random blessings of Ticketholder love, I've also been incredibly productive this week. I've drafted the GFT Retrospective Presents Fall Of Wonderland  reviews through Wonderland #4 (I've re-read the fifth issue, as well, but it doesn't give me much to talk about because it's basically one long fight; I'm sure I...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. The first thing you'll probably notice about this review is the banner (or thumbnail, if you want to get all social media preview about it). I can understand how it's kind of misleading if this is the first of my GFT Retrospective posts you're reading, and you go in expecting a full Trade review rather than the single issue you're actually getting. On the other hand, context and history are important, so maybe I'm being pedantic for no reason? I've been reminded recently that I tend to do that. I've also been listening to anti-grifter essay videos on YouTube lately, which has made me sensitive to moments where I seem self-contradictory or misleading (a big one being the Chucky Razor Blade Debacle Of 2021— original and retraction —but I'm mostly referring to how the message I arrive at by this post's end could be seen as counter to what I expressed in my review of the Wonderland A...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. I'm super-excited for AniMonday, Ticketholders! Not because H.P. Lovecraft has replaced the moon as this year's "thing I can't escape from" (I clearly have the opposite reaction to the inescapable), but because of what I get to review today. I have a huge seasonal BAWklog from everything I've been putting off to catch up with My Hero Academia , Tower Of God , Solo Leveling , and other series I've reviewed so far this year, to say nothing of the movies, books, and live-action series I've consumed. And sometimes, when you can't decide where to start (like me), it's best to just go alphabetically. Clevatess (with the spoilery Japanese subtitle of The King Of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero ) is based on an ongoing 2020 manga by Yūji Iwahara ( Darker Than Black , Dimension W ), and is confirmed to be getting a second season for good reason. In a world surrounded by shadowy, Beast-in...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of October 5, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. You might remember my admission last week that I was starting to feel aimless, pointless, and overwhelmed (outside of work; I had already been venting about that for weeks, if not months) as a content creator despite my view analytics seeing a marked recovery since this time last year. That feeling has nothing to do with you fine Ticketholders; I just kept letting the list in my head build up without documenting it anywhere. I still have my plans for the rest of the year ( reviewing the two good  Urban Legend movies for Halloween, the Fall Of / Winter Wonderland  "event," plus  X-Men  and the  It's Alive!  movies for December), but the future is a big, scary  place  and hypotheticals are the greatest terror since moving (the current, literal understatement of the century because we have a senile, demented, shit-filled pumpkin running the last...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. Today is kind of a perfect day to start this, Ticketholders! It's the first of a new month (which happens to be October; the month of Halloween) and I'm reviewing the first issue of a new (at its time) comic series' first Volume. So there are plenty of ones involved here, if you have a weird numerology brain like mine. Welcome to October, and welcome back to Wonderland ! The first Volume of the Wonderland Ongoing series is a standard compilation affair with no specially redesigned covers or in-between pages, and the ComiXology version and the scanned version are identical, so sorry if that doesn't leave me with much of an intro in which to critique or complain about the overall TPB experience. I will include a bonus tidbit at the end of the Omnibusted compilation because Volume One's extra content is a preview of the sixth issue, in much the same way as the Call Of Wonderland Trade had a preview ...