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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Serendipity can be a bitch, Ticketholders! Or maybe not; maybe it's just a seemingly random decision based on a seemingly random collection of tangential stimuli like the payoff of a bad mentalism trick. Computers do make nearly all of our decisions for us now, after all. That's why literacy is in the toilet and people can't speak to be heard (unless they're assholes or they're protesting something...or both...) or focus on one step of one instruction at a time or nominally identify the foods they eat every day. Except for me because I'm from a smarter generation and I cook and serve said food when I'm not here to provide you with my opinions through a rich reading experience. Happy Halloween, everyone! Under the influence of this digital equivalent of a geriatric Satanist puppetmaster (because I have strong negative feelings about  Longlegs ), I have previously been unable to escape the moon , William Lus...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Retrospective Ticketmaster. I've been dreading this one, Ticketholders! Not because I remember it being bad and didn't want to read it; I dreaded writing the review after I read it, because today's issue is one that I didn't think I would have much to say about, similar to the third Wonderland  issue , but for different reasons. So I tried to find things to elaborate on, but don't be surprised if this runs short. Wonderland #5 First of all, um... Daniel Leister ? Why did you make the Queen Of Spades look like Dr. Girlfriend from the Venture Bros . cartoon? The other thing you'll notice is that the credits page directly refers to Calie's final form in the previous issue as the White Queen. Unlike Black Berserker (which is a term I made up to refer to her outfit from Escape From Wonderland , as it was never named in the trilogy), White Queen is official Zenescope branding, and it was established in this issue first. Th...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Ex- HeroMachine r and Ticketmaster. Since my Characters Are Made  series' first entry was a TBT '25 post somewhat recently (on BlueSky , Tumblr , Facebook , Pinterest , Instagram , YouTube , and LinkedIn ), some of my first characters were based on the Universal Monsters and archetypal Halloween costumes, and Halloween is this week, I thought I'd compile my character bios for the " TimeDrop Comics Universe "'s first family (whom I created with HeroMachine 3 many years before Flash became one of the numerous casualties of 2020, along with human decency, sanity, safety, intelligence, and millions of lives). HeroMachine, as I've mentioned before, was one of the most powerful creative Flash programs ever made, with a thriving, welcoming, helpful community that still exists today despite the program itself no longer functioning as it once did. Sometime in 2013, my fictional "comic book" Universe began with the creation of ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. Just in case you've been living under a rock for the past two years...stay under there. It's safer and cheaper than "normal living." But also, DanDaDan is super-popular right now and the perfect anime for me to shed the Anime Spotlight on for Halloween week. And if you've been given the mixed blessing of not living under a rock in 2025, you know exactly why that is. Written and illustrated by  Yukinobu Tatsu  (art assistant on Chainsaw Man and Hell's Paradise ),  DanDaDan is an insane, random, pervy, supernatural coming-of-age shōnen story that began its life as a web manga in 2021. The manga  is still ongoing, and recieved an anime adaptation in 2024 with its second season having recently concluded and a third season already announced for next year. In DanDaDan , high school gal Momo Ayase ( Abby Trott , dub voice of The Elusive Samurai ) is the brash, outspoken, romantically unlucky granddaughter of a ...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of October 26, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. It doesn't really feel like it because of math, but I've been buckling down on those previously mentioned procrastinated posts, and I have more than half of my half-finished content published or scheduled for publication (my Longlegs review, DanDaDan Anime Spotlight , and Characters Are Made Hallow-Machine Special ), my unwritten Wonderland #5 review half -written, and the second half of my  Urban Legend  review un written. So when I'm done and Halloween is behind me, I'll probably celebrate by doing a thing or two, depending on what I started with. That's a math joke, so be proud if you understood it, but don't feel bad if you didn't. Thank you all for supporting me and joining me on this continuing journey, and all I ask is that you keep reading after the weekly calendar for more on my daunting future content plans, and please remember to comment at the ...

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...