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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. As of this writing, I am exhausted and stressed out from work, and really wish people would stop being pyromaniac assholes because my job isn't the only reason I can't breathe or sleep or gather the energy to produce and promote content in a timely fashion lately. Regardless of how I feel, though, you all are still turning out the views, no paid SEO service required. So thank you. Let's get into this week's  Goj -Year- ra project review. Released theatrically in 2001 but set in 2004 (given that everyone says the events of Gojira took place fifty years ago), the mouthful of a title that is  Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack  (Miss GMK , if you're nasty) was directed and co-written by Shusuke Kaneko (on the heels of directing the Heisei Era Gamera Trilogy, and he would go on to direct the live-action Death Note films) in partnership with Keiichi Hasegawa (the Ultraman  franchise...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. Normally, when I'd review a miniseries like this that has lore behind it, the post would include reprints of my old reviews as well (particularly with things like Myths & Legends ). But in cases like my Dream Eater Saga reviews, some characters and IPs had so much lore behind them that I merely linked to my relevant reviews instead. Godstorm is one of these latter cases. So, here we go! Grimm Fairy Tales #54: The Grateful Beasts (first appearance of Ares, and Greco-Roman deities, in general, in the Grimm Universe) Goddess  (first appearance of Venus, and the final Short Story) Grimm Fairy Tales #58-62: Mother Nature (Druanna, a.k.a. the Titan Gaia, is introduced for the first time) Grimm Fairy Tales #68: The Immortals  (first bit of lore on the Greco-Roman pantheon in the Grimm Universe) Myths & Legends: The Gathering  (origin story of the sun Titan Helios in the Grimm Universe, Venus claims the Beast ) Grimm F...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! Just a friendly, hypothetical warning for you before we set sail for the Second Piece of the Dressrosa Arc: sometimes, being a team player means having to play as the team while they hide, complain, blame you for their failures, and act stupid (or are stupid) because they claim to have it harder than you, whatever "it" may be and whether or not "it" actually exists. Do what you can and what you know is right because regardless of the burden expected of you, that is really all you can do. Patience and right will prevail in the end. I hope. When we last left the Dressrosa Arc , twenty-four episodes had elapsed, setting up the world-building, important characters, and plot points that could be relevant going forward. One of the biggest was whether or not Doflamingo Donquixote is a Celestial Dragon, and it turns out that, yeah, he is. At least, by blood. And by acti...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Today, the  Goj -Year- ra  project ends the first week of August with the second film, and second continuity reboot, of the Millennium Era, which the fandom often ranks with Some Monsters Almost Attack , Godzilla Raids Again , Godzilla '98 , and Ebirah, Horror Of the Deep as among the franchise's worst entries. I'm not quite so severe on it, but in contrast to Godzilla 2000 (which I reviewed last week), it gave me a strong first impression and spun into a rapid decline from there, for numerous reasons I will get into later. Godzilla vs Megaguirus (released in 2000 under a Japanese title that translates as Godzilla×Megaguirus: The G Extermination Strategy , so I guess the multiplication symbol is a Millennium Era "versus" thing?) was the directorial debut of Masaaki Tezuka ( Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. , a.k.a. "the Kiryu Saga") and written by the team of  Hiroshi Kash...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Omnibuster. From what I recall , today's miniseries up for review has little or nothing to do with Zenescope 's Grimm Fairy Tales canon beyond maybe having a mental gymnastics-heavy stretch of a connection to the Jack O' Lantern story from the 2012 Halloween Special  (which is barely canon outside of a Dark One appearance anyway), and only features GFT branding for deceptively associative marketing purposes. I also recall from my first reading that its interior art was dark, dreary, unintelligible, joyless garbage. So why am I bothering with it again? Let's find out.... Sleepy Hollow At the time I originally read this miniseries, my only vivid experiences with the Sleepy Hollow narrative were the Johnny Depp film and the supernatural procedural series from the 2010s where Ichabod Crane woke up in modern times to stop his cursed father from helping a secret society of Revolutionary War-era British proto-Nazis from reviving the...

Ship's Log by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. Master Of the Tickets, Meister Of Anime. Ahoy, Ticketholders! It's been a long time since the One Piece  Multi-Piece  graced the waves with my look at the Punk Hazard Arc (a.k.a. the short "half" of the Dressrosa Saga, a.k.a. the One Piece Running Simulator Arc). First up on the travel itinerary, even though I published it on Saturday, I chose to delay promoting the August Time Drops calendar so I could devote my time and energy to bingeing this week's chunk of the Dressrosa Arc, which, thanks to a decent portion of each episode being devoted to theme music (the high-energy "Wake Up" by AAA , accompanied by visuals of the Straw Hat Crew in flashy vacation attire fighting the massive supporting/fodder cast of Marines, gladiators, Pirates, and other villains, including an interlude dialogue exchange between Luffy and Blackbeard that may or may not actually impact the plot of the arc, but I don't know for sure ye...