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  Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 18, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. This is the Intro to  Time Drops  (because it's issue 101, get it?), coming to you from a new phone, the wait for which has caused me much insomnia and forgetfulness over these past weeks, but it's finally here. Now I just need to order a drop case and a memory expansion and I'll be set for about ten more years, providing I don't randomly drop my phone into the path of an oncoming cybertruck made of EMP devices and lava. Also, I'm expanding to Pinterest because I have an account that I haven't touched in years and my new phone had Pinterest installed on it. Work hours still suck for the same reasons, and I haven't done much yard work this week (a day of watering, and that's it) because the weather still says it's going to try to rain, and mowers and trimmers don't do very well with wet grass or weeds. So if you want a refresher on my summer chores, ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The TicketManiac, TicketManiac On the Web, Blogging like I've never Blogged before. I'm not crazy, Ticketholders! I mean, it's not like I'm trying to invade a neutral country or prove that Fort Knox is empty or circumvent the Constitution by running for a third term or letting dead golfers influence foreign policy or finding sense in the ramblings of a...man?...who would do such things. And it's not like I think I can fill a studio apartment with mannequins covered in blood without anyone noticing. I'm just overcaffeinated after a long, hard day at work so that I can crank out the copy of this review and devote tomorrow (I'm writing this on Wednesday) to yard work and setting up my new phone that finally arrived almost two weeks after my birthday with almost no correspondence and hundreds of hours of financial and time-related anxiety to fill my brain. So, while I'm super-happy to have a new phone and not be stresse...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. How low can you go, Ticketholders‽ Not low enough to accept bribes from Middle Eastern heads of state because a dead golfer said it was okay, or try to monopolize the American intellectual property protection system to satisfy a grudge , I hope. As a country, we need to raise the bar like we're lifting the whole liquor counter up (to quote the great poet Mathers —no relation) so that we can prove our way out of this eternal middle ground of Hell before we sin and sink any lower. Thus concludes today's mix of topical commentary and limbo puns, so let's talk about The Gates Of Limbo . As I usually do with these reviews, I Googled "gates of limbo" to see if there were any fairy tales or folklore with that as a title or plot point. The top five results were Doom -related (fitting, considering what the majority of Dark Horde fodder combatants look like), with the Gemini summary and subsequent results pointing to Da...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the fiery, introverted Animeister As I did for the last full week of February 2024, I think I've decided to theme the month of my birth around heroes this year, as last week, I updated my thoughts on the two  SSSS  anime by talking about the Gridman Universe  movie , and next week, I'll do the same a new Spotlight for My Hero Academia   ZENSHU  because that has heroes in it, too, its a gorgeous anime, and I am multiple kinds of not ready to update MHA yet. Insert "read the title, look at the thumbnail" joke here because I'm reviewing the second season of SHY , following this excerpt FROM February 19, 2024 ( Anime Spotlight #27: SHY  & Love After World Domination )  with an update to the call to action: Everybody loves heroes, and everybody needs a hero, whether they are super-powered, peak-human, or merely inspirational. Whatever the case, it all comes down to what's in your heart and how strong those feelings a...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 11, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Chronologically Confused Ticketmaster. Happy Birthday to me, Ticketholders, and thank you to everyone who has provided me your readership for the past hundred weeks of Time Drops ! I had my birthday last week, but I'm still waiting on my present, so I'm still celebrating, if you want to call it that. As for the "chronologically confused" part, I just realized while I was writing this that I had planned to wait another week to release my Psychopath  (1973) and Maniac 2: Mr. Robbie  combined review , and I ended up finishing and accidentally publishing it yesterday. So I went back and looked at last week's Time Drops  and saw that I hadn't put the review in the schedule, so that has now been updated, along with removing any references to the week 3 release. Also, at the end of yesterday's review, I said that I would be watching and reviewing both Maniac  and The Last Horror Fil...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. At last, Maniac May  has begun, Ticketholders! I had originally intended to split up today's review over two weeks, but life pressures and a lack of things to say led me to push back the Psychopath review and combine it with my thoughts on the Mr. Robbie short film, as they have basically the same premise. My recurring premise on Just the Ticket is that you please  remember  to  Become A Ticketholder if you haven't yet, leave a comment at the bottom of this post instead of writing into a children's TV show, help out my ad revenue as you read so I don't have to keep watching low-quality movies for free on YouTube , and follow me on BlueSky , Tumblr , Reddit , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube, and LinkedIn to like what you see and receive the latest news on my bright, high-definition content. If you couldn't tell, I found 1973's The Psychopath (a.k.a. An Eye For An Eye , and not to be confused with 1966'...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Today, Ticketholders and Retrospective fans, I'm going back to the main Grimm Fairy Tales series to see what Sela Mathers has gotten up to now that The Dream Eater Saga is over. Of course, I'm talking about Volume Eleven, which, after the Dream Eater Volumes and the Alice In Wonderland Trade Paperback made more-than-decent efforts to collect their individual issues and supplemental materials in a creative fashion, is back to the "only do something special for the first issue's cover, then just smash the other five issues on there verbatim because we're overworked, tightly budgeted, in a time crunch, and prima facie lazy" compilation method. To make matters worse, there's something wrong with the ComiXology edition that prevents the TPB's cover from loading properly (the Jack the Giant Killer cover loads instead), and there was no short story composed for this Volume, either. However, you can ...