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| Archive - February 2008 Posted Feb-29-08 14:04:26 PST
Above is a photo of Mark Evanier at the SDCC 2007 San Diego Comic Con International doing what I enjoy from him the most..... moderating the Annual Jack Kirby Tribute Program!
For all of our current Marvel Superheroes Comics / Magazine listings, just click on the Photo above! If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store for you!
We currently have several third party CGC Graded Comics available for sale... just click the above pic to see those items for sale!
 
Note From Make It So Marketing:
Each comic / comics book or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale! We attend several pop culture and comic books conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale!
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Happy Early Birthday To Mark Evanier!
Mark's birthday is March 2nd... and I wanted to wish him an early Happy Birthday here in our blog post today!
He was born the same year I was, in 1952, and like myself shows no sign of slowing down... especially when seen at the SDCC San Diego Comic Con International each year!
The man must have at least 9 programs each year to moderate, and I usually take in most of those programs in either the full hour or as much as I can squeeze in between other simualtaneous programs!
Mark was fortunate to have worked for Jack 'King' Kirby for several years, and is the right person to host the Annual Jack Kirby Tribute. Additionally, until his Ultimate Jack Kirby Book is finalized, he has a current Jack Kirby Coffee Table Book out right now!
You might want to check that out....
Also, Mark is a great writer in own right, having written for TV Shows, comics and more!
For those that are interested in comics and magazines illustrated by Jack Kirby, we have several of those listed in our eBay Featured Store !
For those of you that can't make it to comic cons to see great programs like Mark Evanier moderates... We have an ongoing comic book convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and new listings of items for sale! Just click on the pic at the top left to see our listings!
Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post !
Michael
Thank YOU for being one of our
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Posted Feb-28-08 16:10:21 PST
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American Idol TV Show
Season 7 Week 2
Night 2 - The 'Girls'
02-27-08 Our Take
Theme Was "Classics From The Seventies"!
Last Night it was the 'girls' who performed... The Top 10 of them in a 90 minute show. Here are our 'scores', (based on 1-10, 10 being highest), on each performance with the 4th column showing the difference between my score and Tina's score. The 'girls' are listed in order of performance during the night, NOT by numerical score:
The 'Girls'
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(No #) |
Name of Contestant |
Michael's Take |
Score Difference |
Tina's Take |
| 1 |
Carly Smithson |
7.5 |
0.5 |
8.0 |
| 2 |
Syesha Mercado |
7.0 |
2.0 |
9.0 |
| 3 |
Brooke White |
7.0 |
1.0 |
8.0 |
| 4 |
Ramiele Mulaby |
7.0 |
1.5 |
8.5 |
| 5 |
Kristy Lee Cook (pictured above) |
8.5 |
0.0 |
8.5 |
| 6 |
Amanda Overmyer |
8.0 |
0.0 |
8.0 |
| 7 |
Alaina Whitaker |
8.5 |
1.0 |
7.5 |
| 8 |
Alesandrea Washington |
6.0 |
1.0 |
7.0 |
| 9 |
Kady Malloy |
7.0 |
1.0 |
8.0 |
| 10 |
Asia'h Epperson |
6.5 |
0.0 |
6.5 |
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FYI, for those that followed our American Idol Blog Posts last season... you'll know that Tina and I usually don't agree on the contestants' performances until the final weeks... maybe by that time we've worn each other out judging???? LOL.
Michael's question of the night: When did Simon pick up that weird five finger (whole hand) way of resting his head on his hand???
Last night, the biggest difference between the scores was a 2.0 points difference with contestant #2 Syesha Mercado. Michael didn't like the arrangement of the song while Tina thought it was a good enough performance for her to vote for! Go Figure?!
What we do this early in the process is to vote for the highest one or two contestants per the score we gave them. Michael voted for Kristy Lee Cook (pictured at top right), while Tina voted for Syesha Mercado! We each only voted for one... Both of us thought that last night's performances were rather average which reflects in Michael's scores with several 7.0s. Tina's numbers were a bit higher in more cases... I am really beginning to think that she is starting to play favorites already... LOL!
When the Top 24 starts getting down to the Top 12, then we'll start adding more than just a 'numerical' score. Due to space limitations on the eBay Blog format that we first post in, we only have so much room to blog...
Well... that's it for 'The Girls'... Tonight are 'The Results'. Be back tomorrow when we blog about 'Our Take' on American Idol's Week 2 Results! FYI, we are on the West Coast by Legoland so there is a time zone difference in our viewing and blogging between our East Coast readers!
For those that missed our previous blog posts on this TV Show.... Please see the following link for our previous blog post. We have been blogging about Season 7 since the first week:
2-26-08 Our Take - American Idol 02-26-08 TV Show!
For those that are wondering what the 'tie-in' is for us... we have Rock Comic Books and Magazines for sale in our eBay Featured Store, just click on the top right picture... but are almost out of them for sale, LOL !
Michael (and Tina)
Note From Make It So Marketing:
Each comic / comics book or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale! We attend several pop culture and comic books conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale!
Thank YOU for being one of our
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Posted Feb-28-08 15:09:25 PST
Above is a photo of Ellen Page as 'Kitty Pryde' along with Halle Berry as 'Storm' in the last film of the X-Men Film Trilogy!
For all of our current Marvel Superheroes Comics / Magazine listings, just click on the Photo above! If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store for you!
We currently have several third party CGC Graded Comics available for sale... just click the above pic to see those items for sale!
Note From Make It So Marketing:
Each comic / comics book or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale! We attend several pop culture and comic books conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale!
NOTE: This Blog Post May Not Be Viewed Properly On YOUR Screen Due To the Changes eBay is Making on the Blog Format At this time OR in the Future! Additionally, this blog post is written for IE Browsers. Netscape, Firefox and the others serve the page up differently. The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768.
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...the
X-Men 3:
Last Stand
Movie!
Now that was something I didn't know until watching the after the Academy Shows!
Tina and I have not yet viewed the film 'Juno', as it hadn't hit our viewing queque yet.
So I just became familar with Ellen Page while watching the Red Carpet Show before the Oscars presentation.
Of course when she's in scenes with Halle Berry as shown at the above left, you know I'd be looking at Halle instead! LOL!
Ellen did play opposite the 'Juggernaut' in the film and as I recall did a good job of portraying the young 'Kitty Pryde' in the film....
For those that are interested in more about Kitty Pryde, Storm or others of the Uncanny X-men, we have several listed in our eBay Featured Store !
For those of you that can't make it to comic cons... We have an ongoing comic book convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and new listings of items for sale! Just click on the pic at the top left to see our listings!
Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post !
Michael
Thank YOU for being one of our
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Posted Feb-28-08 07:31:43 PST
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American Idol TV Show
Season 7 Week 2
Night 2 - The 'Girls'
02-27-08 Our Take
Theme Was "Classics From The Seventies"!
Last Night it was the 'girls' who performed... The Top 10 of them in a 90 minute show. Here are our 'scores', (based on 1-10, 10 being highest), on each performance with the 4th column showing the difference between my score and Tina's score. The 'girls' are listed in order of performance during the night, NOT by numerical score:
The 'Girls'
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(No #) |
Name of Contestant |
Michael's Take |
Score Difference |
Tina's Take |
| 1 |
Carly Smithson |
7.5 |
0.5 |
8.0 |
| 2 |
Syesha Mercado |
7.0 |
2.0 |
9.0 |
| 3 |
Brooke White |
7.0 |
1.0 |
8.0 |
| 4 |
Ramiele Mulaby |
7.0 |
1.5 |
8.5 |
| 5 |
Kristy Lee Cook (pictured above) |
8.5 |
0.0 |
8.5 |
| 6 |
Amanda Overmyer |
8.0 |
0.0 |
8.0 |
| 7 |
Alaina Whitaker |
8.5 |
1.0 |
7.5 |
| 8 |
Alesandrea Washington |
6.0 |
1.0 |
7.0 |
| 9 |
Kady Malloy |
7.0 |
1.0 |
8.0 |
| 10 |
Asia'h Epperson |
6.5 |
0.0 |
6.5 |
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FYI, for those that followed our American Idol Blog Posts last season... you'll know that Tina and I usually don't agree on the contestants' performances until the final weeks... maybe by that time we've worn each other out judging???? LOL.
Michael's question of the night: When did Simon pick up that weird five finger (whole hand) way of resting his head on his hand???
Last night, the biggest difference between the scores was a 2.0 points difference with contestant #2 Syesha Mercado. Michael didn't like the arrangement of the song while Tina thought it was a good enough performance for her to vote for! Go Figure?!
What we do this early in the process is to vote for the highest one or two contestants per the score we gave them. Michael voted for Kristy Lee Cook (pictured at top right), while Tina voted for Syesha Mercado! We each only voted for one... Both of us thought that last night's performances were rather average which reflects in Michael's scores with several 7.0s. Tina's numbers were a bit higher in more cases... I am really beginning to think that she is starting to play favorites already... LOL!
When the Top 24 starts getting down to the Top 12, then we'll start adding more than just a 'numerical' score. Due to space limitations on the eBay Blog format that we first post in, we only have so much room to blog...
Well... that's it for 'The Girls'... Tonight are 'The Results'. Be back tomorrow when we blog about 'Our Take' on American Idol's Week 2 Results! FYI, we are on the West Coast by Legoland so there is a time zone difference in our viewing and blogging between our East Coast readers!
For those that missed our previous blog posts on this TV Show.... Please see the following link for our previous blog post. We have been blogging about Season 7 since the first week:
2-26-08 Our Take - American Idol 02-26-08 TV Show!
For those that are wondering what the 'tie-in' is for us... we have Rock Comic Books and Magazines for sale in our eBay Featured Store, just click on the top right picture... but are almost out of them for sale, LOL !
Michael (and Tina)
Note From Make It So Marketing:
Each comic / comics book or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale! We attend several pop culture and comic books conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale!
Thank YOU for being one of our
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Posted Feb-27-08 16:45:41 PST
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American Idol TV Show
Season 7 Week 2
Night 1 - The 'Boys'
02-26-08 Our Take
Theme Was "Classics From The Seventies"!
Last Night it was the 'boys' who performed... The Top 10 of them in a 90 minute show. Here are our 'scores', (based on 1-10, 10 being highest), on each performance with the 4th column showing the difference between my score and Tina's score. The 'boys' are listed in order of performance during the night, NOT by numerical score:
The 'Boys'
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(No #) |
Name of Contestant |
Michael's Take |
Score Difference |
Tina's Take |
| 1 |
Michael Johns |
6.0 |
1.0 |
7.0 |
| 2 |
Jason Castro |
5.0 |
3.5 |
8.5 |
| 3 |
Luke Menard |
7.0 |
0.0 |
7.0 |
| 4 |
Robbie Carrico |
7.0 |
0.5 |
7.5 |
| 5 |
Danny Noriega |
7.0 |
0.0 |
7.0 |
| 6 |
David Hernandez |
7.5 |
1.0 |
8.5 |
| 7 |
Jason Yeager |
7.5 |
0.0 |
7.5 |
| 8 |
Chikezie |
7.5 |
1.0 |
8.5 |
| 9 |
David Cook (pictured above) |
8.5 |
0.0 |
8.5 |
| 10 |
David Archuleta |
8.0 |
1.0 |
9.0 |
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FYI, for those that followed our American Idol Blog Posts last season... you'll know that Tina and I usually don't agree on the contestants' performances until the final weeks.
My Take on the Judges last night:
Randy had good advice most of the night.
Paula - What planet did you come in from to judge this year? Most of these performances were just plain average, but I believe I only heard you give a negative to just one of the performances.
Simon IMO really gave good critiques last night!
Tina's Take on the night: "The Band was better than the singers tonight"!
Last night, the biggest difference between the scores was a 3.5 points difference with contestant #2 Jason Castro. Michael didn't like the arrangement while Tina thought it was a good different version of the song!!
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