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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Iron Man Film Goers - STAY Till The END !! (Spoiler Warning!)
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Comic Book Movies

 

(Possible spoiler Warning! DON'T SCROLL below the blog post title where THE BLUE STARS Start IF you don't want to know!)

Iron Man Film Goers

STAY Till The Very

END!

Which is AFTER The Credits!

******************

(STOP Here If You Don't Want To Know!)

 

Last night we attended the May 2nd 2008 Iron Man Film Opening Day Screening!

We did not want to post any 'spoilers' about the film when we did our review blog posts.

So we didn't, other than saying that you needed to stay until AFTER THE CREDITS are through running!

We saw three quarters of our screening audience leave before the credits were through and they missed what will be happening in the Marvel Comic Books Movies Universe!

I have also seen multiple blog posts saying the scene wasn't in the movie they went to!

Ya Gotta Stay Folks to AFTER THE CREDITS to see this scene and then you'll see how it ties in!

We've already received a few emails asking what it is about, but our lips are sealed because it is only the 2nd day in the States that the film has been showing! We also note that it is the 'HOTTEST' archived blog post topic we have right now being viewed!

However you can take a look at the bottom pic to the right to get a big hint...

 

 

For those of you that are new to our blog, we have an ongoing comics and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Michael

 

 

 

 

Iron Man Comics listed here!
 
 
The Iron Man Film opened to 35 million dollars world-wide already!
Welcome To Our World! Our Shipments AREN'T delivered by the Batmobile, Just the USPS!

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! 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 just for you and email you with the listing number(s)!
Comics Graded And Then Listed Here!
 

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Click here to see our currently listed Marvel Comics and Magazines for sale! 
 'Nuff Said!

 


Posted by makeitsomarketing at 3:06 PM PDT
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Cows Riding Horses? It Was True!
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: TV Shows

 

Cows Riding Horses?

It Was True!

 

 

A fellow eBay Blogger posted a blog post titled 'Cows Riding A Horse?' on May 1st.

The blog post title caught my eye, as I thought it might be on a cartoon TV Show of which we have sold several VHS tapes of that are actually hard to find, and in demand!

The cartoon was 'C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa', where it was cow cartoon characters who rode horses in the Wild West!

No kidding!  And they had two mini-series of comics in 1992 and 1993 of 3 issues each from Archie Comics!

Well... on this other eBayer's blog post her cows were 'Mary Moo Moos' figurines! Ooops!

Oh well, I tried buying from her!

For those of you new to us, we have an ongoing pop culture - comics convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post and please visit our blog again!

Michael

 

Click here to see our currently listed CARTOON Comics and Magazines for sale!
Proof that cow-boys ride horses... well bulls at least... LOL! From the Archie Comics mini series in 1992!

To view our currently listed Cartoon Comics, magazines and other pop culture items, just click on the photo above!

Welcome To Our World! Our Shipments AREN'T delivered by the Batmobile, Just the USPS!

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!   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 just for you!
Comics Graded And Then Listed Here!
 

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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.

All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

 


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Iron Man Movie - Our Take - Part 2 - A Woman's POV!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Comic Book Movies

 

Our Take On The Iron Man Film

Part 2

 

Tina's Take!

(Note: We are reviewing the screening of this film separately - From a woman's POV and a comic book geek's POV. We will attempt from posting any spoilers!)

 

Last night Michael and Tina attended the May 2nd 2008 Iron Man Film Screening! Here are Tina's Thoughts:

"Two Thumbs Up - Both of mine" says Tina!

I love a good origin movie (think Spider-Man 1 and Batman Begins, as opposed to The Incredible Hulk.) 

And, this is a good origin movie.  The character development was involving and entertaining.

Robert Downey Jr is spot-on as the snarky playboy.  It's a dream cast of Academy Award winner and nominees.

The story is well played.  We walked away feeling that we saw a movie - an action movie - not a "comic book" movie.

For me, the casting of Terrence Howard seemed a little off - who knew Rhodey was a metrosexual - but Howard does a fine job.

Favorite scene: when Iron Man fires up in the red and gold for the first time - it's exhilarating. 

Favorite movie moment: Stan Lee's cameo - watch for him on the red carpet at Stark Industries' charity event.

Best line: the last line of the movie. (I won't ruin it for you.)

One final note: The picture is rated PG-13. I would strongly caution parents to leave the young ones home.  While much of the violence is off-screen.  You know people are being killed; you don't see them dying.  However, there are two rather disturbing torture scenes - definitely not suitable for young ones.

Overall, I enjoyed it! Tell us what you think if you have seen it!

 

 

For those of you that are new to our blog, we have an ongoing comics and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

 

Thanks for reading this popular culture - comics - comic books blog post and come back again!

Tina (and Michael)

 

Click here to see our current listed IRON MAN Comics and Magazines for sale!
Robert Downey Jr dressed as Tony Stark in the Iron Man Film that opened yesterday!
Click here to see our IRON MAN Comics for sale! 

Tina standing in front of the SDCC 2007 where we saw the first trailer aired for the Iron Man Film!  Tina still says '2 thumbs up' after seeing the Film finally on Opening Day! Then again, she's a Robert Downey Jr fan!

To view our currently listed IRON MAN and other Marvel Superheroes Comics, magazines and other pop culture items, just click on the photos above!

Welcome To Our World! Our Shipments AREN'T delivered by the Batmobile, Just the USPS!

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! 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 just for you and email you with the listing number(s)!
Comics Graded And Then Listed Here!
 

Thank YOU for being one of our

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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.

All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Click here to see our currently listed IRON MAN and Marvel Superhereos Comics and Magazines for sale!
The Iron Man scene above from the film is now on Michael's laptop's desktop scene!

 


Posted by makeitsomarketing at 2:55 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, March 5, 2010 9:07 AM PST
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Iron Man Movie - Our Take - Part 1
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Comic Book Movies

 

Our Take On The Iron Man Film

Part 1

Michael's Take!

(Note: We will be posting our reviews of the screening of this film separately - Also we will try not to post any spoilers if possible)

Last night we attended the May 2nd 2008 Iron Man Film Opening Day Screening! These are Michael's thoughts only:

1st- The multiple teaser trailers that have been released previously have given away some of the film's best scenes.

So the opening scene is one we've seen snippets of before, thus it is a little 'flat' for opening the actual film....

2nd- The first scenes showing the origin of Tony Stark / Iron Man is a little slower paced, possibly due to the 'realism' that is injected in this storyline.

3rd- The film is NOT 'comic-booky', as other than a small segment of the final act's fight scene, it is very realistic looking! Kudos to the CGI experts!

4th- Regarding the actors:

Robert Downey Jr truly IS Tony Stark, Great!

Paltrow is better as Pepper Potts than what several other critics have said of her so far IMHO.

Howard is just Okay as Rhodey, IMHO.

Jeff Bridges is Outstanding as Stane!

Stan Lee was funny as 'Hef' in his cameo!

Jon Favreau,(the director), sneaks in as 'Happy Hogan', shame his role wasn't expanded...

5th- Parents: This film is truly PG-13. We saw the evening matinee, so there were some younger kids there, and several were scared by the realistic violence via torture and bullets impacting bodies. It is NOT cartoon -comic-booky violence!

6th- Was it Worth the money, time watching the film, and waiting months for for the film???

Yes, Yes AND Yes! I would give it an 8.5 out of 10 points for being an 'Origin Movie'. Very Fine Film!

7th- Note: DON'T leave the theater before the end of the film's credits!  You Marvel Fans DON'T want to miss the final scene shown AFTER the credits!

8th- I was Very Happy to see in the credits that the Iron Man creators were listed: Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby!

Come back for Part 2 where Tina blogs her review!

 

 

For those of you that are new to our blog, we have an ongoing comics and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Michael

 

Iron Man Comics listed here!
The Iron Man Film opened to 30 million dollars world-wide already!
Click here to see our currently listed Marvel Comics and Magazines for sale!
Tales of Suspense #39 was the origin of Iron Man. It wasn't until Tales of Suspense #45 that Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan (the chaffeur in the Iron Man film) were introduced to the Marvel Universe! Rhodey and Stane were years later in being written into the Iron Man Saga!

To view our currently listed IRON MAN and other Marvel Superheroes Comics, magazines and other pop culture items, just click on the photos above!

 

Welcome To Our World! Our Shipments AREN'T delivered by the Batmobile, Just the USPS!

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! 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 just for you and email you with the listing number(s)!
Comics Graded And Then Listed Here!
 

Thank YOU for being one of our

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 Add to Technorati Favorites

 

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.

All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Click here to see our currently listed IRON MAN and Marvel Superhereos Comics and Magazines for sale!
The Iron Man scene above from the film is now my laptop's desktop scene!

 


Posted by makeitsomarketing at 2:51 PM PDT
Updated: Saturday, May 3, 2008 3:02 PM PDT
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Designing Your Templates / Blogs / Stores For Monitor Resolutions
Mood:  bright
Topic: eBay Info

 

 

Designing Your Templates / Blogs / Stores For Monitor Resolutions! 

The below is from our February 19th 2008 archived blog post. I have been asked on others' blog posts this morning to clarify what I meant about tweaking a store's design, or blog banner, or listing template when a few bloggers were asking for advice or input. 

(Please note:  I am not claiming to be an 'expert' on this subject. I have taken several web master classes and designed several web sites in the past. I don't offer my services on this as we are busy buying/listing/selling/shipping our items on eBay and our non eBay web sites.)

I also didn't want to take up others' blog posts to go more in depth on the questions, so I am reposting the following that explained further about why templates / blog banners / store headers etc don't appear like you think they would:

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Repost: Our Blog Posts Display Resolution Revised! 

Due to the fact that we currently blog on two different blog formats, an eBay and a non-eBay Blog, we are making the following changes in our Blogs:

We have been formatting in a larger display resolution, which when the eBay Techs revised the eBay Blogs last year (2007), resulted in our archived blog posts becoming distorted when viewed by those using smaller resolutions on their computers.

Additionally there are some bloggers out there that still have their monitor's or laptop display resolution set at a much smaller setting than a lot / most people currently have now.

The current trend is that more and more desktop and laptop computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels or more as shown in the below table:

2007Higher1024x768800x600640x480Unknown
January26%54%14%0%6%
      
2006     
July19%58%17%0%6%
January17%57%20%0%6%
      
2005     
July14%55%25%0%6%
January12%53%30%0%5%
      
2004     
July10%50%35%1%4%
January10%47%37%1%5%
      
2003     
July8%43%44%2%5%
January6%40%47%    2%5%
        
2002         
October 6%38%49%2%5%

 

 

Ever since the eBay Techs changed the blog format back in mid September 2007, I have added a  disclaimer that this Blog is written for IE Browsers primarily. Please see our previous blog post for that discussion: 

CLICK HERE!

Now we will be adding to the disclaimer that the blog post would be best to be seen in 1024 x 768 display resolution or higher, which 80% of computer users have their screen set at or higher.

We cannot write our blog posts or web site pages to fit all browsers and display resolutions, thus we are re-setting our display resolution to the current average resolution being used of 1024 x 768.

Screen Resolutions are not the only thing that is evolving in technology advances... For example, currently there is a DVD war going on between HD and Blue-Ray DVD formats, until one win out over the other that industry is in flux! Especially when you can buy a HD player for $120 and the cheapest Blue-Ray Player is approx $300!  Anyone remember the Betamax vs VHS War?!  (Update 05-03-08: Blockbuster is going to Blue-Ray by the end of 2008 so the war should be over shortly after that...)

Thus, our disclaimer that is set in each of our blog post will have that the blog post is best seen with the resolution as mentioned above as follows:

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.

Thanks for reading our pop culture - comics - comic book blog post!

Michael (and Tina)

 

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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!
We attend several  pop culture and comic books conventions during the year to replenish our inventory for resale!   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 just for you!!
Comics Graded And Then Listed Here!
 

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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