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I had a bit of style sheet programming that forced the sidebar to appear to the right on portable devices, like iPads, iPhones, and the like. This was regardless of whether of not you were viewing the “mobile” version of the site or if you had the “View Desktop Site” option selected. Apparently, in Mobile ... Read more
First off, a few notes about the site. Yes, I tinkered with the appearance a bit, bringing it a little more in line with What Had Come Before. The post titles are now all caps again, we’ve got serif fonts back, and most importantly, I’ve brought the comments and category links to the top of ... Read more
So when Crisis on Infinite Earths came out in 1985, I dutifully bought each installment, starting by peeling off the top copy from the giant stack of the first issue on the shop’s glass counter. It was a fun run of books, with each chapter (more or less) delivering wild twists and shocking changes. It ... Read more
And so there you have it…the all-new style for Progressive Ruin Industries dot Edu backslash HomeLoanOffers. This new template for the site should function a little better with different sized screens, I’m certainly hoping. (A note to folks using their cellphones…clicking on the three buttons and selecting “desktop site” (or however it works in your ... Read more
Okay gang, hold onto your shorts, as the New Progressive Ruin is launching next Monday! I’ve been working in a secret laboratory, tinkering with templates and japing with jpegs, and I think I finally found the right formula to freshen up this site. I won’t bore you with details (“What? Who are you, and what ... Read more
Marvel editor Tom Brevoort provides the introduction to Fantastic Four: 65 Years of the World’s Greatest Comic Covers that does indeed reprint every single Fantastic Four cover from the beginning, in which he speaks fondly about a similar publication he encountered as a young’un. And while it seems strangely archaic to do something like this, ... Read more
So last time I told you mostly about what was supposed to happen in Fantastic Four #296, the triple-sized 25th anniversary issue of The World’s Greatest Comic. (And the time before that I just kept yappin’ about the Barry Windsor-Smith cover.) Now, why triple-sized I’m not exactly sure. To use a variation of an expression ... Read more
Don’t be alarmed by the title, everything’s fine, I’m not going anywhere. But like I noted yesterday, my initial attempt at my Monday post someway, somehow, caused a glitch in the matrix here. Comments couldn’t be posted on the post, and for some folks the site as a whole wasn’t loading properly. Well, I managed ... Read more
For reasons unknown to me, the post I put up on Monday IS CURSED, and somehow 1) messed up the rendering of my page for some readers, and 2) would not allow comments to be posted. I’ve been running tests (you may see “test” comments from me here and there ’til I get around to ... Read more
So there you see above, my copy of the original Justice League of America #200 from 1981, propped up there against a copy of the new Justice League of America #200 treasury-sized facsimile edition due out in your better comic shops this week, and even in mine, too. For a long time I’ve pushed for ... Read more