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Joe Pace

Sep 5, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #250: Albus Dumbledore

I've always enjoyed the archetype of the ancient, white-bearded mage, repository of arcane wisdom and mystic power. Merlin, Gandalf, Don...

Joe Pace

Sep 4, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #249: Algernon Moncrief

Oscar Wilde's 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest is a popular work, and for good reason. It's funny, scathing social satire,...

Joe Pace

Sep 3, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #248: Peter Fox

The star of Bill Amend's long-running comic strip Foxtrot has always been youngest son Jason, the uber-nerd and proto-genius, a sort of...

Joe Pace

Sep 2, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #247: Harry Flashman

A number of heroic, lovable rogues and bad-ass outright villains have appeared throughout this list. Harry Flashman is neither of these....

Joe Pace

Sep 1, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #246: She-Hulk

In 1980, the Incredible Hulk TV show was enjoying strong ratings. At about the same time, the boob tube was given the Bionic Woman, a...

Joe Pace

Aug 31, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #245: Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a short story by James Thurber published in 1939, and was sufficiently seminal that the titular...

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