Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #293: The Brain
Are you pondering what I'm pondering? A genetically modified mouse with unlimited intellect, unbridled arrogance, and unsatiable...
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Joe Pace
Oct 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #292: Russell Huxtable
I wonder, if I had undertaken this exercise twenty years ago, how I'd feel about Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show. I watched it as a kid, we...
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Joe Pace
Oct 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #291: Little Bear
The Indian in the Cupboard resides in a thorny place in my life. Written in 1980 by Lynne Reid Banks, the book was a favorite of mine as...
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Joe Pace
Oct 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #290: Padme Amidala
Let's be honest - there were very much two versions of Amidala. There was the weepy, whiny, Sweet Valley Naboo pushover who made goo-goo...
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Joe Pace
Oct 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #289: Octavian Nothing
The 2006 young adult historical novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation is a fascinating, ambitious,...
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Joe Pace
Oct 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #288: Wilma Flintstone
If you'd asked me when I was a teenager to name my favorite prehistoric protagonist from the anachronistic cartoon The Flintstones, I...
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Joe Pace
Oct 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #287: Remus Lupin
There are a lot of things to celebrate about the Harry Potter books, many of which I've touched on earlier in this list. One of the...
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Joe Pace
Oct 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #286: Lester Burnham
The time had to come eventually, I suppose. Next May I'll turn 42, the age at which Lester Burnham experiences his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #285: Shallow Hal
We all know a guy (and have, at times in our own lives, been a guy or even - gasp - a girl) like shallow Hal Larson. Superficial, caught...
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Joe Pace
Oct 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #284: Casca Rufio Longinus
The premise of the Casca series is a phenomenal and basic one. A Roman soldier, Casca stabs Jesus Christ with his spear while the Son of...
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Joe Pace
Oct 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #283: Dazzler
The origins of Dazzler are so wonderfully representative of late-70s corporate bumbling and creative bankruptcy that it's amazing such a...
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Joe Pace
Oct 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #282: Buzz Lightyear
The Toy Story films are perhaps Pixar's greatest, most enduring achievement. All of us as children imagined that our toys were more than...
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