Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #335: Ozymandias
Watchmen likely deserves its praise as perhaps the finest graphic novel the medium has produced. It's layered and compelling without...
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Joe Pace
Nov 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #334: Cardinal Ignatius Glick
Kevin Smith's comedic treatise on Catholicism tends to be divisive. Some love it, some hate it, and some are - appropriately enough -...
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Joe Pace
Nov 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #333: Orpheus
There are a lot of heroic humans and demigods in Greek mythology. The vast majority are tough guys, warrior kings in mold of Perseus and...
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Joe Pace
Nov 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #332: Jack Skellington
Last night I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time. Hard to believe, I know, but in the 23 years since it was...
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Joe Pace
Nov 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #331: Commandant Eric Lassard
The Police Academy phenomenon is fascinating to me. The first movie had a novel premise, interesting characters, and was worth some...
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Joe Pace
Nov 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #330: Jan Brady
With the passing of Florence Henderson, this seems like an appropriate day to profile my favorite Brady: Jan. Sure, Marcia was supposed...
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Joe Pace
Nov 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #329: Kermit the Frog
I spent a lot of time thinking this morning about what character I could choose to profile who could represent how thankful I am to have...
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Joe Pace
Nov 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #328: Austin Powers
Yeah, baby. Yeah! The Austin Powers movies were essentially one joke. Fortunately, it was a pretty good joke, a vein of comedic ore deep...
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Joe Pace
Nov 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #327: Skeletor
As much as I loved the classic Transformers cartoon and toy line, nothing screamed early-1980s merchandising-animation tie-in more than...
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Joe Pace
Nov 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #326: Alfred Ludlow
I have mixed feelings about Legends of the Fall. It's a visually and musically sumptuous film (Horner's score is a go-to for writing...
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Joe Pace
Nov 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #325: Robinson Crusoe
Not a long profile today, as my mind is elsewhere. But recently I've found myself pondering the fundamental dichotomy of the human...
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Joe Pace
Nov 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #324: Ma Hon Keung
Unlike many, many of my friends, I've never been a martial arts aficionado. Kung Fu movies, Bruce Lee, ninjas, MMA, it's all fine, but...
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