Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #366: Hope Worth
When I undertook this project a year ago, I really wasn't sure where it would take me. There were days it was a lot of fun and days it...
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Joe Pace
Dec 30, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #365: Bud Stamper
The last two entries of the year will include two intensely personal profiles, if I can be permitted the indulgence. This penultimate...
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Joe Pace
Dec 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #364: Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a tragic hero, pure and simple. His beginnings are steeped in the death of his father-figure uncle, a man whose oft-quoted...
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Joe Pace
Dec 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #363: Leia Organa
There's not much I can add to everything that's been written and said over the last twenty-four hours about Princess Leia/General Organa...
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Joe Pace
Dec 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #362: Molecule Man
The Molecule Man has been kicking around the Marvel Universe for a long time. Real name Owen Reece, he debuted in Fantastic Four #20, a...
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Joe Pace
Dec 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #361: Lt. Col. Henry Blake
M*A*S*H featured earlier on this list with the profile of Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce. And while Pierce may be my favorite, he's not the...
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Joe Pace
Dec 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #360: The Twelfth Day of Christmas: Santa Claus
It doesn't get any better than an avatar of giving and love, a jolly old soul who cherishes children and encourages goodness. Hey, maybe...
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Joe Pace
Dec 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #359: The Eleventh Day of Christmas: The Good Little Christmas Tree
In December of 2003, Sarah and I had been dating for about a year. She was midway through a six-month volunteer stint in New Zealand, and...
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Joe Pace
Dec 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #358: The Tenth Day of Christmas: Yukon Cornelius
We all know that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the most savage and hellish of the classic holiday specials, depicting a Hobbesian...
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Joe Pace
Dec 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #357: The Ninth Day of Christmas: The Grinch
I do enjoy a good supervillain, and The Grinch has to come in among the first rank for Christmas antagonists. He's cunning, twisted,...
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Joe Pace
Dec 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #356: The Eighth Day of Christmas: Herr Drosselmeyer
I've worn a lot of different hats during my four decades, but one of the more unusual among them was my stint as Executive Director of...
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Joe Pace
Dec 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #355: The Seventh Day of Christmas: Buddy Elf
Among the modern Christmas classics, it's hard not to include Elf in the first rank. It's engagingly and unapologetically silly, and...
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