A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court might be Mark Twain's master work. It's a deeply subversive black comedy, lampooning in equal...

"How is everybody? Good. Great. Well now, I've been down in the basement drinking coffee for the last four hours, and I'm tired of...

As a youngster, I adored Greek mythology, devouring whatever versions I could get my hands on, including Barbara Picard's wonderful...

Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon films are excellent. The animation, the storytelling, the score, it all works. The only minor flaw...

Patrick O'Brian's nautical adventure series is an exhausting, wonderful grind of literature. Meticulously researched, almost...

Woodstock isn't a very complex or layered bird. He's a lousy flier and a loyal friend, willing to tackle typewriters or footballs or...

I came to comics in the early-to-mid 1980s, just as the great Claremont-Byrne run on The X-Men was wrapping up. That was my foundational...

If President Josiah Bartlet was the beating heart of The West Wing, then Leo McGarry was its weary conscience. Here was a man of...

While on the topic of rogues, I give you David Addison of Moonlighting. Lest we forget, before his transformation into a jacked-up action...

In celebration of 100 entries on this list, a selection that proves it's just a list, and not a ranking. Han Solo is a top ten contender...

The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne by Brian Scott Staveley succeed at an inordinately difficult task: creating an entirely new...

As we leave Florida, it's time to pivot from Disney characters and acknowledge something else that happened this past week - Opening Day!...