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Favorite Fictional Characters, #373: Unus the Untouchable
Top-shelf supervillains like Loki, Thanos, and Magneto are awesome, but a lot of the fun in comics comes from the deep roster of...
Joe Pace
Jul 3, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #372: Commander Kelly Grayson
I've said it before: The Orville is the best Star Trek we've seen since the heyday of The Next Generation. Seth MacFarlane's passion...
Joe Pace
Jul 1, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #371: The Grouchy Ladybug
You can see all the brown bears and hear all the polar bears you want. You can feed that hungry caterpillar and stay busy with that...
Joe Pace
Jun 30, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #370: Dr. Abigail Bartlet
Part of what made The West Wing such great storytelling was the great characters that populated television's best show. And it wasn't...
Joe Pace
Jun 29, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #369: Thanos
For several years, the sole argument of any merit leveled by DC partisans against the juggernaut artistic and financial success of the...
Joe Pace
Jun 25, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #368: Nick Miller
Like everyone else, we watched The New Girl because Zooey Deschanel is quirky and funny and cute, the most improbably, awkwardly sexy...
Joe Pace
Jun 22, 2019
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #367: Eleven
I've been hearing for months and years that I need to watch Stranger Things. One of my (many) flaws is that the more I'm told to do...
Joe Pace
Jun 21, 2019
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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...
Joe Pace
Dec 31, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Dec 30, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Dec 29, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Dec 28, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Dec 27, 2016
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