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Joe Pace
Apr 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #113: Kingpin
If you haven't watched the first two seasons of Daredevil on Netflix, do yourself a favor, block off 24 hours in the near future and get...
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Joe Pace
Apr 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #112: Jamie Buchman
I'll admit it: I enjoyed Mad About You. Sure, it's fairly standard sitcom fare, and its depiction of complex affection between a young...
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Joe Pace
Apr 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #111: Jules Winnfield
I'm honestly not sure which came first, Samuel L. Jackson or Jules Winnfield. The actor and character are so virtually indistinguishable...
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Joe Pace
Apr 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #110: Starscream
Yeah, I was a big Transformers guy back in the mid-1980s. The original toy line and the cartoon culminating in the groundbreaking 1986...
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Joe Pace
Apr 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #109: Hank Morgan
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...
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Joe Pace
Apr 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #108: Matt Foley
"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...
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Joe Pace
Apr 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #107: Hermes
As a youngster, I adored Greek mythology, devouring whatever versions I could get my hands on, including Barbara Picard's wonderful...
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Joe Pace
Apr 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #106: Astrid Hofferson
Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon films are excellent. The animation, the storytelling, the score, it all works. The only minor flaw...
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Joe Pace
Apr 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #105: Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian's nautical adventure series is an exhausting, wonderful grind of literature. Meticulously researched, almost...
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Joe Pace
Apr 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #104: Woodstock
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...
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Joe Pace
Apr 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #103: Magneto
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...
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Joe Pace
Apr 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #102: Leo McGarry
If President Josiah Bartlet was the beating heart of The West Wing, then Leo McGarry was its weary conscience. Here was a man of...
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