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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 22, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 21, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 20, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 19, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 18, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 17, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 16, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 15, 2016
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Favorite Fictional Characters, #105: Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian's nautical adventure series is an exhausting, wonderful grind of literature. Meticulously researched, almost...
Joe Pace
Apr 14, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 13, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 12, 2016
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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...
Joe Pace
Apr 11, 2016
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