Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #152: Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel, Binary, Warbird, Captain Marvel) is a fascinating study in the struggles that male comic creators have long...
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Joe Pace
- May 30, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #151: Hector
Homer's Iliad is an epic tragedy, the rich depiction of a Trojan War that is a total disaster for virtually everyone involved. The...
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Joe Pace
- May 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #150: Tevye
My favorite stage production is 1776, but those characters are based on real people, so don't qualify for inclusion here. Otherwise John...
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Joe Pace
- May 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #149: Hobbes
Let's face it - Calvin is kind of a punk. Bright, inventive, adventurous, but a punk all the same, in the way only a willful six-year old...
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Joe Pace
- May 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #148: Harry Burns
When Harry Met Sally...is very nearly a perfect film. It stars two performers at their respective peaks: Meg Ryan as adorably neurotic as...
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Joe Pace
- May 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #147: Admiral Percy Fitzwallace
We return to the West Wing, a show with a roster of characters so deep that as many as ten might show up on this list. One of my absolute...
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Joe Pace
- May 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #146: Maximus Decimus Meridius
Gladiator came along in 2000, when I was 25 years old and ripe for some fractured Roman history as a vehicle for a jacked-up, brooding...
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Joe Pace
- May 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #145: Edith Keeler
City on the Edge of Forever is without question the finest of the original Star Trek episodes, and rightfully has a place among the best...
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Joe Pace
- May 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #144: Taylor Worth
Worth Winning is a fairly run-of-the-mill 1989 romantic comedy with an improbably silly plot, and yet it's always been a guilty pleasure...
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Joe Pace
- May 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #143: Max
Where the Wild Things Are is such a colossal, iconic, cherished book that I hesitate to make any truly declarative observations about it....
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Joe Pace
- May 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #142: Thornton Melon
Rodney Dangerfield was masterful in Caddyshack, but I've always felt his magnum opus was Back to School. As self-made clothing tycoon...
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Joe Pace
- May 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #141: Mordecai Cadmus
Since it's my birthday, I'm highlighting one of my favorite characters from my own work. As much as my mind and heart are currently...
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