Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #140: Nightcrawler
When Marvel resurrected the X-Men in 1975, they moved from the concept of teenage students to older, more seasoned mutants from around...
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Joe Pace
- May 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #139: Barbarella
Let's not mince words - Barbarella is some weird, funky stuff. It's very much a product of its time, a sexploitation classic from the...
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Joe Pace
- May 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #138: Ferris Bueller
Ferris Bueller shouldn't be anyone's hero. He's a borderline sociopath, using everything and everyone for his own purposes with express...
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Joe Pace
- May 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #137: Hamlet
Hamlet is one of the great works in English literature for many reasons, but among them is the fact that it can serve as a bit of a...
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Joe Pace
- May 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #136: Arya Stark
For a a family with such proudly self-proclaimed hardiness, House Stark doesn't demonstrate much staying power. I'd be wary of spoilers...
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Joe Pace
- May 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #135: Dr. Emmett Brown
Talking about Rufus the other day reminded me of another of my favorite time travelers, the addled genius Doc Brown from the Back to the...
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Joe Pace
- May 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #134: Peter Gibbons
Office Space is a blisteringly accurate hit job on the soul-sucking nature of the workplace in modern America. As the saying goes, it's...
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Joe Pace
- May 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #133: Rufus
Greetings, my excellent friends. You know, for a 1989 fluff piece, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure holds up. Not only is it the...
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Joe Pace
- May 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #132: Aughra
The Dark Crystal is a trippy visit to the darker and more epic places in the souls of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, and anyone who watched it...
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Joe Pace
- May 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #131: The Terminator (T-800 Model 101)
I've only ever seen the original Terminator movie and the blockbusting sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. My understanding is that the...
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Joe Pace
- May 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #130: Fritti Tailchaser
Tad Williams is a well-known fantasy author, but my favorite of his catalogue is his first novel, the strange, complex cat story...
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Joe Pace
- May 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #129: Molly Weasley
For Mother's Day, I thought long and hard about which fictional mother I would consider my favorite. There are certainly a lot of...
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