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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...

Joe Pace
May 19, 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...

Joe Pace
May 18, 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...

Joe Pace
May 17, 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...

Joe Pace
May 16, 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...

Joe Pace
May 15, 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...

Joe Pace
May 14, 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...

Joe Pace
May 13, 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...

Joe Pace
May 12, 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...

Joe Pace
May 11, 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...

Joe Pace
May 10, 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...

Joe Pace
May 9, 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...

Joe Pace
May 8, 2016
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