Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #377: Jake Epping
Point One: Stephen King is often dismissed as a mediocre wordsmithing machine, cranking out modest midlevel fare, a sort of literary Bon...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 22, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #376: R2D2
By way of context, it's important to note that I was two when Star Wars was released in 1977. The first movie I really recall seeing at a...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 18, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #375: Kevin Pearson
This is Us is schmaltzy. It's treacly. It's saccharine mixed with honey poured over platitudes. It's a soap opera, an afterschool special...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 17, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #102: The Woman Behind the New Deal, the Life of Frances Perkins
When the ravages of the Great Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House in the election of 1932, it was not...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 13, 2019
Favorite Fictional Charatcers, #374: Eleanor Shellstrop
First things first: Kristen Bell's leading lady on The Good Place is a terrible human being. She's greedy, lazy, selfish, boozy,...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 3, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #373: Unus the Untouchable
Top-shelf supervillains like Loki, Thanos, and Magneto are awesome, but a lot of the fun in comics comes from the deep roster of...
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Joe Pace
- Jul 1, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #372: Commander Kelly Grayson
I've said it before: The Orville is the best Star Trek we've seen since the heyday of The Next Generation. Seth MacFarlane's passion...
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