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Who's your favorite anti-hero?

Fritz the Cat

Posted - February 19, 2017

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  • I loved Fritz the cat! I have to agree with you Glis. He was super cool!
      February 19, 2017 9:03 AM MST
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  •   February 19, 2017 9:11 AM MST
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  • I'm a huge fan of Robert Crumb and underground comix in general.
    Not by Crumb but did you ever get into The Fabulous Fury Freak Brothers?
      February 19, 2017 9:12 AM MST
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  • Yep! Robert Crumb made some good stuff.
      February 19, 2017 9:16 AM MST
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  • I had no idea about this! Thanks man.
    Free-wheelin' Freddy was my dude.
      February 19, 2017 9:22 AM MST
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  • 44175
    Snidely Whiplash.
      February 19, 2017 9:38 AM MST
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  • Rocky and Bullwinkle was one cartoon I could never get into. As a kid or as an adult I never got the draw.

      February 19, 2017 1:19 PM MST
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  • 44175
    That was Boris Badinov.
      February 21, 2017 8:56 AM MST
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  • 6126
    American Splendor/Harvey Pekor.





      February 19, 2017 9:52 AM MST
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  • True classic.  The movie was really good too.
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 19, 2017 1:13 PM MST
      February 19, 2017 10:01 AM MST
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  • 6126
    Yeah, I really like the movie too.

    Now, if you are talking anti-hero of just the written word, my response is Bukowski.


    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness” 
    -Factotum


    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” 
    ― Barfly
      February 19, 2017 10:22 AM MST
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  • I can relate.


    You ever seen any of the videos made by the real Toby?
      February 19, 2017 10:33 AM MST
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  • 6126
    Of course! :-)  Judah Friedlander nailed him in the movie!




      February 19, 2017 11:56 AM MST
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  • Yeah he did.
      February 19, 2017 12:09 PM MST
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  •   February 19, 2017 10:23 AM MST
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  • When did Spiderman start using guns?
      February 19, 2017 12:10 PM MST
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  • Lol, that's not Spiderman. That's Deadpool. He's not as popular as Spiderman but his new movie is rather interesting.
      February 19, 2017 12:15 PM MST
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  • I couldn't help myself.
      February 19, 2017 1:17 PM MST
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  • 22853
    Two came to my mind first after thinking a bit ~ 

    "Steve"
    ~perfectly played by actor Ty Burrell in Zack Snyder's remake movie of "Dawn of the Dead"
     ~ kick a** movie and "Steve"/Burrell is incredible.

    and literally ALL the characters in Shirley Jackson's novel "The Sundial"
     ~ a mind-blowing, what-is-this, really? type of book. Best of all, it's not an overly long book. And all of the characters possess little, or any, redeeming qualities, and they are pretty unlikable --  which makes me like them somehow.
    :)
    (No plot spoiler, really, but a group of people, some related to each other, some not, are waiting for the end of the world to come. They have supposedly been told in a vision given to one of the characters that they'd be safe in the house once The End came.)

      February 19, 2017 1:26 PM MST
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  • 6126
    Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors.  Great writer & great choice of story!


    This post was edited by Harry at February 19, 2017 2:00 PM MST
      February 19, 2017 1:56 PM MST
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  • 22853
    Thanks, Harry, I like her, too!
    She might be my very favorite author. At least, she's way up there for me with Flannery O'Connor and Franz Kafka.
    :)
    "The Sundial" might be my favorite book of her but it's difficult for me to choose when it comes to Jackson.
      February 19, 2017 2:02 PM MST
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  • 6126
    I like O'Connor & Kafka too!  

    The Lottery holds a special place in my heart because it was the first story of hers that I read and led me to her others.
      February 19, 2017 2:12 PM MST
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  • 22853
    That was the first one I read of hers, too.
    Maybe you already know, but according to some biographies I've read about her, Jackson received a LOT of hostility about that story. 
    And people kept asking her what she meant by the story - - did it actually happen? why did she write it? Etc.
    No surprise,  Jackson basically just kept saying "I wrote a story. Take it or leave it." She gave no deep explanations for the story, I guess.

    I paraphrased a lot just there.
    :)

    (For me, "The Lottery" slapped the hell out of me in the ending, final moments. I wasn't expecting the ending, though the story does seem to indicate that it really should be no surprise. Some of my friends who hadn't read it figured out the basic plot of the story right from the start.)
      February 19, 2017 2:48 PM MST
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