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Podcasts are a great way to catch up on all your favorite topics. But what if fictional characters were allowed to host? Here are 5 literary characters that should have their own podcast.

Comic books are full of men and women with powers that defy physics and logic. And such powers must surely extend to their hair, or how else do they manage to maintain their impeccable locks while fighting crime? 

Let’s set the facts straight—books don’t exist without an inciting incident. Everything after the inciting incident is the story. Everything before is backstory. It’s the spark that gets the plot rolling. But what would have happened to these characters if nothing had ever changed? Read on to discover the disastrous (and for some, preferable) results.

We hear all the time about the special bond men have with their dogs, but what about men and their cats? With Keanu set to premiere this Friday, we're excited to watch Key and Peele attempt to rescue their pet cat from a local gang. And it seems that in general, men will do almost anything for their feline friends—here are some other famous examples:

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A new week calls for a new bunch of the finest bookish, geeky, and crafty links available. This week, take a sneak peek at the Doctor’s new companion and the Power Rangers’ new villain. So sit back, relax, and discover something excellent.

The tradition of playing harmless tricks on friends and neighbors goes back hundreds of years, and has been mentioned in literature as far back as 1392 in Chaucer’s ‘Nun’s Priest’s Tale’. Many famous authors have taken their pranking off the page and into real life, as well. Virginia Woolfe participated in the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910, posing with friends as Abyssinian royals. Even the dour Edgar Allen Poe perpetrated a series of scientific hoaxes in the 1840s, including a fictional balloon trip!

From Shakespeare to Harry Potter, here are eight of the best tricksters in literature.