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‘The Donald Trump of ancient Egypt’: Ramses II’s ego is on full display in new exhibition

An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow

The Guardian - UK

A Man on the Inside: Netflix comedy offers a timely defence of higher education

Season 2 of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside finds Charles Nieuwendyk, private investigator and retired engineering professor (played by Ted Danson), undercover at Wheeler College.

The Conversation

The Rule is Chaos: 9 Comic Characters Who Only Wanted Chaos for the World

Superheroes are heroic. Superheroes have moral codes. They are great role models. However, the most interesting thing about superheroes is their villains. The greatest superheroes are ultimately defined by the villains they face in battle. What is Batman without the Joker? What are the Avengers without Ultron? We live in…

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8 Villains Who Nearly Won — and Changed Their Universes Forever

Some of the best comic book stories are about the villains who nearly won. Watchmen is a 1986 event comic that is still just as important today. The villain in that comic, Ozymandias, won at the expense of the heroes and at a horrific cost. Alfred the Butler is still…

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'Welcome to Derry' Just Stole A Clever Trick From HBO's Watchmen

The 'It' prequel takes a brilliant page from another HBO adaptation, setting the stage for even more bloodshed in its finale.

Inverse

7 Comic Book Antiheroes Who Are More Interesting Than the Main Heroes

Comic book superheroes can sometimes be boring because publishers have a character status quo they strive to maintain. Creators change the status quo from time to time, but it always reverts back. Tony Stark is a womanizing tech genius. Steve Rogers is a flag-saluting super soldier. Peter Parker is a…

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7 Comic Book Villains Whose Stories Challenge Our Morals

The best comic book villains are the ones who don’t see themselves as villains. They set out to achieve goals that may have horrifying consequences for society. Still, they believe such actions are beneficial in the end – even if at the sacrifice of their own humanity. In their minds,…

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12 Unforgettable Comic Book Moments That Left Fans Speechless

For modern audiences, unforgettable comic book moments now happen in billion-dollar comic book films. Tony Stark’s death in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame or the three Spider-Men appearing in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home are just two examples of modern, unforgettable comic book moments.

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Peacemaker Season 2 - Everything you need to know about John Cena's bizarre and brutal DC anti-hero

The comic book version of John Cena's Peacemaker has a bizarre history both on and off the page and a surprising connection to Watchmen

GamesRadar

Where did it all go wrong? SNP to conduct post-mortem on election campaign

ON a cloudy day in June on the outskirts of Edinburgh, close to the airport, the SNP launched its election manifesto.

The National (Scotland)

From Doomsday to Doc Ock, the 25 best comic book supervillains of all time

Ranking the best comic book villains of all time

GamesRadar

Robert Evans wouldn't approve of the man playing him on TV. He would be wrong

Even in the cocaine-and-creativity-fueled orgiastic landscape of Hollywood in the 1960s and '70s, Robert Evans stood out.

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