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Dozens gather downtown to protest Atlanta spa shootings, anti-Asian sentiments
By Liberty Stalnaker @DailyLobo Early evening on March 28, around 40 protestors, organizers and speakers gathered in downtown Albuquerque near the Bernalillo County Courthouse. Standing beneath the “View From Gold Mountain,” a large sculpture commemorating a landmark case in Chinese-American civil rights history, they came together to decry the recent string of murders in the Atlanta area. On March 16, six women of Asian descent were killed in multiple shooting sprees, carried out by a single white male at Atlanta spas and massage parlors. Though the suspect told police he was motivated by an addiction to sex, the shootings were nonetheless denounced as anti-Asian and misogynistic hate crimes. Such was the topic of several speakers at the protest, who also condemned an uptick in anti-Asian language and violence occurring since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In between chants, speakers rallied protestors in
decrying forces of white supremacy, misogyny and capitalism. The protest was one of many nationwide protests organized by the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition. Other organizers and sponsors included the UNM Chinese Students and Scholars Association, the UNM Asian American Students Association and Stop the War Machine, an Albuquerque-based anti-war group. Also in attendance, loaning signs bearing rallying cries such as “U.S. Gov’t & Media: Stop China-Bashing,” was Albuquerque’s local Party for Socialism and Liberation chapter. Beginning around 5 p.m., the rally remained largely stationary at the corner of Lomas Boulevard and Fifth Street, garnering car horn blares and shouts of approval from nearby traffic, before slowly beginning to dissipate after a little over an hour. Liberty Stalnaker is a beat reporter and staff photographer at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @DailyLobo
LEFT: A bystander speaks to the crowd during Saturday’s protest. UPPER RIGHT: A protestor displays a sign condemning racist violence at the “Stop Anti-Asian Racism Now!” rally in Albuquerque on March 27, 2021. LOWER RIGHT: An organizer speaks at the “Stop Anti-Asian Racism Now!” rally held near the “View From Gold Mountain” statue in Albuquerque.
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Maxwell Museum sees virtual boost in attendance with new online exhibits By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, located at the University of New Mexico, has seen a boost in attendance after switching to a solely online presence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three new virtual exhibits have been drawing in visitors: “COVID-19: Concepts of Sickness and Wellness,” “Iconoclasm: Questions of Veneration, Destruction, and Power” and “What We Do at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Part I: Curator Dr. Carmen Mosley.” Carla Sinopoli, the director of the Maxwell Museum, said the COVID-19 exhibit was the biggest and most ambitious one. The exhibit explores the history of how humans deal with pandemics, with themes of sickness, wellness and healing. Sinopoli said the idea was to “create an exhibit that would grow throughout the pandemic, that would really look at how people in other times and places confronted pandemics including, at the time, when Europeans first came to North America and introduced dis-
eases (and) kind of decimated Native populations, or had germanic effects on Native populations.” An addition to the exhibit called “Your Story” invites the public to write about their experiences during the pandemic and submit them to the museum for possible publication. “Part of this is to both to provide people with information and context but also for us as a museum to be able to help curate the history of the pandemic,” Sinopoli said. The Iconoclasm exhibit explores the destruction of icons and monuments, and is actually an exhibit
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the museum displayed about three years ago, Sinopoli said, but was renewed in light of George Floyd’s murder and the toppling of racist monuments around the world. “We took what we had done in the physical exhibit, added new content and created a very simple online exhibit,” Sinopoli said. Sinopoli said the final online exhibit is a panel-type feature that shows the work that goes on behind the scenes with Carmen Mosley, the curator of human osteology. According to Sinopoli, two more online exhibits are on the horizon.
These will be put together by students of Devorah Romanek, curator of exhibits, from a recent class she taught at UNM on how to prepare online exhibits. UNM President Garnett Stokes, in her Weekly Perspective newsletter from March 22, reported a 478% increase in visitors after “the team at Maxwell expanded many of its programs to virtual spaces.” Another goal that the Maxwell Museum wants to pursue, according to Sinopoli, is to strengthen its relationship with New Mexico’s
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tribes and communities, since many of its exhibitions have Native American collections. The museum is already involved in repatriation of tribal remains. “We want that to be a collaborative process that presents the voices of Indigenous people as opposed to academics alone, espousing on the lives of other people,” Sinopoli said. Last spring, the museum was awarded funds from the Frank C. Hibben Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to pay for K-12 Maxwell field trip bus fees, according to Sinopoli. However, since in-person operations ceased at the start of the pandemic, the museum created two virtual field trips instead — “one focused on human evolution and the ancestors exhibition, the other on the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest and the People of the Southwest exhibition,” according to the museum’s Fall 2020 issue. “We could actually take the students into the collections, into the labs of anthropologists and archeologists, and really get them behind the scenes in ways we can’t do physically at the museum,” Sinopoli said. “And because it’s online, it can be seen all over the state of New Mexico and all over the world.”
Maxwell was also notified this month that it had been re-accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Sinopoli said this required a rigorous two-day review to ensure that all of the museum’s policies and exhibits are cared for to the best of the staff’s ability, ranging from climate control to square footage. “As the museum field’s mark of distinction since 1971, accreditation offers high profile, peer-based validation of your museum’s operations and impact,” the AAM website reads. “Accreditation increases your museum’s credibility and value to funders, policy makers, insurers, community and peers. Accreditation is a powerful tool to leverage change and helps facilitate loans between institutions.” The UNM Newsroom reported that Maxwell received its first accreditation in 1973 and was renewed in 1984, 1997 and 2006. The AAM states that the accreditation process takes eight to 16 months to complete, and that the accreditation should be renewed every ten years. Looking to the future, Sinopoli said all museums are in the same boat as they wait to see what attendance will be like after the
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An exhibit of an archeological expedition from Chaco Canyon, located in the People of the Southwest exhibition at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Photo courtesy of the museum.
pandemic and when people will feel safe to be in crowds again. Sinopoli said the best case scenario is that the museum will be able to reopen in June, but Maxwell intends to continue abiding by state and University safety standards first to ensure the wellbeing
of the public and its staff. “When museums started doing stuff online, 20 years ago or whenever it was, there was a fear that visitors would stop coming because they could see things online and what we found is, in fact, the opposite is the case,” Sinopoli said.
“People see things online then they really want to come in and see the real thing. So that’s our hope.” Megan Gleason is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716
NM nuclear fallout victims await federal compensation By Nikita Jaiswal @NikitaJswl Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when she experienced what many people believed was the end of the world. At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, a
plutonium based bomb detonated at the southern New Mexico Trinity test site, radiating more heat and light than the sun. The resulting fireball shot up more than seven miles high, and radioactive ash rained down for miles across the soil, water, animals and people.
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“We never knew what was happening,” Gutierrez said. “When my doctor asked me if I had been exposed to radiation, I had no clue.” The repercussions of the radiation from the bomb were covered up, and it wasn’t until late in Gutierrez’s life that she realized what her family had been exposed to. Gutierrez’s family has been ravaged by complications from radiation exposure. Both Gutierrez and her brother have had thyroid cancer, her mother had three types of cancer, another brother had prostate cancer, her sister had three recurrences of cancer and her niece passed away at 20 from cancer. “We don’t wonder if we are going to get cancer,” Gutierrez said. “We wonder when.” There were an estimated 40,000 people within a 50 mile radius of the testing site, with some as close as 12 miles. With few sources of running water, radioactive fallout heavily contaminated the still drinking water. Additionally, most villages had no grocery stories, so all of the local meat, dairy, and harvest consumed were also contaminated. In the months following the
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detonation of the plutonium bomb, there was a significant increase in infant mortality rates. “I have three kids. Two of them have been affected. One didn’t make it.“ Gutierrez said, struggling to speak. “I worry about my grandkids … there is no limit.” Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said that downwinders spend everything they have to get treatment. With no nearby treatment facilities, costs include not just the treatments themselves, but also travel, lodging, food and time away from work. “Some people have told me they wished they could die so they wouldn’t be a financial burden to their families any longer,” Cordova said. In a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee on March 24, Cordova said, “Our ultimate goal is for the United States Congress to understand the sacrifice and suffering of their fellow Americans and extend health care coverage and compensation to the people of New Mexico and other downwinders through amendments to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).” RECA was established in 1990 by the federal government to ex-
tend compensation and medical care to downwinders in the proximity of the Nevada Testing Site, another nuclear test site that caused harmful radiation exposure, but coverage for affected New Mexicans wasn’t included. “It is infuriating that the government has refused to acknowledge what happened and take care of their own people,” Gutierrez said. “They knew ahead of time that it was going to produce radioactive fallout, but they still detonated the bomb without concern for human health.” Cordova said that if the health care coverage extended to the people of New Mexico, it could save lives and reduce their financial burden. Time is ticking down, though — RECA sunsets in 2022, so the amendment and extension would need to happen quickly. “I feel like it finally has momentum now and it is finally going to happen,” Cordova said. “All we have left to do is hope,” Gutierrez said. Nikita Jaiswal is a freelance reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @NikitaJswl
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CAPS sees increase in virtual tutoring during pandemic By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716
The Center for Academic Program Support (CAPS) at the University of New Mexico, which has been operating mostly online for over a year, has seen a drastic increase in virtual tutoring visits from last year. CAPS is a learning assistance center where students can get help with UNM coursework, with resources including drop-in tutoring, individual appointments, workshops, conversation groups, supplemental instruction (SI), online learning and faculty office hours. “(We have) lots of different (services), so we really do have something for everyone,” Megan Rivera, a student manager for the SI team, said. CAPS data analyst Elizabeth Kerl reported that CAPS had just under 15,000 visits from Jan. 19 to March 12 this year, a 77% increase in visits compared to similar dates last year. This figure takes into account both online and in-person visits with the focus of drop-ins, the online learning center (OLC), appointments with designated subjects, the writing workshop, the online writing lab (OWL), the conversation group, learning strategies, SI and online learning assistants (OLA). “The same students who use our
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2015: Tia Reid, a CAPS tutor, helps a student at the algebra and pre calculus table on the second floor of Zimmerman Library. CAPS tutors are found at different locations on campus through out the week depending on time and subject matter.
services continue to use them, so we’re seeing consistency across individual students using our services,” Rivera said. Rivera said the OWL has been especially successful and has seen an increase in papers being sent in to be edited during the pandemic. Kerl said students prefer writing assistance in an asynchronous environment, as it is through the OWL, rather than engaging with a tutor through the OLC. As a result, there was an 83% increase in OWL visits and a 74% decrease
in OLC visits. The OLC has also suffered from a lack of students being able to physically drop in for tutoring, which was common at Zimmerman library. The decision to go online was made last spring, when President Garnett Stokes announced that the University would remain virtual after spring break “We’re definitely fully open, it just looks a little different,” Rivera said, commenting on the online structure. “It’s definitely weird when you go into the li-
brary and all the tables are turned upside down.” The Graduate Resource Center has also seen an increase in students and visits, according to Kerl. “Graduate students really prefer the online format,” Kerl wrote in an email to the Daily Lobo. “We have seen a considerable increase since moving online and intend to keep many services available to students in an online format, even once services are moved back to in-person.” However, Kerl said many in-
structors are not taking advantage of the online CAPS resources and are not requiring students to visit the center like they used to. This has resulted in lower attendance for the language program and learning strategies. “We used to see students come for a single visit because it was required but keep coming back week after week because they enjoyed the sessions … We have some wonderful language tutors, and they aren't getting to share their enthusiasm with student users,” Kerl wrote. Virtual services are more accessible for a broader range of students, including non-traditional students or students that work multiple jobs, Rivera said. “That’s one of the good things about online tutoring, right, is that you don’t have to be physically on campus to attend these sessions,” Rivera said. Overall, Rivera emphasized that CAPS is there to support students. “We are hoping that next semester in the fall we can take what has worked from going online and keep that,” Rivera said. Megan Gleason is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716
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UNM grad workers pushed to their limit while undergrads suffer Two years after faculty unionization, UNM has yet to bargain a fair contract and has stalled recognition for the graduate union. UNM says that we are primarily students, not workers. However, many of us teach courses that tenured faculty teach at other institutions, often the same course-load per semester. If the school saves money this way, our loss of irreplaceable faculty and grad workers every year detracts from the overhead. Faulty attrition in the midst of hiring freezes adds more labor for grad workers, simultaneously undermining our studies. Many Ph.D students have been forced to change research paths multiple times as faculty leave.
Faculty and graduate worker struggles are linked, and both negatively affect undergraduate success. TA’s are often undercutting our future careers as we perform our required workloads. We are presented with the unethical choice between better pedagogy and helping students flourish in their first semesters, or getting published, applying for humane funding, meeting coursework requirements, conferencing and advancing our careers in fields increasingly less likely to hire us without those time consuming publications. Some advise “prioritizing research over teaching,” but this becomes an ethical dilemma as 50+ students need vital writing and professional skills.
UNM’s worker exploitation is notoriously problematic — before we organized a union, two people at two different conferences said “I’m sorry” when they saw I was from UNM. At our peer institutions, students take course releases during important times in their schooling, perform research and teach one course a semester for the same pay. I don’t see “students” when I look around at all of my professionalized colleagues; I see “instructors” honing their craft, collaborating to better support their students and performing administrative tasks, often becoming sick and sleep deprived for years of shoving 60-80 hours of reading, grading, class prep, departmental
service and coursework into each week. Most of us take on editing, grading and research jobs to supplement income. I hear frequently from authority figures that we are overworked, and yet where is the change from that insight? Our stipends are not enough to sustain us or help us focus on our studies. The summers are generally filled with anxiety and multiple side gigs to pay rent, not catching up on research, publication and coursework. I am sharing this because I love UNM. It is frustrating to see our school tarnishing its reputation while denying its workers conditions that would actually improve the culture, notoriety and overall outcomes for graduates and un-
dergraduates. It is condescending and inaccurate for UNM to pretend that we are “only” students, especially when we do much of the teaching and research work here. It is frustrating to see bargaining with faculty delayed when we have so many faculty leaving for better positions. I love my students and know that they deserve better learning conditions. Regents and administrators need to recognize the workers whose crucial contributions make this university run. Without faculty, adjunct, staff and grad worker labor contributions, they wouldn’t have tuition dollars or their large paychecks. Emma Mincks
Oregon State University has a grad worker union, and UNM should too I am writing from Oregon State University, where our 1,800 graduate researchers and teaching assistants collectively formed a union 20 years ago. Our union, Coalition of Graduate Employees, has tirelessly fought for our basic living conditions year after year against an administration dead set on paying us as little as possible and with little accountability. Through hard work we now have
incredible healthcare, protections for international students and LGBTQ+ workers, tuition remission and a livable wage. It has taken us 20 years to get to where we are now but it really changes lives. Graduate employees are parents, family members and loved ones, and we deserve to be treated fairly. Although administrations fight us, we continue to push forth, and will always show up for our peers.
It is revolting to see UNM administration putting their money towards stripping graduate employees of their right to form a union. Union busting is antithetical to equity, justice and inclusion. Does UNM want to be a best-inclass university? Do you stand for values of fairness and a safe community? Recognize the United Graduate Workers. At the end of the day you have to look at your
morals, ethics and whether you are doing good in the world. Right now, UNM administrators making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year are running a dishonest campaign which will hurt vulnerable workers the most. Do the right thing. Recognize the union. Give them a fantastic first contract. To the faculty and students: please support UNM United Graduate Workers. Hundreds of
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‘The Vault’ opens new doors for horror movie director Jaume Balagueró By Daniel Ward @wordsofward34
Released Friday, March 26, “The Vault” is an action packed bank heist thriller expected to catch the interest of people from all over the world. With such a wide variety of bank heist movies, it’s hard to find one that actually stands out, but “The Vault” is a healthy combination of intellectual strategy and suspenseful close calls that keep the audience at the edge of their seat. Directed by Jaume Balagueró, “The Vault” has a wide range of talented actors including Freddie Highmore and “Game of Thrones” actor Liam Cunningham.
The story revolves around a team of modern day pirates who’ve been after a legendary treasure for years. When they find out it will be held at the Bank of Spain for just 10 days, the leader, Walter Moreland (Cunningham), recruits a brilliant engineering graduate student, Thom Laybrick (Highmore), to help them break into the world's most secure vault. To make things interesting, the vault doesn’t have any blueprints to reference and the team only has 105 minutes to complete the job while the guards are distracted by the highly anticipated 2010 World Cup between the Netherlands and Spain. While some parts of the movie were slow and drawn out, once the team went
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undercover to get into the bank the rest of the film was full of suspense as they came close to getting caught multiple times. While Highmore was clearly typecast as the smart nerd after his lead role in “The Good Doctor,” his character in “The Vault” is gutsy and willing to sacrifice everything for his team. Aside from rejecting a few top-grade job offers that didn’t interest him, the movie doesn’t really elaborate on Thom’s motivation to commit to this a risky endeavour. For being such a smart character, he's also quick to trust a team of thieves he just met, despite the rest of the group immediately doubting his capability. “The producers came to me
with the script and I immediately fell in love,” Balagueró said. “I found it very exciting — the way it mixes a heist plot with the ambience and the intrigue of the South Africa soccer World Cup. In a way, I perceived the story as a modern classic pirate story: action, adventure and suspense, all mixed with sport and passion.” Despite Balagueró’s wonderful job directing this film, it’s a surprising change of pace from his usual genres. Balagueró is most commonly known for horror films like “REC” and “The Pact,” but he also has experience with some comedies and documentaries. While he’s directed films that contain the elements of an action-thriller movie,
“The Vault” is unlike anything Balagueró has made before, and this new style suits him well. When compared to other intellectually strategic heist movies, “The Vault” is a solid 7/10 for its unique storyline and implementation of the World Cup, giving the characters a small window of time to pull off such a complex task. The action scenes are no match to movies like “Baby Driver,” but the tension throughout boosts its quality as an invigorating thriller that anyone can enjoy. Daniel Ward is a senior reporter at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @wordsofward34
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The Daily Lobo is currently participating in the inaugural year of the fundraising competition College Media Madness, hosted by the Daily Orange, the independent student newspaper at Syracuse University. “In an effort to try to capture the competitive spirit of March Madness, we thought, ‘Well, what if we made it some sort of challenge with other student newsrooms?’” Haley Robertson, the fundraising coordinator for the Daily Orange, said. The money raised for the Lobo will be put into the University of New Mexico Foundation’s Jim
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ations comes from both student fees and ad revenue, but Alex McCausland, the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Lobo, said the Lobo is still struggling, and any money raised through College Media Madness makes a difference. “All the money that we get from any kind of fundraising effort really goes a long way,” McCausland said. “We've been chronically underfunded for a while now. We could use all the money we can get.” Ad revenue, which makes up 80% of the funding for the Lobo, has also been on the decline amidst the ongoing pandemic. Many local businesses who used to advertise in the paper have been struggling financially or have closed. “It's just been super, super dif-
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work and are a great source of hyper-local coverage in their communities, but they're also the training grounds for the next generation of journalists.” For the Daily Lobo, it means keeping alive a perspective that isn’t always provided by local news outlets. McCausland referenced the Lobo’s coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer as a key example. “We offered, in my opinion, an essential counterbalance to the perspectives that were presented by other local media organizations, like KOB and the Albuquerque Journal,” McCausland said. “We made a really strong effort to try to represent things accurately and give an equal weight to protesters' voices. If we didn't have the money to stay around, that just wouldn't exist.” Currently the Daily Lobo stands at 15th place in the competition with just over $1,000 raised. Those interested in donating to help fund the Daily Lobo can visit the College Media Madness website for more information. Madeline Pukite is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @madelinepukite
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Following the theatrical release of “Justice League” in 2017, the movie was met with mixed reviews as well as fan backlash over the extensive reshoots that seemed to greatly alter Zack Snyder’s original vision for the film. After years of rumors and rumblings of a reported director’s cut, we now have the apparent definitive version of the DC film: “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” The film opens with a very Snyder-esque slow motion shot of Superman being killed by Doomsday, an event which took place at the end of Snyder’s previous film, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” We follow Superman’s dying scream to different locations, all of
which introduce us to the characters we can expect to see in the film. It’s a much more dramatic and grand opening compared to the original, which could be said of the entirety of the movie. The next scene follows Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne as he travels to Iceland to recruit Aquaman because, “an attack is coming.” Jason Momoa is still the perfect Aquaman, but is far less comical than the version presented in the “Aquaman” solo film. This would be a good time to mention that the film is presented in the 4:3 Academy aspect ratio, which is atypical for a superhero film. It certainly helps this version of “Justice League” stand out from its theatrical counterpart and makes the camera work shine. We are then introduced to Superman’s mother, Martha, whose house has been foreclosed on following Superman’s death. This storyline should have been
one element left out of Snyder’s epic, as it ultimately only serves to introduce us to Martian Manhunter. Unfortunately, Manhunter is a little too much CGI and not enough makeup, which makes his very few moments on screen somewhat lackluster. We then move to Amy Adams’ Lois Lane who, again, fulfills another disappointing and seemingly unnecessary storyline. She does play a larger role later in the film than Superman’s mother, however. The addition of deleted scenes is both the savior and downfall of “Zach Snyder’s Justice League.” It gives us some half-hearted plot lines, but also allows for bigger players like Cyborg and Flash, played brilliantly by Ray Fisher and Ezra Miller respectively, to be introduced to the viewer in a way that doesn’t feel forced. Following Lane’s brief trip to the Superman memorial in Metropolis, we are reintroduced
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to Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman who, alongside Cyborg and Flash, benefits immensely from this new cut. She is frequently the centerpiece in many of the action sequences in the film, often far outshining her male superhero counterparts. One key issue with both “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” and the theatrical version is the villain, Steppenwolf. While they did alter his design, he still is just an uninteresting, generic, grey man who’s too much CGI and not enough motivation. Even with the inclusion of Jared Leto’s Joker, Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor and DC’s very own Thanos and Darkseid, there is still no compelling bad guy. Perhaps one advantage to having a boring villain is that your heroes stand out even more, and stand out they most certainly do. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Flash and Aquaman each have their time
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