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Karl Johnson
@karlpjohnson.bsky.social
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Shetlander in Edinburgh, Sociology lecturer, Gaada advisory board, comic & sci-fi fan, parent and dog butler.
Wrote The Loki Variations📗 https://www.404ink.com/store/p/inklings-the-loki-variations.
He/Him. Views are mine and Morag's🐶
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Morag🐶 on the train to work Timeline Cleanse
Close up of a black and white spaniel face on a Scotrail train. Her owner's presence is almost entirely obscured.
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Calling it a 'Super' University doesn't necessarily mean it's heroic.
A scene from the animated film 'The Incredibles" where a supervillian says "And when everyone's super, no one will be".
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The Routledge Companion to #SuperheroStudies 🦸, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Carl Wilson, now has a cover & is due out at the end of October!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Includes a chapter by me on depiction of Marvel's #Loki as queer antihero. Really keen to get into more #ComicStudies
Front cover of forthcoming book The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies. The top and bottom of the cover are red and there are a selection of generic superhero masks on a white framing background.
July 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Huge thanks also to Heather & Laura for including me as a small part of their incredible endeavour. I've still got all the issues of the magazine from the early days.
I'm immensely grateful to @404ink.bsky.social for letting me write The Loki Variations💚🤘📗, & it remains a source of personal pride.
A Funko Pop figure of Loki from the Marvel movies mainly coloured gold, green and black, standing next to a green book. The green book has a yellow and orange horned helmet design on the cover. The book is called 'The Loki Variations: The Man, The Myth, The Mischief' written by Karl Johnson and published by 404 Ink.
July 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The Many Moods of Morag🐶
My black and white cockapoo, Morag, asleep on a grey sofa and using two yellow cushions as pillows. She is a good girl. My black and white cockapoo, Morag, asleep on the lawn in the sunshine. She is a good girl.
May 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Morag🐶 catching up on recent events and wondering why humans are the ones in charge:
A fluffy black and white cockapoo dog wearing a purple harness, sitting in woodland with a focused yet demoralised expression on her face. She is a good dog.
May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Are the media & culture dept. moving into conceptualism?
A bright red bucket in the middle of the floor of a completely nondescript workplace corridor.
April 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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In the latest instance of my only being productive when working at night, the back catalogue of @qotsa-official.bsky.social is particularly helpful and nostalgic.
The distinctive blue album cover to the Queens of the Stone Age's second album entitled 'Rated R'.
April 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Rebel Princess Morag🐶 is now 7, and still my good lass.
A black and white cockapoo sitting majestically atop a Spring hillside. She is a very good girl.
March 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Glasgow Science Centre says listen to AL
A picture of a brain scan, with a quote from Albert Einstein. The quote reads: "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
March 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Comic-style newspaper front page for the fictional Marvel comics newspaper 'The Daily Bugle'. The headline reads: "Everything Awful: Oh God Somebody Do Something".
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Much-anticipated @al-ewing.bsky.social x-men #Krakoa omni just announced by Omar for November, so fingers-crossed for a @kierongillen.bsky.social one soon, too...?
A screenshot from the Youtube channel 'Near Mint Condition', announcing the forthcoming publication of an Al Ewing X-Men comic omnibus.
March 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Most days I stop and think - I wish #JackKirby was still with us; creating fantastic worlds, believing in humanity, and taking out Nazis.
A cartoon image of a male comic book artist drawing at his easel and smoking a cigar, while the various Marvel comic characters he originally designed emerge from the paper he is drawing on. These characters include Spider-Man, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Captain America, and more. A black and white photograph of Jack Kirby when he was a soldier in the United States Army during World War Two.
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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May your weekend be as safe and content as Morag🐶 and her pal after their run around the grounds of Newbattle Abbey College.
A chocolate Labrador and a black and white Cockapoo sleeping in the back of a car after their walk. Their paws are gently touching. They are very good dogs.
March 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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A beautiful black and white fluffy dog sticks her tongue out while sitting in a human chair. She is a good girl and wants you to know that everything is going to be alright.
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Morag🐶 and I have left the Dark Place and arrived here looking to keep things simpler, more purposeful, and less Nazi.
Man and his dog sitting on a rocky beach, looking out towards the horizon.
February 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM