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JP Talks to... Callan Scott!

10/3/2021

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1) I want to start with a topic near and dear to my heart - Bond. James Bond. Why do you think we're all so gaga over him? 

For me, it’s the glamour. The swagger. The inherent coolness. As we all know, real-life spycraft is not all exploding pens, exotic locales and thrilling car chases, but Bond gives us a slice of pure, unadulterated escapism. I also love that the past films are also such wonderful time capsules, perfectly encapsulating the period when they were made. But no matter how much Bond has changed over the years, some things are eternal. The music. The extravagance. The winks to the audience that we’re all in on the joke. 


2) Tell me - what is it about Roger Moore that's endured with so many Bond fans (including myself!) 

It’s his charm, pure and simple. Let’s face it, his Bond is pretty reprehensible at times, especially when dealing with women, but Sir Rog’s natural charm just shines through. I met him once, on his last book tour which I attended with fellow Bond fan (and author of The War In the Dark, an incredible supernatural spy novel) Nick Setchfield. We queued outside the Bath Theatre Royal for what seemed hours and had a heartbreaking moment when a member of staff came out and said that they were going to cap the line at 200 people. They counted down and we were number 198 and 199 in the queue. When we eventually got to the front of the line, Roger was just beaming at everyone, making them feel like they were the first person he’d met that day. As he signed my book I said: ’Thanks, Sir Roger, for being my hero growing up’. He looked up at me, flashed that killer smile and said, ’No, thank you, dear boy.’ I was a happy fan that day.


3) Like many writers out there today, you started as a part of fandom. Do you think fan activities are breeding grounds for genre pros, or do so just bubble up as those in any sub-community?

I absolutely think they’re breeding grounds. My first ever published fiction was fan-fiction in Doctor Who fanzines back in the early nineties (including a dreadful piece when I tried my hand at a Seventh Doctor / Batman crossover). The thing was that I wanted to do more than just consume stories about my favourite universes, I wanted to add to them, to contribute. Writing, and to a lesser degree, drawing was the only way I knew how to do it. You want to make your mark, even in the tiniest way. I love the fact that there are more avenues than ever before, from huge fan-fiction communities to cosplay, fan films and even tiktok. Great art inspires others to create. Long may that continue. 


4) You've written in many of the most fantastical universes, and I loved your work on Dr. Who especially the Big Finish stuff. How do you get into the universe, and what pressures do you find in working within a known-world? 

Big Finish was launching at the time where I was trying to pitch a Doctor Who novel to BBC Books with Mark Wright, a friend of mine who worked with me at Future Publishing in Bath. We had just pitched a novel set in Pompeii entitled The Fires of Darkness. In fact, we sent the pitch in pretty much on the same day as Big Finish announced their own story in the same setting as The Fires of Pompeii. That put pay to our BBC Books pitch, so the Big Finish producer gave us a chance to pitch something to them instead. That pitch was Blood Money which would go on to be our first audio drama Project: Twilight. It’s hard to believe that Twilight came out twenty years ago this year. Madness. And I’ve been working in universes like Doctor Who ever since, most recently Star Wars. 

Writing licensed fiction brings its own pressures. You have to check your ego at the door. Time is always short (my last Doctor Who novel had to be written in under a month for example) and you need to be able to deal with multiple notes from multiple people. For me, I also feel the pressure of knowing that there will be thousands upon thousands of people out there who flat-out adore these properties. Who love them. That means you always have to treat them with the utmost respect and do your very best. 

5) Is there a universe out there that you haven't written in yet that has you lickin' your lips hopin' that you'll get to???

At the moment, I’m concentrating more on creating new universes of my own alongside my existing Star Wars and DC Comics work. But I’m definitely licking my lips about getting into those!

6) tell me about Shadow Service's creation origin. What sort of vision did you have going into it? 

Shadow Service is the combination of all my childhood obsessions. James Bond, definitely. Mission: Impossible too. And then monsters. Lots and lots and lots of monsters. I was always fascinated with the thought of secret agents going up against ghouls, ghosts and demons and actually had been writing short stories about a shadowy organisation called MI666 long before I talked to Vault about the comic series. I knew I wanted it to feel fundamentally British and I knew I wanted it to be my love letter to series like John Constantine and Hellboy without just aping their adventures. 

The short stories were okay but they didn’t really hang together as a whole. I needed a lynchpin to draw it all together and that came when I was walking home from the cinema one night and Black Magic Woman came on my iPhone, the version from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina album. In that moment I knew what MI666 was missing - or rather who! Our hero Gina Meyer sprang into life pretty much fully formed. A street witch who has been using her powers to work as a private detective on the streets of London and finds herself recruited to MI666. She was our way into the supernatural security service, a foul-mouthed, chaotic mess of a young woman who’s only friend is a talking rat named Edwin who may or may not be her familiar.

The other characters fell into place around her, even drawn from the short stories or other projects I was working on. I had been talking to Adrian Wassell at Vault for a while about working together and so sent him an email that was entitled ’Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Witch’. He emailed back with the green light. 

7) And the obligatory question - what's next for Cavan Scott???

More Shadow Service! I’m currently writing the new arc of stories which will come out early next year, and have another creator owned project coming out from Dark Horse later in 2022. Plus, there will be Phase 2 of Star Wars: The High Republic, the multi-year, cross-media publishing initiative I created alongside Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel José Older and Charles Soule. It’s going to be an exciting twelve months! 

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JP Interview - Calvin FIsher

5/26/2021

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The author of Northfield was kind enough to chat with us!
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We're on the Hugo Ballot!!!

4/13/2021

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Journey Planet 57 - Arthur, King of the Britons

2/9/2021

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A 92 page issue dedicated to Arthur, King of the Britons! Join Chris, Chuck, and James and a bevy of others as they explore the Arthurian tradition in history, comics, film, music, theatre, literature, and even VEGAS, BABY!!!!

Cover by Vanessa Applegate

Editorial
by Christopher J. Garcia
Letters of Comment
by Lloyd Penney
Instant Fanzine Article: Arthur and Merlin
by Christopher J. Garcia and Chuck Serface
The Story of Arthur

Retold by Bob Hole
Arthur, Alfred, and the Myth of England
by Julian West
Lady Charlotte and King Arthur
by Cardinal Cox
From a Certain Point of View: Merlin & Nimue
by Steven H Silver
Interview with Dorsey Armstrong
by Christopher J. Garcia
King Arthur in Fifteen Stamps
by Bob Hole
King Arthur Plays Vegas: The Excalibur
by Christopher J. Garcia
In Time of Despair and Great Darkness
by Ken Scholes
Camelot
by Laura Frankos
A Retro-Review: Monty Python’s Spamalot
by Steven H Silver
Arthurs for Our Time: Recent Interpretations of the Legend
by Chuck Serface
Two Cups of Blood: Dracula vs. King Arthur
by Derek McCaw
Knights of Pendragon: The Other Arthurian Comic
by Helena Nash
Tristan, Isolde, and Camelot 3000
by Christopher J. Garcia
“It’s Only a CGI Model”: Arthurian Movies of the Twenty-First Century
by Tony Keen
Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King
by Neil Rest
My Barbarian’s “Morgan Le Fey” . . .  but Which One?
by Christopher J. Garcia
Enditorial
By James Bacon

 Art by DeepDreamGenerator, Matthew Appleton, Derek Carter, Brittany Lindstrom, Bob Hole, Chris Garcia, Fionnuala Murphy, and the Journey Planet Logo by Sara Felix

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JP Interviews - Michael Carroll

1/26/2021

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Michael Carroll, genius, sits down with Chris on the other side of the Atlantic (while parked in a historic quarry in Saratoga, California) and talks about editing the zine, writing, being a writer, and other writers! 
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Journey Planet Interviews - John Coxon

1/8/2021

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John Coxon wrote for the first issue of Journey Planet way back in a decade called The Past. He also edited the most recent issue dedicated to Star Wars and The Mandolorian. Chris and John talk stuff! 
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Journey Planet 56 - Star Wars and The Mandalorian

12/30/2020

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John Coxon and Alissa McKersie climb-aboard our second look at the Star Wars Universe with a focus on The Mandalorian!
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Journey Planet 55 - Russian Space

12/29/2020

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An Gry joins us again, this time to produce this AMAZING bilingual issue of Journey Planet! It's all about how Space was Russian, and there so much wonderful stuff! 
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Journey Planet 54 - Collector's Edition!

12/27/2020

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Sarah Gulde comes along and we got ourselves an issue that looks at fans and collecting! From My Little Pony to Classic SF and Comics to 8mm Films to Fan Art, it's here covered in this amazing work!!!
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Issue 53 - The Future of Policing

12/13/2020

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We're joined the the amazing Erin Underwood and Errick Nunnally for this massive and important issue of Journey Planet! We look at policing in fact and fiction, the pivot-point we are sitting on at the moment, and so much more! 
Cover by the amazing Afua RIchardson!

3 Introduction ERIN UNDERWOOD
4  Suspension of Disbelief and Policing in SF by Christopher Golden
7  Tony Chu & the Fallacy of A Few Bad Apples by Brenda Noiseux
8 The Tears of A Policeman by Brendan DuBois10 Minority Report by Kenesha Williams
13 Tank Police by Chris Irvin & Chris Robinson
16  Wrong is Wrong No Matter Who Does It by Bracken MacLeod
19  The Policing of Existence in Science Fiction by Peter Schulte
21  Problematica: The End of the White Hero by Gerald L. Coleman
24  Who Watches the Watchmen and Who Puts the ‘Supe’ in Superhero? by Lisa Macklem
26  Police-For-Hire: Doctor Who’sJudoon by David Ferguson
28 Heading Forward, Headlessly by Tobias Reckermann
30  The (Police) Man Who Saved My Life and What Came Afterwards by Chris M. Barkley
35 The Future Is Now by Nicole Givens Kurtz
38 The Post-Watchmen World by Flavio Pessanha
43 Tulsa PD: Behind The Masks by Helena Nash
46 The Algorithms of Policing by Anton Marks
49  Considering the Vietnam Equation in Watchmen by James Bacon
54 Thoughts on Policing by Pádraig Ó Méalóid
57 Black & Blue Lives Matter by Mark Slater
59  The Legend of Luthor Arkwright comic panel by
Bryan Talbot
60 INSTANT FANZINE!
     Noelle Ameijenda
     Regina Kanyu Wang
     Angel Luis Colón
     Michelle R. Lane
     Jeannette Ng
69  Editorial Epilogue by ERRICK NUNNALLY
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