Our Best Jackett

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, September 15th. I can't believe we are halfway through September. My God. The kids are fully in school, we're back in that routine, and there's part of me that's kind of sad about it. I miss them. I mean, as much as I was ready for them to go back to school, I miss having them around the way they were over the summer. And they're always stressed about this test...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, September 12th. Forgive my voice, I have ‘cotton voice.’ I'm not sick at all, I just talk way too much at these conventions and then usually lose my voice. But Baltimore was fantastic. I wanted to start by just thanking everybody that came out. There were so many people from Our Best Jackett, free subscribers, paid subscribers. It really warmed my heart. Thank...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, September 6th, and for the first time in many, many weeks, I have this house all to myself. It is a very strange and wondrous feeling. The kids, our children, hopefully yours too, are back in school. I have loved having this summer with them, but by the end, I was just...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, August 8th, and I am back from my trip with my 16 year-old and 12 year-old to L.A., to Vegas, and everywhere in between. I am completely wiped. We got back at like 2 to 3:00 in the morning last night, but I am crazy excited to dive back into work and to things with you guys and we have great stuff ahead. So a quick bit of housekeeping. Tomorrow night, Wednesday...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, the 1st of August, I cannot believe July is over. Last month of summer coming, crazy. I'm taking our older boys, Jack and Emmett, on a father-son trip at the end of next week out to LA and surprise them with a little bit of a trip to Vegas, they've never been anywhere near the desert so it should be fun and extremely hot, but wish us luck. Anyway, I wanted to d...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Saturday, July 29th and I finally recovered from San Diego. I'm old, and long flights like that and massive energetic weeks of no sleep and work and play, I don't recover from them like I used to. So you can still hear it in my voice. But a couple bits of housekeeping and then I'...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, July 12th, and San Diego is upon us, I can't believe it. So some housekeeping things quickly. We have our first Book Club tonight, it's going to be just a sort of test run, I'm really excited about it. It's on the Discord server for paid subscribers, and we're going to be looking at “The Boogeyman” by Stephen King, one of my absolute favorite short stories. W...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Sunday, July 9th, although you'll hear this probably on Monday, because I wouldn't make Ty, great assistant, transcribe something on the weekend. But I'm sitting in my car, you can probably hear the rain. I just finished this podcast from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal is also their podcast, but they have a four-part series called With Great Power . And it's kind...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, June 27th. And, man, I can't believe June is almost over. I know I say it every month, but I still can't believe it. So, very quick housekeeping stuff. We're really excited. We have a BRAND NEW WEBSITE ! It is powered by the great Third Eye Comics down in Maryland, one of my favorite stores in the world. And so it's all new, it's redone, you can order all of ou...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, June 20th. I hope you had a great Father's Day, got to celebrate Juneteenth, all that. Over here it was really fun, actually. I took Emmett to his last baseball game of the intramural team, we're going to try out for a travel team soon. He did great, his batting average is 1000. He walked half the times he was up at bat and then hit the other half, so I was ver...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, June 13th, and before we start a quick bit of housekeeping. We're going to be starting a Book Club over on our paid subscriber Discord, I’m very excited about it. It's gonna be hosted by Noah Abbatemarco, one of the people that runs Our Best Jackett with Ty (greatest assistant). The first story that we're going to be reading is ‘The Boogeyman’ by Stephen King,...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, June 7th, and as I make this recording I am driving to Emmett's very first baseball game. He made the team! We’re really excited, he's excited and nervous, as am I, of course. He's listening to his headphones in the back. But I think he's going to do great, wish us luck, it’s that parent’s butterflies in your stomach, total anxiety but also real pride and exc...

Hey, guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, May 30th, but you will probably hear this on Wednesday, May 31st because it is late. It's my fault, not Tyler's, the greatest assistant ever. Full disclosure, Emmett has a chance to try out for a baseball team tomorrow and I was setting that up this afternoon. He's really excited. He's never really played on a team before and it might not go well, who knows, b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. And it is Tuesday, May 23rd. I know it's the 23rd because it is our middle son's birthday. Emmett is twelve today. I can't believe that he’s twelve, he's still such a boy. It's like that magical age where they haven’t really hit adolescence quite yet. They still have those friendships...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, May 16th. God, it’s flying by. And I'm really excited because we have class on Thursday night, just two days away. Comic Writing 102, we're going to be using some amazing student work and some published work—some Star Wars comics and some movies and other things because...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, May 12th, and first I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that showed up for that Ask Me Anything on Wednesday night, it was such a blast! We went way over, I think, like almost an hour and a half plus, because your questions were so good. I have to do more of those! And I'll try and invite on special guests too, like maybe Tony Daniel or other people that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is May 3rd, Wednesday, although you probably won't hear this till May 4th, Star Wars Day and Quinn's fourth birthday, his real birthday. We had his party last week with a lot of trampolining and bouncy housing and cupcakes and all kinds of stuff. But he was born on both Free Comic B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, April 25. Forgive my voice, this is the voice of a tired dad. Quinny has been going through a bit of a nightmare phase, like literal nightmares, and they're all hilarious and ridiculous where he'll just like, yell something out in the middle of the night like, “Let go my...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey, guys, it's Scott. It's Tuesday, April 18th, and forgive me if the sound quality is a little bit different than usual. I'm doing the same thing I did last time and trying to walk my body across Planet Earth a tiny bit before everything contracts into the Zoom contours for this writers room. But the room...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, April 14th and I am making this recording as I'm walking through my neighborhood down to the beach just to move my body across the earth out in the air, in the sunshine, and actually feel things outside of the Phantom Zone of a Zoom room. But it's been an incredible two weeks in the room. We actually broke all of season one of Wytches . So we’re really head-spin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, April 12th, and I'm sorry I missed last week doing a post. It's been crazy. We had our first week of the Wytches writers room and it was pretty incredible, honestly. We made way more progress than I thought. We're breaking the first season right now, so we're sort of r...

Hey, guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, April 4th, and forgive the sort of hungover, worn-out sound of my voice. It's been a long three days, but a great three days. I'm just tired, I'm not hungover, I swear. Also forgive the sound, I accidentally left my phone in Chicago at this convention, or in the car on the way to the plane, and didn't realize it until I stepped out of the car and was listening...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It’s Wednesday, March 29th. I can't believe it's almost the end of the month and I am functioning on like, two hours of sleep two nights in a row because Quinny has a raging ear infection. The craniotomy he had when he was six months old makes him more susceptible to these kinds of inf...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Monday, March 13th, and I wanted to do a quick post because I didn't get a chance to do one on Friday. Jeanie, my wife, is away at SXSW with her very good friend (who's our neighbor) and their kid who’s really interested in film. So I got to go away with our 16 year-old, as you know, to Colorado a couple weeks ago and so I thought it would be fun for her to take a trip...

Hey, guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, March 7th, I can't believe the month is going this fast. I say that every time, but I feel like the Earth is just spinning faster and faster every day. Anyway, a couple quick housekeeping things before I dive into your questions. Tomorrow, Wednesday the 8th, out from Dark Horse Comics, is Clear #1 . It's an oversized massive issue, it's the beginning of a sci-...