Will Hines

Jan 24, 2025 | authenticcomedy.substack.com | Caroline Clifford |Will Hines

Repost from a year ago. Following on the theme of women in comedy. I'm not going to write another “Are women funny?” article, because it’s been written 1000 times over both ironically and not. Spoiler alert: they are. In fact they're funnier than men. Cats are better than dogs, Jupiter is the best planet and this is how you spell colour. I find the idea of the gender binary pretty dated, but this article recognises it as it’s about people holding on to boomerish views.

Dec 9, 2024 | funnyhow.substack.com | Matt Ruby |Will Hines

“Heighten” was part of the “game of the scene” mentality. Find a game and heighten it. What’s heighten mean? Make it bigger. Raise the absurdity. Have someone walk in who agrees with the unusual viewpoint. Make a pattern, do it again. But people get too mechanical. Someone starts a scene where they go into a McDonald’s and orders a filet mignon, and you just a get a line of performers with a bunch of fancy orders. It gets old. So it became “heighten and explore” to remind people to keep making choices.

Jul 10, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Will Hines |Kevin Hines

EPISODE 283: The Milksops begin their dive into Peter Milligan's early 2000s run on The Human Target. Created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino in 1972 for DC Comics, the Human Target has had several runs over the years. The basic gist is this: if you're in danger of being killed, you can hire Christopher Chance who will dress up as you until he catches the killer! Very normal, simple strategy.

Jan 24, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Will Hines |Kevin Hines

We continue our Keith Giffen coverage with a look at the creator-owner property he did in the 2000s, Hero Squared. Keith did this with his Justice League collaborator J.M. DeMatteis. J.M. was kind enough to be on this episode!  We ask JM about Keith in general, his collaboration with Keith and then we get into the series Hero Squared. Hero Squared is the story of Milo Stone, an unproductive aspiring filmmaker who learns that his alternate universe self is a superhero.

Jul 21, 2023 | willhines.substack.com | Will Hines

Last Thanksgiving, I found myself at a party in New York City with people that I would describe as smart and cool. For me that means: smart writers who have jobs discussing culture. We’re talking doing music discussion/book reviews/podcasts for New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, etc. Nice folks who were, like, up on cool things.