Will Hines Dot Net

Good review of Jaime Hernandez new comics collection “Ghost of Hoppers.”. Thank you Kevin, for pointing it out to me. Someday I’ll lay down my full pitch of why the Hernandez Brothers make the best comics. They are as cool as the ocean, let’s leave it at that.

Did stand-up for the I Eat Pandas musical improv show last night. America, I know I’m biased because Eliza is in this show, but no foolin: you should go see it. It’s a phenomenon. The tiny Under St. Marks Theatre was packed and everyone in there was laughing and clapping with terrific joy. That show is magic. That it’s just three people in this sparse underground theatre makes it all the cooler. They have six shows left, and I predict there will be standing room only.

And how was my stand-up? Well, for my second gig since coming back from hibernation, it was okay. Still smoothing out the kinks. Confidence remains high.

DeCoster and I met afterwards and outlined episode #3 of The Block. DeCoster was on fire — I barely had to say a word as he wrote the whole script. Who knows if we’ll be able to preserve this into the final product, but I was cracking up. My contributions were more like requests: “We need to address X” and DeCoster would fill in the blanks. Still, the questions I asked were important. I wonder if that’s what it was like for Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, as they created The Fantastic Four. Stan picked the characters’ names and initial setup, and then Kirby would lay the whole thing out. Stan would pipe with minimal but crucial concerns about the over-arching continuity, and Jack would fill in the blanks. The difference here is I’m only taking HALF credit, not WHOLE.

Had too much coffee yesterday, stayed up late programming and then had a restless, fitful sleep. I dreamt of uncomfortable conversations with people who wanted to get away from me. Then I woke up on my back, with my cat perched on the pillow, staring blankly down at my face. Disconcerting.