written by Axe Binondo, paid for by the Deep Hell Patreon Heartbeats. The echoes of wooden paddles from a bygone era, bruising the ass of anyone cosplaying an anime twink. The anguished guitar tone of a Japanese band playing their first US show at an American anime convention. Can you hear it? It’s all here at…
this trip was partially possible because of DEEP HELL.COM’s patreon, which is funded in no small amount by 1 or 2 dollars at a time from readers like you. https://patreon.com/DEEPHELL I spent all of the first part of the year now building up what GDC could mean, I didn’t think about actually doing my job…
3/22 5:00 PM (GDC #3)
I can feel my brain turn and fall into some kind of slump standing in the line to the Awards Show after a making a loop around all three convention buildings to find out where the hell I’m supposed to go. Already clear to me is the size and scope of this place, the people…
ONE ANNUAL EVENT
The trip always starts with The Drive. I once heard that living as an adult is just a period of drives we have to take. Gasoline journeys to misery: knowing we have to commit no matter what to our lives, and see all of the resolution. That’s what I heard, anyway: it was mostly in…
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN FORTNITE
by Karin Malady “If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.” (Gladiator, 2000) There is glory on the battlefield. Not honor, nothing so pristine. Glory emerges…
FRED NOLAND INTERVIEW
By Bryn Gelbart Last time I was on Deep Hell I wrote about contract labor and the gig economy. That was through the lens of a handful of video games. Today, I’m talking to a real person about freelancing, writing and the difference between ambition and drive. That’s a big step up, if you…
an interview with BREED
We’ve been at this comic convention thing for awhile. From the absolute excess of vendor halls, to the sweaty and tightly-packed rooms of panels; Deep-Hell is familiar. Nothing’s really changed the entire time we’ve been going to them. In fact: a staunch refusal to change at all is how we got this interview. We know…
THE FAN FUSION (FAN) ZINE?
DID YOU GET A COPY? DID A FRIEND GET A COPY? If not, here it is. Every image that’s part of the zine, in obnoxiously average quality.
WHY WE’RE GONNA GO TO PHOENIX FAN FUSION
May and July in Phoenix are so hot, especially downtown in the major metropolitan area as to be considered an actual crime. I have seen the realest stereotypes about hot weather. Egg-on-sidewalk, melted sneakers and cookies on the dash. It’s all real in Arizona, but there’s something else that’s real too. Phoenix Fan Fusion is…
RETURN TO ALBUM REVIEWS: KID BITCHIN’
We have a policy at Deep-Hell. A policy that stretches back months, maybe even years in the making. That policy is really, really simple: if you send us your album we will write something about it. Even if you are our brother, a woman on the street, a hot-dog vender / accordion player. The Limit Club sent us an…