Don’t ever forget, at any age, that is important to do absolutely stupid things. Date a baker, break into a government office. Do a ton of drugs and wake up behind someone’s couch.
Sell all of your belongings so you can buy a new video game console. Try not to be at least overwhelmingly cruel when you do these things: but maybe give your asshole roommates dog to a better family.
The trick to telling stories about people doing messy things, is you gotta at least commit to a little messiness yourself.

I have been reading Megg Mogg & Owl since only 2017 – It should come as no surprise the circumstances. Laid to rest behind the floor-bound cushion of my friend’s bed, there was a copy of maybe Megahex. I should have been paying attention to the musicians who came from out of town: this is a gambit. If you ask me to come to your house to listen to music, and instead expose me to comics I have not seen – I will scarcely pay attention to them.

Lately it seems like prime time to do a lot of stupid shit. The idiots in charge of the house may do something smart and give us all a check to go home. If you are in a situation that you aren’t desperate: take that money and feel free to live a little. Lie to your landlord. Tell him you’ll murder his family. Use all of the money in your check to buy a retro videogame console. Paint your body filthy in the blood of your neighbors. It’s strange times we’re all living in. If you can go home, you should – get acquainted with the world out there.

Rarely does it seem I have faith that a company will do anything cool or smart – I think companies are basically incapable of either of those things. There’s a lot of people out there excited for Animal Crossing New Horizons. Maybe they’re people like me – eager for something soothing and comfortable to hole up in a cave with. K.K. Slider, Cappn’, you know. All of the animal pals, the friends of mineral town. A valley of stardew.
After all there’s scarcely a reason to lock yourself up inside unless you’re going to relax. We all have heard stories about how going mad isn’t worth it.

There are few things capable of calming a spirit than Animal Crossing. I don’t actually make the rules in this situation. There’s some kind of draw to the idyllic life the series perpetuates. No goals but homeownership, no endeavors besides community. Meet a frog and tell him to fuck off. Take a trip to an island. These are all things that are possible in Animal Crossing. Set to a background of what sometimes seems like exclusively harmonious ukelele music, there have been too many times in my life I’ve depended on it.

Simon Hanselmann has been making Megg Mogg & Owl longer than I have been reading it. No matter what: that’s something I can’t change. I can’t even make a good case for it having some kind of large role in my life in cooperation with Animal Crossing. All I can say is: it’s very good comics.
Simon Hanselmann has also been playing Animal Crossing just about as long as I have. That’s something that will never change.

If you don’t read Megg Mogg & Owl after this, well, I can’t help you there. It’s a story about loser degenerates, in a loser degenerate world. The reason I brought up doing stupid things when you’re young? Because if you have, here is a comic you can supremely relate to. The only thing important in this world is how much you relate to things now.
It is also made by someone who plays videogames: and that is the bare minimum quality for DEEP – HELL DOT COM to ask them stupid questions.

DH: You’re widely known for being a cartoonist, but what people do not know: you are an Animal Crossing fan? Is this true?

SH: In 2003 I didn’t pay my rent so I could buy AC for the GameCube. Have played every iteration since.

DH: Is that the only videogame you’re into? I’m a bit of a ‘videogame player’ myself here.

SH: I play Splatoon 2 a lot with my friend HTMLflowers. I mostly stick to Nintendo. I bought a PS4 for my wife because it had all the tv apps on it. I ended up buying the PSVR and Astrobot Robot Rescue is the best game I’ve ever played.

DH: Oh we could talk videogames..all day I bet!
What is it about Animal Crossing that draws you in? For us, here: it gives us a way to not worry about anything.

SH: Yeah, AC has always been known for it’s relaxing, meditative qualities. It’s release this Friday is perfect timing for the current predicament the world finds itself in. We all need an escape right now, New Horizons is the perfect balm.

DH: You can probably see yourself playing lots of New Horizons. Ever turn your town into a dilapidated cesspool for fun?How much AC have you played?

SH: Probably sunk like 500 hours into the GC one back in the day. Played a lot of new leaf. City folk not so much. Mobile sucks. Spin offs not for me. Fucking Kappn better be in New Horizons.

DH: Capp’n is the only person who ever approved of all of my haircuts. Do you think Animal Crossing is special, or is it just any game that’s chill and relaxing can take its place?

SH: I think it’s better than Stardew Valley of harvest moon or whatever. “Nintendo magic”.

DH: Yeah. Nintendo Magic is what makes a lot of things special: it’s not just relaxing. It feels maybe like another world. WELL. Thanks for telling me these opinions. I will post them on my website, and tell children to read your comics.

Simon Hanselmann seems like they might aditionally be interested in Jedi: Fallen Order and Death Stranding. They, like you, impulsively buy shit when they’re drunk in the Playstation Store.
I am pretty sure you can buy Megg Mogg & Owl from Fantagraphics.