Character: Sara

Satan was a Typo

Because of the way my design process works (typically things aren’t designed until I know I need to draw them in the story soon), Stan only existed as a rough concept in my mind for the longest time. Designing him a hybrid baseball/tinpot dictator uniform was a lot of fun, though.

If you want to do some Christmas shopping from my online store, you should do that ASAP to ensure the mail gets to  you on time.

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Christine Bennett, better known as Purple Pony Art, is Employee of the Week! She has early access to Hell, Inc. Volume 3: “Team-building Exercise” and you can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! There are also a little over a thousand pages of other comics available to Patrons, which is a lot. BOOM math’d.

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Next Week: Stan seems like a great boss. Read it early on Patreon!

Brain Genius

When I look at what’s coming up next as I write update posts, I barely remember having drawn these strips. Outside of a handful, everything that’s been uploaded since August was drawn five or six months before it was posted. I’m, hopefully, less than two weeks away from being done with my current book contract, at which point I can start drawing demons again!

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Sebastian is Employee of the Week, and you can, too! If you think what I do here with Hell, Inc. is worth a dollar, head over to the Patreon and be rewarded with early access to the digital version of Hell, Inc. Vol. 3: “Team-building Exercise” as well as over 1000 pages of digital comics!

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Next Week: The comic I thought was this week, but wasn’t this week, because next week and this week are different times. Solve the time paradox on Patreon.

I Live Here Now

I feel like I could really crush drawing a comic about baseball. I don’t love the sport, but it’s inarguably the best-suited sport to being adapted as stories in other mediums. Speaking of things I don’t love, I haven’t been able to draw the last four pages of Hell, Inc. volume 4 because of the contract work I’m doing. I look forward to mid-December when I get to draw what I want to again.

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Jillian Dolan is Employee of the Week! She is also a comic-smith, and you should check out her works, including Misha and Kyle the Nihilist Dinosaur. They’re delightful. If you think Hell, Inc. is delightful and want to support it with your hard-earned money, head over to the Hell, Inc. patreon. As a reward, new sign-ups gain access to a folder of over 1000 pages of comic, including the otherwise unreleased Hell, Inc. Vol. 3: “Team-building Exercise!”

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Next Week: Sara may have misunderstood the context within which this baseball tournament is happening. Read it early on Patreon!

Time is a Flat Diamond

Time has felt like a flat diamond to me for most of 2020, so Helen is just catching up to my level.

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Cindy Gauthier is Employee of the Week, and can help fulfill all of your COVID-related mask needs. If you want to get your comics needs handled, support Hell, Inc. on Patreon, where you’ll get a digital copy of the aforementioned “Team-building Exercise” book (which includes a book-exclusive short story) as well as over 1000 pages of other comics!

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NEXT WEEK: We find out if our favourite ballbasers make it to the finals! Read it early on Patreon!

Montageball

Montageball is like Moneyball except it’s not a lauded film, it’s a strip from a somewhat-read comic on the internet. Also it’s actually about baseball instead of… *gasp*… MATH.

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Ben Hamlin is Employee of the Week! You can find listen to Ben’s various podcasting projects on the Infinity Break Network! If you think the entertainment you’ve been getting from Hell, Inc. is worth a dollar, check out the Hell, Inc. Patreon page and contribute to my only reliable source of quarantine income! Patrons have access to the third Hell, Inc. print book, including an exclusive short story, and over 1000 pages of other digital comics!

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Next Week: The pitches continue to be slo, because that is what the sport is. Read it early on Patreon!

Champions

Welcome to the 666th (maybe? I dunno, we lost count) Annual Mandatory Intramural Slo-Pitch Tournament. Catchy name, right? I thought so.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Robbie Dorman, host of The Simpsons Show podcast, is Employee of the Week. He’s also one of the co-hosts of new podcast Cartoon Graveyard, on which I was the first guest! We talked about The Mighty Ducks animated series from 1996-7 and discussed whether it should be reincarnated or buried, and it was a lot of fun. If you like fun, you probably also want to be Employee of the Week and help Hell, Inc. continue existing by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon. All new patrons are receiving a digital copy of Hell, Inc. Volume 3: Team-building Exercise, as well as access to a Dropbox folder with over 1000 pages of digital comics!

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Next Week: Stan is the Man. Or whatever you would call an incarnation of evil? Read it early on Patreon!

Reasonable Practice Schedule

This would definitely be the style of practice scheduling that every football coach would go with if they were allowed to. Football is already cartoonishly militaristic, might as well add the sleep deprivation and hideous overworking, too! I know the demons are playing baseball, not football, but I don’t know any stereotypes about baseball coaches, and the football coach ones are all insane.

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Brien Aronov is Employee of the Week, and you can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! You’ll also get access to Hell, Inc. book 3, “Team-building Exercise” as well as over a thousand pages of other comics for as little as $1! What else are you gonna do with $1? Nothing, that’s what. So hit up the Hell, Inc. Patreon and continue to allow me to both produce comics AND pay my mortgage! I like to be able to do both of those things.

You can also buy books from my online store, from which there is free shipping to Canada until the end of October! Every book gets a signature and a sketch in it.

As always, votes on Top Webcomics are very helpful in bringing in new readers, and you can do that daily by clicking on the banner below! We recently saw a big surge which jumped Hell, Inc. by over 200 places last week!

Next Week: TOURNAMENT ARC! The BEST kind of story. Read it early on Patreon!

Anthropomorphized Shapesball

It’s Shapesball Night in Hellmerica! Insert the theme of your favourite sports program here. And then duck if you see shapes flying at your head, because it’s probably the ball.

In other news, the book market graphic novel I’ve been working on continues to grind along toward completion, after which I’ll be wrapping up Hell, Inc. Volume 4.

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Joe Amon is Employee of the Week, and has access to over a thousand pages of digital comics for supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon, including book 3, “Team-building Exercise!” You can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. for as little as $1 a month! Patreon is my only really predictable income source, so even a dollar is incredibly helpful!

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Next Week:A well designed practice schedule for a well-oiled baseball machine! Read it early on Patreon!

Something a Coat Rack Would Say

Seriously though, it IS something a coat rack would say. I asked my coat rack.

Also, last week’s question that I posed about future print editions still stands. Continue with the plan of doing six separate 60 page books, or wait until all of the strips are ready and release one big print book with everything? Leave a comment, send me an email, tweet me – whatever, but let me know what you’d prefer!

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Christine Bennett, better known as Purple Pony Art, is Employee of the Week! She has early access to Hell, Inc. Volume 3: “Team-building Exercise” and you can, too, by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon! There are also a little over a thousand pages of other comics available to Patrons, which is a lot. BOOM math’d.

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Next Week: It’s only awkward if you know what’s going on. Read it early on Patreon!

You’re Scheming Too Loud

This scene exists because I initially had B.L. Zebub connecting the chair thing to Sara immediately and praising her for it, but as soon as I wrote it I realized that didn’t make any sense. So instead, Sara expects that because SHE knows what happened, it will be obvious to the person she’s trying to impress with it. But it isn’t, because why would it be? And then I got to draw Ray doing a weird looming stretch thing. That was pretty fun.

EMPLOYEE OF THE WEEK:

Welcome new hire Bartender of the Apocalypse, who presumably works at O’Hellihan’s. They’ve joined the ranks of Hell, Inc.’s Patreon supporters, who help keep this train on the tracks (or perhaps an office-related metaphor that means the same thing). You can do the same by supporting Hell, Inc. on Patreon for as little as $1, which gets you digital copies of just about everything I’ve done, as well as Hell, Inc. Volume 3: Team-building Exercise, which is only available on Patreon for the foreseeable future.

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Next Week: CHAIR CRIMES. Support Hell, Inc. on Patreon, do Chair Crimes.