We will guard your body, but you’ll have to walk your own dog.

Division 18 will be making a guest appearance in the next genre-themed anthology from The DC Conspiracy — “Doctor Dremo’s Taphouse of Tall Tales & Short Stories: The Spoils of Crime.”

I’m still writing our lovably costumed mooks, but the new 4-page piece will be illustrated by a guy named Renzo Ventrella. As you might guess, Jeremy got in deep with his bookie, who sent Renzo to stomp on his fingers and break his pencils…but these comics ain’t gonna draw themselves, and the big lug agreed to knock out a few doodles himself, fuggeddabouditt. Check out the pages in progress below.

As for hooking up with the DCC, maybe it has something to do with our mutual affinity for ridiculously long comic titles. But whatever the reason, crime will be spoiled. Stay tuned here and at the DC Conspiracy site for updates.

Alright, alright, calm down. You’ll be able to get the finish story (and more) when The Spoils of Crime goes on sale in a couple of months. In the meantime, the latest offerring from Doctor Dremo’s Taphouse, “The Horrors of War,” is available now for order from ComixPress and includes two stories written by yours truly! Order your copy of “Doctor Dremo’s Taphouse of Tall Tales and Short Stories: The Horrors of War” from ComixPress today! http://store.comixpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1369

~Matt B

Here at D18 headquarters, we know two things about running marathons — Jack and Squat (and Jack just left town). And the only things we know about London is that boiled meat rots yer teeth and even the hobos sound like professors. But we just caught wind that them limeys have a friggin scab army! Follow the link for spy pics galore of scabs doing one of the things scabs do best – RUNNING. Bollocks!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-costumes-at-the-2009-london-marathon

Scabs on the run.

Maybe I did… but just in case you missed it, here’s a comic called “FROGGIE” that I drew. It was written by the sexy and talented August Adams.

Apparently, Brit pop singer, Lilly Allen is making a play for Union membership in case this whole singing thing doesn’t work out for her–and you’ll find no complaints here. As you can see, she looks good in fur, and we’ve heard she can drink like a fish. If the chick can crack a safe, we’re in business!

Thanks again to Level 92 Films for taking the time and pulling together the resources to shoot this Division 18 promotional video while we sharpen our pencils and work on new material for volume 2 of the actual D18 comic. Joey the Roo ain’t got nuthin on Jimmy the Snake, but you’ll see the final video before you see any new comic pages — so embrace it.

And while you wait for that, here are some photos from the set:

We shot at The Connecting Bar on the Yonkers/Bronx border in NY. There’s nothing quite like spending a Sunday afternoon with your 16-month-old baby in a bar. Pass the beer nuts!

SPOILER: My script called for a lot more baby business than we could actually pull off, what with the baby being an actual untrained baby, with wants and needs and diapers. Luckily, we had a (stuffed) body double to use whenever Alexa threw a fit.

River City is a rough town, so you can count on plenty of fisticuffs. Here, Director Dean – a former Olympic hopeful in the bitchslapathon and 12th degree red belt in gymkata — offers up some Matrix-esque fight choreography. 

It was a fun but long day for everyone (especially long for Alexa, who threw a fit every time we tried to film her, and Dean, who had to reshoot everything around Alexa’s fits). Hopefully, the finished product will pay off.

~Matt B

P.S. — More on the comic when there’s more comic to be on about!

Wellll, technically, it’s more of a video. And it isn’t an adaptation of the comic or anything featuring Snake, Lou or any other D18 characters. It’s a no-budget video short set in River City and featuring some brand new UNCP mascot mooks. Rehearsal and costume fittings took place over VD weekend (that’s the romantic holiday, not the itchy aftermath), and the one day shoot will take place on Sunday, Feb 22, at the Connecting Bar in The Bronx, NY.

Check out Joey ‘Roo, Cell-Fiona, and the Banana Man trying on their costumes at last week’s rehearsal.

 Let’s hope my buddies at Level 92 Films can pull this off, or we’ll be breaking more than a leg.

~Matt

P.S. — You can follow me on Twitter now: @D18Matt. You’ll find out the latest Division 18 info there before we post it here.

While we’re definitely still going to track him down and run his fingers through a cheese press, we like this chumpstain’s spirit. There may be room in the Union for this jogging fruit.

Behold, the Inspirational Banana

We’re skipping town for a bit, taking a “business” trip overseas to break a few knee caps. Condoms and Scabs Don\’t Mix

I have other interests and hobbies when I’m not scribbling typo-filled outlines for Jeremy to turn into polished, fully scripted and illustrated comic stories writing Division 18. One is being a parent. Another is being a pop culture geek. And my latest non-Union time killer is writing about being a pop culture geek parent, in my ForcesofGeek.com column, Pop on Pop.

You should go read it. Not necessarily because you’ll like it. Just because we take like 6 months to update THIS friggin’ site between issues and you’ll probably be bored just sitting here, in your gator panties, staring at the screen pressing “Refresh” every 20 seconds. 

~Matt B