…this is ridiculous. Sugar Bush the Superstar Squirrel?! Really?!! I’m pretty sure Mimi once filed a complaint against Snake for calling her “Sugar Bush.”

 Someone’s getting hit with a baseball bat over this.

Chances are good that regular visitor(s) of this site have already secured their requisite 20 copies of our amazing first issue. But in the off chance that you are new to the Union, are dependent on some mean old comic retailer who refuses to restock and celebrate our awesome debut, or you’re just one of those creeps who stumbled upon this blog while googling for “gator panties” — have we got a treat for you!

Silent Devil has once again slashed prices on all back issues — which means Division 18: The Union of Novelty Costumed Performers #1 is once again on super deluxe double deep discount! Be sure to order a few dozen copies in time for the New York Comic Con, where, Sharpie ink and table space willing, Jeremy and I will gladly sign your books, devaluing them even further! What a deal!!! 

This has sure been a busy week for Division 18. First, after weeks of radio silence, Jeremy crawled out of his dungeon studio to show off some of his sweet issue 3 pencils. And now, The Union of Novelty Costumed Performers is embroiled in a scandal that would make even a New York Governor blush!

It looks like President Bush got a resurrection of his own this past weekend — in his pants! A series of lurid photos have surfaced of the Commander in Cheat romancing one of the Union’s own after an Easter event in Washington DC.

We hate to break it to you this way, G.W., but beneath those luscious lashes and sexy purple nightie is a guy named Frank. We’ve seen him without the mask and we can assure you – Frank is something Jesus definitely would not do!

You’d be surprised to find out what our lovable lard ass Lou was up to before joining the Union.

Straight from the thumbnails for issue #3, Snake enjoys a delicious cup of morning coffee. Yes, he’s enjoying it at Mother Effer’s Tuesday morning Happy Hour… but it’s still just the pick-me-up he needs to start his day off right! Oops, looks like it’s filled a little too close to the rim there, Snake!

[Warning: This post has nothing to do with the apparently almost over WGA strike. But we do still support that cause and look forward to production resuming on Lost.]

So there I was today, literally minding my own business scrolling through the Division18.com web statistics, when I saw a perfect three-way split in our Web Search Criteria Report. 

Anyone with a website knows this is always a fun list to read, between the self-satisfaction you can get from seeing that people are actually looking for you or your work and the unintentional comedy of the handful of quirky search results that occasionally accidentally direct random surfers to the site. But self-satisfaction is always the best part for me. The self-high five can be a wonderful thing and I do love patting myself on the back. So you can imagine my disappointment when it sunk in that this perfectly distributed list of only three search items comprised the following:

1. “D18 Jeremy” – This is certainly not the problem. Jeremy is a workhorse and he deserves far more credit than  do for the comic. And it’s nice to see our hip, branded abbreviation for the comic title, D18, is catching on. Matt’s mood: not disappointed yet.

2. “Division 18″ — This one is a no brainer. I would be shocked if this wasn’t on the search list. Matt’s mood: still doing fine.

3. “Huge Vag!na” — Note the exclamation point in place of the letter i is there now because we’d rather avoid a ton of traffic from sex sites, gynocologists, and itchy women. But this is it. Three of three on this month’s search list. Are you effin’ kidding me, people?! I was happy when you searched for the artist. I was thrilled when you searched for the book itself. But then, instead of googling yours truly JUST ONCE, you all got sidetracked trying to satisfy your sick fetish for super-sized babymakers?! Well hear this perverts — Division 18: The Union of Novelty Costumed Performers is not, has never been, and (unless sales really take a dive) will never be about giant lady parts. 

Hrmph. Matt Bergin < Huge Vag!na? Thanks fer nuthin’, so-called fanbase! Of course, in my defense, the list was evenly distributed… so that means Jeremy Donelson = Huge Vag!na.

Matt’s mood: WTF?!

In a related note, I guess I ought to go bone up on my skills so I can garner more respect. I’ll start by checking out D18 publisher Christian Beranek’s brand new blog — What It Takes To Make It In Comics. 

Always plugging.

Listen now to 40 minutes with Matt Bergin and Jeremy Donelson shooting the shizzle on how they got into comics, how each issue of Division 18 gets made, and why I, Vampire is a better gateway comic than X-Men. Also, Groo. We both love us some Groo.

We were worried we’d come off like a couple of jerks in this thing, but our podcast interview with ICN didn’t turn out half bad. In fact, I’d say it’s at least half good!

This poor schlub has never been the same since he left the Union and moved to LA.

Our first review was en espanol, and — according to Google’s tranlator-tron 3000 — positive. We think.

Our second review? Not so much.