3: JAY
SAN DIEGO COMIC CON EDITION
[BIG BLAST]

Comic Con International at San Diego is kid-friendly and mother-approved! Sothose pot-smoking, bong-sucking hemp boosters Jay and Silent Bob needed akinder, friendlier image if they were going to do big business at the show.So with a few offending items removed, Jay and Bob made the scene with aspecial “PC version,” limited to a mere 1,000 units apiece. Here’s where themath comes in: limited figures times high demand equals a big score for BigBlast.

4: SILENT BOB
SAN DIEGO COMIC CON EDITION
[BIG BLAST]

Jay talks, Silent Bob doesn’t. Therefore, poor Bob here trails his moreverbose buddy on our Tob 10. Buy Jay, and such eternal wisdom as “Snooch tothe nooch, naga-nooch!” will tickle your eardrums. Press the button on Bob’sback and hear…silence. Silent Bob, get it? Yeah, we get it, but we’d ratherlisten to Jay babble depravities than Bob’s peaceful stoicism. Should we getChinese for dinner, Jay? “Naga-nooch!” Well, maybe seafood instead? “I’m allabout the clam!” You rule, Jay!

Market Watch
Snootchie Bootchies
by Lars Pearson

[PICTURE: JAY AND SILENT BOB. SILENT BOB HOLDS BLUEPRINT, WITH EMTPY WORDBUBBLE. JAY STANDS NEXT TO HIM, SAYS “YOU SAID IT, FAT-ASS!”]

For once, Jay and Silent Bob are saying no to drugs.
As if comic and toy fandom wasn’t totally hip to Jay and Silent Bob, thetwo lovable wanderers from director Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” trilogy (including”Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy”), toy buyers are running rampant over 1,000limited edition Jay and Bob toys–even before the regular versions haveshipped.
The chase originated when Graphitti Designs, manufacturer of the Jay andSilent Bob figures, proposed a special promotion for the San Diego Comic Con,the largest American comic book convention. Except that the committee thatoversees the Comic Con–stressing the event is a “family show”–had someconcerns about promoting a toy such as the Jay figure, which depicts marijuanause. So with creator Kevin Smith’s blessing, Graphitti produced 1,000modified Jays and Silent Bobs, each labeled with a sticker calling them “semi-politically correct” variants.
“Semi-politically correct” Jay has no marijuana leaf on his shirt, and iscarded without the regular version’s tiny plastic bong and “stash baggie.”And because the figures were rushed through production to meet deadline,”semi-politically correct” Silent Bob has black hair rather than actor KevinSmith’s natural brown color.
The two toys were offered as a package deal, together with two variantcomics of Jay and Silent Bob #1, an Oni Press comic mini-series. Like thetoys, the comics were limited to 1,000 copies each, featuring photo covers ofeither Jay or Silent Bob with the toys.
Five hundred of the sets were made available at the Comic Con toretailers; another 500 were offered to fans by Graphitti for $60retail–Graphitti plans on donating $10 per set to the Comic Book LegalDefense Fund. Outside San Diego, however, the sets have skyrocketed in value,often commanding $125 in the coastal regions or at various conventions. Veryfew sets have been broken up and sold separately, although on those rareinstances, $60 per toy and $25 per comic is not unusual.
Not that fans should miss the regular Jay and Bob figures, now targetingOctober as a release date. They’re not limited, but they’re cool. Phattyboom babbly blunt, dude.