MOOBY T-SHIRT & MOOBY EMBROIDERED CAP

From the pages of Oni’s Jay and Silent Bob mini-series (but if yourfinger’s on the pulse, you know where their NEXT appearance is!),come the first swag featuring Silent Bob’s favorite cartoon cow.The Mooby Corp. T-shirt features the corporate bovine screenprintedin full-color on a white 100% cotton heavyweight shirt. The MoobyEmbroidered Cap pictures the “golden calf” on front with the Moobylogo on the back of this natural-color and black poly/cotton cap.The cap is just like the one Silent Bob bought at the Mooby Store,in Jay and Silent Bob #2 and as seen modeled by Kevin on theattached photo.

Watch for even more Mooby Corp. releases from Graphitti Designs inthe months ahead. The Mooby Corp…the best fun money can buy.

[ They then proceed to put a little blurb about Mooby / Graphitti ]

The Mooby Corp. (a subsidiary of the Complex Corporation), is thecorporation of the millenium and beyond. With their fingers alreadysuccessfully embedded in TV, feature films and franchised fast foodchains, it was only a matter of time before they exploited the licensed merchandise arena. Who better for them to team-up withthan long-time licensing whores, Graphitti Designs who paid the big-bucks to be awarded the official license for this worldwide, omni-present corporate monolith. Graphitti Designs’ President BobChapman remarked about this new relationship, “If you’re going tosell-out, you might as well do it right. The Mooby Corporation isin everyone’s life, whether we like it or not.”

1. The View Askew offices moved to 3 Harding Road- if you’ve ever seen this building it’s hardly suited for a comic book store, so I don’t think this was ever considered. In fact, I know it was not because the new location of the Stash was found BEFORE Kevin found the 3 Harding Location that he moved the offices to.

2. “The new location was not disclosed”- funny that, since there are signs up all over the front of the new location heralding the upcoming opening of Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, and telling folks to check out the Stash at 69 Monmouth in the meantime. The new Stash is locatedrigh on the heart of Broad Street (not too far up from where the oldoffices are). I can’t recall the exact address right now, but it’s no secret – anybody who walks down Broad Street in Red Bank will walk right past it and see all the signs.

DAREDEVIL HITS THE BULLSEYE

Daredevil, which has been continuingly selling out for Marvel since it’s Marvel Knights relaunch, will sell out even wuicker with it’s fifth issue. Why? Because that issue will feature a previously-unannounced 1:4 variantcover by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada that depicts what Marvel Marketing Representative Steve Warble describes as “the shocking development that will change Daredevil’s life forever. What is it? I don’t know; Marvel won’t even tell it’s own sales reps!” “This issue is a must-have for any fan of Daredevil,” Jimmy Palmiotti said. “Kevin wrote the unspeakable, Joe drew the unthinkable, and I traced it!…” Joe Quesada added, “There are a million surprises in Kevin Smith’s ‘Guardian Devil’… Everything changes for the good–and you can’t say you haven’t been warned.”

PREACHER FEATURE

Zentertainment reports that casting offers have been made for the upcomingPreacher film; according to their sources, the producers have approached “BenAffleck for the role of Jesse Custer, Cameron Diaz for the role of Tulip,Robert Carlyle for the role of the vampireCassidy, and Samuel L. Jackson for the role of the Saint of Killers. Theactors have not given any answer, but Affleck does have an in, as his Chasing Amy/Mallrats director, Kevin Smith, is the film’s executive producer. RachelTalalay will direct Preacher.” Series creator Garth Ennis isreportadly writing the screenplay.

I made my first pilgrimage to Red Bank this past weekend, and I had a nice conversation with Walt Flanagan, who gave me this interesting tidbit of news about the Stash:

The Stash will NOT be relocating to 3 Harding Road. According to Walt, the negotiations for the space went sour, so they grabbed some space “nearby” instead, but the exact location was not disclosed. Walt says it is going to be “impressive to say the least”.

“It set up the archetype of good versus evil for me. Who didn’t want to be Luke Skywalker? Who didn’t want to strike down Darth vader? says the filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), an affirmed Lucas enthusiast who has referenced Star Wars in his movies, and who was six years old when the original film came out. “It was so powerful, by the time we reached the great myths in school, I thought, Well, clearly these people were ripping off Star Wars.” Smith says that when he saw the trailer for the Phantom Menace, “any insouciance or laid-back adult attitude I had was gone. I was a kid again.”

Ben, Gwyneth: It’s Over

The year-long romance between Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck is kaput, reports New York’s Daily News. The two reportedly called it quits over the holidays. (Both of them star in the current hit “Shakespeare in Love.”) The parting is amicable, claim sources, while the actors’ reps decline comment.