• Wizard Magazine announced its nominations for the annual Wizard Fan Awards. Kevin Smith is nominated for “Favorite Writer”, “Jay and Silent Bob’s Chasing Dogma” as “Favourite mini-series/one shot” category, while Daredevil is nominated in almost all the other categories (apart from “Favorite comic merchandise”, “Favorite Heroine”, and “Favorite Comic TV or Movie Project” catergories). Here’s a full list:

Congrats to EVERYONE nominated, there’s some really deserving folks who worked hard on those books in the past year, and we wish you all the best of luck! You need to buy the latest issue of Wizard to vote, so get out there and do it!

• ZENtertainment reports that Ethan Supplee has joined the cast of Ted Demme‘s cocaine epic, “BLOW”.
• Dogma is no stranger to controversy, and now it’s popping up in Australia! The Rev. Fred Nile (who raised hell about Marilyn Manson joining a music festival) is playing hell about Dogma now. He says, “Dogma portrays God as a woman, which is offensive to Catholic and Christian beliefs. Jesus said you have to pray to our Father, not our Mother.”
• Today’s most popular submission. The Internet Movie Database selected Chasing Amy as their movie of the day on Friday. Here’s the blurb:

• Tonight, the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is showing a Clerks/Dogma double feature starting at 7:00 PM. Tickets are just 6 bucks.
• Dogma’s Thailand release has been, as we’d imagined, delayed a week to February 11th.
• “Tail Lights Fade”, the followup to the rarely seen View Askew production “Drawing Flies”, is getting some festival time up north. It’s playing at a small town film festival today, called the Brandon Film Festival. You’ll find Brandon in Manitoba, Canada. The flick also hits video here in the US very soon, and has already seen release overseas.

• Well, we made it. But remind us NEVER to use a beer with close to 8% alcohol content on one of our drinking games AGAIN! Curse you, Molson XXX! At any rate, we did indeed sit down last night and take a shot at our Dogma drinking game. We feel it’s at least our duty to test the waters on these things once before anyone kills themselves trying. The verdict? Well, we each went through 6 of those Molsons, which is about the equivalent of 10-12 regular beers, so that’s what you can expect to consume in just over 2 hours playing the game. You’ll be in NO shape to do ANYTHING after this one, though, so don’t plan on driving or even walking anywhere when all is said and done.

The game featured a strong opening, with about a 2-3 beer consumption in just the first 15 minutes. Thankfully, there ARE some lulls during the flick to give ya a break, but it REALLY comes on strong towards the end when Lee appears at the bar. Be ready for that one. Man oh man. At any rate, we survived, and we’re sure you will too, just be careful! You can download the Dogma drinking game (as well as our exclusive games for Clerks, Rats, & Amy) right here at News Askew.

• Our “Chasing Dogma” limited editions arrived late this week, and we gotta tell you folks something…If there was ever a cool View Askew collectible, this is it. Graphitti has gone all out in putting together this one. Signed, numbered, with a brand new cover (click the above scans for a look at the front and back), as well as a full color edition of ALL the Jay & Silent Bob books…Wow. And this is the only place you’ll see it. Search one out, most comic shops online have them, and of course, so does the Stash! Get them before they’re just another part of View Askew history.

By the way this website lists an item we have yet to hear of, and it sounds legit to us…Could it be yet ANOTHER cool hardcover is on its way to your local comic shop? Check THIS out:

• We’re still awaiting further information on Kevin’s upcoming Emory University appearance in Atlanta, Georgia…Strange though, representatives from the school itself don’t seem to even know he’s coming. However, and this DOES bode well for the gang coming down, Vincent is screening “A Better Place” at nearby Agnes Scott College the next evening. The film will be shown on February 16th at 6:00 pm in the Gaines Auditorium in Pressor Hall. There will also be a Q&A session with Vincent afterwards. Best of all, this screening is FREE! Oh, and even better than that, guys, take note that Agnes Scott is an ALL GIRLS school! Vincent, you dog, you. Hey, can we come?

Also, we’ve learned that the Amherst appearance tickets are FREE for UMass students and just $3 for the general public. Don’t miss your chance to catch Kev live. It’s a lot of fun.

• We got tons of mail today from folks who caught the “Scream 3” cameo featuring Jay & Silent Bob last night. Too numerous of you to name, really. Here’s a description of when and where the duo appear, swoop the text to read it (or don’t if ya wanna be surprised):

Our thoughts? It was FUNNY…But WEIRD! The whole thing seemed very out of character for the film, we just couldn’t help but wonder whose idea it was to just throw them in there like that. Perhaps we’ll get an explanation in an upcoming Jay & Silent Bob comic? Anyway, it would have made more sense if the film was FULL of cameos, but it really wasn’t. Still though, it was great to see the guys in action up on the big screen, and definitely a testament to how far View Askew has come since Clerks. We’re hearing reports of HUGE audience reaction to Jay & Bob, so much that everything Jay says gets drowned out by laughter and applause. Cool stuff.

By the way, Scream 3 has its moments, but again, this sequel doesn’t hold a candle to the charm and originaly of the first Scream. Our verdict: The flick. 2 1/2 out of 5 stars. The Jay & Bob cameo: 4 out of 5 stars.

Roger Ebert, by the way, mentions the cameo in his review of the film, which he gave just two stars.

• Hey, we’re alive. How about that? The e-mail box is quite full today, mostly for 2 reasons: First, Chasing Amy’s appearance as movie of the day on the IMDB (when a highly-visited site mentions something Askew, e-mail always goes crazy). And then, of course, lots of you who, like us, caught the Jay & Bob cameo in “Scream 3” last night. Read on for those stories, our experiences with the Dogma drinking game, and LOTS more in this weekend edition of News Askew: