• Hey, thanks for stopping by today. We’ve got a variety of stories today, ranging from stories on actors from the new flick, advanced copies of the Clerks cartoon DVD floating around, comic news, and more. Shooting on the film continues to go quite well. It’s amazing to think that it’s over halfway finished already, isn’t it? A lot of you are asking us when the crew is coming back to New Jersey to finish filming (rumor has it they’ll have one week of filming to do back in the homeland to wrap things up). We figure this will happen sometime in March, but have no specific dates on this yet or any information regarding opportunities to be an extra, if they even exist.

Also, we’re happy to announce that we’ll be heading out to the west coast at the end of this month for a few days of reporting from the set. Expect some up-to-the-minute news from the soundstage itself as well as some other exclusive stuff that we can only bring ya right here at News Askew. We’re being given some all-access passes which includes the opporuntity to take some photos of the cast, crew and the set, so expect some good stuff and a HUGE report in a couple of weeks.

Alright then, that being said, let’s see what’s in the news today:

• A couple of advanced reviews came into us on the Clerks: Uncensored DVD, as two lucky readers from the UK got their discs a full week early, since companies tend to ship stuff overseas very early to make sure it arrives on time. Anyway, here’s some information that we heard about the disc from these reports:

• The commentary track is quite good, and includes quite a bit of Kevin discussing the cancellation of the show.
• The commentary re-affirms that the Clerks cartoon animated feature will happen.
• Kevin tells about some of the episodes that were never made due to the cancellation. Our scooper says, “My fave one was they were gonna have an episode where Randall bought Kitt from Knight Rider and Kitt becomes so jealous of his relationship with Dante that he kills him, then lays some of Dante’s clothes on the hood and nobody notices.”
• Each episode comes with a multi-angle option. Angle 1 is the actual cartoon, and angle 2 is every single storyboard used to create the episode along with the commentary. How cool is that?
• All the original character development and early pics of their appearances are included on the disc and rumored to be quite good as well.

Both our reviewers were amazed that the series didn’t do better when it aired and wish that it wasn’t pulled. Too bad more US audiences didn’t feel the same way! We’ll of course have a full review of this thing when we get copies. Sadly, we couldn’t get review copies sent out to the site so we had to order our copies just like the rest of ya. We’ll be watching it the same time as you! Our review will probably focus on the extra features more since we’ve seen the toons themselves on several occasions.

• A new interview with Vincent Pereira appears at the Drama Monkey website, where he discusses “A Better Place”, the new soundtrack (available from Gig Records) and lots more.
• Jay Mewes is in an AICN poll the Best ActorPerformance award for his role in “Scream 3”. Against such candidates as Russel Crowe, Ellen Burnstyn and Tom Hanks, Mewes has some tough competition, but hey, it’ll be fun to see how many votes the guy gets.
• An article on Will Ferrell appeared at MSNBC yesterday which contained some audio clips. In one of them, titled “On His New Movie”, he discusses his role in J&SBSB. Check it out.

• Fandom‘s got the cover for Green Arrow #4 posted, which you can check out above. It looks like we might get to see a Kev-scripted Justice League!
• Speaking of Fandom, Marvel honcho Joe Quesada reveals what his role in J&SBSB involves. He’ll actually speak and appear in an action sequence.

• Finally today, a fan made pic that you Pokemon fans may find some amusement in. Catch ya next time!