Smith doesn’t expect “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” to win any Oscars, but he doesn’t care either. To him, he’s already gotten everything he could have wanted out of the two bumbling idiots. Not only did he buy back his comic books, but also the money he has made off of Jay and Silent Bob’s success (and the Jersey films) let him buy his own comic shop. While Smith admits he will miss writing stories involving the two characters– Jay and Silent Bob have not only starred in numerous films, but a “Clerks” TV show and various comic books– he knows that the thing that made work the most enjoyable was working with his friends, and that, he swears, won’t change.

“My friends and I working together certainly wasn’t because we were only telling stories about the same characters,” Smith states. “It’s a matter of me liking those people. It’s probably why those characters kept coming back. I would imagine that would stay the same. It’s not like just because there is no more Jay and Silent Bob and we aren’t in Jersey anymore we would throw in a whole new cast. There are too many great actors that we have dealt with that we’ll want to work with again.”