• Reviews of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back continue to be overwhelmingly positive, with some of the latest being a glowing piece from Peter Travers at Rolling Stone. You can check that one out HERE. A reviewer over at Guerilla Film gives Jay and Silent Bob an “A” and declares it “The Best Film I’ve Seen All Year.”

The good news continues as reviews for Bubble Boy are starting to trickle in around the web and they are generally horrible. Check out Dark Horizons for a couple of those today. Jay & Bob is clearly the film to see this weekend, and hopefully the moviegoing public will recognize that.

You can read and contribute to our huge J&SBSB Review database over at the News Askew Forums!

• Yep, you guessed it…More press for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back today! We’re not really checking these things for spoilers, repeat content, and the like…There’s just no time. So read at your own risk, and don’t be surprised if there’s not a lot of new information in them. The word sure is getting spread around, though, today’s group features a couple pieces from Canada as well as the usual U.S. outlets:

• Rumor has it that the story for the Bluntman & Chronic comic story script is not quite complete, thus, the book will not be out this month. This is unsubstantiated, but also possible due to Kevin’s busy schedule these past couple of months. We’ll try and learn more, as the book was originally set to arrive right before the J&SBSB film, and obviously won’t be on shelves in time for that. The book was set to tie directly into the film itself.
• We’d like to thank Access Hollywood for featuring shots of the News Askew site on a story regarding Kevin and the GLADD stuff in last night’s program. It was nice to see an objective piece as well as the site during primetime TV. Good stuff. We’ll have the clip online soon.
• According to this Fox News story, Afroman’s “Because I Got High” will now air on MTV, with direct references to pot smoking censored out.
• Hollywood.Com has a Jay & Silent Bob page dedicated to the new film now, which you can find HERE.
• Check out Entertainment Tonight this evening, as they have promised a piece on Afroman and his involvement with J&SBSB.
• There’s a piece with Carrie Fisher and James Van der Beek in the latest issue of Interview magazine. If anyone has a transcript, send it in, otherwise, check it out at your local newsstand.
• More online polls: www.boxofficereport.com is running a poll on which film will open at #1 next week. Jay and Bob have the lead easily at presstime. You can place your vote HERE. AOLers should check out Keyword: Movie Meter to vote in the “This Weekend’s Hottest Movie” poll.
• Jay & Silent Bob appear in cartoon form at the Celebritoons website HERE.
• Here’s a new interview over from Sequential Tart with artist Duncan Fegredo: His work on the Jay & Silent Bob comics comes up a new times. Check it out HERE.
• Apparently Mewes gets a mention on this strange Pokemon-like “adopt a character” site HERE.
• Sounds like she’s doing a little press for the film after all – Shannon Elizabeth had an interview with the morning radio show (98 ROCK) in Baltimore, MD this morning. She spoke well of working with Kevin and the crew.

• The first in the series, we’ve got a new skin for PC video game “The Sims” – This one allows you to have Banky move into your home. Check it out at Files Askew or click HERE to grab it now.

• In case you missed the announcement at their site, the CNN chat has been moved to Thursday, August 23rd. Same time, 12 noon EST. This is likely due to all the last minute changes revolving around the Tonight Show Appearance tonight.

The FX show “The Test” (which aired last night when Jay & Bob took over the network) is being rerun today (in a few hours…sorry it’s late) at 2PM EST on FX. Chances are they’ll run it a few more times, too. Check your listings.

• A few last minute appearance changes, and yes, the MTV TRL appearance will hafta be postponed today due to Kevin’s surprise appearance coming tonight on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The MTV TRL stuff will happen on Thursday or Friday of this week, and we’ll post that info here as soon as we know. In the meantime, Kevin’s busy speeding back to the west coast (he’s playing ping pong with the coastlines this week) after his early morning appearance on Howard Stern (which we’ll have audio for right here, soon). That being said, don’t miss Kevin on The Tonight Show this evening.

Coming up after tonight, appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tomorrow, and with Brian Gumbel on CBS’s Morning Show this Friday morning. Let the press onslaught continue! More updates later this evening.