• And what a week it is! Yet again, this week’s eJay gives you a chance to own some very unique items from the View Askewniverse. Check out this great lot, which includes yet another of those posters that appeared in the famous Mooby boardroom scene, another rare signed Chasing Amy poster, and a way cool Buddy Christ necklace that’s INCREDIBLY rare. All great stuff, and it’s going to some lucky bidders this week. Will you be one of ‘em? Visit eJay and get those bids in. Good luck to ya!

• Since the review’s still not up, we wanted to give you all a look at some menus and screenshots from the Drawing Flies DVD. The disc is a bargain and for sale at the Stash, signed by director Malcolm Ingram and ready to ship to your door. You can also find the disc at various local outlets around the country, we hear Best Buy’s got ‘em for sure at a fair price. At any rate, check out some of these shots from the disc’s menus, intro, and the film. If you’ve got the disc already, we will tell you that some Easter Eggs have recently been discovered, can YOU find ‘em? Details on that will be in our disc review, but until then, happy huntin’.

• Don’t forget that Kevin will be signing your Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back DVDs at Dave’s Video this Saturday, March 2nd. you’ve. Dave’s Video is located on 12144 Ventura Blvd in beautiful Studio City and their phone number is (818)760-3472. You can also reach them via email at davesvideo@earthlink.net. Kevin will sign your DVD only if it’s purchased at Dave’s, and one other item. The line will get cut off at 3 PM, which means that if you get there before 3, you’re cool, but no one will be allowed into the line after 3 PM. As long as you get in line by that time, though, Kevin will be hanging to make sure you all get your stuff signed.

Wanna make that DVD even MORE collectible? Co-star Jason Mewes (Jay) is also scheduled to be signing DVDs at 7 PM at Things From Another World in the Universal CityWalk in LA.

• Here’s a photo of what those Jay & Bob decks of cards being given away with the DVD in Canada at Future Shop stores look like. Again, if anyone can snag us a some decks, please do! Legally, of course.
• Congratulations to George Carlin on his Grammy win last night, Best Spoken Comedy Album (For spoken word comedy recordings). Carlin took home the honor for “Napalm & Sillyputty”.
• nerve.com has an interesting article today on the life and times of the profession immortalized in cinema during a Randal rant in “Clerks”, the “jizzmopper”. Read at your own risk.
• And finally, since it’s the big topic today, here’s some web links to various companies that are racing each other to be the first innovators to provide the world with The Flying Car. Enjoy.

• We’ve now got a local copy of “The Flying Car” for your viewing pleasure here at News Askew. The mirrors below are still functional if you are having trouble with this file, so be sure and check the story below if the site seems slow to you. It’ll help ease our traffic, as well. We’ve got the capture in MPEG and RealMedia, as well as a local copy of the earlier Windows Media transfer.

“The Flying Car” was hilarious and seemed to go over quite well on The Tonight Show (after a Leno monologue that seemed to go on FOREVER and those awful women visiting the Grammy awards, terrible stuff – Sorry, Letterman fan here). The audience really seemed to dig the short, laughing at all the right places and especially at the big end-joke from Randal. Enjoy the short, and feel free to use the talkbacks below to discuss it. Leno owes Kevin a lot of thanks, he brought that show alive last night! Here’s hoping that there’s more opportunities for Kevin to produce material for the show.

• We’d like to thank all of the generous folks who are offering mirrors of “The Flying Car”, the new short from Kevin which debuted on The Tonight Show last night. We’ll have our own capture and mirror online later, these files below all represent the different captures done by other folks, so quality, size, and format will vary. Here’s what we’ve got:

“THE FLYING CAR” Starring Brian O’Halloran & Jeff Anderson

Mirror #1 (MPEG Video, from Videotape, 48.5 Megabytes)
Mirror #2 (Streaming Quicktime 5.0, 7.5 Megabytes)
Mirror #3 (Windows Media, Digital Feed, 7 Megabytes)

Again, we’ll have a mirror up here early this afternoon as well. Until then, thanks to the folks above for their help, andfeel free to use our talkbacks section of this post to discuss your thoughts on the short.

• There’s so many stories surrounding the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back DVD today, we figured we’d give them their own category. First off, the disc’s release received a quick TV mention yesterday on Access Hollywood. Oh, but there’s lots more.
• Wizard World ran a great piece on the flick’s DVD release. Their coverage was fantastic during production, and continues to be excellent. Here’s the story:

Check it out HERE as well.

• The disc’s release made the “Latest News” area of the official Daredevil news website.
• Another review of the Jay & Bob DVD appears at IGN today. Even their online trivia question is about the flick.
• To commemorate the video/DVD release of J&SBSB, My Video Store added a weekly poll asking for your favorite Askew character.
• Our friends in Canada who are purchasing the DVD at Future Shop are reporting they’re receiving a free deck of playing cards with the Jay & Bob Strike Back logo on the back with their purchase! Cool stuff – If anyone’s got access, send us some decks! They’d make a nice giveaway at the site.
• At the Internet Movie Database, J&SBSB is featured in their Special Editions & Boxed Set DVD sections.

• Latest word from Lions Gate Films: Vulgar is scheduled at this time to be released in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles on April the 26th. If you’re in the one of those cities, plan to be there to support the film!
• Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back was nominated for several 2002 “Bikkie Awards” from the Bikkit.com website.

Voting closes before March 25th. In addition, on the main page (as of today) there’s a poll for the best Kevin Smith character of all time (with 8 choices).

• Here’s a new fan-designed wallpaper featuring the DVD jackets of the Askewniverse if you’re interested, from GDX Designs.
• Another fan piece on his visit to the View Askewniverse (Red Bank) this past summer has been placed online. It’s posted on the Filmboy page of their Stomp Tokyo site. Check it out HERE.
• Finally today, Little blurb from Bill McCuddy on Kevin HERE.

• Well the day is finally here, you can now own your very own copies of “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” AND the long-awaited and rarely seen “Drawing Flies” on DVD! Both are also out in VHS versions at your local video store. We of course urge you to check out both of these flicks, and, if you’re a DVD owner, BUY ‘EM! Our Jay & Bob DVD review went up last week, and, with apologies to Malcolm, our Drawing Flies DVD review is still on the way. We wanted to get the review up by today, and it’s partially written already, but instead of doing it half-assed we want to do it right. So, bear with us, we promise to have that for you very soon, and that the disc isn’t deserving of the reviews that have been popping up elsewhere. Be sure and buy copies of both! You can get them at the Stash, signed by their respective directors, a great deal. Enjoy the discs, folks, and watch for our full-length “Drawing Flies” review this week.

• Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back has received a nomination for “Trashiest Trailer” according to Film Threat magazine. The Golden Trailer Awards event takes place on Thursday, March 14th at 8:00 p.m. at The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, and has quite a cool list of celebrity judges.

• Jay & Bob’s DVD (and the recent piracy of the flick) pops up in a very appropriate edition of Real Life Comics today. Check it out above, on their site, or in their archives.
• In addition to this comic, a group of OTHER online comic strip artists have decided to run tribute strips to Jay & Bob today, in celebration of the DVD release. Check out all the details HERE. They’ve got links to all the comics there. A great tribute, indeed. Thanks to all the artists who participated.
• The DVD Cyber Center have posted their quite positive review of the Jay & Bob DVD.
• A fan was quick to point out that on the Jay & Bob DVD, Jason Lee’s filmography in the biography section includes a credit as Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher in Fletch Won, scheduled for 2003. Cool stuff.
• Kevin makes another appearance on Comedy Central’s “Heroes of Black Comedy” Series. This time, the Episode is on Hip-Hop Comics. He has three clips; all towards the beginning of the show. It re-airs at 8am/7C on Saturday, March 2nd.
• FYI: Shipping this week to comic stories: Green Arrow #12, a new Bluntman & Chronic poster, and a second Green Arrow T-Shirt. Check out the Stash website, our archives, or your local comic shop for more information on these items.
• Here’s a press release published today on the Tonight Show appearance tomorrow, just to continue with the anticipation:

• The “Advice From Strangers” column over at the Daily Probe put Jay & Bob in their “guest spotlight” this week.
• Finally today, those of you who have been coming to the site might rememeber a while back that we had a raffle and gave away a t-shirt that was worn by Jay Mewes himself in Mallrats as the grand prize. Well, the dude who won that puppy has come under some financial need, and thus, appears to be SELLING it to the highest bidder over at eBay. This is a true collector’s item, and something you might want to look into, a second chance to own it. Please keep in mind that this is not a News Askew or View Askew endorsed auction, as with all things on ebay bid at your own risk. Still, we thought we’d point you to it. See ya next time.

• Here’s some stuff that might be of interest to ya that’s coming from the Orlando Megacon, courtesy of Comicon.com:

• Editor Bob Schreck said that while Brave and the Bold is coming, the new, ongoing series written by Kevin Smith won’t be coming as quickly as planned, resulting in artists Phil Hester, Ande Park, and cover artist Matt Wager staying on Green Arrow through new writer Brad Meltzer’s run.
• Smith said that he hopes to get back to View Askew comic book projects this year.
• Conner Hawke will be a prominent character in Smith’s final Green Arrow storyline.
• Smith’s Spider-Man/Black Cat miniseries does lead into an ongoing Black Cat series, according to Smith.
• Schreck said that he expects Green Arrow to begin showing up around the DC Universe now that Smith has returned him to life – and soul. His first appearance will be within the first six issues of Hawkman.
• Smith said that he is “mulling over” an offer from Diana Schutz at Dark Horse to write a Star Wars comic. If he did do it, Smith said it would be a more serious story, rather than how many casualties there were when the Death Stars exploded, or other topics the characters in his movies pondered.
• Smith said that he would not be addressing the “Arrowette controversy” in the pages of his final issues of Green Arrow, nor does he have any opinion on it one way or another.