- Jason Mewes is scheduled to sign autographs for Metro Entertainment this month. For more information on times and dates email metrocomix@aol.com or call (805) 963-2168 for tickets. That’s all the info we have right now.
- One of this week’s stories in the mock/humor newspaper “The Onion” is titled ‘37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster’. aving the words ‘37′ and ‘Clerks’ in the same headline may be a coincidence, but you never know.
- For those of you that missed out when they are in short supply, “Panel One” (which features a script from an early comic Kevin wrote for Oni Press) is now back in stock at Amazon.
- Denmark’s yearly “Night Film Festival”, taking place in the capital of Copenhagen from April 5th to the 14th, and in the second largest city of Aarhus from April 17th to 21th, is playing Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back as part of their “Main Program”, which consists of roughly 30 movies. Information on showtimes is available at www.natfilm.dk. Here’s a translation of the description they have of the film:
Kevin Smith is an old festival favorite, and both “Clerks”, “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma” have been shown at the Copenhagen Night Film Festival (NatFilm). In all thre films, the mystical supporting characters Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith himself) have stood at the side of the picture and smoked joints, while they’ve hurled out toilet humour as well as blasphemic and politically incorrect comments. Over time, they’ve gotten their very own fan following, and Smith has now pulled them into the mainstream and given them their very own movie. And naturally, the are a textbook example of bad taste and bad jokes, full of slanderous parodies of other movies, parodies on the producing company, Miramax, and a non-stop stream of genital jokes. Add to this a number of dedicated Hollywood people, who show up and play themselves, including Wes Craven, Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. In “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, the last two mentioned are at work making a sequel to their joint breakthrough film, “Good Will Hunting”. Speed-talker Chris Rock, who played an angel in “Dogma”, also makes an apperance. He plays the movie director behind “Bluntman and Chronic”, who is meant to be making a film about the lives of Jay and Silent Bob, but is really a film version of the cartoon from “Chasing Amy”. Confused? It’s not half as complicated as it sounds. On the contrary, Smith gains greatly by raiding his previous movies, and the critic who called the movie “an in-joke of epic proportions” hits the joker right on the head.
