• The always excellent Dark Horizons ran a nice little scoop on a possible cameo of a major Hollywood celebrity in “Jersey Girl”. There’s also a few more details on Ben Affleck’s character in the film here. If you REALLY wanna know, swipe the text below, if ya don’t, we suggest you move on:

It certainly would fit in with the period that the movie does take place, so we’re leaning towards this one being true, at least in the script — Whether it makes the final cut or will even be filmed remains to be seen. At any rate it sounds like a good gag, we’re hoping it’s true.

As always, please STAY AWAY from the talkbacks for this story if you want to avoid the spoiler, and keep all discussion of this topic within this talkback only.

• Kevin might not be there, but check out all these other meet & greet or signing opportunites at the San Diego con:

IF you’re in the area, don’t miss your chance to meet these folks, we’ve met quite a few of them ourselves and they’ve always been very kind and gracious to us View Askew fans. Tell ‘em we sent ya!

• In the July edition of “PREVIEWS: The Comic Shops Catalog” on page 221 there’s an add for Brian Lynch and D. J. Coffman’s “Monkey Man Unleashed” that claims, “Fact! Any comic book by Frank Miller, Brian Michael Bendis, Kevin Smith or that Babylon 5 guy gives off radiation that makes you sterile!”
• We’re only mentioning this to stop the e-mail onslaught on it, as we usually don’t go into the gossipy type stuff – But reports are indicating that Affleck and Lopez are indeed in a relationship of some sort — Congrats to them both, we’re sure it can only help the Jersey Girl chemistry and we wish them lots of luck.
• This website apparently has replacement AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) icons such as Jay & Bob, the Buddy Christ, and more. We prefer Trillian here, so we haven’t been able to test ‘em.