• For those of you fretting the loss of that previous Black Cat cover for issue four, Kevin revealed good news. That cover WILL return on the “Marvel Must Have” book that will collect issues #1 through #3 of the series, to catch those of you up who may have missed the first run, forgotten the story or, as Kevin quips, torn up your issues in anger over the delays. Click the cover for a closer look.

• Local UCF freebie newspaper/magazine “The Central Florida Future” had a very prominent scan of our beloved Buddy Christ with an article. The shot you see here is the best we have to show ya.
• In honor of Labor Day, AOL and Moviefone are running a list of “Top 10 Movie Jobs That Suck”. The hard working counter jockeys of Clerks make #5 on that list.

• Thanks to John for sending us this scan of Gmail’s new RSS feature in action. You G-Mail (Google mail) account holders can now make use of News Askew’s headlines and toss them right at the top of your screen. Many other web mail apps and portals are also adding the feature (We currently use My Yahoo’s RSS feature to toss our favorite feeds at the top of the start page — And of course, your favorite RSS reader (there’s a ton to pick from these days) can still deliver the latest news headlines to your desktop or phone, right as they happen. It’ll be something you want when Clerks 2 news starts kicking into high gear around here, trust us!

• Huge props and thanks to Veronica Mars supersite “Neptunesite” (who happen to be big View Askew fans, as well) for informing us that they’ve obtained the first ever still from Kevin’s guest stint happening on the program. Kevin will appear in “Driver Ed” as a clerk, of all things, in Season 2’s second episode. Now all we gotta do is nab the season 1 DVD set and catch up on what we’re hearing was one of the best new shows to hit the tube last year. Thanks again, Netptunesite.

• Beaten only by the cooless that is “The Terminator”, “Donnie Darko”, and “Resevoir Dogs”, Empire Magazine has named Clerks #4 in their list of the 50 Greatest Independent Films Of All Time…

Clerks (1994)

All told, the credit card bills and sundry expenses amounted to somewhere in the region of $25,000. That’s a lot of coin to pay back, but if Kevin Smith was ever worried about recouping his borrowed, begged but absolutely not stolen outlay for his first movie, then he didn’t really have time to show it. For Clerks was quickly picked up by Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein, who overlooked its dodgy production values, ropy acting and a story that resists the description ‘threadbare’ because he saw a raw vitality in its balls-out dialogue; a vitality and spirit and, more importantly, laugh out loud sense of humour that ensured that Clerks connected instantly with disenfranchised tweens and shop workers everywhere, and the rest is history for Smith, from Chasing Amy to the continuing adventures of Jay & Silent Bob, to Empire Awards and domination of the geek world. Or, as Wor Kev might say it, motherfucking cocksucking history.”

Clerks X was also honored at The 8th Annual DVD Awards, hosted by Leonard Maltin, for “BEST PC SUPPORT — INDEPENDENT RELEASE”. Check it, and all the winners, out HERE.

• One of the reviewers, Craggs, over at Film 411 cites “Jersey Girl” as a great first date film And considering all the girls we’ve watched the movie with or talked to about it, the dude’s right. Chicks dig the Jersey Girl. Seriously.

• Seems Google’s start page is another that offers RSS feeds (and the ability to add News Askew’s headlines right to it). Thanks Will.

• If you listen closely to this new unrated trailer for “My Big Fat Independent Movie”, you can hear Mewes’ voice on a tape recorder. The trailer itself is…well…bizarre. Looks pretty low budget, and they certainly mean well, but we’re just not too sure where this one’s gonna go. Looks like a love it or hate it kinda deal.
• And finally today, seems there’s so many movie sites out there, some just don’t get the message when projects change ‘eh? So August is over…Where was this film!?!? We wanna see it! Catch you next time.