• Bullet Proof Entertainment confirms an August 22nd release date for the Clerks II CD sountrack! We’re pleased to debut the full track listing of the disc now, which includes the never-before-sceen dialogue tracks that will mix in with the tunes. You can likely figure out the segments that will be used by the titles, but speculate away:

Order your SIGNED copy of this must-have disc from the Stash today for $17.99. We expect they’ll be shipping late this week or early next week.

• Still hanging onto your Clerks II ticket stub? Send us a scan of it! We just got an e-mail from our good friends at Buena Vista Home Entertainment, offering us up 5 copies of the hilarious new DVD, “The Tick Vs. Season One” — It’s a funny cartoon, and for the first time anywhere on DVD. We figure many fans of View Askew have the same sense of humor as the show, so why not offer up these goodies to folks who were good enough to see Clerks II theatrically? So, email your scanned ticket to us here at scoops@newsaskew.com, and we’ll draw five random winners. The set, which involves 2 discs of 12 episodes from the show’s first season, streets everywhere on August 29, 2006. Good luck!

• Kevin & Jennifer arrived a bit late in San Diego for the con this year, due to traffic – But our favorite faithful photographer, Albert Ortega, didn’t miss a beat — Check out this new bath of Kevin, Jennifer, and a couple leftovers of Rosario and the Richard Kelley panel, too. As always, click these for large, beautiful high resolution versions, and thanks very much to Mr. Ortega for sharing his wonderful work with us. Enjoy.

• Here’s a look at the press release that’s going around confirming that October 25th overseas release of a 3-disc “Evening With Kevin Smith” which collects the original set along with the second installment. If the release date sticks, it does indeed look like some areas abroad will get “Evening 2” a couple weeks before the U.S.
• Kevin gets mentioned by the ailing Roger Ebert in a recent e-mail sent out to his fans:

We send our best wishes to Mr. Ebert for a speedy recovery.

• With the horrors of war happening in the middle east, it’s hard to imagine things do continue to move business as usual as well — Check out this scanned newspaper ad for Clerks II, which also promises free tickets to whoever lines up on September 1st in the Rev-hen Theater in Tel-Aviv. The film starts in Israel on Aug 24th.

• That famous “Kevin Smith Way” gets mentioned (along with a photo) in a recent article in Paulsboro’s Gloucester County Times. See the scan here.
• Here’s some fresh press from Australia regarding Clerks II. The film opens there on August 31st. Kevin hosts a screening of Clerks II on Tuesday, 7pm, State Theatre, 136 100, for $35.