And then we have something we’re quite excited to see, as we haven’t seen it before – Marvel’s “Then and Now” Q&A with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith, is now available for purchase! The disc contains of course the full program along with heaps of extras, including bonus interviews, behind-the-scenes, and more. You can purchase your copy via the Then And Now site, with proceeds benefitting the awesome Hero organizataion. This one’s another must-have for your View Askew DVD collection.

Watch for more in-depth coverage on both of these discs here at News Askew next week.

The funniest conversational podcast ever. And probably one of the most profane bits of audio on your iPod. Swearing is not big and is not clever – except when it’s done by Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith (creator of Clerks). Whether they’re talking about childbirth, pets or Portakabins, you can rely on them to deliver irreverence in slumped-on-the-couch voices.

Sounds like those of you on the fence won’t want to miss the next chance to attend a View Askew prom! We’ll of course let you know if this becomes an annual event.

SModcast 25: Lynching Vixen

In which our heroes spend an unhealthy amount of time deconstructing a Rankin Bass classic, do a “Midnight Express” with a pre-street-date DVD, kill a franchise, lament the loss of holiday-programming luster, fail to enjoy adolescent keggers, get the blues at a strip club, miss opportunities to smoke on campus, have their bagged-and-boarded books threatened, and explore the thickest, strongest apron strings in central Jersey.

As always, SModcast is available for immediate, free download exclusively at your friendly neighborhood Quick Stop Entertainment, or through your favorite podcast subscription service. Yep, it auto-delivers the laughs direct to your computer or MP3 player. How cool is that?

We can’t get enough of the stories Kevin tells about this show, regarding aborted scripts and plans for the eventual direct to DVD films. They can’t come fast enough, we say! Pop over to IGN to check out the full list.

See Kevin’s Myspace blog or Boring-Ass life blog for the official word and a couple nifty videos to go along with it.

ALSO, be sure and catch Kevin on the tube (that’s TELEVISION, not YouTube) promoting the book: September 25th on the Late Show with David Letterman, and October 3rd on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. Both are CBS.

Kevin also has a Q&A coming up in Ithaca, NY at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall on Saturday, September 22nd. We all know how late those Saturday Q&A’s can go, and if it’s anywhere near as fun as Red Bank was, it’s totally worth the trip. We’ll have more details on that earlier next week for ya, as students have yet to receive the official announcement, but Kevin revealed the date today.

Q: You’ve taken supporting roles in other people’s films – “Catch and Release,” “Live Free or Die Hard.” Is that like a vacation for you?

A: It is kind of a vacation. It’s fun to do. It’s certainly nothing that I would make my primary job. But if stuff comes along and I’ve got the time – and it doesn’t require heavy lifting, because I’m certainly nobody’s actor – I’m all game for it.

Q: “Clerks II” proved there’s still juice left in Jay and Silent Bob (characters played by Jason Mewes and Smith, respectively). Do you think these guys could do a movie in their 50s?

A: I dunno, man. That’d be tough. I always thought it’d interesting somewhere down the road to see how they aged. But I think I’ll just kind of reserve that for if we ever do another “Clerks” look-in on Dante and Randal. Like, people have asked, “Are you going to do ‘Clerks III’?” I’m like, “Maybe not until I’m in my 40s.” Because it would be nice to peek in on those two characters every decade and see how they progress. “Clerks” was in my 20s and “Clerks II” was in my 30s, so maybe “Clerks III” would be in my 40s. Even then, I’m like, “How do you handle Jay and Bob in their 40s?”

SModcast 24: Rigg-er, Please!

In which the manager of a comic book emporium and a Canadian infamous for overstatement join forces with a newly-minted senior citizen to discuss past mistakes and the fallout of waging body parts, robotic scat games, hipping-up that which doesn’t require hipping-up, a drug-free “Underdog”, lying to customers, unlikely music to shop/screw to, the average length of straight sex vs. gay sex, and wax rhapsodic about one of the greatest action-movies-starring-a-guy-who-later-went-bat-shit ever made.

Next week, SModcast turns 25! What will the guys have in store for us? Come on back and see – Or subscribe to SModcast via your favorite MP3 delivery service. Brought to you exclusively by Quick Stop Entertainment and your friends at View Askew Productions.

CHASING AMY – Kevin Smith. Funny, real, pitch perfect, and you actually root for Ben Affleck. Now that’s good writing!

The Green Hornet property was under Kevin Smith’s banner for a long time: the ultimate comic fanboy wrote a script but decided not to direct it. Rogen will not take the opportunity to read Smith’s draft.


“I’m actually friends with Kevin Smith and he said I probably could read it if I wanted. I don’t want to. I have no interest right now in reading it I would say. At some point.”

This pretty much has Josh Holloway written all over it,” wrote IceTruckDexter on cinematical.com, while others suggested Matthew McConaughey, Jason Mewes (must be a hair thing), New Zealand-born actor Karl Urban (lately an assassin in The Bourne Supremacy) and, of course, Vincent D’Onofrio, who memorably played a beefy mechanic who was mistaken for Thor in Adventures in Babysitting in 1987.

According to Smith, Zack and Miri is currently scheduled to begin shooting in January, with pre-production gearing up somewhere around early November. That leaves plenty of time to find a new female lead, and while I adore Dawson just as much as the next guy (I swear, I have dreams about that dance in Clerks 2), there are plenty of other fish in the sea. God, I feel like I’m giving my friend advice after his prom date ditched him at the last minute for a bottle of tequila and a dude with a trust fund. And speaking of proms, Smith also posted a ton of photos from his 37th birthday bash — including pics of his MILF, er, wife, daughter and tons of other partygoers. Happy B-Day Kev, and here’s hoping your belated gift comes in the form of an actress that will totally kill in the role.