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“Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers” has hit shelves, but is in very limited supply over at Amazon. The book features Kevin’s script for the Jay & Silent Bob story from Oni Double Feature 1, and is available in better comic book stores everywhere. The book also has a nice juicy superhero script by Neil Gaiman, 33 pages of Jeff Smith drawn script, and other contributions by Greg Ruck, Dwayne McDuffie, Trina Robbins, Kurt Busiek, Marv Wolfman, Steve Lieber, and Nat Gertler. Get your copy today!
Blockbuster Video expects previously viewed VHS copies of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back to start going on sale in early April.
And speaking of video, J&SBSB is at #8 on both Video Store Magazine’s Top 20 Rental Titles chart (for the week ending March 24) and on Video Scan’s DVD Consumer Sales chart (week ending March 16).
Alternet.org, the non-corporate news site, ran a mock movie award contest based on…well, based on mocking other movie awards. Jay and Silent Bob came in second, to The Lord of the Rings, for most homoerotic movie of the year. You can read more about it HERE.
Apparently, there’s some View Askew fans at the Sobe company — The fine folk at Sobe include little sayings under the caps of their beverages, usually little pop culture references with a lizard spin on it. A recent cap spotted of their “Liz Blizz” Pina Colada flavored beverage read “Jay and Silent Lizard”.

Here’s one of the best web comic appearances of Jay & Silent Bob we’ve ever seen — Jay and Bob are in today’s edition of “Shoot Me Now”. Prior to this episode, some of the main characters were lost at sea and wound up at the lost city of Atlantis. The Atlantians are kinda like fish people. “Chuck” gets thrown into an arena to fight a monster which is basically a shameless rip-off of the Rancor in Return of the Jedi. In this strip, Jay and Bob (as Atlantians) take their turns fighting. This comic is well written and well drawn, don’t miss it!
Clerks on the big screen again this weekend — St. Louis area folks, ‘Clerks’ will be playing again this weekend at Ronnies 20 Cine’ (ticket info – (314)822-2463). It’s Friday and Saturday at 11:30pm only.
The alt.video.dvd newgroup reports that the ‘Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters And Marvels’ DVD released on May 7th features “director Kevin Smith and Stan Lee discussing the characters of many Marvel favorites”.
Another strange appearance of Jay & Bob was spotted in this web comic HERE.
Lots of folks are mixing their own tunes these days with PC mixing software — There’s some tunes in the audio section for “DJ Jay & MC Silent Bob” at the Consumption Junction website if you’re interested in checking them out.

Finally today, we’ve been receiving tons of e-mails from folks celebrating the announcement of the 37 cent stamp here in the US – So we figured we’d finally give it a mention. One fan had an idea of what the Postal Service might want to use for the design. Have a great Easter folks, if we don’t talk to ya before.

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