• Here’s a couple pics from the Pittsburgh Con that Chris took on Saturday…The first is of Bluntman & Chronic artist Mike Oeming. We’ll have some of Mike’s sketches and pages for you starting this Thursday, where we’ll debut 3 new sketches weekly for a while. We’ve also got a shot of Jimmy Palmiotti, who many of you met at the Stash Bash and came to the Askew world when he worked with Kevin & Joe Quesada on Daredevil. The Pittsburgh show is always a blast.
• A few of you wrote in to mention the fact that Richard Roeper was discussing the practice of companies releasing standard DVDs followed by Special Editions of the same movie a while later on this week’s edition of “At The Movies”. In the piece, he frowned upon the fact that studios aren’t packing all the info into them the first time around. He mentioned the Dogma/Dogma SE situation was one of the offenders.

You may recall that Kevin himself warned folks that the SE was coming even before the standard edition hit shelves, and this was in no way a ploy to get consumers to buy two versions of the movie on DVD. When contacted about this, Roeper replied that as originally written, his commentary made note of the “Dogma” situation, but he had to cut the info to fit its 45 second time limit. He also plans to give the “Dogma SE” DVD a more proper and favorable critique on the show after it is released. Hope this clears that up!

• The Mallrats that aired on CBC this past weekend was indeed the full, uncut version. Sorry for any confusion. Canadian broadcast TV can air uncensored stuff if they so desire, as their rules are much less strict than here in the USA. Sorry if those of you looking for the funny cut-up version were disappointed.
• Just a quick update on the Duncan Fegredo piece of art being auctioned @ the comics 2001 website: It is the TOP piece and has already reached $1000! The art was a custom job designed for a deck of cards that was sold to benefit the UK charity Childline. Anyone get a deck of cards, by the way? You can see shots of the original art (that was used to design one of the cards) HERE. No idea if bids are still running, but if you’ve got the cash and want to get in, you may wanna check this out. It’s a one of a kind.

• Finally today, this poster from a Japanese photo book might interest you. It’s the Japanese poster for Chasing Amy
  that we don’t think was featured on this site before. Enjoy.