• Clark University Appearance Info: Currently, the event is only open to students. Tickets will be given to students (free of charge) sometime in the beginning of March. If, when the date of the event gets closer, they haven’t given out as many tickets as there are seats (which is just around 650), they’ll open it up to the public for a small fee. Assume that the demand will be high though, so chances are this one will remain student only.
• DVDFile have posted a very positive review of the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back DVD. Be sure to check that out HERE. If you missed ours last week, you can check it and all our reviews out HERE.

• In the current isue of Entertainment weekly, there are 2 View Askew DVD reviews. First, one of Criteion’s re-release of Chasing Amy (it’s the same disc that was out before). The second is for Drawing Flies, which gets a C+. We’re still getting to that Flies review, it’s been a busy week. Sit tight, we haven’t forgotten.
• Some new entries for Files Askew today – A dandy Clerks Wallpaper for Windows, made out of the new posters available at the Stash! You can download it both 1024*768 and 800*600 resolution versions.
• We’re receving tons of reports that The Jay & Bob DVD has started to hit shelves around the country – Look around, if you’re lucky and didn’t preorder, you might be able to pick one up a few days early and get a head start on all that new material on there. We hear that Walmart is a GREAT place to look, as they’re notorious for breaking street dates.
• Martin Short’s “Primetime Glick” show included a small Clerks reference in their recent episode — It appeared during a parody commercial of the Independent Film Channel, describing their weekly lineup – Monday through Thursday night, the movies advertised were all fakes – they delt with heroin addicts, hitchhikers, and lesbians (apparently their idea of main themes in independent flicks), and then “On Friday night, Kevin Smith’s Clerks”. The poster was shown as well. Guess they feel that IFC shows Clerks quite a bit.

• During last night’s programming, NBC aired a voiced-over preview of what is to come on Leno next week. In it, they showed a tiny clip of the “Flying Cars Short”, where we saw a car stuck in traffic, and then a shot through the windshield of Dante and Randal. We’ll have a screen capture later.
• The Daily Newspaper for University of Massachusetts Amherst ran a Kevin Smith interview today, here’s a preview:

Check the whole thing out HERE.

• AICN ran an article regarding Daredevil casting. You can check that out HERE.

• Dark Horizons recently debuted the one-sheet for Affleck’s next flick, “Changing Lanes”.
• American Cuisine will air on the WE channel, tonight at 8 PM. We’re not sure if it’s subtitled or dubbed (or both).

• This is an older pic, but never posted. A scooper sent it in so we figured we’d run it, as it does have a bit of a Chasing Amy reference. It comes from the Astouding Space Thrills website.

• It’s been incredibly busy around here lately, believe it or not, with the combination of the new DVDs, new swag, the Flying Cars short, and the comics. Thank goodness Kev’s not filming Jersey Girl already, or we’d be quitting our day jobs. At any rate, if you didn’t check out our extensive DVD review of Jay & Bob Strike Back, be sure check out our new and revamped DVD Section. Speaking of that, we are currently working on a Drawing Flies review as well, which will be a lot more extensive as to what’s been on the web so far. Don’t let all those reviews sway ya from the disc, though, as so far reviews have been harsh. We’ll give the disc a more fair spin and have that review for you soon.

• You can now check out Kevin’s first three Arena columns in one simple place here at News Askew, which includes scans of the articles as well as simple text translations for those of you with troubled eyesight, small monitors, or slow net connections. We’ll keep the area up to date with the latest columns, as well as announce them here on the front page news. Enjoy!

• A fun new “10 Questions” piece with Kevin Smith appears on IGN today. Learn fun stuff like Kev’s favorite TV series, favorite films, thoughts on Hollywood, and more. It’s a quick read, definitely click over and check it out.
• Comics Newsarama reports that Marvel head honcho Joe Quesada confirms that Kevin’s Black Cat run will be solicited in June, with Terry Dodson as artist. It will be a six-issue miniseries entitled: Spider-Man: The Evil That Men Do. We can’t wait.

• More comics news: The first four pages of next week’s Green Arrow #12 have appeared online, thanks again to the excellent Comics Continuum website. You can view them above. Mile High Comics also has some pages, though they’ve only posted the first three .
• A brief interview that Kevin conducted with Seann William Scott appears in the latest INTERVIEW magazine. If anyone’s got a scan or just the text, send it on.
• If you want to see the View Askew God play live, and free, here’s your chance:

There ya go, folks — Watch your new View Askew DVDs AND see an Alanis concert. Get those passes while ya still can.

• And speaking of live music, west-coasters can catch V3 house band, Merrick, performing live, at the Virgin Megastore on Sunset in LA this Saturday. Here’s the details from Virgin.com:

• Here’s a scan from the latest Star Wars Insider regarding Kevin Smith’s narration of the Star Woids documentary, now available from IndieDVD.
• Another note on that French “American Cuisine” (Region 2) DVD: The DVD only has a French audio track and no english subtitles. Because Lee and the other actors recorded scenes in both English and French, The Romance Classics version is mostly in English with some French. The DVD is the opposite. So, unless you’re fluent in French, you probably want to skip the DVD.
• A new interview with Joey Lauren Adams appears in the Winter 2002 issue of the Oxford American (issue #42). In it, she discusses the film she is currently developing, titled “Lovin’ Up A Storm”. She has written the script and plans to star and direct in it. Billy Bob Thornton has agreed to appear and executive produce it as well. She’s hoping that his name will help her get the backing she needs to make it. If anyone’s got a scan, feel free to send it on.

• Contrary to what that release said in yesterday’s post, Kevin’s “Flying Car” short will NOT be airing until NEXT Wednesday, February 27. Plus we’ve gotten word that Kevin will be on the show in person to introduce the short. Sorry for all of the confusion.

• Zap2it.com ran this nice little story today on Kevin’s “Flying Car” short, which airs on the Tonight Show TOMORROW NIGHT! As you might know, this short features Dante and Randal having another one of their famous philosophical conversations/arguments. We’ve checked out the script, and it’s hilarious, so we’re sure you’ll dig it. Tune in to Leno tomorrow night or at least set those VCRs! Here’s the story:

Tomorrow’s gonna be a big day! Thanks to Alonso for the story.

• We got some GREAT stuff hitting the auction blocks at eJay this week, in fact, it’s safe to say that we’d LOVE to own any of these items — Too bad you folks out there seem to have a lot more liquid cash than we’ve got! Here’s a list of some rare, way cool (check out that Dogma sweatshirt and those Mooby props!) stuff you can own if you’re the highest bidder this time around:

• Oni Press/Jay & Silent Bob Standee
• Mallrats Fun Pack
• Dogma Prototype Posters
• Mooby’s Fun Pack
• Clerks the Cartoon Episode 3 Script
• Dogma Cast and Crew Hooded Sweatshirt

It’s all right now available over at eJay, the one and only View Askew auction website. Get over there and bid, and good luck to ya.

• Apparently, there’s a DVD of Jason Lee’s “American Cuisine” available through Amazon.com’s French version website. However, you’ll need a multiregion player to play it. If you’re a fan, there’s a rare chance to own that one for yourself.
• A couple of links to share with you today…First off, a couple guys are working on a film called “Stash Bash”, about, you guessed it, 2 Kevin Smith fans. Check out their site HERE for continuing updates and info.
• Also today, this is a nice new site – A View Askew fan page for fans in the UK. It’s called, appropriately enough, UK Askew. Check it out HERE.
• Finally in the links category, if fans are looking for another web board to chat it up at, a new View Askew area has popped up HERE, run by the silentbob.co.uk website.
• Kevin’s Superman Lives script and the whole Tim Burton fiasco comes up yet again in a new story from MSN. Check it out HERE.
• The new Jay & Bob DVD has stared to arrive on foreign shelves, including Australia and the UK. US fans should start seeing theirs early next week, as the release date is a week from today (next Tuesday). If you haven’t ordered one yet, what are ya waiting for? Get to it!
• The new issue of the StarWars Insider has an article on Kevin’s involvement in the Starwoids fan documentary (Page 26). We’re working on a scan.
• J&SBSB is the Movie of the Week at the Israeli website www.laserclub.co.il.

• Well it’s been quiet around here for the past couple of days, and with good reason! The Jay & Silent Bob DVD arrived here almost a week ago, and it’s taken that long to go through all of its contents and write a HUGE review – But now, we’re happy to present that review along with a TON of exclusive screenshots from the disc. It’s another winner from View Askew and Dimension, and probably the most content in a View Askew DVD set so far. Check out the review, and many thanks to all the kind folks at Dimension and Miramax that went out of their way to send us some early copies of the disc for review. Keep in mind this review was done on a test disc, though it’s unlikely that any changes were made for the final pressing.

You can also find more shots of the Jay & Bob DVD menus at the DVD Shrine website.