Ben Affleck just arrived in Savannah, Ga., but he’s already finding out that the city is a hothouse of gossip. It’s favorite new bloom: the star’s love life.

The Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting” co-star is there shooting “Forces of Nature”, a romantic comedy in which he plays a guy who’s on his way to see his fiance when he gets sidetracked by Sandra Bullock. Savannah spies are spinning a similar story about Affleck and his girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow. The spies say that while the couple is apart, Affleck has acquainted himself with one of the local beauties. ‘Tis said that the woman regularly stops by Affleck’s house and that the duo has been using his back-yard pool — and not just for swimming.

Friends deny that Affleck’s interest in Paltrow is waning.

“Gwyneth just got back from Savannah on Monday,” said one Affleck buddy. “And she’s heading back down there next week. Their relationship is anything but cool.”

Ben’s a sane, smart guy…And we hafta admit…He’d be CRAZY to break up with Gwyneth! Darn these rumors…

With no fanfare, giant spaceships or silicon masks to back him, the bear of the comic book industry, Bob Schreck, is back. The jovial, bitter, high weirdness he lent to Dark Horse is now fully unleashed at Oni Press, as he brings Bill Sienkewicz, Neil Gaiman, Paul Pope, Matt Wagner, and upcomers Troy Nixey and Scott Morse with him-plus a slightly know industry outsider, Kevin Smith, the Chasing Amy dude. The CLERKS spin-off book is, if anything, funnier than its original, and you should hunt down the “Jay and Silent Bob”story without wasting a second before some aging hipster scalps the last one out from under your nose.

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The not-quite-stars of…well, every film from Kevin Smith, return in their own original series. Jay & Silent Bob not only stands on its own, but also serves as a sequel and a prequel all in one. This limited series picks up at the end of Chasing Amy, with our dynamic duo getting on a bus and heading out of town, and when all is said and done, the story ends at the exact point where the characters make their first appearance in the upcoming film, Dogma. What a package! (Jun – Aug $2.95)

Rock also appears on the cover of August’s Vanity Fair. Kevin is quoted: “It’s felt from time to time in our discussions like he’s doing material,” says the director Kevin Smith, who spent the spring directing Rock in his film Dogma. “Sometimes I interrupt him and say, ‘Are you on right now? Am I an audience?'”

George Carlin, who is noted as working with Chris in Dogma, is also quoted.

The article also says: “He chose to work with Kevin Smith on Dogma, he says, because Smith’s previous film, Chasing Amy, was ‘the first original romantic comedy in 15 to 20 years, the first not to be a retread of Annie Hall.'”

Finally, the article says Dogma is out this December (which we’re learning is probably not true, at least at this point.)