• I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been a big supporter of these, but if you’re into this sort of stuff, a View Askew mailing list has started. This is basically a way for folks to chat Askewness through e-mail messages, which you receive (normally) bunches at a time. Here’s how to get on the list:

If you decide to join the list, let us know how it’s working out. You can e-mail the guy who started this, Skeeve Stevens if you have any questions, I suppose.

• Here’s some info on the upcoming Clerks comic, hot off the presses (The story that is, not the actual issue):

With Kevin doing the writing you can bet these things will be top-notch in quality, and I’m sure they’ll tie together nicely with the current Askewniverse. Plus, it’ll be cool to walk into the Stash and see Clerks and J&SB comics on the shelves. Perhaps Kev will have an in-store signing when the books are released? Time will tell.

• Kevin has informed us that the following people will be joining him for the special commentary track included on the Criterion disc :

Also, besides a few deleted scenes, the disc will contain the theatrical trailers, the Sponge music video, and a short featurette.

• Let us be the first to say congrats to Vincent Pereira for this cool news about his new flick :

We’re definitely looking forward to seeing this one.

• Uber-Producer Scott Mosier tells us that Bryan Johnson’s feature-film debut “Vulgar” has wrapped production and is looking pretty damn good. We’re really excited to hear this. If you have any interesting information about this movie or possible festival screenings, let us know and we’ll pass it on. Congrats Bryan!

• Launch is CD-Based entertainment magazine focusing on music and movies. Issue #14 has a cool interview with Ben Affleck and here’s what their site had to say about it :

Wanna know where you can buy this cool disc? Just click here!

• We received this info through Ming at the View Askew site:

Kevin appeared on Episode #3 of the series, which aired some time ago. If you missed it, a ton of film and sound clips from the show can be found here.Episode #7 will be on Bravo TONIGHT. The “Swingblade” trailer sounds hilarious. We can’t wait to see it.

• Kevin took some time to give us the full dish on the Dogma casting stuff yesterday. Here’s what he had to say:

Well, there ya have it, straight from the horse’s mouth as they say. It’s tough to tell right now whether Jason Lee will even appear in the film or not, but it doesn’t look too promising to me at this point. As always though, I’m sure it’ll work out well, and as Kev says, Matt & Ben should play well off of each other if they’ve been friends.

There has been some concern I’ve noticed from folks about what getting bigger names for an Askew film means. Hopefully, this will allow the film to get more visibility and reach a broader audience. I’m confident that with Kevin’s direction, nothing can go wrong, and I’m sure a lot has been learned from the problems with certain Mallrats cast members (I don’t need to mention NAMES, do I?). I just hope that Jay Mewes gets some scenes with Fiorentino. That would make the ticket price worth it alone.

Dogma’s going to rule. We’ll have more casting info and Dogma news for you as soon as it breaks.

• Well, unless your name is Willam you probably noticed that we’ve got a new graphic behind the frame you see on your left there. This is the master work of Steve Rettinger, who’s going to be creating some custom graphics for the page from time to time. We’d like to publicly thank Steve for a job well done. You can visit Steve’s page here.

• Got some BIG news for ya here that JUST landed on Yahoo’s Entertainment Page :

So, Linda and Chris! Not bad, Kev! There ya have it, folks…I’m not sure how big either of their parts are going to be, since I refuse to read the Dogma script, but I assume with the relative visibility of each of them that their parts will be fairly sizeable. This is also the first I’ve seen Matt Damon’s name mentioned as a definite cast member. Remember where you read it first!