Kevin Smith has been a longtime fan of Archie, and within the new comedian, he’ll convey Riverdale into the View Askewniverse.
THR experiences that Kevin Smith is bringing the View Askewniverse to Archie Comics. The Clerks author/director is writing a double-sized crossover comedian titled Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.
The comedian might be set after the occasions of Clerks III, which ended with a big dying, however Smith says, “Archie performs a job within the therapeutic” when the long-lasting character will get a summer time job on the Fast Store and befriends Randal Graves. “Not solely is that this my stab at a traditional American franchise that existed lengthy earlier than me that I learn as a child … It’s a midlife disaster venture about dying and studying to deal,” Smith defined.
Smith has lengthy been a fan of Archie comics, and he wrote the primary draft for the comedian simply someday after Archie artistic govt Jesse Goldwater pitched him the concept. “Kevin has at all times been certainly one of my artistic heroes, and seeing him convey his distinctive voice and imaginative and prescient to the web page with all of those iconic characters really looks like a as soon as in a lifetime second,” Goldwater stated. “Kevin’s work has at all times been hilarious and irreverent in the best possible manner, but additionally at all times crammed with such pleasure, coronary heart, and at all times centered on the significance of affection and friendship, similar to Archie Comics.“
Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob options paintings from Fernando Ruiz and Wealthy Koskowski, colors by Matt Herms, letters by Jack Morelli, and a canopy by Ruiz, Koslowski and Rosario “Tito” Peña. Will probably be launched on July ninth.
As for the film aspect of the View Askewniverse, Smith revealed final 12 months that he’s been engaged on a sequel to Dogma after lastly regaining management of the movie again from the Weinsteins. “Some individuals might be like, ‘Don’t f—ing contact it. You’ll smash it,” Smith stated. “And I’m right here to inform you: I’ll. I’m f—ing tickled. I discovered a manner in.” Smith additionally teased that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon could return, joking that they nonetheless owe him for by no means acknowledging him throughout their acceptance speeches for Good Will Looking. “I’ve been capable of maintain that over each their heads for 25 f—ing years, which is why they maintain exhibiting up in all the flicks,” he stated. “Count on a cameo from them — greater than a f—ing cameo. The one manner we get a Dogma sequel made is that if they’re there. So depend on these guys being there.“
