"Honestly, It's 'Clerks 3.5'": Kevin Smith on His Surprising New Jay & Silent Bob Comic and the Superman Movie That Got Away

It's now been more than three decades since writer/director Kevin Smith burst onto the movie scene with Clerks, a micro-budget, black-and-white 1994 comedy that details the lewd and hilarious misadventures of convenience store worker Dante (Brian O'Halloran), his best friend, Randal (Jeff Anderson), and Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith himself), the two idiotic-yet-also-wise drug dealers who hang out in front of the Quick Stop. The film was an indie sensation and evolved into a whole cinematic universe for Smith (before such things were in vogue), who ported Jay and Silent Bob into later films like Mallrats,Chasing Amy, Dogma, and two Clerks sequels.