Filmmaker Kevin Smith may be calling time on his directing career after his next outing, the two-part hockey drama Hit Somebody, but that doesn’t mean we’ve heard the last from the various characters of the View Askewniverse, with Smith taking to Twitter to tease the return of Dante Hicks and Randall Graves for new episodes of the short-lived Clerks: The Animated Series…
Via @Just_Reboot “Clerks cartoon was brilliant, I rewatch it bi-monthly” @Miramax 2.0 and I are hoping to give you new eps weekly next year.
Clerks: The Animated Series is of course the cartoon spin-off to Smith’s 1994 feature debut, which was developed by Smith, his producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live writer David Mandel. The show saw Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson reunite to voice their respective characters and also saw the return of Jason Mewes and Smith as Jay and Silent Bob, along with Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanagan as Steve-Dave and Walt the Fanboy.
The show premiered on ABC in 2000, but was cancelled after just two episodes were aired. In total, six episodes were produced – with the likes of Alec Baldwin, Charles Barkley, Kevin Michael Richardson and Bryan Cranston all lending their voices to the cast – and they were packaged together and released on DVD in 2001. Smith subsequently expressed his desire to produce a direct-to-video animated feature, Clerks: Sell Out, but it now seems as though Dante and Randall are set to continue their animated exploits on the small screen.
Originally published March 25, 2012. Updated April 10, 2018.
