A four-issue comic book miniseries originally printed under the name Jay and Silent Bob, Chasing Dogma bridges the gap between Chasing Amy and Dogma, finally answering the question "Hey, what do you think Jay and Bob were doing around 1998?"
Here's the basic synopsis: after Jay gets the two of them thrown out of Tricia's house, they head to the mall's department store to watch VHS copies of John Hughes movies. They get in a fight, get kicked out of the RST Video parking lot, head to Shermer, Illinois to try and sell weed to the Brat Pack characters, get verbally assaulted by Mister Rogers, land work on the set of an adult film directed by Neil Patrick Harris called Doogie Nights, and that's all in the first two issues.
In a weird twist, issue three explores their adoption of an escaped orangutan and subsequent scrapes with a federal wildlife marshal, which will sound familiar to anyone reading ahead. Yes, the story of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back apparently happened twice. This all takes place in a world with like four different characters who look exactly like Jason Lee. Stranger things are going to happen.
At the end of the run, Jay and Bob discover that there is no Shermer, Illinois, and decide to bury their disappointment by heading to a family planning clinic to meet women.
