Kevin Smith Announces "Mallrats" Sequel Comic Tribute to Shannen Doherty 1 Year After Her Death Tommy McArdleAugust 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM John Nacion/WireImage; Dark Horse Comics; Neilson Barnard/Getty Kevin Smith on June 6, 2025; Quick Stops Vol. 3; Shannen Doherty on Oct.
- - Kevin Smith Announces "Mallrats" Sequel Comic Tribute to Shannen Doherty 1 Year After Her Death
Tommy McArdleAugust 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Kevin Smith on June 6, 2025; Quick Stops Vol. 3; Shannen Doherty on Oct. 5, 2019 -
Kevin Smith is publishing a tribute to the late Shannen Doherty in the next edition of his comic book series Quick Stops
Illustrator Ryan Gajda wrote on Instagram that a story contained in the book was written as "a continuation of the story of Mallrats," in which Doherty, who died in 2024 at 53, starred back in 1995
Smith told PEOPLE in an interview after Doherty's death that she told him she "really wanted to do" a sequel to Mallrats
Kevin Smith is giving fans of his 1995 movie Mallrats a sequel, of sorts, in a tribute to late star Shannen Doherty.
On Wednesday, Aug. 20, Smith, 55, shared an Instagram post with illustrator Ryan Gajda that revealed a cover for Smith's Quick Stops Vol. 3 — meant to resemble Doherty and Jason Lee's characters from Smith's cult classic — as they announced the comic book will release Sept. 24.
"I've been excited about mentioning this for a while... but earlier this year I drew a whole comic written by @thatkevinsmith for his Quick Stops series with @darkhorsecomics and it's out next month on Sept 24th," Gajda wrote in the caption.
"The story is a tribute to the incomparable Shannen Doherty and a continuation of the story of Mallrats based on Kevin Smith's sequel script that would have checked in on Brodie and Rene 30 years on from the events of the original," the illustrator added.
"When I was fifteen I drank a bunch of coffee and stayed up especially late one night with my brother to watch Mallrats on BBC2 after seeing Dogma and falling in love with it. If you'd told me then that I'd be doing this now I think my brain would have exploded."
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Doherty, who died at age 53 in July 2024, starred in Mallrats opposite Lee and Jeremy London. The movie follows a number of characters who converge at a local mall in New Jersey, where many of Smith's movies are set. Smith and his frequent costar Jason Mewes appear in the movie as Jay and Silent Bob, and the film primarily follows a relationship between Doherty and Lee's characters.
As illustrator Gajda mentioned in his Instagram post, Smith once wrote a sequel to the movie titled Twilight of the Mallrats. After Doherty's death last year, Smith told PEOPLE in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con that Doherty said she "really wanted to do" the sequel in some of their final conversations.
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Shannen Doherty and Kevin Smith on the set of 1995's Mallrats
"At the very least, as a 'for Shannen,' that'd be a cool thing to do," Smith said at that time.
Penguin Random House, which publishes Smith's Quick Stops comic book series, wrote in an official description of the new volume that Smith "honors his friend and costar Shannen Doherty with two stories" in the new book, "one about Shannen's immaculate sense of humor, and the other a requiem for her character in Mallrats, Rene." The new edition also features stories related to Smith's movies Chasing Amy and Dogma.
Smith's new comic sequel to Mallrats is available for purchase Sept. 24.
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