Yes, I know this is a bit of an old joke at this point, but even with the poor grammar abound in the subtitles I still think this is too funny not to pass on after a friend of mine sent it my way:

Click HERE to see Hitler’s rant about the lack of squidy-goodness in the Watchmen film.

That aside, raise you (cyber-)hand if you caught the not so-subtle (in my opinion, at least) Alan Moore stand-in chillin’ in the bar towards the Third Act of the of the film…

Bettie Page died yesterday.

Full details on her life before and after her pin-up days are available through several news sources, including Yahoo News HERE, although the Chicago Tribune has a photo slideshow (found HERE for those interested) is also worthy of merit if for no other reason than that it features a pic of Bettie Page from 2006.

Her face, of course, is not shown… but what else would you expect?

(For those of you out there who are unsure as to how this relates to comics, hunt down and then read Dave Steven’s The Rocketeer, you bums!)

Hey all!

I’m surprised I haven’t heard more buzz about Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland that will be hitting theaters in 2010.

While there are no pics of Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter present in the above-linked thread, we do get to see several candid “first look” shots of Mia Wasikowska as a rather pale (and borderline gothic-looking) Alice.

Tim Burton casting a pale and borderline gothic version of Alice?

Really?

What were the chances of that?!?

[Via infdaily.]

Hey all!

Do you have one of those annoying friends who likes to e-mail you played-out Chuck Norris jokes?

If so, have them check out this video of Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with nunchucks.

No, it’s not real footage (thank you, CGI technology!), but they don’t need to know that, do they?

Hey all!

I’m Dirk Manning.

Regular Newsarama readers will know me as a regular contributor to the site and the fellow in the dapper black hat who writes the ongoing advice/”how-to” column Write or Wrong. If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the first forty-six(!!!) installments of the column to date, click the link to check out the most recent edition from a few weeks ago. As always, it’s informative and entertaining. Honest!

Fans of horror and/or online comics might also know me as the guy responsible for NIGHTMARE WORLD, a series of stand-alone but carefully intertwined short stories that detail several people’s lives and loves (and, yes, occasionally deaths) before, during and after an Armageddon of very Lovecraftian proportions. Cthulhu appears often, if that helps to motivate you, and we were also recently picked-up by Shadowline as part of their webcomic family to boot. Huzzah for us!

Aside from all that, Matt Brady also saw fit to thrust me upon the gang of talented folks who will be bringing you the new Blog @ Newsarama. I dunno, apparently Troy Brownfield made him mad or lost a bet or something…

Whatever the reason, the end result is that I’ll now be popping-in here from time-to-time in addition to my regular Newsarama duties, posting comic and entertainment stuff that I think is interesting and worthy of sharing with you fine folks.

I’ll try to keep the obscure pulp/horror references to a minimum. No promises there, though.