Cameron and I have finished work on his prize for winning Caption Contest 5, the dual-aspect character Creature:Blackout. Here’s Cameron’s description:

The characters name is “Creature: Blackout”, and he’s a super-powered mercenary in the world of Aberrant. Costume wise, he wears a featureless white lycra bodysuit that also coveres his face, removing all facial featurs but his eyes (egg-face is also an appropriate name). When he uses his powers, six shadowy, black tentacles manifest from his back, and his whole image changes from a featureless humanoid to a horrific creature whose image is so terrifying as to be capable of driving people permenantly mad (especially his face). His other main power is the ability to generate a large inky blacknesss that can envelope large areas and induce a state of sensory deprivation in which only his horrific imaghe is visible, allowing him to ensnare and affect large numbers of people and this has also lead to his name.

I’d like an image of his leaping towards the viewer in his horrific visage (I always visualised it as a kind of flayed-human kind of image) with tentacles writhing.

And here’s what we came up with for the illustration:

If you want to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), you can enter Caption Contest 6:Hicks and Chicks, going on now! But you’d better bring your A game, because the entries there already are pretty stellar.

Now here’s a neat science fact — if you kick a man (like camo-clad terrorist Chuk here) in the junk, said junk will shout his name:

I tried this myself, learning that my name is actually pronounced “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” and should be said in a very, very high voice.