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While going through the hundreds of entries for the UGO Modern Warrior contest (don't forget to vote for a winner!), I pulled out several examples of creative use of the program to show what it can do. I'll post them below the fold with a little explanation of why I thought each was noteworthy.

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UGO has announced their top five finalists for the "Modern Warrior" contest! The top vote-getting character will star in his own online computer game, powered by Microsoft's new Silverlight technology. Pretty cool stuff, and you can start voting now for the character design you think is best.

Good luck to all the finalists!

Put your thinking cap on, because if you can come up with the best replacement dialog for this comic book panel, you'll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) from professional artist Jeff Hebert:

The rules are simple: leave your entry in the comments to this post; no more than three entries per person; and keep it relatively clean.

Good luck, everyone! You can see past winners' prizes here, and I'll be posting more in the next few days.

I love this panel. Love love love love it. It's from Image's "Prophet" number 5, and while I had to edit out two editor-text boxes in the lower right, it's totally worth it because surely there can be no more cliched image in all of comicdom. I cannot wait to see what you all come with for captions on this bad boy:

If you come up with the best/funniest dialog to for the balloon, you'll win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason) from me, Jeff Hebert, professional illustrator and full-time bald guy. You can't beat that with a stick, folks!

As always, no more than three entries per person, left in the comments to this post, with said entries not to exceed the bounds of what would commonly be seen on broadcast television.

Good luck everyone!

Edited to Add: OK, I can't let this go. Let me count the Image-y goodness in this panel. Gross, bulbous thighs. Bizarre padded wrestling helmet. Massive gun across the back. Massive ammunition belts across ... well, everything. Huge, bulging, vein-filled arms. Strange, tiny fists. Lots an dlots of grenades. Shuriken belt buckle. Sitting in flames and yet not burned. Bald head with tubes sticking out. No feet. Unbelievably wrinkled and massive crotch. Blood everywhere. Phlegmings in the mouth. Massive grimace. No pupils (time is money here, people, if we leave out the pupils we save a hundred man-hours in the course of one year!). NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Upside-down mini-machete sheath with bullet loops on top, because every square inch must be taken up with ammo. Leg shadows that are filled with both color and lines.

Ok, now I'm done.

Don't forget, you've only got until January 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM (ET) -- that's this Saturday! -- to enter the UGO Modern Warrior Video Game Contest! The best character submitted will star in his own online video game, cementing your place in the pantheon of Creative Geniuses.

So click here to get busy already, you don't have much time!