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Caption contest winner!

3rd place: "I'm too sexy for my fur." Kelly W. from Florida

2nd place: "After the judges discovered the Wookiee contestant's centerfold spread, she was disqualified and banned from the Miss Universe competition." (Ryan)

And our 1st place winning entry:

"I can't believe I'm STILL getting this Bantha crap from Columbia House!" (Tony M. from Washington, D.C.)

Photo from vintage issue of Starlog

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Hero Complex caption contest, No. 1

Submit a caption in the comments section. Winner be announced next week and celebrated forever.

-- Geoff Boucher

Photo from a 1970s issue of Starlog, used with permission from the magazine.You can find Starlog on the internet here or subscribe to the print edition here.

06:02 AM PT, Aug 22 2008 in Caption contest , Random silliness , Star Wars | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

About the Blogger

Growing up, Geoff Boucher always wanted to be a mild-mannered reporter working for a major metropolitan newspaper....or maybe a wookiee. He came to the Los Angeles Times in 1991 and, after years covering crime and local politics, he switched to the Hollywood beat covering film and music. Now he's the paper's go-to geek.

Also contributing: The Legion of Super-Bloggers here at the Hero Complex includes Jevon Phillips, a Times staffer who specializes in our favorite television shows, especially "Heroes" and the frakking brilliant "Battlestar Galactica;" Denise Martin, another Times staffer, who has an undying passion for "Twilight" and anyone ever enrolled at Hogwarts; Gina McIntyre, a Times editor who learned her craft by watching too many slasher films; and Yvonne Villarreal, whose earliest memory of wanting to be a journalist stems from watching broadcast reporter April O'Neil on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series.