Giving Yuvi a makeover

Yuvi posted some pics on FriendFeed that his frind Sudar took of him and asked for some opinions on the post processing.  I made some suggestions but then decided to have a go at it myself.

Here are the results of my fidgeting:

The original, with some color adjustments, cleaning up the background and toning down the highlights on Yuvi's face: Yuvi's original adjusted and cleaned background

The adjusted image with some gradient shading (he seemed to be going for a moody look): Yuvi in the shadows

And another with a sepia tone and some contrast adjustments to finish out the moody look: Yuvi in Sepia

What do you think?

Update - Akiva suggested that we superimpose Yuvi in some unlikely scenarios.  Here's one he suggested:

Yuvi nonchalant at the destruction of the Hindenburg