Hulk #344

[Carl Creel]

Can anyone tell me who the two characters are in Hulk #344, page 16, panel 3? (the left page in the middle spread). I dont think this was ever revealed but maybe I missed something.

[stingerman]

Can anyone tell me who the two characters are in Hulk #344, page 16, panel 3? (the left page in the middle spread). I dont think this was ever revealed but maybe I missed something.

Can you show the pics? Otherwise I gotta dig for the issue.

[Carl Creel]

Ill try to get it scanned. By the way, Im a big fan of Quasar as well. Gruenwald did a great job with him.

[stingerman]

Ill try to get it scanned. By the way, Im a big fan of Quasar as well. Gruenwald did a great job with him.

Yes, he did. Stop by the Quantum Forums - see sig- and say hello.

Quasar and Hulk are my two fav's.

[abomin8ion]

the two fellas observing the leader?

it s never been released, at least not in the incredible hulk.
that plot ended in 345/346.

never really noticed them...

[Carl Creel]

Yes, I never saw them again. Its almost as if Peter David forgot about them.

[Robogeek28]

Can anyone tell me who the two characters are in Hulk #344, page 16, panel 3? (the left page in the middle spread). I dont think this was ever revealed but maybe I missed something.

I've been wondering the same thing for years and have been tempted to ask the same question here some day. Too bad the answer isn't known by anyone else, hopefully PAD will show up and give us a clue.

[Zomling]

The two characters (can't remember their names) were wizards from Jarella's world and appeared in issues 351 and 352. The were using the technology of Psyklop (sp.?) to bring the Hulk to Jarella's world to depose the Grand Inquisitor.

[Carl Creel]

Hmm, the one observer looks to have strange fingers and insect-like eyes. I wonder if that one was supposed to be psyklop?

[Peter David]

The two characters (can't remember their names) were wizards from Jarella's world and appeared in issues 351 and 352. The were using the technology of Psyklop (sp.?) to bring the Hulk to Jarella's world to depose the Grand Inquisitor.

That is correct.

To this day it bewilders me how people did not realize that.

PAD

[Carl Creel]

That is correct.

To this day it bewilders me how people did not realize that.

PAD

The characters in 344 do not look like the wizards in 351 and 352. I realize you wrote the story but I dont see how it can be easy to figure that out. One character in 344 has 3 fingers and the other looks like a hulking insect-like creature. The wizards in 351 and 352 are basically green humans with wizard-type clothes on. Could McFarlane have drawn them incorrectly?

[Robogeek28]

The characters in 344 do not look like the wizards in 351 and 352. I realize you wrote the story but I dont see how it can be easy to figure that out. One character in 344 has 3 fingers and the other looks like a hulking insect-like creature. The wizards in 351 and 352 are basically green humans with wizard-type clothes on. Could McFarlane have drawn them incorrectly?

That's exactly why I didn't pick up on it. I personally though it was gonna be a new Gamma genius like the Leader because of the 3 fingers and the fact he was able to spy on Sterns without him even knowing, ah well.

[Britannic]

I thought it was Madman all this time.

[Peter David]

The characters in 344 do not look like the wizards in 351 and 352. I realize you wrote the story but I dont see how it can be easy to figure that out. One character in 344 has 3 fingers and the other looks like a hulking insect-like creature. The wizards in 351 and 352 are basically green humans with wizard-type clothes on. Could McFarlane have drawn them incorrectly?

He put in detail that I did not ask for nor want. However I endeavored to compensate by putting in specific dialogue talking about how they were spying on him from their world, and I figured that would be enough for people to make the connection.

PAD

[Robogeek28]

He put in detail that I did not ask for nor want. However I endeavored to compensate by putting in specific dialogue talking about how they were spying on him from their world, and I figured that would be enough for people to make the connection.

PAD

Ok, this is what I'm looking at.

One panel, with a bug looking shadow saying "Does that fool Leader know that we're watching him?".

Then a 3 fingered character(hand shown in front of a screen showing the Leader) says in one word balloon "of course not", and in the second balloon, "He's only a means to an end-- that end being the Hulk".

That's it, nothing that I see can be taken as beings from another world, ah well.

[agrich]

Ok, this is what I'm looking at.

One panel, with a bug looking shadow saying "Does that fool Leader know that we're watching him?".

Then a 3 fingered character(hand shown in front of a screen showing the Leader) says in one word balloon "of course not", and in the second balloon, "He's only a means to an end-- that end being the Hulk".

That's it, nothing that I see can be taken as beings from another world, ah well.

I'm just guessing, but I suspect Peter David's not talking about the dialogue there - he's talking about in issues 351-352 (I don't know which one, it was a long time ago) where the Wizards tell the Hulk they'd been spying on him. I thought they even said something to the effect of, we found some of Psyklop's old equipment/helmet/whatever, in what I took to be an attempt to explain why one of the shadowy figures resembled Psyklop.

My issues are at my parents house. If you have yours handy, forget 344 and go right to issue 351-352, where the wizards tell the Hulk they've been spying on him. I think the language Peter David mentions is there. (Again, though, I'm going on memory.)

[Carl Creel]

He put in detail that I did not ask for nor want. However I endeavored to compensate by putting in specific dialogue talking about how they were spying on him from their world, and I figured that would be enough for people to make the connection.

PAD


Ok, so it was just an art issue. A "no-prize" explanation could be that the reason they looked different in 344 was that they are wizards and can alter their appearances when they want to. Thanks for the explanation PAD.