Issue(s): Hulk #252, Hulk #253
Cover Date: Oct-Nov 80
Title: "The Changelings! pt 1" / "The Changelings! pt 2"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Sal Buscema - Inker

Review/plot:
The Hulk heads off from 3-D Man's house and arrives at 'Thunderbolt' Ross' mountain shack.

He gets into fights with a bunch of Woodgod's silly creations...

...who are undergoing a civil war very similar to what the High Evolutionary went through when he started making man-beasts out of predator animals.

The Hulk's actions are a little too aggressive for Rick and Betty, and they criticize him for it. Doc Samson also stupidly picks a fight with the Hulk.

All this causes the Hulk to leap away feeling abandoned.

Fred Sloan falls in love with a half-human / half-woodsparrow girl named Siren and decides to stay with Woodgod's people, more or less permanently removing Roger Stern's POV character from the series.

If you're wondering about the 3-D Man appearance, it's just a panel where he's in the background as the ridiculous upcoming Teen Brigade plotline builds up.

It's an awful story with everyone acting stupidly because the plot requires it. But you have to give Sal Buscema some credit for his enthusiasm in the animal men fight scenes.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: The Hulk left for the mountains at the end of issue #251, so he shouldn't appear anywhere else in between.

References:

• Woodgod first appeared in Marvel Premiere #31.
  
• He fought the Hulk previously in Marvel Team-Up #54.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Wait... why is the elephant-man on the side of the predators?

Because Berend, wait for it......................they told him he could work for peanuts. ;)