This gigantic entity has not been given an official name in-strip. However, when it was [ spotted] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] by Gil and Higgs looming over the time-frozen city of Mechanicsburg and slowly reaching for either Klaus Wulfenbach or the Take-Five Bomb he is currently holding, it was assumed by the readership that it was the first Hideous Extradimensional Being to be encountered in the story and was therefore labelled as Type 1. Of course, beauty being in the eye of the beholder, there may not be universal agreement that the being is hideous. And subsequent revelations have shown the "Type 1" to be possibly incorrect as well (see below), but it's probably simpler in this case to err on the side of inertia.