The tall and strong yet unsympathetic looking albino fellow working for the ICMS (International Congress of Metaphysical Science, also said International Congress of Mad Science,which is more appropriate), but hey, nobody's going to notice the young Jack Griffin is the minister of optic science from the ICMS in that outfit !

And yes , he's smoking a fag.

As a science student he refused to continue studies, fearing his teachers to steal his discoveries and the result of his "superior" intelligence. He was left extremely short on cash, due to expensive material used for experiments. A few day after leaving home forever, Griffin was invited by ICMS to share his science among other brains of the same kind. Easy to imagine that with a such psychopathic and sociopathic behavior he agreed to work with ICMS, completely agreeing with their politics.

-A H.G. Wells Character. Used and rewritten by the Mechanist