The number one reason I like Pitt is the story line, and I agree with you somewhat about the Hulk/Wolverine ripoff since I’ve heard the arguements, but I think the reader should be willing to overlook these facts and concentrate on the storyline. In your earlier post, you mentioned that you didn’t know much about Pitt, so I’ll give you a little bid of info. Pitt comes from planet Creed, we dont know much about him before he comes to Earth but apperently he has a dark past, as bounty hunters are chasing him. When he comes to Earth he saves Timmy(pictured in your illustration) and Timmy’s grandfather from a subway car full of thugs.You later learn that Timmy and Pitt are brothers. I won’t go past this but I think you get the basic plot. See what I mean about the originality of the story line? These events make for some wicked battle scenes in an alternate reality. A certain hocky stick/talon/demon duel on a Hockey rink comes to mind, these crazy fights and plots are what makes Pitt so special to me.

Much love from a huge fan,
Ashton

As for the Hulk, it’s not just looks. He shrugs off damage, has incredibly overwrought musculature, and leaps around to get from place to place. Backstory and other powers are very different, of course, but the rest … there must be some massive gamma ray bombs out there in his past somewhere, that’s all I’m sayin’.

I think Image very much IS comics to a certain generation, which started right after I stopped collecting comics. They were very much about violence, non-stop action, “cool” dialog in combat, and that incredibly exaggerated Liefeld style of anatomy and illustration. I hated it when it was coming out, and I find that I still hate it years later. But that’s a personal preference. Like any art, you have to judge for yourself if it’s something you like or not. I don’t think less of people who like Image comics from the early 90’s, but it also doesn’t make me think more of the work itself.

I’m willing to listen if you want to make the case that Pitt was somehow a very original creation, but from issue number two sure doesn’t make that easy. It screams Wolverine and Hulk from almost every panel.