25 years ago a bunch of Marvel artists left the Big Two and decided to form their company, with blackjack and hookers. This company would eventually become the closest to a third competitor for DC and Marvel (lol) and the best known creator-owned comic book company out there.
This week it's time to put the spotlight on the "second wave" series, those books that weren't created by the founders but still managed to be an important part of the company's history.
Next up is the hulking monstrosity only a Hulk artist could give you, Dale Keown's Pitt
The Maxx:
John Wilson
Dude I love DISTRUBED
Austin Russell
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Hudson Ortiz
u avin a gigel ther m8
Samuel Jackson
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Connor Jackson
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Tyler Phillips
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Bentley Wilson
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Julian Cox
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Ayden Clark
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Nolan Rogers
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Michael Brooks
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Oliver Peterson
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Landon Turner
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Leo Lopez
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Ian Roberts
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Kayden Murphy
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Hudson Murphy
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Logan Price
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Dominic Hernandez
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Matthew Martinez
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Charles Moore
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Kevin Parker
Vertical splash? damn thats ballsy
James Morgan
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Aiden Ramirez
Can't tell if sarcasm
Logan Barnes
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Xavier Johnson
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Dominic Perry
Not.
dont see that very often in floppies, which these are clearly scanned from.
Carter Lewis
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Liam Gomez
Image artists used to do that like all the time back then.
Leo Clark
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Grayson Wright
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Camden Nguyen
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Matthew Jones
I love the Pitt. I'm a sucker for the Simon Bisley style hyper macho art
Ian Collins
Man, when I was a kid, my dad would let me buy about $30 a month from those two comic mail order companies. I forgot their names.
I would buy like every issue #1 Image comic. There were so many great artists drawing those comics.
Logan Ortiz
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Jacob Robinson
Good times.
John Hughes
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Noah Campbell
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Isaiah Bailey
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Ayden Rodriguez
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Adrian Anderson
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Cooper Martinez
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Brody Ward
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Jacob Nelson
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Austin Bell
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Jackson Bell
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Liam Moore
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Hudson Morgan
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Benjamin Nguyen
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Eli Gutierrez
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Anthony Collins
The only good thing about Pirr was the issue of Maxx he was in. The TV version of the story was better because it omitted him.
David Bell
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Julian Flores
I liked his Invincible cameo
Joshua Wilson
i remembet this from high school..
me and a friend got into comics.
he chose pitt.
i chose the darkness.
good times.
Wyatt Perry
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Jason Torres
I feel about the Darkness because I'm not running that
Joseph Bell
Feel bad I meant
Wyatt Murphy
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Connor Flores
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Evan Peterson
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Kayden Powell
yeah, me too.
Blake Baker
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Camden Hill
same friend later told me i was a bastard child and didnt know my real mother..
which was obviously not true o_0
things got awkward real quick.
Christian Fisher
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Gabriel Hughes
Are you still friends with this guy?
What kind of comics do you read today?
Owen Hall
wut
Owen Sanchez
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Josiah Hall
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Ayden Miller
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Angel Gray
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Ian Bennett
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Carson Martin
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Jaxson Gray
thats what he said lol, i will never forget it.
your old man banged an asian women and brought you home.
...last time i saw him was at a car tyre place smoking a cigar.
crazy.
i mainly just read cbr files now, although its highly random.
get on wit the pitt user, i will lurk more.
Wyatt Morgan
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Noah Miller
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Ian Ortiz
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Justin Foster
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Josiah Baker
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Charles Ortiz
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Oliver Richardson
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Samuel Bennett
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James Morales
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Brandon Wilson
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Matthew Brooks
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Austin Hernandez
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Colton Nelson
Will The Tribe be storytimed in the second wave series storytimes?
Xavier Powell
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Elijah Watson
Honestly, when I say "second wave" I don't mean literally the second wave of titles, so nah.
Ethan Turner
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Jaxon Edwards
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Cooper Hall
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Joshua Bennett
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Adrian Thomas
And that's all for Pitt. More second wave Image tomorrow!
Thomas Ward
So the Youngblood #4 mentioned a few times in this book was a different series from the Youngblood you posted last week, right? Because I went back to the archive to look just out of curiosity and there's nothing there that seems related to what they're talking about here.
Carson Lewis
I believe one of the mail order companies you are talking about was American Entertainment. They used to have these catalogs to order everything out of. Loved that stuff - especially the Traci Lords posters they would sell
Gavin Martin
Thanks for posting this and The Maxx.
It's fun to go back and examine these older books.
They supposedly represent all that went wrong with comics in the 90's (I'm speaking generally) but they sure are a lot more fun than a lot of the stuff today. (At least the books from a certain Big 2 publisher. Cough, cough...)
Jackson Davis
That's definitely one of the companies. It was a great service at the time before the internet became popular.
