Pitt #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freePitt #5 (June 1994) serves as the climactic resolution of the series' inaugural Zoyvod arc, the first sustained multi-chapter storyline Dale Keown built around his alien-hybrid creation. The issue brings the narrative engine of the entire opening run — the bond between the monstrous Pitt and his human half-brother Timmy Bracken — to a decisive turning point: the alien consciousness Jereb migrates out of Pitt and into the gravely injured Timmy, and Timmy himself wields that power to destroy Zoyvod. That plot pivot permanently reconfigures the guardian-and-child dynamic at the heart of the series, establishing the emotional template the book would follow for its remaining fifteen issues. As one of the first creator-owned Image titles outside the founding six studios, Pitt also exemplifies the wave of Big Two refugees who used the Image umbrella to tell self-contained genre fiction on their own terms.
In "Trial By Fire," Pitt finds himself caught between loyalty and suspicion as he returns to his allies after a harrowing encounter with a mysterious assailant. After saving a woman from a mugging, he’s shocked when she transforms into a wolf-like creature and attacks him—only to die at his hands, leaving him facing the wrath of Sauras and Kite, who believe he’s killed an innocent. Written by Dale Keown and Brian Hotton, with Keown handling art, inks, and cover pencils, this issue blends tense action with moral ambiguity, setting a fierce tone for the escalating conflict.
In "null," Rai-Kee reunites with her Axiom allies to report on her time with Pitt, revealing that Timmy now lies in a coma. When Pitt intervenes to save a woman from a mugging, her sudden transformation into a wolf-like creature turns the act of heroism into a deadly misunderstanding—especially when she reverts to human form after Pitt defends himself. As Sauras and Kite arrive, the tension escalates, leaving the heroes questioning whether Pitt’s actions were justified or a tragic mistake.
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Dale Keown conceived Pitt after a 1991 conversation with Todd McFarlane — who was rallying like-minded Marvel artists around the idea of creator ownership — prompted Keown to design an original character despite having no prior plans to do so. Keown left a celebrated run on The Incredible Hulk with writer Peter David to launch the series at Image in January 1993, plotting each issue while collaborator Brian Hotton scripted the dialogue. Keown openly acknowledged that his perfectionism and inexperience running a small publishing operation contributed to chronic shipping delays throughout the series, a recurring friction point for readers who followed the book month to month.
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- The issue's story, titled 'Daddy Dearest,' was plotted by Dale Keown and scripted by Brian Hotton, with art entirely by Dale Keown — one of the few issues in the run where no separate inker is credited alongside the pencils.
- The central plot event is the destruction of series villain Zoyvod: Timmy Bracken, empowered by the benevolent alien consciousness Jereb (which Jereb transfers out of Pitt and into the injured boy), defeats Zoyvod when Pitt is overpowered, ending the threat that had driven the first story arc.
- The transfer of Jereb's life-essence from Pitt into Timmy is a significant mythos development: it leaves Timmy in a coma in subsequent issues and fundamentally changes Pitt's own metaphysical situation going forward.
- Pitt is a human-alien hybrid created by the alien race called the Creed — specifically, Creed emperor Zoyvod combined his own genetic material with a fertilized human egg taken from Allen and Annie Bracken, making Timmy Bracken Pitt's human half-brother.
- Dale Keown is a Canadian artist who built his reputation on The Incredible Hulk alongside writer Peter David before leaving Marvel in 1993 to self-publish Pitt; Peter David has cited Keown as one of the artists whose visuals most closely matched his own mental images when scripting.
- The series ran 20 issues total; beginning with issue #10 it moved from the Image imprint to Keown's own Full Bleed Studios label.
- Pitt was one of the first major creator-owned titles launched under the Image banner by an artist who was not one of the six co-founding partners, part of a wave of 1993 debuts that expanded Image beyond its original studio structure.
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Reprinted in Pitt #5 (1998), Pitt Trade Paperback #2 (1999)
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