The Pit

[Pagangirl]

Ok have finished reading my copy of JD 'The Pit' and now I have a question.  When I started reading it, it felt and looked like a recent story.  I mean Guthrie is in it, and DeMarco (looking very much like she did in her strip with the talking gorrila), the artwork and drawing looked bang up to date with none of the cheesyness of the eariler stuff, Dredd's attitudes are a bit rouger than present, but still much the same, not the facist bootboy he was way back when, there is a lack of stupid robot servant (that must have been the most god awful stupid move 2000AD ever came up with, that lisping robot), even a picture of Noel and Liam Gallagher in a Cube transport off to do some hard prison time (if only life were to imitate art), it seemed a modern strip.  Then it had Giant in it, and he's been dead for ages, since the apocalypse war, so when was this strip published, the art work is way better than the stuff drawn in the AW, yet there is Giant, so aaaargh help me, when was this strip published and why, if they could publish stuff this good back then, did we have the shaky line drawn AW?  I'm confuzzled!

[GordonR]

The Pit originally ran in 2000AD in 1995.

The Judge Giant in the series (and in various other Dredd stories before and since) is the son of the original Judge Giant, who was killed in the Block Mania story.

[Slippery PD]

The Pit is a recent Classic.  One of the best Dredd epics, that points to a way of doing Dredd without the crash Bang of Necrolpolis, apocalypse war et al.  Im not sure of the prog numbers as I dont collect, I think its around 900 or 1000.  Im sure Logan or one of the other dredd experts will be able to tell you.

The giant in the Pit is the Son of Giant after his extra cirricular affair.  Now I cant remember what happened to this Giant, as there have now been a couple.  Cna someone remind me :-)  

[W. R. Logan]

>Ok have finished reading my copy of JD 'The Pit' and now I have a question.  When I started reading it, it felt and looked like a recent story.
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[Pagangirl]

*********The Judge Giant in the series (and in various other Dredd stories before and since) is the son of the original Judge Giant, who was killed in the Block Mania story. **********

Ta muchly, that explains soo much.  It was getting me so confuzzled I was thinking of having mesself transeffered to the simptank

[GordonR]

He's still around.  John hasn't used him in a while, that I can remember, but I've used him in a couple of stories within the last year or so.

A meeting between Giant and Rico might be interesting.  "Step off, clone-boy.  *I* was Dredd's protege long before you came along." :->

[W. R. Logan]

I'll send this again as it didn't all come out the first time:

>Ok have finished reading my copy of JD 'The Pit' and now I have a question.  When I started reading it, it felt and looked like a recent story.
>snip

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[W. R. Logan]

I'll send this again as it didn't all come out the first or the second time:

>Ok have finished reading my copy of JD 'The Pit' and now I have a question.  When I started reading it, it felt and looked like a recent story.
>snip

Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theclassof79" target="_blank">Class Of '79 Yahoo Group

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[W. R. Logan]

I'll send this again as it didn't all come out the first,second time or third:

>Ok have finished reading my copy of JD 'The Pit' and now I have a question.  When I started reading it, it felt and looked like a recent story.

Judge Dredd:
The Pit:
Progs 970 to 983
86 pages
Script: John Wagner
Artist: Carlos Ezquerra (1-8), Colin MacNeil (9-11), Lee Sullivan (12-14), Colour: Alan Craddock (9-11), Mike Hadley (12-14), Letters: Tom Frame
Featuring: DeMarco, Judge Castillo, Judge Giant
Thrill Power: 8.59 (29 votes)
Reprinted: Hamlyn: Judge Dredd Hamlyn The Pit

Judge Dredd:
Young Giant:
Progs 651 to 655
30 pages
Script: John Wagner
Artist: Carlos Ezquerra
Featuring: Judge Giant
First appearance of Cadet Giant, Judge Giant's son

nearly 320 Progs between these two stories. If you've just read the pit and enjoyed it I suggest you dig out the Young Giant storyline its well worth the read.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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[GordonR]

I'd check my browser settings, Billy.  Those cover jpegs have come out fine for me all four times (and counting) that you've sent them now...

[GordonR]

>>nearly 320 Progs between these two stories. If you've just read the pit and enjoyed it I suggest you dig out the Young Giant storyline its well worth the read.

Don't forget that Giant also plays quite an important role in Necropolis as well.  Was that his second appearance since he learned of his existence?

[W. R. Logan]

>I'd check my browser settings, Billy.  Those cover jpegs have come out fine for me all four times (and counting) that you've sent them now...

wasn't the pics I'd written a small meassage but it never came out, finally realised that if you write the word
S n i p
in a message that it literally did that to the message below it.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[W. R. Logan]

>>>nearly 320 Progs between these two stories. If you've just read the pit and enjoyed it I suggest you dig out the Young Giant storyline its well worth the read.

>Don't forget that Giant also plays quite an important role in Necropolis as well.  Was that his second appearance since he learned of his existence?

He did although his role in that is missing from his profile page, well the same profile page that he shares with his father. Both Giant Snr & Jnr should have their own pages to keep confusion to a minimum. Considering the role Giant and the other young cadets played in securing Anderson and in assisting Dredd thought they may be remembered for their efforts.

Besides the Young Giant story the other Giant story to dig out would be:

Judge Dredd
Giant
Megs 2.50 to 2.52
Script: John Wagner
Artist: Ian Gibson
Reprinted: The Best of Judge Dredd Special Edition 1999

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=giant" target="_blank">Judge Giant

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[davidbishop]

The Pit ran from Prog 970-999. The online index is incorrect if it breaks the stories in the 980s. From around Part 14 the individual stories within The Pit gained their own titles (and sometimes part numbers too), but as far as the editorial team was concerned The Pit ran for 30 progs. The final episode was a double-length instalment to let John tie up all the loose ends.

I rate The Pit as my favourite Dredd mega-epic. It might not have Bolland or McMahon art or have been printed back in the days when nostalgia was a thing of the future, but it's a cracking story.

davidbishop

[Devons Daddy]

the pit was the finest thing with dredd since the very first epic of his youth in his journey across the cursed earth.
the pit had the best collection of characters assembled in one tale for many a year.was it so long ago we read that amazing to realise,.