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Judge Dredd: The Pit (2000 Ad Graphic Novels) of John Wagner on 11 December 2008 Unknown Binding

by John Wagner (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
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Another epic saga featuring Britain's home-grown superhero Judge Dredd. When Judge Dredd is sent to take over as chief of Sector 01 in the isolated North-West Hab Zone, it's an unwelcome posting for him and his new charges.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CB5QVL4
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4.5 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Dredd
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2014
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A good storyline, well drawn, and c'mon, it's Judge Dredd. The only I have is that a few of the characters didn't get enough story time.
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B. Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Judge Dredd War Drama
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2014
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The Pit is an exciting tale of Judge Dredd's time as Sector Chief of Sector House 301, a dumping ground for black sheep judges known as the "Pit". Everything from bent judges to mob wars is in here. Everything you would expect from Judge Dredd himself! See the first meeting and discover the background of the beautiful and faithful Judge Gale DeMarco. Learn about the life in a sector house in this amazing, action-packed graphic novel that can only be a Judge Dredd classic.
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Michael Mcdade
2.0 out of 5 stars not for judge dredd fans
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2010
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this is not your average or typical judge dredd story. the writting is very good. the story even better. but...the very things that made judge dredd a cult hero are missing. the tongue in cheek social commentary, the over the top violence. and fast paced story line, and interesting characters are missing. i believe this more than anything led to the decline in the judge dredd readership. this story should have been written for the lifetime viewers network, than judge dredd fans.
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Bernie Sanders
5.0 out of 5 stars Dredd to Droll over!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2010
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Having read Judge Dredd Case files 1-7 and 10, and "origins", "America" "Chief Judges Man" "Satan's Island" "democracy now" "mandroid" and a fair few Megazine strips and rare collections, I may not be a fully fledged Dredd Head, but I know enough to say that this is the best Dredd has to offer page for page, and this novel aint too short either.

The story is phenomenal, taking us from the least likely place to see Dredd, behind a desk. Then of course we see him re enter Mega City One or should i say "the Pitt" (I daren't say more on that). Along the way we meet other interesting characters, who are far more 3 dimensional than the throw-away rookie judges, or extremely violent creeps you sometimes come across, the stories of the characters all interweve into something far more complex than the usual Dredd story, but all the while mantaining continuity (something "America" clearly lacked among other things) this novel is also beautiful to look at, the vibrant colours you expect to see, with only some of 2000ad's finest artists behind the wheel, carlos Ezquerra for instance puts in possibly his most impressive work, and the others who worked on it dont fall far behind.

In short if you don't have this book, that is a good thing because once you have read this, all other Dredd will never be quite as good again.

Happy reading Creeps!
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Mr. J. Russell
4.0 out of 5 stars Dredd changes direction, in a good way
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2009
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In The Pit, John Wagner changed gears, gave Dredd a desk job, and began to open the strip up into a slow-burning ensemble piece. This story was his first serious attempt at Dredd as a police-procedural thriller, a form he very quickly mastered and has returned to many times in recent years.

The events here are more personal in scale than the typical lunatic high-bodycount Dredd stories, with a solid cast of well-written supporting characters adding depth and dimension to the story. The reader's newfound emotional investment in the normally-faceless supporting Judges pays off in a slaughterhouse of a climax where you find yourself rooting for all of these likeable jackbooted fascists.

My copy from Amazon was marred by some weird printing side-effect where the pages were mottled with some weird sepia-coloured dusty stuff. This wiped off easily enough leaving the clean, beautifully reproduced art looking great, but doing it for 200-odd pages got rather annoying. Also, be aware that the Kevin Walker cover shown above is not the one on the front of the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story telling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2018
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This is one of the best stories in the Dredd-verse. Not least of all because it hailed a new, more reality-based style of story telling , but also because it introduced a number of 3 dimensional supporting characters who would go on to have important roles in later Dredd stories. This includes Judge DeFranco who would eventually get her own series.
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2013
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I remember reading this when it was in 2000AD in the 90s. It's just as good as it was then, and introduces some strong characters alongside Dredd - Galen DeMarco and Judge Guthrie.
The art by Carlos Ezquerra is fantastic, and with fellow co-creator John Wagner on writing duties, this was always going to be good
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Bogster
5.0 out of 5 stars Dredd
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2013
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I don't read 2000ad anymore but every so often I buy a graphic novel and must say this is one of the best Dredd stories I've read.
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