Holy Jovus!

Between 2002-03, audio drama production company Big Finish brought the comicbook heroes of 2000AD to life with a series of twelve CD adventures for Judge Dredd - the future's hardest lawman - and mutant bounty hunter Strontium Dog; following the success of the first season of discs, a second series of six CDs were released in 2004.

After taking Judge Joe Dredd to the limit in the hijacking drama Judge Dredd: Dreddline and then pitting him against a cadre of vicious warrior clones in Judge Dredd: Jihad, Big Finish brought me on board once more for a story that took Dredd around the world to the mysterious and little-seen territory of Vatican City, the papal city-state ruled by the Judge-Inquisitors of the Catholic Church. Grud is Dead brought the tough Mega-City Judge back together with the dandy vampire exorcist Devlin Waugh (star of stories like "Swimming on Blood" and "Red Tide"), leading to a buddy-cop adventure with these mismatched heros challenging a group of religious extremists.

JUDGE DREDD: GRUD IS DEAD

When the camp vamp himself - the occult adventurer Devlin Waugh - crosses paths with Judge Dredd, the lawman finds himself in the midst of an international incident.

Ordered to escort Waugh to the Vatican, Dredd is plunged into a deadly conspiracy lurking within the Holy City's secret cloisters.

And soon this unlikely duo find themselves challenging the very heavens themselves as they dare to question the will of Grud...

Judge Dredd: Grud is Dead is available online from Big Finish Productions; to pre-order a copy, Click Here.

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