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Over year or so from 2002 to 2003, Big Finish Productions released a twelve-volume audio drama series called 2000AD Presents, featuring the comicbook characters of Judge Dredd, Mega-City One's toughest cop, and Strontium Dog, the mutant search/destroy agent Johnny Alpha. Known for their experience with these "radio plays on CD", this new medium brought the comic's best-known heroes to life.

In the first 'season' of 2000AD Presents episodes, I wrote the real-time hijacking story Judge Dredd: Dreddline and Big Finish liked me enough to ask me back for the second series of discs; this time, my story concept about an international meeting of Chief Judges from around the world was joined by the return of some of Dredd's most 'personal' foes and the plotline for Judge Dredd: Jihad was born.

JUDGE DREDD: JIHAD

For the first time in its history, Mega-City One is playing host to the Global Justice Summit, a gathering of Chief Judges from city-states around the world - and as the senior officer in charge, Judge Joseph Dredd is facing a security nightmare!

Hidden in the slums of City Bottom, a fanatical religious cult has awakened an enemy from the city's distant past, and their deadly schemes of extortion and revenge are about to come to a head; together with Oz Judge Hogan, Dredd must discover the secrets of this new threat before the city pays the ultimate price!

Can Mega-City One's toughest lawman survive a fight to the death with his own dark reflection? Pitted against an unstoppable terror weapon, Judge Dredd must stem the tide of a raging holy war - or sacrifice his city to the forces of the Jihad!

As reccommended by Sci-Fi Online and 2000AD Review. To read some reviewer comments, Click Here.

Judge Dredd: Jihad is available online from Big Finish Productions; to order a copy, Click Here.

Click Here to listen to the trailer!

Check out the definitive listing of all the in-jokes and references in this script Here. (Includes Spoilers!)

Due to time constraints, a couple of scenes had to be dropped from the script; to read the deleted scenes, Click Here.

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