Judge Dredd: Grud is Dead by James Swallow and Simon Jowett, directed by John Ainsworth.
A bizarre faction of the Catholic Church are involved in a plot
to create a new God and Judge Dredd has to travel to Rome and team up with
Devlin Waugh to prevent them from unleashing chaos.
The whole subject of religion in Mega-City One is a bit
complicated with characters using Grud as an exclamation instead of the word
god, which the editors wanted to avoid in a children's comic. And
here we have the church trying to restore the concept of God to the world of
Dredd. On top of the that we have the renegade, vampire exorcist Devlin Waugh
who, I confess, is a character who I know nothing about but he is played
with considerable relish by Peter Guinnesss.
I'm running out of Big Finish Dredd stories and it seems unlikely
that I'm going to find anything to rival Death Trap or Get Karter. This plods
along nicely and I could happily hear more of the Waugh character but again it
was all a bit humdrum, another middle of the road 2.5 out of 5 crosses.
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