Judge Dredd: Dreddline

2000 AD Audio #9

by James Swallow

Genres: Science Fiction, Audiobook

1 pages, Audio CD

First published March 31, 2003

About the author

James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty-five books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television.

DARK HORIZON, his latest stand-alone thriller, is out now from Mountain Leopard Press, and OUTLAW, the 6th action-packed Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier.

Along with the Marc Dane thrillers, his writing includes, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Tom Clancy, 24, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.

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Visit James's website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series.

You can also follow James on Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Twitter at @jmswallow, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.

Reviews

[Abhinav · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a guest review by me over at "A Fantastical Librarian", and part of my Advent Calendar 2012

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I got into Judge Dredd earlier this year through Big Finish’s audio dramas range featuring the post-apocalyptic-futurist lawman. I went through a whole bunch of them at the time, but never quite found the time to review them at that point. With my Advent Reviews series, I thought I’d change that, and picked up Jim’s Dreddline to kick things off, and listened to it twice to refresh my memory and remind myself why I loved these audios so much.

The best thing about these audios is the fantastic voice-acting. Toby Longworth, who is the best voice-actor doing audio dramas for Black Library’s out-sourced range, is behind Judge Dredd himself, and he delivers a scorcher of a performance. Dredd’s guttural, heavy tones are something that Toby excels at. Whenever Toby/Dredd talks in contemptuous and dismissive tones, you can really feel the weight of them. From everything I’ve experienced of Dredd, whether the movies or the audio dramas, Toby has definitely excelled at being Dredd.

Jeremy James as the notorious safecracker and wisecrack Bax Philo, Kate Brown as the antagonist Whyte and Nicholas Briggs as Whyte’s bodyguard Buzz and Hannah Smith as Judge Dalton also deliver some great performances. They’re all great voice-actors and they perform their roles with gusto, really getting into their characters and being those characters, just as Toby does with Dredd.

[Paulo "paper books only" · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was one of the most interesting of Judge Dredd audiobooks I've heard. We've got a hijack of a train by a old cadet who was turned out by Dredd. I really enjoy this story. We've got some good development of Judge Dredd which was interesting and a good plotline. Another interesting part was the inclusion of the Bike of Dredd which turn out to be his greatest ally. Didn't know they were IA.

James Swallow is a BL freelancer and I've heard great things of him. He didn't disappoint me here...