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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil now available for download

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A year in the making, this short story can now be downloaded and read for free, as a PDF file on your PC or Kindle device!

Set a month before Ciem: Inferno, three years after Extirpon, and six years after Blood Over Water, Chris "the Purge-Flare" Kennal's fate is revealed. Part of the Legacy volume of The Gerosha Chronicles!

In this short tale, the Purge-Flare needs to assassinate loathe Gleeful-N'-Young pedophile racket middle manager Mike "Pencil" Javelin at the Cincinnati Airport - in the hopes of sabotaging Clyde Spendelworth's evil plans for Gerosha, Indiana.

Yet, as he and his trusty sidekick "Module" quickly learn; anything can and will go wrong when you cross paths with a racket owned by the Triumvirate! Team Purge-Flare's ability to secure the cybernetic side of their operation dangles by a thread, protected by the benevolent hacktivist Sniperbadger.

Dealing with the security leaks, the threats to Module's life, dealing with Module's pregnant wife, and locating Pencil proves to be only half the battle. When Chris' getaway plan is ruined, he must resort to some very desperate measures to escape the airport after Pencil's assassination - if he wishes to remain the Man That the Law Can Never Catch!

Most Dozerfleet free-for-view machinomics are made with Sims software. This 2020 piece of art marks a milestone in Dozerfleet Comics' history: the first short-length multi-panel machinomic ever released, to be made with Grand Theft Auto V!

Update: This story is, as of 11/25/2020, now also available in Chinese and in Spanish.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

New download home for Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers

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After three years, the proper download page has been established for anyone wishing to access this work. It remains in syndication (for now) on Mod the Sims; but this PDF download gives the comedy work a more permanent home - just in case.

Originally written as a way to promote the 2017 Power Rangers movie while also promoting Dozerfleet in general, this short story quickly veered off in numerous other, mostly humorus directions.

Relive all the laughs for free, now brought to you by Dozerfleet Comics!

Monday, November 9, 2020

Tri-Sola Poetry now hosted at Dozerfleet Literature

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For years, the Christian poetry of Mike Hayes of St. Johns, MI has been looking for a proper online home. His classic collection of doctrine-intense writings can now be read by anyone, simply by clicking the above link.

Poems and essays have been reuploaded to this site, along with original artwork, so that you can absorb the sights of artistic vision these poems inspired throughout the years.

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Challenges to a Meshalutian Trilogy revival

While some interest has been shown in bringing back the Meshalutian Trilogy for Cataclysmic Gerosha continuity, there are some key challenges, both in-continuity and out of it.

In-continuity challenges

  1. Surviving material related to Carla Rintel. Without sufficient material to build off of, her story can't be told.
  2. Timeline collision in Boston.
    • The original time setting of 2011 doesn't work. But if Hurricane Nekoda is shown striking in 2013, then Cursed is the Ground needs to be set in 2013 also - while avoiding bumping into Extirpon 2 and Extirpon 3.
    • Likewise, the final defeat of Meshaluta, however it's done, at the end of The Natural Logarithm would have to avoid bumping into The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge, but also avoid bumping into The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust.
    • Since John Domeck could easily prove a challenge for Meshaluta's coven, as would also the Icy Finger and Screwworm enemies he faces, then significant effort is required to ensure that neither of these powerhouses is allowed to interfere with the coven.
  3. Honeybee Samuel. Up to this point, Meshaluta and the Rintels functionally don't exist in Earth-G7. Adding them, however, would require at minimum to reestablish a link between "Honeybee" Samuel Wrikon and Meshaluta - if not also find a way to work Sanction Harlem back into the plot.
  4. The Flippos' Inherited Wrikon Curse. In Earth-G5, the Flippo triplets' hypersexual tendencies were blamed on a supernatural curse by virtue of their being descendants of Honeybee Samuel. In Earth-G7, however, it was blamed on bad parenting on Erin's part, combined with traumatic experiences in school. Bringing Sam's supernatural element back to the mythos would require some explaining as to how the curse on him no longer affects his descendants.
  5. Yenti Roy. The character has a dumb name, is poorly explained, and is just a bad idea all-around. Other than making Trisha's old boyfriend into a generic predatory stalker, however, there is little that can be done to give her a pursuer to run from, and keep matters interesting. Until Roy can be replaced with something less stupid, this subplot essential to Cursed is the Ground keeps that story from moving forward.
  6. Gleeful-N'-Young. It'd be suicidal for a sex trafficker like Dewey to operate all on his own. He knows Lenny is just a weak drug addict de-facto servant, and hardly that useful for anything other than backup during break-and-enter operations. Why wouldn't he send an entire crew to kidnap Mandy? Why wouldn't he infiltrate CPS? Surely, to operate like he does, he'd want to join Gleeful-N'-Young. But that would put him on the Purge-Flare's radar. How to ensure that Chris doesn't kill him before Meshaluta does? Mike "Pencil" Javelin was completely helpless against Chris. How would Dewey fare that much better?
  7. Home architecture. A render is finally almost finished for the Rintels' Louisiana home, in The Sims 4. That render took several hours; but it brings together as best it can the aesthetics of the old Kenosha house that it was based off of in the original novella, plus required modifications for the story, plus geographic corrections. Set at 152 Plum Lane in Grand Isle, which was an empty lot at time of Google inspection.
  8. Location names. Calling Grand Isle "Murian," LaFourche "LaFoe," and Aspen "Applestream" may have been cute in Uber-Proto Gerosha. But for Cataclysmic Gerosha, material would need to be reworked to give locations their real names.
  9. Lax attitudes of airport security. The LaFoe Airport's security doesn't seem to care that there are time-traveling vikings in the women's restroom, or that a giant TV nearly fell on a small girl and crushed her to death. Where's TSA terrorizing everyone at the first sign of chaos? Why was the airport not completely evacuated? So many details that make no sense with that airport. Would George's laptop not have been seized at the first sign of weird things happening?
  10. Lax attitudes about ordering evacuation. The governor of Louisiana in this story sure does seem to wait until the last possible minute to order evacuations. Why couldn't the National Guard mobilize to assist Rick? Why were the Rintels left to fend for themselves against Dewey?
  11. Lax prosecution. Why did no malicious prosecutor decide to press charges against Eva for leaving for the airport? Even though Nekoda's erratic behavior took everyone off guard, Eva did still technically abandon her children to a sickly middle-aged man and a supernatural storm pattern, just to fly to New York to sell stocks. That she suddenly realized the mistake, and tried to return home and rescue her family, and was denied by the airport, wouldn't matter to a prosecutor.

Real-world challenges

  1. Time taken to repair the continuity and plot hole issues above would take away from development time for much more well-planned works that are in the pipeline, and getting ready for creation.
  2. Extra time would be required to track down surviving copies of existing material for 90 Has No Secant, so that even more time is not squandered trying to "reinvent the wheel" from scratch. The material is buried deep in archives somewhere.
  3. None of The Natural Logarithm has actually been written. Only a few chapters of a rough draft for Cursed is the Ground were ever penned. These projects would need to be restarted from scratch, in spite little chance they'll ever be as good as part 1 in the series.
  4. Outside of the UK, demand for J-horror is small.

For the future, this isn't impossible. However, far more important works are on the precipice of release. Those have to matter more.

Friday, November 6, 2020

Replox: Abstract Foundations downloads get a new home

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The novella that helped get Dozerfleet Literature off the ground has finally come to its new home. This 2002 classic was an ambitious work in the making, since before Dozerfleet Comics ever made its first machinomic with any version of The Sims! The machine used for its concept art and creation was so old, in fact, that it ran Windows 98 and Microsoft Word 2000!

Concept art panels back then had to be done with SimCity 2000 - and MSPaint 98!

Release on this blog is significant: it helps mark the separation of the Dozerfleet Database in function. Instead of being both the entirety of Dozerfleet plus the about, the Database can now be repurposed toward its more meta nature, while the blog functions as the main content's home!

Implementation of this blog as a new home for Dozerfleet Literature free publications, and Dozerfleet Comics free publications, as well as a link hub for any for-profit releases elsewhere, only beings with Replox. Once all the old content that is safe for re-publication is online, this blog will become the go-to for information about new releases; free or for-profit.