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Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil has been out for a while. But now, it has an official listing on Tiina Vilu's growing Independent Comics Database. In spite the name similarity, ICDB is not affiliated with IMDB. So what is ICDB?

Tiina's most basic stated goal with the site is one that Dozerfleet seems to agree with: giving creators with online comic works they'd love to get out into the world, to influence readers with for purposes of exchange of thought and discourse; a means of listing their work in a place that will both grant some additional legitimacy to the work's existence and provide visitors of the site with a go-to reference.

Genre categories are limited, and the perversion mafia seems to have had their way with defining some of the top categories. Other creative minds will simply need to write more and better material, and make their submissions, to turn the tide in the culture / spiritual war. But with some TLC from creators like you, Tiina's experiment in providing all indie creators a platform for their ideas can genuinely take off.

Purge-Flare is currently listed under the "assassin" genre, as it seemed the most fitting for this dark antihero. The tale is the first machinomic to be featured on ICDB, the first hybrid comic-storybook to reference in any respect the world of GTA 5 to this capacity, as well as one of the few entries to be in ten different languages on the site! (For comparison, Hyunseok Yun's DICE is listed as being in nine different languages.)

Have a work similar to Purge-Flare that you'd love to share on ICDB? Check it out today, and see if it's the right listing for your work!

Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry now available!

As Blood Over Water: The Machinomic heats up in production, and the shot lists are all that stand in the way of it being made, a supplemental manual about the miniseries and upcoming machinomic has been written, finished around 12:15 PM EDT on March 25th, 2022.

This manual is now available for download on this blog. It can be found under the Dozerfleet Literature section for Gerosha: Legacy, whereas the machinomic will be released under the Dozerfleet Comics section.

Every dirty, juicy detail you probably ever cared to know about the characters in this machinomic, is at your fingertips, in a TMZ-style tell-(near)-all about characters, settings, the the evolution of the concept! Their secrets are now aired for all to read about!

This new release also features ads for Ciem: Inferno and The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff.

Purge-Flare now available in Ivorian French!

A translation to French now enables the story of Chris' daring escapade to be read by any French-speaking nation, with Cote d'Ivore as the primary target audience. This means that about half of Africa can now join in the fun!

This leaves only two more translations on the horizon: Korean and Russian.

The Purge-Flare's projected viable reader markets by country

Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil has only so many markets worldwide that it can hit. If it takes off, and demand can be generated for Blood Over Water and Ciem: Inferno this way, then it improves the odds of success for Ciem: Inferno to get a professional publisher release once written and ready.

If Ciem: Inferno enjoys massive domestic success, and there is international demand, then the publisher would most likely be willing to pay for international translations.

However, this is the current projection of markets worth targeting, versus ignoring.

Markets already covered by Purge-Flare native English or by already-existing foreign translations

• USA
• China
• Myanmar (the Chinese portion)
• Spain
• Malawi (the English portion of it)
• Mexico
• Japan
• India (English-speaking portions)
• Poland
• Gambia (the English-speaking portions)
• Most nations of South America (sans Brazil)
• Mann
• Barbados
• Ireland
• Marshall Islands
• New Zealand
• UK
• Jamaica (somewhat, though native dialects not considered)
• Israel (English-speaking portions)
• Australia
• Bermuda
• Nauru
• Virgin Islands
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Dominica
• Palau
• Anguilla
• Guam
• Grenada
• Guyana
• Canada
• Philippines (Cagayan de Oro, primarily)
• Portugal
• Brazil
• France
• Ivory Coast
• Quebec
• DR Congo
• Madagascar
• Niger
• Burkina Faso
• Mali
• Senegal
• Chad
• Belgium (French)
• Haiti
• Switzerland
• Seychelles
• any other French-speaking African country

Essentially, any nation that has a large portion of its population that already speak or know how to read English. Or any region where a translation already exists for that region's native language.

Markets for readership being pursued

• South Korea
• Russia

Markets that may be viable in the future

• Germany (although most Germans know English)
• France

Markets not deemed viable, or else no interest in making a translation for

• Greece (the portions that only speak Greek)
• Iran
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia
• Morocco
• Any nation that speaks Swahili (including Uganda. Dat is not de wae!)
• Any nation speaking Swazi
• India (Hindi-speaking portions)
• Israel (the minority that speak only Hebrew)
• Bangladesh
• Turkey
• Rwanda

Bear in mind, this does not mean that someone from these lands is not allowed to enjoy it in their native language. It only means that Dozerfleet Labs won't take the painful effort to perform the translation directly and personally. However, anyone scholarly enough from these lands who desires an unofficial translation of Purge-Flare, is free to make one, and pass it on to their friends.

Translations for Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil

More transitions are happening, and Dozerfleet's main office may be moving soon. There were efforts in 2019 to relocate; but these fell through.

The chaotic election cycle of 2020, and worse Michigan politics, have made business in Michigan dangerous - and the cultural climate very unstable!

Moving to another state seems to be the only way around this. In the mean time, Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil may only get one more translation this year: to Japanese. It has already been successfully translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Polish. After the Japanese version is finished, Dozerfleet Main may be going offline for some time. Dozerfleet Portable will be in operation if this happens.

There are three other languages being considered for translating the story into: Korean, Russian, and Cebuano. Any other language translations will need to be by request.

While Dozerfleet Main is down, future machinomics will also be shelved. Blood Over Water, for example, won't be able to go into production until some office location issues are resolved. Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance and Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana will similarly need to wait. Ciem: Inferno can technically be written from the laptop; but will be a much slower process.

Dozerfleet is not going away. But it may be found in another state soon. Stay tuned.

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.