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Quackcast 690 - Mister V, Dozer Manifesto

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 4, 2024
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Mister V, aka Arborcides is our guest today, doing an interview with us about his huge project “Dozer Manifesto”, now finally completed! You can read the entire thing here on DD. It's about a fellow called Marv Heemeyer, resident of the Colorado town of Granby, and his decent into craziness, resulting in him creating an armour-plated, armed bulldozer, designed to be invulnerable, so he could crush the town and destroy his enemies with impunity. You might have heard of it being call the “killdozer”.

The story was pretty sensationalised at the time and most people rooted for Marv as some sort of Robin Hood, or avenging angel, righteously taking revenge on enemies who had unfairly crossed him. There was very little consideration given to the other side, or the lives of the people he impacted. Mister V's comic really takes pains to tell the story the right way! In this age of mediated and sensationalised “reality” where fake conflict is inserted to tell better stories, people are characterised according to tropes, the truth is spun, and our very image of what is real is continually distorted, Mister V beautifully fights against that and delivers a fully balanced, nuanced view of the entire story from beginning to end and many years after.

As a resident himself of Granby where the action happened, he had special access to the locations and the witnesses involved, which makes the Dozer Manifesto fascinating reading and elevates it from a comic to an actual historical document.
Do you remember the whole Killdozer event? Have you heard about it? I'd advise you to look it up online and then come back and read the Dozer Manifesto by Arborcides!

This week Gunwallace was under the weather so we reissued an older track that fit this theme perfectly! Dozer Manifesto - Start your engine… The sound of the powerful diesel motor as it comes time life… you can smell the fumes. Dry, dusty, industrial, rocky, the guitar thrums with a mechanical rhythm, hot and fast. (from Quackcast 465)

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Our intview subject today: Mister V, aka Arborcides - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/arborcides/


Featured comic:
Friendship Material - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2024/may/28/featured-comic-friendship-material/

Featured music:
Dozer Manifesto - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dozer_Manifesto/ - by Arborcides, rated T.

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei
Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/


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Ozoneocean at 6:04PM, June 4, 2024

@Jesse_Koehler - LOL! He planned it very well with his ads and te date of the interview :D

OrGiveMeDeath_Ind at 3:36PM, June 4, 2024

Very cool read and style! I recall Ronald Reagan died the next day, burying the dozer story. Can only imagine how the social media era would have reacted.

Jesse_Koehler at 10:16AM, June 4, 2024

Nobody: Dozer manifsto: The whole Website is Now dozer manifesto

Andreas_Helixfinger at 9:49AM, June 4, 2024

Gonna have to check this one out👍

Marchy_D at 8:54AM, June 4, 2024

Wow! Fantastic work! Reading it now and I'm completely engrossed.

marcorossi at 1:59AM, June 4, 2024

I'm a big fan of Dozer Manifesto.

kawaiidaigakusei at 1:05AM, June 4, 2024

Big fan of arborcides’ many works here on The Duck. Great creator interview choice!


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