Friday, May 25th, 2007
Overhead shots for the win.
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May 25th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
First comment, yes! I’m going to the Dodger game now and I expect to see at least 25 comments by the time I get back in about seven hours. I love this page — great job by Owen. I’ll put my sketch up later maybe.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Second comment, yes! No comment … ha!
May 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
3rd comment!
The detail on Math’s face is insane. And it’s good to see Val so concerned for the well being of others… as usual.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
4th comment … sudden death overtime outside of the three point line makes for 9 points
May 25th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Hey,
I’ve been reading this webcomic since about page 35, and I just love it.
Math’s face in anel 2 is awesome!
Keep the comics coming ^_^
May 25th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I just recently, last week or so, found this webpage while I was supposed to be working. I must say it’s really good. I definately enjoy it and like your takes on zombies and vampires. And I too hate the man with the glasses. Anyway, uh… 4th comment. Oh yeah, why does the kid sleep on the otherside of the gym away from everyone else?
May 25th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
4th comment? Depends on how fast I write this thing. Looks like Jimmy is doing well smokin’ zombies. Great page as always. Still hoping Val gets shot in the face though.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
5th comment I believe. Don’t die rex! (though he probably will)
May 25th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Second Panel: Not a face I’d like to wake up to….
May 25th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Sixth!
Loving math’s expression in the second panel.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Grady looks like he’s about to crap his pants, if he hasn’t already. Great Job Owen!
May 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
As my first comment for this comic: Thank you for doing it, I`ve following it since #30. And I really like it. My Favorite.
Now, aside from that above, I really liked “the Jimmy`s way”
hehehe
And Math too, with that damn scary face there!
One more comment to help those 25!
May 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
8th comment. Angry Math is scary. How didMurdo get his pants back on so fast?
May 25th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
9th? ok, I can stand the little kid getting turned into a zombie, but the dog? come on, have you no heart!
May 25th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Minor spoiler: The dog will not be turned into a zombie, or killed. The dog will be in Last Blood #79 in 2014.
Only 14 comments? Boo! Amazing Dodger game — we were leading 5-1, then losing 8-5, then won it 9-8.
“Oh yeah, why does the kid sleep on the otherside of the gym away from everyone else?”
He’s a loner!
“How didMurdo get his pants back on so fast?”
Magic.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Math’s facial expression in panel 2 is uber-scary, but entirely appropriate considering the situation…
As always, nice job with the page…
May 25th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Wait… last blood #79 in 2014? I want an oompa-loompa NOW… I mean the story… =P Way to keep us on the edge of our seats even with all the minor spoilers. Absolutely delicious artwork. It’s rare that a webcomic takes the time to not only tell a story but tell it beautifully (which is why I love comics in the first place). ::gives artist 400 points::
May 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am
wow! long time since i’ve posted a comment, but been trying to keep up with the comic as often as possible. awsome page today, i love the direction the story is headed not to mention the artwork. maths face is awsome in panel 2, although i think she would of been a bit more freaked out than that. i love the jumpin over the banister … nice touch.
the Ra66it
May 26th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Reminds me of boxhead. (http://www.boxhead.seantcooper.com/)
May 26th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Jimmy is pretty good for a kid who has never used a gun before, looks like he got three of them. Probably all those video games.
Math’s face is very cool, I’m trying to figure out though how his teeth get so long and pointy all the sudden. Not the sort of thing most women want to see first thing they wake up.
Luckily for all, Murdo got his pants on before rushing into battle… and is Grady carrying a shotgun?
May 26th, 2007 at 2:52 am
“and is Grady carrying a shotgun?”
Yeah, we saw it on Page 51 –
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/05/09/page-51-unawares/
“Jimmy is pretty good for a kid who has never used a gun before, looks like he got three of them. Probably all those video games.”
No, it’s all that gun shooting he’s done. No reason to assume he’s never used a gun before.
“I’m trying to figure out though how his teeth get so long and pointy all the sudden.”
He’s a vampire.
“Reminds me of boxhead.”
I’ve played that. Good game.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:56 am
i wish the updates were more frecuent
May 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Yay! Action!
May 26th, 2007 at 10:34 am
The dog will be in Last Blood #79 in 2014.
I think i missed any comments referencing this one, do you mean that you’ve planned this comic to go on for another 7 years?
May 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Oh god. Amazing page. Got me all pysced up to see the next one *starts shaking*
Notice how Murdo has sprung to action so quickly, while Val just…well…yeah. Yay Murdo! Though I have an impending sense of doom about the poor lad.
Awk Jimmy. Poor little Jimmy. So heroic. I hope his mum doesn’t die too. Though I can see it coming. Maybe i’m just in one of those moods in which I foresee everyone’s death? …I just didn’t have the best day haha.
Again, amazing comic. Cheers Bobby and Owen, I do so tip my hat to thee.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:41 am
“i wish the updates were more frecuent
”
Are you joking? Other than the scheduled break we just had, which we announced very early, the comic has missed ONE DAY in five months and that was in early March when I was super sick. Comments like these will really make me not worry at all about the update schedule. People just go crazy over any missed days at all apparently.
“I think i missed any comments referencing this one, do you mean that you’ve planned this comic to go on for another 7 years?”
You’ve missed a lot of comments! If the comic book series is a success, “Last Blood” can go on forever. So call your local comic book shops and tell them to order it right now. #2 and a re-release of #1 comes out in July and the ordering deadline is May 29th for retailers.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Does Rex become a Vampire Dog? Can we call him Dogula?
If Murdo wastes magic putting on pants that fast, I’d love to see him actually use that magical speed on zombie killing. Of course, since the magic answer was, in all likelyhood, sarcasm, I have only one thing to say.
Bobby, you are a punk. =)
Seriously, though, I bet Murdo’s had to get his pants on quickly before. Good looking guy, small town, bored housewives. Now what I mean? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I just love it when vamps, vamp out. The sepia tone is great but just a hint of red in Maths eyes would’ve been awesome.
And now for something completely different…
May 26th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Ahhh! Holy crap! Math is scawy… o_o
Nice page, as always.
May 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I knew the wait was worth it =D
Can’t wait ’til Monday!
May 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Very nice, but Zombies also don’t attack animals like remake Dawn of the Dead? That’s good, zombies are scary enough, we don’t need scary animals zombies like Resident Evil…
But hey, the stores here in Holland haven’t heard anything yet about your comic hitting the stores here… I cannot wait…
May 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
The guy didn’t criticize late updates man, he wished they were more frequent ‘cos he likes your comic. It’s a compliment, not a complaint.
May 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
“It’s a compliment, not a complaint.”
No, I’m pretty much 100 percent sure it was a complaint, although it was of course also a compliment. But you seem to think it was a case of “I wish it updated more than three days a week,” whereas I’m pretty sure it was “Stop missing so many days,” because the guy apparently didn’t read the post where I said we were going to miss many days because of Owen’s trip.
May 26th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
I also wish the updates were more frequent, but only because I enjoy and look forward to the story, not due to any perceived tardiness by the authors!
Oh, and I love Val just the way she is, uncaring bitch or no (3rd comment). Hmmm, is Grady just waking to the commotion below, or does he see something else?
May 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Just running to the commotion below.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Was worth the wait. great job on the artwork Owen. Bobby though, I got a problem with a bit of the dialogue. Now I know its a heavy action page so you don’t have room to go all wordsville on us, but it still doesn’t seem to mesh to me.
Panel 2 for example, April’s face is a nice reaction to super scary Math. But “Whats going on?” doesn’t fit it like “PLEASE JESUS NO DON’T EAT ME!” would. Doesn’t matter how much she believes Math is there to help, its been one day. The response isn’t logic, its instinct. I’m not terribly happy with Val’s “Ugh” but I admit theres not really a better way to express her boredom.
I still love it though and can’t wait for the next one as usual. And I think Grady sees a sea of zombies on the horizon. lets hope he also hears a small jet engine
May 27th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Grady sees nothing, as I already said. Jet’s not coming for for another 25 pages.
“But ‘Whats going on?’ doesn’t fit it like ‘PLEASE JESUS NO DON’T EAT ME!’ would.”
She just got woken up by lots of gun fire, as Math did, and she wants info on if there are zombies around and if so, where they are and how many kids have been eaten so far and so on. That all happens in half a second. Then Math goes into full on vampire mode after smelling out the situation, and it’s of course a little scary and her instinct is to cover her face, but she has almost zero thoughts of him killing her, and once again, if he does kill her, that’s BETTER than being killed by a zombie, which they think is going to happen FOR SURE anyway, even with the vampires’ help, so who cares if he kills her? She basically KNOWS that he’s on his way towards the gun fire to go help and that he’s not after her. He just GOT UP from having his hand RIGHT NEXT TO HER NECK/CHEST, laying on top of her chest, and he’s in the process of springing backward off the bed. She wants info about what’s going on, so she asks, in a scared voice, scared of the gunfire/zombies, not really of Math.
“I’m not terribly happy with Val’s ‘Ugh’ but I admit theres not really a better way to express her boredom.”
More annoyed than bored.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:21 am
wow you are verry good with faces! NICE 1
keep it up
May 27th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Just a few questions here m’dear, don’t answer if they’re spoilers, kay?
1. Will the zombies here be the final attack that will spread over loads of pages or just a minor attack?
2. Over the next five or so pages, will many die?
3. Where’d you get your inspiration to write this?
And…ok, all other questions have been erased from my mind as I noticed Murdo’s spotted underwear. LOL.
So can’t wait until Last Blood comes out in book form, this is by far my favourite webcomic. Ever. Slowly but surely getting all my vampire fanatic friends into it ^^
Toodles
May 27th, 2007 at 7:58 am
*Bounces* Go, Go Jimmy go Go Go, Go Jimmy Go go go, Goooo Jimmy Go go go, Go Jimmy go go goooooo, JimmyBGuuuuud!
People, quit pestering Bobby until he has to be a Jerk! >/
Bobby, quit letting people pester you into being short tempered! \
May 27th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Whoops, rest of my post got cut. I went on to add,
‘This is in reaction to the Complaint/Compliment convo. If anyone DARES to reply with something snippy to THIS comment, I will kill you for enlonging the drama I’m snappin’ at’chu to avoid!
And I’ll do it by knocking you out, sealing you into a wooden coffin, and sending you to the bottom of the atlantic ocean for 65 years.
…
Wait… Where have I seen that before…
May 27th, 2007 at 9:26 am
“enlonging”
I love it when people make up words.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am
“Will the zombies here be the final attack that will spread over loads of pages or just a minor attack?”
Very minor.
“Over the next five or so pages, will many die?”
Not many.
“Where’d you get your inspiration to write this?”
The whole thing or just this section? My brother and I created the basic idea of vampires protecting humans from zombies when trying to think of movie concepts that we could film cheaply ourselves. I then came up with every other aspect of the story, like the First Zombie and all the characters and everything. Can’t really point to any specific inspiration — just trying to make a good story.
“Bobby, quit letting people pester you into being short tempered!”
Comments like these are more annoying than anything else. Also, it was the Pacific Ocean.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Math’s face in panel 2 just might be the most intense thing that has ever happened in this comic.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Heh, I love how Murdo springs out of bed, pants half on, gun in hand, ready for some zombie killing action =D.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
yaaaaaay update! I missed it though. For those of you who want to live a day in the life of Jimmy, check this out. It put me in the mood to come back praying for a new episode.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/378012
zombie-killing game galore!
May 27th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Yeah, Mewt! Leave Bobby Alone! He can be short-tempered if he wants! And It was the Pacific! So There! Nyah Nyah!
Hehehe
I’m just teasing of course. =)
May 27th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Question: Can TFZ actually see through the eyes of the zombies present or is the control more indirect?
I have this horribly dark but amusing image of one (all?) of the zombies stopping to stare at where TFZ’s picture (basketball jersy, whatever) is kept in a place of honor.
Beautiful answer a while back on how Murdo got his pants on so fast. I can so easily see him as the local answer to bored housewives.
Bring on the mayhem!
May 27th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
“Can TFZ actually see through the eyes of the zombies present or is the control more indirect?”
Can’t see through their eyes.
“I have this horribly dark but amusing image of one (all?) of the zombies stopping to stare at where TFZ’s picture (basketball jersy, whatever) is kept in a place of honor.”
I like it.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
*chuckle*
Thanks.
Guess that means TFZ would have to join the assault himelf if you wanted it to happen (and he’s too smart for that). Darn, that would have been a cool little way to mess with the movie audience.
Hmmm… Maybe he can use their senses if he focuses only on that one zombie? I’m crossing my fingers for Little Billy to be TFZ’s spokes-zombie just to mess with everyone’s heads.
Last stand like this Billy (whoever you get to play him) deserves more screen time.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
“Guess that means TFZ would have to join the assault himelf if you wanted it to happen (and he’s too smart for that).”
I’ve already said multiple times that we’ll see TFZ talking to our main characters. He will also kill at least one person personally.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:23 am
“How didMurdo get his pants back on so fast?â€
“Magic. ”
If you have to ask then you haven’t been in the miltary. When I was in basic I could have been dressed in full uniform, prepped, shaved, and in line in around 2-3 minutes. Getting pants back on would be an easy matter in this situatation after his training.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:53 am
The artworks great. I love your faces and the show of emotions on all.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:22 am
;-; Vo and Bobby are against me! *Hides*
Peh. Pacific, Pacific, whichever.
I actually wrote Pacific the first time, and was thinking Pacific when I wrote Atlantic. Meh. Oh well.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Long time reader, first post.
This page brought up an interesting question I’ve been wondering about. The zombies are obviously not interested in killing animals, or at least give them a lower priority on their ‘things to kill’ list than humans.
This implies that TFZ doesn’t direct them to attack animals.
This, to me, implies that vampires cannot live off of animal blood. Is this the case?
Sorry if it’s been answered before…I haven’t read every page of comments yet.
May 28th, 2007 at 10:28 am
—“i wish the updates were more frecuent :(â€
Are you joking? Other than the scheduled break we just had, which we announced very early, the comic has missed ONE DAY in five months and that was in early March when I was super sick. Comments like these will really make me not worry at all about the update schedule. People just go crazy over any missed days at all apparently.—-
ok ok im sorry, its just that i like the comic a lot! and and not a patient guy :p
thx for the hard work
May 28th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Since TFZ can control all the zombies and what not, why aren’t all the zombies firing AK-47’s into the group of people? It seems if they’re intelligent enough to follow other orders, to pry open doors, to even fly planes like you suggested, they could easily do that.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am
I would rather them take their time and give us something with meat to it, than churn out pages of nonsense just to feed the masses.
Quality over qanitity sweeties.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
“Since TFZ can control all the zombies and what not, why aren’t all the zombies firing AK-47’s into the group of people? It seems if they’re intelligent enough to follow other orders, to pry open doors, to even fly planes like you suggested, they could easily do that.”
#1: I’ve said MANY times that in order to make them do specific difficult tasks that zombies otherwise wouldn’t be able to do, it takes far more effort and he can’t control very many at once. #2: He has done similar things like that during the the past month. #3: Why not just drop a bomb on the school? #4: If he wanted them all dead, he would have done it ages ago. He can single-handedly kill them all without much of a concern, and he’s been there all day. I’ve also said several times that he’s trying to see what they’re like, that he wants to test them, and that he’s having second thoughts about going through with this and killing his beloved home town and his last surviving relative. #5: I wouldn’t assume that the mission of the zombies in the gym right now is to kill all the humans.
“ok ok im sorry, its just that i like the comic a lot!”
No problem, glad you like it.
“This, to me, implies that vampires cannot live off of animal blood. Is this the case?”
It has been addressed many times, but no problem: No, animal blood is no good to vampires, and the zombies don’t care about it either. Rex is safe.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I’m curious. Is there a standard throughout the industry of what/ how Zombies and Vamps etc can act and what powers they have? Or is it copacetic to grossly change the set standard of Vamps only drinking human blood?
May 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
To answer Melia’s questions: I don’t know and don’t care. Just doing my own thing.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
It depends on what you read. IE, in Anne Rice’s stuff, the vampires can survive off animal blood, but it’s supposed to taste ‘Dirty’ compared to human blood. Other genres say no animal blood at all.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
this is so fucking awesome
May 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I love how at the beginning of this page, everyone tries to count off their comments and we couldn’t get past the number four. Comic books really do dull your intelligence!
Jk, I bet it was the posting system. I just thought it was amusing.
Poor April, having to wake up to Math in scary mode.
PS, where exactly on the gym walls do they keep the jerseys (or whatever they are that you hinted at) Are they out of sight, or are they not really in the gym for some reason, or was it an artistic decision to help keep the frame from being too cluttered?
May 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
It’s just a list of sports records, and they’re probably above the back row of the bleachers somewhere. We’ll see that by Page 63 probably.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
in my defense of my numbering, I didn’t count, therefore I didn’t miscount! Ha! Steve for the win! Go number 9! I mean…14!
May 29th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
The problem with the numbering was actually due to comments from new people that I had to approve first before they could show up.
May 30th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Excellent page, waiting eagerly for the next. Love Math’s game face, very night/day. I like the way the effect drives home his dual nature.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
What if a vampire bleeds a little out the floor? Or has a arm torn off? And the Rex eats it. Would that work?
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:32 am
Hey, sorry if this has been addressed before, I haven’t had the time to go through all the comments, I was wondering what zombies need to survive. I’m sure TFZ doesn’t care what happens to the zombies and that they’re just tools, but if all humans died, well, we know the vampires would go the way of TFZ, but what would happen to the zombies, would they starve? Just curious.
Also… is there any chance of an FAQ page? I LOVE knowing all the information that you give out, it really shapes the story for me, but I haven’t been able to make the time to weed through all the comments and compliments and whatnot to find the juicy tidbits
Either way, thanks!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:35 pm
“but if all humans died, well, we know the vampires would go the way of TFZ”
I think most of them would kill themselves within the first 10 days or so of not having blood, to save themselves 65 years of torture. The First Zombie has plans to stop that from happening, though (wants to capture them all, lock them up).
“but what would happen to the zombies, would they starve?”
No, they can’t starve in this story and they can last a very long time before decomposing (years).
“Also… is there any chance of an FAQ page?”
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/05/11/page-52-no-fear/#comment-2866
December 11th, 2007 at 6:35 am
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
April 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Jimmy is a Zombie killing prodigey… prodegy… Well, he’s really good at killing zombies. Much, MUCH better than I am at spelling….