Page 73: Repopulation
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
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September 12th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Wow… First post again…
I’m guessing he’s going to get mack out of that tree?
September 12th, 2007 at 1:22 am
And that’s why we like Devian. Because she can fly and we can’t.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Yay! a comic – and a coment… YaaaaY
September 12th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Well since we know those 200 people are dead or going to do soon, guess its game over for the human race.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:45 am
“Well since we know those 200 people are dead or going to do soon, guess its game over for the human race.”
Addison Payne might have a trick or two up his sleeve.
EDIT: Anyone know why the comments for this page are all in bold?
EDIT #2: Fixed it. My note about WOWIO at the bottom was in bold and that for some reason made all the comments bold as well.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:48 am
No idea Bobby, very good question. As the last page was fine.
“Addison Payne might have a trick or two up his sleeve.”
Lets hope he does, before it really is too late.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:44 am
She’s just wondering what many of us are wondering. both her’s and Math’s view are valid just at the moment his more .
I wonder if he’s going to pick up Mac after Devian dropped him off.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:55 am
i have just found your comic and fell in love with the idea and concept that you have when i have enough money I’ll make a movie or a short film about this (with you Permission of course)
WOOT tis my 18th Birthday tomorrow (13th of September)
September 12th, 2007 at 3:44 am
hy, very cool work, I love it. I’d like to get it downloaded, but I’m unfortunately for me not a US resident.
Thanks for all, and carry on that way, it’s amazing job!
September 12th, 2007 at 4:38 am
one woman 10 men the race is doomed … ten woman one man the man is doomed but the race continues …or something like that ..sure there will be inbreeding problems but when toba blew 70/75 thousand years ago mankind came to a similar crunch of the gene lines…..OR perhaps that was the last zombie uprising that worked as well as this one did
September 12th, 2007 at 5:12 am
Are these comics being made page by page, or are they already finished, and just being posted MWF?
Is there a place I can guy these using real money?
September 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Matt: They’re made page by page. Writing Page 74 right now. You can buy the issues at your local comic shop — call them and tell them you want “Last Blood” from Blatant Comics.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Bobby Iam just wondering could i get to play a random vampire character?
September 12th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I love this comic. Well done Bobby. Keep up the good work.
- teh Wes
September 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
poor mat xD LOL
September 12th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Another question concerning buying physical copies of these comics. What is the best way for me to support this comic with my purchase? Should I go to the comic shop, request it, and buy it there? Via the link at the top of the page? I (presumably) get the same comic book any way I buy it, I’m looking for the option that best supports you guys.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I love Math’s line here. Guess he realized he has to go get someone out of a tree…
A ways back I was one of those arguing that there was no way the human race would survive this mess. Using at least once the argument our heroine uses here. Then I realized some of the deeper implications of the nuggets of info dropped thus far about Addison Payne.
He’s smart, he’s well equipped, he’s probably disgustingly wealthy (doesn’t matter now, but it did up till a month ago), and he plans for the long term.
Sperm banks are easy. AP could have just about anything hidden away in cold storage. Or anyONE for that matter.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Matt: Best to buy ‘em at your comic shop. Thanks.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:36 am
“Addison Payne might have a trick or two up his sleeve.”
You think that Payne might find a way to cure infection and revive a zombie? Guess not, as the decomposture is not really reversable. Anyways…. Im impatient for more updates =D Take care!
September 13th, 2007 at 11:25 am
“Addison Payne might have a trick or two up his sleeve”
I’m gonna say clones for 200, alex…….
so you’re saying that he’s got stored genetic material? dead frozen humans that he can clone? (can’t just clone the remaining 30, would lead to sterility and all kinds of genetic disasters down the road.)
Am I on to something?
September 13th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Minor spoiler: There will not be any clones whatsoever.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Clones would be a bit *too* much of a stretch. On the other hand, having several hundred fertilized ova hidden in a facility somehow passed over by the zombie horde is entirely possible.
Sure TFZ can smell a human at 500 miles or more, and can smell them through large amounts of dirt and rock if he gets closer. But a properly constructed biohazard level 4+ contianment facility built from the ground up by a vampire uber-medic? Who knows?
Doesn’t even have to be on land if you think about it. Giving AP his own personal atomic submarine might be a stretch (unless he was working for the government) but underwater cold storage sites are entirely possible.
Question to the writer if he doesn’t mind. I don’t know if this one has been asked before, but is Addison Payne old enough to have been there during the last zombie outbreak?
September 13th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
“several hundred fertilized ova”
Minor spoiler: None of that going on either.
“is Addison Payne old enough to have been there during the last zombie outbreak?”
Yes.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Okay. That leads to some interesting thoughts.
Is it too much of a spoiler to ask if he was directly involved in supressing it and/or the cleaning up afterwards?
September 13th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Not a spoiler at all — I don’t even know. So that sort of spoils something — says that that line of questioning isn’t leading anywhere!
September 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Just to throw this out there but there is the Artificial womb (Cornell University or something like that) Anyhow it had a successfully implantation of a egg cell then was stopped stopped after six days (to stay within some law). Most likely was a moral thing. Of course extinction kinda skews morality or more accurately makes it flexible. There is also work being done on using bone marrow to make sperm. I am sure vamp super doc would be up on all new techniques if not behind them.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
None of that necessary either. Good thoughts, though.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
About Math’s character (as in his personality and morality)…
I feel kind of daft for asking, but at this point in time, is Math supposed to be a good person who actually cares about the people he is protecting, or a underhanded malevolent character that’s acting like he cares to get their trust?
Depending on how you read it, you could build a case either way.
And in page 61 he seems genuinely concerned for Murdo’s feelings when he tells him that Val and him need his mother’s blood, like “it hurts me more than it hurts you” kind of way. Like he’s sorry he has to do it, but he does.
When Grady asks Matheson if Mac is alright, he says that Mac will be fine, when he in fact knows that Mac is currently in the middle of a zombie riot. He could be saying this because he trusts that Mac can handle himself, or he could be just saying that he knows (or rather, thinks, as it isn’t clear if he knows Devian is going to help Mac or not) that Mac is toast and he finds the question ironic and amusing. This could be used to say that Math doesn’t see humans as helpless cattle, as he trusts Mac to handle himself. He also trusts Murdo enough to tell him to help him fight, during the gym incident.
On page 39 Mac says things that, without being able to hear his tone of voice, are hard to pin down as “matter of fact” or “damn I’m evil”. He says “if we don’t gain their trust, victory is meaningless”. He could be saying this in a exasperated voice, like he’s saying that he needs to make the humans understand that he is someone they can trust, and that neither of them will be able to do pull through this alone. On the other hand, he could be saying it in a sort of Mr. Antagonist voice, where he’s saying that they need to keep the illusion up to deceive the humans. Val’s comments seem to lead us to believe that Math, when not babysitting humans, is as violent and evil as you’d expect a vampire to be, but it could just be her being a bitch.
What’s more, when he says “Yes.” to Val at the end, he could be saying it like he knows that he wants to rip them to shreds, he knows he wants to drink them dry, but he’s mad about it. He does want to on an emotional level, but he feels the deep physical, primal urge to. Of course he could just be simply stating that acting all buddy-buddy pisses him off, and that he’s mad about it.
Maybe all of this is part of the comic, and I’m not really supposed to know if Math is good people or not.
Great comic and all by the way. I’m going to make a trip to the city tomorrow and find a comic shop, then jump up and down screaming if they don’t have this comic. If they do, I’ll buy all three issues, if they don’t, I’ll come back here and donate some cash via PayPal, or something.
I’m 100% sure that this comment is chock full of grammar and spelling monstrosities, but I’m too lazy to go through and weed them all out. Sorry about that.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I just saw after posting that I have written an entire thesis. My bad.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Matt: No problem about the thesis — enjoyed hearing your thoughts. It’s my feeling that Math is conflicted. There’s lots of things to consider. If they’re actually going to make it through this, he’s basically going to need to be very close with the humans for the next FOREVER, so it’s in his best interest to be nice to them. In this story vampires in general have a strong dislike for humans and blame them for all the problems of the world, think of them as little kids basically. Most vampires are hundreds of years old, so they’re the elder statesmen of the Earth and most of them have spent their lives at various times saving humanity from humanity, helping to end wars and fight disease and so on, and now they’ve basically failed and almost everyone is dead. It’s like it’s all over, but it’s not quite yet, and the vampires had to decide if they wanted to stick with this fight and be dependent upon the few humans left alive in a last ditch effort to save them and save themselves in the process (and also to possibly/hopefully find out why this all happened), or if they would rather give up and kill themselves, as Val has wanted to. Dozens of vampires have already killed themselves, and dozens more are actually going through the torture of becoming an original zombie. The movie will address this more, but once you don’t drink blood for a period of about three weeks, you can’t be helped anymore (as far as they currently know at least on Page 73) and you’re going to go through those 65 years no matter what. Many of these vampires were smelled out by other vampires and were given blood to drink, but it didn’t do any good, so many were put out of their misery and staked, but there are still some out there. Math went a couple weeks without blood and Val saved him just in time.
Anyway, Math cares more about the humans than most vampires. Addison probably cares about them the most. Math is still fairly young (around 150) and he was born a human.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I’m not sure if this has been answered, but how does a human become a vampire? From a vampire bite? Wouldn’t there me more vampires about, or do they avoid biting people?
Is it a painful transition? I would imagine it would be repulsive at least, for a person to suddenly need to drink other people’s blood. I suppose it would also be painful in that you would probably loose most of your friends, unless you kept it secret. Of course, being immortal would mean they’d all die long before you did anyway.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Hasn’t been specifically answered, but it’s more than just a bite.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
So how’s that movie deal going?
September 13th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Very well.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Ah, s’wonderful. Just finished reading all the way through this one at exactly 1 am! I shouldn’t be up this late since I’ve got to be in to work by 6, but hey, it was worth it. I’ve been a fan of Marry Me for a while now, but just found Last Blood. Goes to show exactly how scatter-brained I am. Anyway, detailed story, lovely artwork, and I’m quite enjoying this. Thank you, for all your work, both of you. It’s appreciated.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Found the comic a while ago, read it all in one go, and now I can’t help checking for updates every time I sit down in front of a computer with an internet connection. You’re doing something right, despite the nitpicks I’m about to bring up.
From the first panel:
“What if it’s not him? What if it’s all a coincidence?”
Maybe it’s just my opinion, but I think you skipped over a rather important bit of conversation there. I mean, we all can guess that they’re talking about Sullie, but how the hell do you say “Your grand daddy is the zombie that started all this”? And as well as she’s handled the rest of this, I don’t think that she’d handle that particular info quite as well. I don’t think I’m the only one who really wants to see that conversation.
Also, the idea that Sullie let himself become TFZ to spite the vampires and damn the consequence to humankind is a bit far fetched. That he was in a coffin says to me ‘burial at sea’. It would sound more plausible I think to say that he had only recently been turned, and received what would for one of us be a severely mortal wound. If he was effectively unconscious for even half a day as a result, and if (as in a large portion of vampire lore) vampires have no vital signs (no heartbeat, little/no body heat, no need to breathe, etc because they’re not truly alive) then it’s reasonable to believe that his crew mates could have performed last rites and stuck him in that coffin. Eventually he recovers from whatever injury made the crew think he was dead, and he finds himself in a coffin full of water with no leverage to break himself free. (They usually nail them shut, and since it would be so soon after it was dumped in the ocean, the wood would still be pretty solid. Swollen with water, even, which would make the wood grab the nails even more tightly.) Enter hunger, followed by starvation, and you have an insane, decaying vampire progressing towards becoming a zombie.
Or it could be that a crew member saw him get hit with what should be a fatal wound, so he ‘played dead’ thinking he could break free and get picked up by a passing ship or something, because he didn’t want to reveal the secret that vampires exist, and also didn’t want an entire ship full of people being witness to his coming back from the dead.
And then there’s the possibility that no one said “If you don’t feed, you go insane, your body rots, and you become Super Zombie.” (Which would explain Val’s reaction… a sense of responsibility because she didn’t explain the game rules to her progeny.) So he hates being a vampire and feeding off of people, and ‘arranges’ a burial at sea. (Maybe he deliberately takes a hit in combat or something and then plays dead as above.)
The idea of him taking revenge on vampires by wiping out humans and potentially turning all the vamps into original zombies just seems too weird to me. It’d be like saying “I hate all the people in my high school calculus class, but I love the people in my history class.” and then blowing up the entire city. Granted, no one can say with certainty what being turned into a vampire would do to any particular individual’s mind, and this thing is your baby. Still, I just felt like voicing my opinion on this particular matter.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:42 am
“I don’t think I’m the only one who really wants to see that conversation.”
The way to make a boring story is to show everything. Gotta leave some good stuff off-screen. I originally planned to show it, but didn’t for several reasons, one of which being that the cover of issue #3 shows the plane crash and issue #3 must end on Page 80, so I’m cutting things out like crazy right now trying to fit all this in. He told her a specific plan and had to give her training and everything, and that will reveal itself later. The comic so far has also had just way too much of sitting around and talking, especially with Math and April. Had to cut that down.
SOMEWHAT LARGE SPOILER BELOW THIS POINT
Sullivan Davis is not The First Zombie. I recently said in the comments that one of the big things I had spoiled was no longer true, and that’s the thing. We will learn more about Sullivan Davis, and I won’t spoil some other big things involving him, but he is no longer the big bad guy.
There are a ton of reasons for why I think it’s a million times better for TFZ to have done this on purpose, the biggest being that there’s no story without it and also no bad guy. If he didn’t do it on purpose, if he was a good guy who simply didn’t want to be caught as a vampire, then he wouldn’t be actively searching out every last human to kill, remember? The story just plain DOESN’T WORK unless he did it on purpose. The only way the story works is if there’s an extremely small group of survivors left. If it was a “normal” zombie outbreak without a TFZ controlling them all and smelling out humans from great distances while flying all over the world in a plane, and making sure in the first hour that zombies got on international flights and all of those things, then there’d possibly be over a billion humans left alive, and at a bare minimum there’d be over 30,000 probably. With 30,000 humans, or even just 5,000, it wouldn’t be all that tough for the vampires to “survive” (to keep feeding well enough to avoid the TFZ-style torture). The story only works if almost NO ONE is left alive and if there’s a very real fear of EVERY HUMAN DYING. It also would make the story quite boring to not have a bad guy and for there to be no good reason for why this happened.
“The idea of him taking revenge on vampires by wiping out humans and potentially turning all the vamps into original zombies just seems too weird to me.”
Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter at all that the vampires would all become original zombies when there’s no humans left to do anything with, to zombify and control. They’d be all that’s left on the planet, just them, so it’s pointless. I really don’t understand why people keep talking about how all the vampires would turn into first/original zombies. There’d be nothing for them to do. The whole point of it is putting them through 65 YEARS OF TORTURE (and of course end their entire race), and the actual TFZ wants that so badly that he was willing to go through the same torture himself in order to achieve it.
” ‘I hate all the people in my high school calculus class, but I love the people in my history class.’ and then blowing up the entire city.”
You don’t know the full story yet. A large reason for it is because at the time he thought the Allies were going to lose the war (he had just lost a big battle, his ship was sunk, most of his life long friends just died). He thought 65 years later everyone on Earth was gonna be speaking German and/or Japanese, that kind of deal. A lot more to it as well.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:44 am
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# IGOR Says:
September 12th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Bobby Iam just wondering could i get to play a random vampire character?
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this might be something to consider as a fund raiser type thing
since in “your world” all the readers here are zombies they could get cameo shots as a zombie with a blood spattered name tag with the “HI MY NAME IS ……….” as they are being cut down as zombie chop …. just a thought ….lol you might wind up with a whole battalion from some fast food joint in matching uniforms
September 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am
This is “thesis” Matt.
Wait, wait, wait. Movie? I haven’t been reading the comments up until a few days ago, but we’re talking movie? Like, lights-camera-action? Like, motion picture? Oh man. Can’t wait.
It’s epic win.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:57 am
So is….
spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler
Sullivan Davis still involved? I mean, you had that page where Val freaks when she hears the name and all that. If he is, here’s my guess; TFZ is Sullivan Davis kid he had with Val?
September 14th, 2007 at 11:43 am
SPOILER
Sullivan Davis is definitely still involved, and no, doesn’t involve any children of anyone.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I think Sullivan Davis is a vampire and I also thing that hes gonna go and get him.
That what I think.
LOL
September 14th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
“This is “thesis†Matt.”
lol suppose I should have picked a name other than my real one when I made that big long first post a few comments up. In a high school english class of about 30, I was one of 5 Matthews. ^_^;;
Anyways… It was stated before that the agony and hunger and general decay more or less drives a first zombie bonkers. If they retained their sanity, and with it their prior motivations, then you wouldn’t have such a big problem with ‘outbreaks’ whenever a vampire starves. Insanity doesn’t necessarily mean lack of cunning, however. Most of the world’s geniuses were called lunatics or worse… until they were proven to be right.
I can’t really see zombies getting on international flights, either. I can make all kinds of carry on/carrion jokes, but I just don’t see it happening… “Sir, you seem to be bleeding rather profusely from your stomach.” “Sir, did you notice you have a gaping hole in your neck?” “Sir, please stop chewing on the passenger next to you.” “Excuse me sir, but you have some blood on your chin.” “Can I get you anything? Blanket? Pillow? Coffee? A small and defenseless child?”
What would sound more plausible is that people who were infected by a minor wound of some kind and escaped got on a plane in an attempt to get the hell out of Dodge, and then got sick, died, and got back up again after getting off the plane.
TFZ flying himself around the world on a plane seems rather unlikely as well, unless he could find a WW2 era plane in a museum or something that was still in good working order. (Or a crop duster, though those wouldn’t have the range.) I’ve been inside planes from various stages of aviation history, and I can say with certainty that a WW2 pilot with no further training would not be able to fly anything made in the last 30 to 40 years. There’s just too many fundamental changes in the way the planes operate.
The only remaining plot device is innate flight. Meaning that this TFZ is directly related to another flying vampire, possibly connecting him to Devian. A flight capable zombie popping around the world because they feel spiteful that only they went through such agony and want to spread the love… that’s not quite as weird sounding, imo. Funny as hell though, thinking of a zombie pulling a superman and flying around the world.
And even if it were 30 thousand humans left on the planet, the vampires WOULD still have a hard time of things, because 6.3 billion minus 30 thousand is still pretty damn close to 6.3 billion. Even if say half of the zombies are killed during the destruction of the human race (which seems unlikely given what I call the “WTF effect” and the speed of zombification from mortal wounds) or are otherwise unsuitable for zombification (headshot suicides) that’s still around 3 billion zombies. Against 30k survivors? No matter how well supplied the survivors, that’s long odds.
September 14th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Matt: You apparently haven’t read previous comments. Not gonna be bothered to find the page now, but feel free to do a Google search for it, where I’ve explained in detail numerous times about the flights and everything. TFZ would give very minor bites to people going on international flights, barely a scratch (like Mustache Man’s “bite”), something that wouldn’t even hurt basically, would seem accidental, while he’s of course wearing sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt and the whole thing, in the bathrooms probably, and anyway, they’d then go through the 24 hour process of turning, where 15 hours in they’re simply very sick, but nowhere near the point of a zombie yet. In this world it’s a distinct change that happens at certain times, where it clicks in, like after 65 years of no blood a vampire clicks in and becomes an original zombie. Same thing with 24 hours after a bite a human suddenly becomes a zombie, but they do get very sick before that — easily well enough for their international flights to land, though.
“TFZ flying himself around the world on a plane seems rather unlikely as well, unless he could find a WW2 era plane in a museum or something that was still in good working order.”
I’m sure there’s tons of such planes available. The world is his oyster at that point.
“And even if it were 30 thousand humans left on the planet, the vampires WOULD still have a hard time of things”
Keep in mind that when the outbreak started there were only somewhere around 200 vampires on Earth. Currently in the story (as of Page 73) there’s only around 50 vampires left, possibly a bit less. And vampires only need small amounts of blood. Also, 30,000 was the minimum figure I gave. I think it’s much more likely that over a billion would survive if the zombies weren’t led by TFZ.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Hello I just whent trough the comic and I realised that the man on page
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/05/16/last-blood-3-cover/
the 1 with long hair looks like the 1 in previous page.
So i was just wondereing could it be him with Addison Payne in the playne????
September 14th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
*jet
September 14th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
If you’re referring to the long haired guy in the pin-up preview thing, he also has lots of facial hair, which we’re not seeing on the guy in the plane. Doesn’t really matter, though. That guy on the cover next to Addison is just some random vampire, could be anyone.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I read some of the comments on previous pages, but since we’re on page 73 now, and I only found the comic about a week ago… I guess things like this are bound to happen more and more as you progress in the story, huh?
It still seems like a bit of a stretch, a 65 year old waterlogged and rotting zombie hiding in the men’s room (or anywhere really) to nibble on people without getting caught. But, that’s what suspension of disbelief is for I guess.
Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure that in a world where most people in civilized countries (particularly younger generations) grew up with zombie movies and resident evil, shambling zombies wouldn’t stand a chance without SOME kind of help. I might know that zombies aren’t real, but if I see someone with a bunch of pieces missing (who isn’t shrieking in pain) staggering towards me, I won’t need to be told to aim for the head. And that doesn’t even bring the military into consideration. What would happen if you napalmed TFZ? Or ran over his face with a tank?
(I’m just being funny, zombie stories/games/movies wouldn’t be fun if the zombies didn’t have the upper hand.)
Oh, and from now on I’m going to change my name to Nekokaburi, to avoid any confusion regarding the other Matt, since he was here first.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Hey, other Matt. I know how it is with everyone having our name. Out of my graduating high school class, there were six Matthews. Six.
I agree with the opinion that the zombies would have to have the upper hand for the story to be interesting or suspenseful. I doubt a zombie outbreak would be much of a threat in the real world. Not to start the whole “Zombie Survival Guide” conversation, but I think mankind would fare a bit better than 33 people in a midwestern town.
Personally, I would go Frank West on their ass.
But the comic wouldn’t exactly be exiting if instead of saying “You’re the only ones left in America” Math said “Nah, humanity is kicking ass and taking names, we just showed up because the following action scenes are going to rock, and we want to get in on it”.
September 15th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I agree with matt on that subject,
even though its a stupid question but how can the vampires be sure that those are the only humans left on the planet? i mean there could be thousands of humans that had time to hide themselves in bombshelters and such. there could be many people scattered across the globe that event he TFZ wouldn’t be able to find right? I mean i doubt that they searched every single p;ace on the planet in that small amount of time.
Even though i know that it wouldn’t be as cool of a storyline like matt said but it is a little improbable.
if i hated this comic i would be bringing up even more points and I would be defending this point but I love this comic and i hate logic for cool stoies like these so i am never going to bring this up again =) sorry
September 15th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
“there could be many people scattered across the globe that event he TFZ wouldn’t be able to find right?”
Um, no, NO ONE — that’s a rather large aspect of the story. Vampires can smell blood at great distances, some more than others, and TFZ and Math both can smell extremely far distances, like close to 1,000 miles, including things that are underground and underwater and everything. TFZ has killed absolutely EVERYONE, no questions asked, no one in submarines, no one ANYWHERE except for the ones mentioned in the story. EVERYBODY DEAD. Doesn’t take long, not all that difficult.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:01 am
I’d have to agree, the ability to sniff out live humans was brought up early as being important. Math said it was how he knew there was nobody alive between a certain two cities at the time, and how they knew there were no other survivors in the US, because they’d travelled all over sniffing for them. He also stated that TFZ has at LEAST some of the abilities he had as a vampire, because he was sniffing out humans and actively hunting them down.
And once humanity is reduced to a certain level, it would be easy for zombies to wipe them out. Especially if the zombies are coordinated/guided by some unseen, moderately cunning force. Even underground bunkers need some sort of air supply, or food. Nothing stops a horde of a million zombies from simply camping outside waiting for the doors to crack open a little. Or TFZ could order them to block the air vents. Then the people inside have to either stay inside and die, or come out and die.
Of course, Math did say that he had difficulty smelling the zombies when they went underground…
September 16th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Hey Bobby? Just out of curiousity, Did TFZ go after Mir or did he just figure they’d starve to death and it wasn’t worth his effort?
September 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Vo: Not sure.
“Of course, Math did say that he had difficulty smelling the zombies when they went underground…”
He said they became harder to smell, but just slightly. If he has a range of like 750 miles in one direction above the ground, then maybe it’s only 300 miles or so below the ground, which is more than enough to do the trick and do it fairly quick as well.
“Or TFZ could order them to block the air vents.”
Or TFZ could use some of the large supply of big bombs that he’s picked up along the way.
And to the people who say that TFZ couldn’t figure out how to fly a modern plane, keep in mind that all he’d have to do is take off and keep it in the air basically, with landing not too much of an issue, since he can’t be hurt, retaining his vampire powers. As you see from the cover of the third issue, tons of vampires are about to crash their plane into tons of zombies. None of them will die in the crash.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
None of the vampires or none of the zombies?
I suppose you can’t technically kill what’s already dead, lol.
The thing is, modern aircraft take more to get them off the ground. The systems are generally a lot more complicated, and there’s all kinds of controls in a cockpit that would confuse the hell out of just about anyone. Of course, if he has a big airport with lots of planes to break while he figures it out….
September 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Good thing there’s tons of old planes around to fly as well!
September 16th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Need…new….page.
I’m Jones’in here.
As a side note, I bought two copies of all three issues of this comic at my local comic shop. Gave the extras to a couple friends. Feels kind of good to actually find something I like enough to buy, knowing I’m supporting something cool. I usually pirate everything.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Matt: Only been two issues released! Third issue ends with Page 80, won’t be in stores for another 4-5 weeks (hopefully). Glad you bought the issues, though!
Owen’s been really sick. New page tomorrow and hopefully three or four more in the week.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I ment two. I got excited and wrote three. I was looking at the stack of them on my desk, and with the extra I have left I counted three as I was typing.
But yeah, the friends I showed them out to really thought it was cool. A friend of mine who draws a great deal said that he liked the sketchy kind of style in the first issue a lot, and took (well, I gave it to him) the extra of issue one so he could draw some of the characters.
I told them all about the site, and I assume they’re checking it out.
Sorry to hear about Owen being under the weather. Get well soon.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Thanks. i feel better now. I’ve actually been really stoked about LB lately and I want to make it my “main” gig. I’d love to do 5 pages a week but I’ve been having some scheduling problems. Construction at my home has forced me to keep my computer at a separate studio that I don’t always have access to. I’m hoping everything is resolved soon.
September 17th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Hmmm. Maybe most all of the Navy forces killed each other off once the nukes started flying and TFZ just had to pick off the survivors? Not knowing who to blame, the natural reaction of most governments would be to assume some other country created a bioweapon and set it loose.
Can’t forget the war.
But who cares? Unless it directly inluences the story having some other deeply hidden group of survivors doesn’t matter. The classic zombie story has always been about a small group of people trying desperately to survive. In this case that group just happens to include a few dozen vampires.
Bring on the Horde!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
“Maybe most all of the Navy forces killed each other off once the nukes started flying and TFZ just had to pick off the survivors?”
Yeah, or TFZ killed them all very easily! He can fly over the ocean with tons of zombies in his plane that he can drop off in the water and they can sink down with grenades or whatever they want and take out submarines. Not very difficult.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Except that militaries routinely monitor each others’ broadcasts. Once they hear about planes dropping waves of zombies they are going to take precautions. Like shooting down any plane that shows up on their radar.
Tie in orbital surveillance and planes doing patrol sweeps, and it’s going to be a complete bitch to kill the last few dozen military ships out there. Especially since radar and surveilance equipment has gotten so much better since TFZ ‘died’.
Not to say TFZ couldn’t do it eventually. Just that it is going to take serious effort even from him to get them all.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
No, it’s incredibly easy for him.
“Except that militaries routinely monitor each others’ broadcasts. Once they hear about planes dropping waves of zombies they are going to take precautions. Like shooting down any plane that shows up on their radar.”
This is AFTER there’s almost no one left alive, including military. He’s obviously not doing this on the first day or the first week. The ones in the submarines and such are part of the last groups of people alive at all. This is like 3-4 days ago when he was taking these people out probably, four weeks in. They don’t have any plane cover. There aren’t any military up there flying planes to help protect the guys in the subs. Obviously TFZ has taken them out first. There’s seriously nothing in any way difficult about this. It’s a child’s game.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Oh yeah? What about the Justice League and the Fellowship of the Ring? They would sure stop the outbreak!
December 6th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
“Explain.”
Google it.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:51 am
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