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woot 1st comment. but seriously that was an interesting little vow funny how the only one who tried to kill the vampires when they arrived was the school teacher who wasn’t privy to the vampire killers club lol.
*knowing smirk* “Is that what they’re calling it now?”
Awesome. Also, even though it’s a horrifying maw of teeth, I was able to identify that as a knowing smirk. That’s how good Owen is.
It was the ultimate secret society to any boy who grew up in that small town. It’s like you weren’t anybody if you weren’t a member, and the only way to be a member was to join the military. Also, members are sworn to secrecy and no one but a member could know what it was all about. Grady didn’t know it had anything to do with vampires until after he joined the army and came home for the first time and was taken into the tunnel and sworn in.
That’s quite a vehement oath there. Small wonder TFZ’s a schea-goddammit I can’t spell it right now. He hated vampires to begin with, so he couldn’t stand becoming one. If that was said earlier in some previous comment section, I missed it.
Potatoes and Pineapples*
-quietly plans on how he can create an anti vampire club, whilst using nearly the exact same words as this, and whoever joins ill yell at because vampires Rule, and ill be angry that they don’t like them.-
Have to say that today’s page is awesomesauce ™. I really like the panel where, between Grady and Mac you can see all the children huddled up and freaking out. Poor little things – they’re going to be traumatized and need years of therapy – only there ain’t no therapists left! Ironical *shakes head sadly* Hopefully sommathem vampires have psychological type leanings or sommut.
What in hell am I doing up at this hour? Oh, yeah, I am usually just get off work about this time, right. Yeah. Been sick. Going back to bed.
Francis is so emo =)
To bad its no use for him to cut himself =P
I love the style it all constructed and how all the things come together near the end. As I said before – excelent job you two… and keep up the update rate!
Have to say I’ve been enjoying looking at your MS sketches. Not a lot of comics do that and I think it gives a more in depth look at what you wanted to come across in facial features and such. I almost didn’t see the button on this one and a little sad!
if only there were more people like grady wilcox in tfzs ,aka wlb, life perhaps he wouldn’t have taken the path he did ,as gradys oath using his yearbook words seems to have calmed him down a bit there … at last long last someone who had no knoweledge of wlbs life has spouted his words without prompting … at long last of someone will recognize his worth his life… but of course the next panel of grady saying he thought they were sullivans words might enrage him all over again …wlb
I love how TFZ comes across a bit impressed and pleased, and in the other panel he comes across as smug. Excellent writing Bobby, and excellent job on the art Owen! Y’all are a perfect team!
“It’s actually something Jesus used to say and Addison Payne stole it from him and eventually Francis somehow heard it in 1936 when he graduated.
” Wow, I haven’t laughed that hard in quite some time. Wonderful as always Bobby/Owen.
Kiiiiiiiiinda iffy writing. I mean. “Egad! Murdo’s grandpa, Francis murdo! Not at all an obvious recap!!”
I mean, this comic wasn’t rrly rrly needed. Could’ve just been
“He hated vampires and built the tunnel”
“Why did he build it”
“Saw a vamp, sully trusted ‘im, built it, trained to kill ‘em”
“Oh noes!!!”
And that way, AFP could have some kick ass line to go along with it. You could’ve even had him say the quote, and be like “What da fuck how’d he know dat?!!?”
But meh, I’m no author. And hell, I love it anyway.
How did who know what? Don’t know what you’re talking about.
I agree that this page had horrible writing, though, by the way (as I think about most of the pages, but especially this one among the recent ones). Just sent Owen the script for Page 101 and the e-mail began with “Great job with Page 100, thanks. It wasn’t a well written page, definitely one of those moments that will have major changes in the screenplay, but the art was just what I wanted.”
Don’t want to sound ungrateful because I’m LOVING this story. But when can we expect the next page? This is the most excited i’ve gotten over a webcomic in christ knows how long :/.
that oath is kind of heavy for a high school graduate no? i mean, seriously, what kind of a graduating senior makes a secret society that lasts beyond the first summer after school (shakes head in jealousy)
I love this comic to un-death! This is the first time I’ve posted a comment though. Um, this page does seem to break from the speed of the rest of the comic. However explanation is good, but I can’t wait for some more action. That would be w00tiful.
Incredible… Ive never heard of this before, and im a vampire fan. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time.. and now.. a cliff hanger.. Update soon… Im begging.
Holy wow, I love this comic and the way everything fits together. Almost Heroes-esque is the way that things sort of fall into place.
Oh, and Bobby, what are you planning on doing for the music of the Last Blood movie? During the first few comics (with TFZ breaking out an’ stuff), the iTunes was playing Yngwie Malmsteen’s “Black Star,” and I can definitely see something Metallica-esque for the combat bits, personally.
Ah, such a funny page. I’m so sick I can’t even laugh, but this was definately a highlight to my boring day xD. Very explicit oath, eh? Nice. I loved it.
This isn’t so much a question as it is observations, I did run a goole search first but haven’t seen this covered.
TFZ spent the entire nuclear age isolated, in particular he missed the cold war and vietnam war. It’s quite probable he didn’t forsee just how paranoid about the end of the world some people got. Publicly known retreats like the Whitehouse bunker, and military bunkers never stood a chance, but could really have sniffed out every airtight hideaway in the world?
I guess my prime wonder is did AFP know or suspect this would happen, becouse if he did it would be easy for him to have helped ’scent proof’ a few places, places using the most modern air recycling and such technology available. This small town has been declared as ‘the last humans alive’ but it would be easy for AFP or one of the other vampires to be lying. I don’t think they would have told the others for the risk that TFZ would hear of it.
On a similar line I’ve thought about reference you’ve made to a ‘vampirism cure’. Vampires don’t need air, so if there’s any way to sedate vamps turning a few hundred just after the zombie plague began, sedating them, and than burying them in shrinkwrap would make the perfect trump card. Than if/when TFZ gets stopped dig up the dormant vamps, dose them with the cure, and bam instant human starter town.
If you shrink-wrapped vampires and left them there, I just get this idea in my head of TFZ being stopped, human civilization being restarted (by cured vamps), and them forgetting to dig one up, so that a few centuries into the new world, you get another very very very pissed off schaemiac.
“Uh, who’s missing?”
“Frank.”
“Oh well; I’m sure that won’t come back to bite us later.”
People bring up every possible detail on the comments. Imagine the Last Blood characters trying to get answers about everything, and spurting out random comments. Or if you have a bad imagination you can just click below and see what it would be like with your own eyes.
Minor quibble, I’d say from the time period that TFZ did get married before going off to war. Yeah, maybe not and it could be worked into the story, but so much easier the other way without introducing the WW2 era bastard cover up issue. IMO, just a spurious distraction. Quite possible that Francis Junior never met his daddy who “died” in the Pacific.
I know bobby already handled it, but if I can say something as a reminder asking about how he killed people in
As has already been said, the zombies need not actually bite every single astronaut, president, miner, pirate, etc… When these people are left with minimal food, minimal water, they think everyone else in the world is dead, and every second they can’t sleep because there are countless zombies scraping and moaning along the sides of whatever it is they are living in, they go a LITTLE bit crazy.
Even Math was talking about the biggest problem being the fact that they go crazy and either kill themselves or the others.
There is absolutely no way that anyone else could be alive unless WLB wanted them to be.
“Minor quibble, I’d say from the time period that TFZ did get married before going off to war.”
LOL.
“Yeah, maybe not and it could be worked into the story, but so much easier the other way without introducing the WW2 era bastard cover up issue.”
Huh? #1, it won’t even be said in this first graphic novel if they were married or not (who gives a fuck?), and #2 –
“Quite possible that Francis Junior never met his daddy who ‘died’ in the Pacific.”
Definitely never met, and Francis never even knew she was pregnant before “dying,” so it certainly wasn’t a “bastard.”
Fink6: Very few of the super rich people in underground bunkers killed themselves, I’m sure. TFZ had to handle them, which was of course very easy. He has access to the skills of anyone in the world he wants to control, and under his control they can do anything they could do as humans. Wouldn’t be too tough to find some good drillers and find a way to dig down into any underground bunker and drop a nuke on it if need be or find some way in. This all happens lightning fast when you have almost everyone in the entire world ready to do your bidding and none of them need sleep or feel pain.
Vampires can smell other vampires, right? Then… why didn’t Val or AFP go and kill TFZ rather than let him rot in a coffin for 65 years? They could just wait like 3 weeks, and go put a stake through his heart, and then this would not have happened.
After two weeks you can’t be smelled anymore — that’s when the pain gets really bad because you’re now totally out of blood, and it’s the blood that the vampires smell. Val didn’t tell anyone about what Francis said he was planning to do, didn’t tell anyone the details of that, until more than two weeks later. Sullivan didn’t start the hunger pains until almost three weeks after Francis did actually, which is why he only has 3,000 troops (complicated, though, haven’t finalized a lot of details for that yet — the sequels/prequels will tell the story). Anyway, Val didn’t worry about it much, didn’t think Francis would do it, and she was feeling guilty about it and didn’t want to tell anyone — she waited too long. They didn’t know exactly where he was dropped and it’s a big ass ocean and they didn’t want to tell many vampires about it and create a panic and only Sullivan (and possibly Addison) truly believed that Francis would do it, so they didn’t have many people to look (only one or two, and Sullivan concluded that they’d never find him and that he had to start the process of becoming a schaemiac almost instantly). Perhaps Addison spent a total of years looking in the past six decades, but he’s been pretty busy saving the world in other ways, and at least Sullivan was a backup plan. More details on all this in the sequels/prequels — it will all make sense.
That was the first time that was asked, by the way — such a rarity!
Sullivan started 3 weeks later? I thought you said 3 days!
Congrats on the 100th comic!!
PD: One of the spin-offs could involve the vampires in many situations of history, covertly helping to save the world. The cold war, the wars of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, the wars between Greeks and Persians (SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!), etc…
What do you think of that? You probably already thought of it.
Never said it officially and everything’s subject to change, really. All that really matters is what’s said in the comic. Recently I said “about 3-14 days,” I think, but what I’m MAINLY thinking of when I said those things is about WHEN SULLIVAN EMERGED ONTO LAND and had a chance to start actually doing something, which doesn’t have to exactly correspond to when he started the hunger pains as compared to Francis. It takes a while to walk across the ocean floor! Sullivan might not have been on the ocean floor anyway, but I think he probably was, probably spent his two weeks of pre-extreme torture time (those first two weeks before it gets so bad you can’t move) frantically searching the ocean floor for Francis, then the super bad pain hit him and he stumbled and fell and was stuck there in that spot for 65 years.
Current #1 choice is Addison, but I haven’t decided. That moment will most likely be featured somewhat early on in the next graphic novel, which may begin (Page 1) as early as Christmas Day, but we’re not sure (not even positive it will ever begin).
By the way, following up on my previous comment, it took 73 years to find the Titanic, which is considerably larger than a single coffin, and it required 1980s technology to do so. Addison also would have had to run the risk of being discovered by humans if he tried to mount such an expedition in this day and age.
betcha addison has/had enough money to buy the entire red army after the fall of the soviet union…. Did he buy the entire red army nuclear stockpile after the colapse of the societ union -_- ? did he cause the colapse of the soviet union? Arrh Vampires everywhere!!!
dont feel obliged to answer. It started off as the point that money solves all problems and since hes 2000 years old i dont think that would be anything remotly even close to a problem for him.
People should take the time to reread all the other comics, and if they still ask a bunch of questions… well, try waiting for the rest of the comic to come out =)
I still think someone needs to bitchslap Francis. He obviously wasn’t beaten enough as a child. Or loved. Or something.
Alright… I had actually had this question a while ago, but I dismissed it essentially by telling myself that the ocean probably covered up his scent from the vampires, but then when you said “There is NO WAY to scent proof any place.”, the question came back up for me, and I figured I would ask it. Yeah, the ocean floor is large, and it would take a long time to search it for something as small as a coffin, especially since there would be more than one coffin on the ocean floor. Thanks for the answer, Bobby.
It is actually possible to create a scent proof environment, but it requires lots of money, and lots of technologies that are just being created. And any kind of disturbance (ei, the shock from a bomb) would break the scent proofing.
Actually, most of the ocean floor would be at crush depths for any material, even solid steel. So TFZ would have had to be in a relatively shallow area or he would have been compressed to about 1 foot tall and unable to move under the weight of the millions of tons of water. This also makes walking across the ocean floor something of an improbable idea. Maybe he can’t die, but he would still be helplessly compressed and pinned down as a mini-zombie. And if you tell me that he is all powerful and so wouldn’t be crushed or could still move, then I would say something powerful enough to walk on the ocean basin could simply fart and destroy the world, and certainly a measley bullet wouldn’t penetrate his skull. I hearby move for an official “shallow water” policy. That’s still a big area to search.
I know you’ve mentioned some of the big things Addison Payne has done for humanity, such as most big inventions and medical advances, but could you give some more examples of his role in history? In my opinion, AFP is the single most interesting character in a work of fiction that I’ve seen in a long time. What else has he done over the last 2000 years?
I just found this comic today, but I wanted to say it’s amazing!! I’m a big graphic novel fan and huge movie buff and you’re going with both of them! Good on ya! Great storyline and great artwork, you guys have an awesome talent! Can’t wait to see more of it.
While I’m a bit glum at not hearing about the badassery of AFP, I nearly crapped myself when you said “comics that star [Addison Fucking Payne]“. Those will be pure, undiluted, concentrated awesome on a page. Write the Addison spin-off first? Please?
I hope that I haven’t simply missed this detail in my searchings, but I do have a question about one of the aspects of this fantastic comic. Addison has to explain the pains and zombie process to the rest of the vampires (and us, in the process). Apparantly when you are turned, you don’t get a handbook (page 275-If, for some unknowable reason, you go without blood for 65 years you will wake from the pain with the ability to create zombies that will spread across humanity with every bite.) So, how did Francis TFZ know what he was doing? Did Val spill the beans to him? I’m not sure how that comes up in conversation with the person you hate for turning you into a blood-sucking monster (from TFZ’s eyes-not only did you turn me into a vampire, you then dumped me for my best friend! So, how does this “vampire-turned-zombie-master” process work again? Oh, no, it’s just because I’m really curious…)
If Val knew about his plans, then Sullivan TFZ of course makes sense as a backup plan, or a hopeful plan A to block/defeat Francis TFZ. The real question is: Who explained the schaemic process to Francis in the first place and why did they tell him?
Thanks in advance for your answer, I’m impressed with how well your background thoughts add to the flavor and continuity of the comic. Excellent work guys!
“Addison has to explain the pains and zombie process to the rest of the vampires”
At least 80% of them knew already, but there are almost zero recorded cases in history of it actually happening, so there’s very little firm knowledge on the subject, and they’re now in the presence of Addison Payne, the smartest person ever born and the foremost expert on everything, especially vampire related things, so they want as much info as they can get from him.
“So, how did Francis TFZ know what he was doing? Did Val spill the beans to him?”
Yes. She’s a stupid evil bitch.
“I’m not sure how that comes up in conversation”
You’ll see the conversation in the next graphic novel.
“There are almost zero recorded cases in history of it [a schaemiac forming] actually happening”
Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?
Cutting off people’s heads and shitting down their throats reminds me of a certain scene from full metal jacket, where Sergeant Hartman tells Private Joker that “You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!”
I cant decide what would be the best thing to do to Francis – rip off his head and exrete feces into his laryngx, or squick him in the forehead through his conveniently placed bullet hole. Maybe someone could do both at once? I’ve heard that pooping while running is imposiable. Is it posiable to take a dump while screwing something? Of course, we could just insert Sergeant Hartman into pallel two, where he will tell Francis that “I’m gonna give you three seconds–exactly three fucking seconds–to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face, or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!â€
All of this would be good fun, but what we really need is an ent with a chestfucking fetish.
Can flies lay eggs on zombies, producing maggots? Animals don’t seem to have eaten most of the zombies, so presumably their flesh is really toxic (or it just tastes really bad). Would this stop insects that usually eat dead flesh from growing in zombies? As Francis is a (sort of) zombie, would it be posiable for maggots to feast upon him? I’d really like to see what would happpen if someone were to shove some wriggly little maggots into that bullet hole in his head.
When schaemiacs bite someone, they probably end up with at least a little blood in their mouthes. As they do not use blood to survive, this blood would probably just stay there, and dry on their teeth. Could vampires smell this minute ammount of blood in the schaemiac’s mouth, or would the schaemiac somehow get rid of it? Vampires can obviously smell dead blood, as they can smell zombies, but can they smell small ammounts of dried blood on teeth?
Uh, he could just brush his teeth. After all, he went through the trouble of ‘tidying up’ for the occasion. Technically speaking, he only had to bit the first human. After that, it spreads through them. And while the earth is turning, the vampires are so busy working on saving the survivors that the smell of some dried blood on TFZ’s mouth wouldn’t have been noticed. By the time they ‘could’ have tracked him with it, he found and oral-B and some listerine. Or, for that matter, gargled with bleach! Not like it would matter much to him. Plus, by that time there was so much dried blood on practically everything in the world from all the zombie vs. human slaughters it would be damn hard to pick out some moving. Remember, some of the zombies would be covered with it too. Even if they could pick it out, their range of smell isn’t infinite, they can’t be in say Utah and smell some one in New York.
Didn’t come into play.
Owen, Awesome artwork as usual. Really capturing emotions in facial expressions exceptionally well.
Bobby, The story line is what intrigues me the most, just because you don’t think it is ‘well written’ doesn’t mean you don’t the get points accross. You will have to almost re-write it for a movie script anyway. Love the plot, love the charicters. Keep up the great work.
If you need someone to help you make the movie, I’m more than willing. I can do anything from build sets to operate heavy equipment, so just ask and I’m there.
Herbert West: WLB can heal himself (if he wants to) so maggots couldn’t feast on him since he can just stop rotting.
But it brings the question, what happened to animals? I don’t think they can be infected so probably most domestic animals couldn’t survive without humans to take care of them.
@Herbert:
-=“There are almost zero recorded cases in history of it [a schaemiac forming] actually happeningâ€
Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?=-
He didn’t say that incident was recorded, just that accounts had been passed down through the generations. Besides, one case is pretty much almost zero. In integer math, you can’t exactly get much closer to zero without being zero.
I have almost as much fun reading the comment on each page as the page itself. Awesome work once again Bobby.
Now i know this might have been asked before and im sorry in advance if it is. But, are you planning on doing any follow ups or prequels featuring one of the many vamps as main characters (given they’re obviously main characters in LB – but i mean as in the story of how they aquired vampirism or their lives with it if they were born with it). I’d love to see a comic featuring Rage as a main character, that would be about 28 different types of awesome.
Anyway, sorry in advance if this has already been asked /answered. Thanks.
lol you know it occures to me that when a Noob reader is searching google for answers hes not going to find everything cause were using acronims (spelled wrong) like TFZ, WLB, AFP, for key concepts and ideas = P this is assuming the newb is too lazy to atualy go though and read the comments to see where they come from.
Bobby, sir, when do you plan on filming? I’m from South Dakota myself and my friends and I would love to be in on a zombie movie if we could. I know before you were hoping to have started by now, before it got cold, but we could probably get in on it this summer.
“Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?”
Obviously, which is why I said “ALMOST zero.”
“Vampires can obviously smell dead blood, as they can smell zombies, but can they smell small ammounts of dried blood on teeth?”
They could, yes, although they wouldn’t think much of it, wouldn’t think it’s a living being unless they could see it at the same time — they’d think a tiny amount of dried human blood on a spider crawling around or something. Also, TFZ doesn’t have any blood on him — groomed himself proper for the occasion.
“If you need someone to help you make the movie, I’m more than willing. I can do anything from build sets to operate heavy equipment, so just ask and I’m there.”
Thanks a lot, buddy — I enjoy your posts. If I make it myself, expect a request for help!
“when do you plan on filming?”
It’s a tricky question that gets trickier all the time as we receive more and more interest from producers who want to enter into certain agreements. The short answer is that my plan is to film it next September/October if I haven’t sold it for a very large sum of money before then. As of right now I’d say there’s a 40% chance I’ll ever make it myself and a 25% chance that it would be within a year, with a 60% chance of getting rich off it before then.
It would be more accurate if you did it yourself, but the special effects would be so much better if you sold the rights and it would be shown in theaters. Either way, I’m definitely gonna watch that movie. I’d offer to help with it, but I live in Texas and am a poor college kid.
About break even so far, but it will be very profitable after we receive the second WOWIO payment in February. No job, just comics (and poker). If WOWIO stays around, I’ll be making a good living off that alone (Owen too, especially with his cut of the “Sore Thumbs” profits). My main interest is in movie deals, though.
Are there any chances that WOWIO will ever be available to the rest of the world? This comic is great, but i live in eastern europe so i’m not able to buy it at the shop, or download it from WOWIO… And i’m sure there are many readers in this situation. Maybe you should consider selling comic in some e-shop via mail, or at least give some sort of donating possibility (paypal or something)?
I was reading through the comments on the first few pages and i saw how someone asked how much money you’d have if you made the movie yourself. Im just wondering, if you ended up filming it yourself how much would you have set to it now? as in i think you would have more than a bare minimum you said back at the beginning of this year
You know Bobby…I’ve see a progressive decline in your attitude/helpful-ness when replying to questions throughout all of your updates. Granted if people would just listen and actually search for it themselves…then this would never even happen. I guess that’s mostly due to impatience, laziness, and curiosity.
I find it amazing that you are still going through and answering them! You really don’t see a lot of creators put forth the effort to do that. You seem to get some help from “Anko†every now and then, and I must say Anko…that version you put up rocks! It would actually be pretty cool to see more parody strips from the series.
Also Bobby…you really shouldn’t degrade your writing from the comic or anything. It’s honestly your opinion and nobody can change that but you do have an audience who has read up to this point that are impatient/eager to get their hands on the next strip. So I would have some pride with your work! I know that I would ;D
Michael: If you’re asking what the budget would be, it all depends on how it’s made. You can even get big special effects made cheaply (but they’d be bad obviously). If a very small amount of money is raised, I still plan to make it, but then it would basically just be a project for fun and for practice, with the hopes of possibly remaking it with a big budget later.
So there are 2 TFZs. No that doesn’t make any sense.
So there is TFZ and TSZ, namely Francis and Sullivan. Are the initials intended? F for first and S for second. Or just coincidence?
All of those downloads go to helping the “Last Blood” cause in one way or another.
“Are the initials intended? F for first and S for second. Or just coincidence?”
Ha, just a coincidence. But neither of them are really the “first” zombie. There was at least one schaemiac before them, as both Math and Devian have said already.
I think the zombie in the 12th century was also called “the First Zombie”… i don’t think it literally means the first one EVER, just the schaemiacs is the “first” zombie in the group that he/she can control…
Correct, but in that case a schaemiac can’t be referred to as a Second Zombie, which is my main point. They’re all just First Zombies or whatever you want to call ‘em.
I really like the series. I just finished reading it from start to finish and must say taht the characterization is amazing. If you do make it into a movie, I have no doubt that it will be great.
Just now though, I’ve got some criticism.
It seems an unbelievably big coincidence that the first zombie helped dig a giant tunnel in his childhood specifically for the purpose of killing vampires which were, at that point, considered to be little more than legends. After all, I can’t picture any schoolboys digging a tunnel to fight mythical creatures. It seems far more likely that, as Grady said, the hideout was just a place to drink. Taking out the cover story might make the tale seem more credible, but then again I don’t know how the next strips will resolve the issue.
Anyody else know that Richard Matheson is the author of ‘I Legend’? Which is about the last suviving human in a world of vampires. I was wondering if Bobby and Owen knew that when they named their characters?
“But with the staking heat that’s been described you’d have the Ent running around screaming with it’s ‘log’ on fire.”
This was intentional. I imagined that the ent in question would end up with a hotter encounter than he expected (and maybe the ent in question likes a little pain with his pleasure), but I didn’t think anything would catch fire. You are right, making him run around with his banging branch engulfed in flame would be utterly hilarious. Of course, it you set any part of an ent on fire, the flames spread kinda quickly (they are, after all, trees), so you’d end up with a huge bushy fireball crashing around like a rocket powered cat on LSD (imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJEw3A_QO9o&feature=related , except with rockets). This would quite effectively solve our zombie problem.
Remember, kids, skullsquicking is safer! Practice safe screwing or you’ll end up with a burning bush! (Pun intended)
“It seems an unbelievably big coincidence that the first zombie helped dig a giant tunnel in his childhood specifically for the purpose of killing vampires which were, at that point, considered to be little more than legends. After all, I can’t picture any schoolboys digging a tunnel to fight mythical creatures. It seems far more likely that, as Grady said, the hideout was just a place to drink. Taking out the cover story might make the tale seem more credible, but then again I don’t know how the next strips will resolve the issue.”
Its that one out of a million chance that makes a story a story, If the entire story followed the line of probibility then you probibly wouldn’t have any vampires to begin with, Val would be staked by another vampire for being a bitch, and artists like Bobby Crosby would already be producing oscar winning movies = P
Expecting not to be cast out merely for being n00b, i’d say no kid on earth could build a tunnel so precise a good hit with a shovel would bring the whole thing down… So i’d bet my ass it’s something bigger than that… And the comment on the very first pages about some sort of nuclear war makes me think this is far deeper…
“no kid on earth could build a tunnel so precise a good hit with a shovel would bring the whole thing down…”
It didn’t take anywhere near the whole thing down — Murdo specifically said it took out a 25-foot section, which is like 1/30 of the whole thing. Also, this tunnel was perfected over the past 75 years by tons of people.
“And the comment on the very first pages about some sort of nuclear war makes me think this is far deeper…”
It was a foolish attempt to stop the zombies, also, some countries just randomly attacked others for fun, knowing how the world was ending anyway.
And WLB used some nukes to destroy bunkers and other ’safe’ places and hideouts, and probably launched missiles to get the stations in space.
Having zillions of mindless puppets to do your bidding can be handy.
Hmmm…Wikipedia has never heard of Dhampi either. And none of the pages that come up when I Google it appear to be anything specific (or in English). I’m going to call this a very bad misspelling, as it also didn’t have any other spelling suggestions for me. Either that, or I call shenanigans. In fact, I feel like calling shenanigans either way.
SHENANIGANS!
I don’t know why I didn’t realize that; it’s actually one of the things that did come up when I typed Dhampi.
Man, I want to watch Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust right now.
HAHAHAHA. I just checked to see if Last Blood has a Wikipedia entry. It does. I’m not reading the whole thing, but I think the issue summaries could probably do with some better writing. Or not. As a sample, here is the first line of the summary for Issue 3:
“Math kills Jimmy in the head.”
No offense if one of the fans posting here wrote the entry; I personally think whether that line was deliberately written that way or not, it’s awesome and should stay. And now that I’ve read some more, it’s actually a pretty good summary.
Congratulations on the one hundredth page. More than that, however, I must say… I do admire your ability to write in entirely different moods and personalities as well as you do between the separate characters, and graphic novels themselves. Not everyone pulls that one off well; I don’t.
And though I don’t know if it’ll be seen, definite props to Owen for the kick-ass artwork. That’s eye candy at its finest.
Hm… To sum it up it’s very talented musicians and LOTS of special effects (Lazers, Fireworks, etc.) I got back from it not long ago and am proud to say I’m a little blind and deaf now.
Speaking of, any projection on when said update will arrive? Not whining, it just helps to have an idea. For instance, Rich Burlew just posted that the “late” Order of the Stick comic probably won’t be up until after Thanksgiving, so I no longer feel a compulsion to check it every hour or so.
Also, just discovered the Last Blood wiki and it makes my eyes hurt…as an English major, I cannot let it be allowed for such….cut and paste sentences to exist. *twitches and gets to work*
Thank you for the work you did. I added a few more characters, such as Addison, Rage and TFZ but tried not to give too much away about them since that’d just ruin it. Also edited a bit of the summaries so far and added your FAQ to the bottom, but I’ll add it up top as well.
You’re a good fan, Anko. =D
Boy, that took a while to read. Hey, keep hanging in there. We all know that the next few page will be extremely awesome, with AFP and Francis being dead and all. Plus, did you know that ‘krasno’ means ‘great’ in my native language?
“And likewise. The article looks loads better now. What would we do without you English majors?”
Aww, thank you. ^ ^
Y’ve officially made my day. =D Which is awesome, considering yesterday was really shotty.
And in response to that, probably be a lot happier without people like me correcting your grammer every ten seconds. =3
Also! Bobby, question: (Dunno if it’s been asked or not, I was flipping through the comic again in an attempt to forage out information for the Wiki but I didn’t look to see if it was asked yet. Wait. *goes to Google for answer*)
Okay, I checked, but I don’t think it was answered.
Anyway! Did Jimmy gnaw on his mum or just rip her up to eat on in separate pieces, ’cause she’d've been a zombie if not, right? o_O
If she did become a zombie, I’m presuming that Matheson killed her either after he shot Jimmy or during his “Total-Math-Ownage” battle with the zombies.
So basically, asking what the hell happened to Jimmy’s mom?
Boy, that took a while to read. Hey, keep hanging in there. We all know that the next few page will be extremely awesome, with AFP and Francis being dead and all. Plus, did you know that ‘krasno’ means ‘great’ in my native language? ”
I was reading a comic strip at Megatokyo where a l337 speaking guy was ranting about killing zombies so I felt the language suited me at the moment
And well, my last name is Krasnokuki and comes from Ukraine (apparently, Ukrainian is not the same as Russian so I don’t know what does it mean exactly, but is something like “red headed”) and that’s why they call me Krasno (in my country names like these are pretty unusual, most people have Spanish or Italian names).
I should go to your country someday, and be introduced to as many people as I can XD
I see no reason to complain over waiting 3 or 4 days for an update – other web comics I frequent sometimes take WEEKS for an update. Jesus, VG Cats is a great example – My hatred seethes like a overcooked kettle for that site, but only because I love it so. I’d say Last Blood is definitely in my favorite top three, and honestly much more entertaining that most comic books you can buy at the store. By the way, Bobby, you mentioned once you played poker with Jason Mewes and Keven Smith right? Have they expressed interest in purchasing the film rights from you, or better yet funding you to make it yourself? If you’re going to sell it to anyone, please, make it them – It’d be awesome. On another note I hate you for so casually remarking that you play poker with my most favorite film maker ever to grace the no-longer silver screen. =’(
Sorry, what I meant with the “I don’t know if it’ll be seen” bit was that I’m not sure if Owen reads these comments/would get the message. Apparently it happens, though – I noticed a recent comment above.
Also, for future reference (and since “buddy” is fairly gender-neutral in my book, I really do mean simply for the sake of future reference), I’m female.
…I only just now realized that TFZ’s text bubble colors are inverted, compared to the rest. Talk about unawareness.
“In my opinion, AFP is the single most interesting character in a work of fiction that I’ve seen in a long time. ”
Now, while I won’t dispute AFP’s PWNess (stupid stupid last name regardless), you MUST read more. Stupid non-comment-reading idiots have helped immensely by asking, on every single page, about I AM LEGEND. Oh, and read QUOTH THE RAVEN, a comic I’m starting up. Alvero F. Prospero, in my (highly biased) opinion, has got at least as much, if not more, PWNess, in the long run, than AFP.
Haha…
Just noticed, they got the same initials.
Still, real good comic. Could be reworked in a lot of places, but it isn’t sheer, unadulterated crap, like most stuff I find on the ‘net.
Hahaha, nice one Jesse. But seriously, I imagine that your C was a “less-than” sign. Those delete themselves and everything after them in a post… It’s just something that forums don’t like. testing…
Ah-HA! I was right! Thought as much. I’d seen this before in a forum and discovered a way around it, and I just remembered it. If you type a greater-than sign after the less-than sign, then everything AFTER THE GREATER-THAN will be displayed. I don’t know if you can go less-than, less-than, greater-than… Not sure if it would show the sign or just be searching for another greater-than.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
What a lovely reunion.
Shit down their necks? FTW.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Wow… just wow, this is mostly in comments already, but its impressive how well it runs together.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Francis IS a whiny bitch. BLAH BLAH BLAH someone shut him up already. NOBODY LIKES ME, WAAAAAH *destroys mankind*
November 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Aww. How poignant.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
1st Comment woot!! Awesome little Motto XD great work Owen and bobby wonder if they have a little flash back between the all people in the tunnel?
November 16th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
woot 1st comment. but seriously that was an interesting little vow funny how the only one who tried to kill the vampires when they arrived was the school teacher who wasn’t privy to the vampire killers club lol.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
well it said there weren’t any when i started writing that. lol
November 16th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
well this sure is coming along nicley
November 16th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Haha… I love Grady. He’s such a funny character.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
ha, i love that he built the tunnel and hated vampires, but clearly was just a kid who knew nothing about them. surely the garlic will protect us.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
*knowing smirk* “Is that what they’re calling it now?”
Awesome. Also, even though it’s a horrifying maw of teeth, I was able to identify that as a knowing smirk. That’s how good Owen is.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Joined the army to get into the tunnel….
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yeah..
Thats a fantastic reason to join the military.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
“Thats a fantastic reason to join the military.”
It was the ultimate secret society to any boy who grew up in that small town. It’s like you weren’t anybody if you weren’t a member, and the only way to be a member was to join the military. Also, members are sworn to secrecy and no one but a member could know what it was all about. Grady didn’t know it had anything to do with vampires until after he joined the army and came home for the first time and was taken into the tunnel and sworn in.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
that’s what kids did back then. you grew up, joined the army, got into an anti-vampire club. it was a simpler time, a better time.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Well done.
The dialogue is great. :]
November 16th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
i find it ironic that all the people going “first comic! wooo!” aren’t even first comic…. *points and laughs at them rofl roflpants*
November 16th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
I have so much love for this comic. I can’t believe it’s ending in a few more pages!
November 16th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
“i find it ironic that all the people going ‘first comic! wooo!’ aren’t even first comic…. *points and laughs at them rofl roflpants*”
Yeah, they aren’t the first comment either.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:10 am
That is the -best- oath ever.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I made that same oath about raccoons… Long live the raccoon haters club!!!!!
November 17th, 2007 at 12:33 am
That’s quite a vehement oath there. Small wonder TFZ’s a schea-goddammit I can’t spell it right now. He hated vampires to begin with, so he couldn’t stand becoming one. If that was said earlier in some previous comment section, I missed it.
This be Claen’tor, signing off.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:54 am
The lack of potatoes in this comic is disturbing.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Potatoes and Pineapples*
-quietly plans on how he can create an anti vampire club, whilst using nearly the exact same words as this, and whoever joins ill yell at because vampires Rule, and ill be angry that they don’t like them.-
November 17th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Have to say that today’s page is awesomesauce ™. I really like the panel where, between Grady and Mac you can see all the children huddled up and freaking out. Poor little things – they’re going to be traumatized and need years of therapy – only there ain’t no therapists left! Ironical *shakes head sadly* Hopefully sommathem vampires have psychological type leanings or sommut.
What in hell am I doing up at this hour? Oh, yeah, I am usually just get off work about this time, right. Yeah. Been sick. Going back to bed.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Heh. I know the site where Val put up the rest of that oath
Can’t wait for Rage to get loose and skull-fuck TFZ through the nicely placed hole in his forehead.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:21 am
They aer just making fun of him
:D:D ROFL.. this IS awesome 
:D:D I’m about to start feelinging sorry for TFZ because he is such a crybaby 
:D
November 17th, 2007 at 1:21 am
*feeling – sorry, missclicked :-[
November 17th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Is it me or is Grady actualy striking up a conversation with TFZ about the good ol’ times?
November 17th, 2007 at 1:34 am
There’s so much irony bound up in what’s discussed on this page…mmm, delicious irony.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:04 am
TFZ’s face in the 2nd to last panel, is he surprised? Since Grady remembered his speech from over 60 years ago?
Those little kids are going to grow up with some serious nightmares in the future. I don’t think there are going to be any therapists to help them.
TFZ can smell that Murdo is his grandson even though he is a vampire, right? Did TFZ get married before he got turned?
November 17th, 2007 at 2:09 am
nooooooooooooooooooooooo….it ends here. craaaaaaaaaaaaap. this is my first time here and now i’m a ddicted. i read through all of it in one night.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Hmmm… sorry, but… Isnt that “Rip off theyr head and shit down theyr neck” kinda of a Duke Nukem ripoff? lol
November 17th, 2007 at 2:15 am
wow, 100 pages. pure awesomeness. I have this horrible foreboding sense that Grady’s about to get it. DON’T KILL GRADY!
November 17th, 2007 at 2:33 am
“TFZ can smell that Murdo is his grandson even though he is a vampire, right?”
Doesn’t need to smell it, since he knows the kid’s name is Francis Murdo III.
“Did TFZ get married before he got turned?”
No, but he did fuck Murdo’s grandma.
“Isnt that ‘Rip off theyr head and shit down theyr neck’ kinda of a Duke Nukem ripoff?”
It’s actually something Jesus used to say and Addison Payne stole it from him and eventually Francis somehow heard it in 1936 when he graduated.
November 17th, 2007 at 3:38 am
LOL, this page looks like they are all love each other, meeting of good old friends after the years…
And it’s total contrast to scared kids in the background xD
November 17th, 2007 at 3:41 am
LOL =D
Francis is so emo =)
To bad its no use for him to cut himself =P
I love the style it all constructed and how all the things come together near the end. As I said before – excelent job you two… and keep up the update rate!
November 17th, 2007 at 3:57 am
100th Page congratz Bobby!
Only 12 more pages to go!
And hows it going with the plan with the movie?
November 17th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Have to say I’ve been enjoying looking at your MS sketches. Not a lot of comics do that and I think it gives a more in depth look at what you wanted to come across in facial features and such. I almost didn’t see the button on this one and a little sad!
Well, keep it up! You make this woman happy.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:36 am
I think this comics is preety good.It is full of brutalty and blood.It is preety cool.I can not wait for the next episode
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November 17th, 2007 at 4:50 am
So I really wonder, and I apologize if this has been asked before, but I haven’t seen it-
Is Matheson named for the author of “I Am Legend”, Richard Matheson? Because if so that’s really very clever.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:56 am
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/10/25/page-89-follow-these-instructions/#comment-7987
You guys gotta start using Google. Took me five seconds to find that.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:06 am
if only there were more people like grady wilcox in tfzs ,aka wlb, life perhaps he wouldn’t have taken the path he did ,as gradys oath using his yearbook words seems to have calmed him down a bit there … at last long last someone who had no knoweledge of wlbs life has spouted his words without prompting … at long last of someone will recognize his worth his life… but of course the next panel of grady saying he thought they were sullivans words might enrage him all over again …wlb
November 17th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Will this entire moment in the movie include the sounds of crying childen in the background? ::Has a headache already:: Hehe
Continue the love.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:32 am
I love how TFZ comes across a bit impressed and pleased, and in the other panel he comes across as smug. Excellent writing Bobby, and excellent job on the art Owen!
Y’all are a perfect team!
November 17th, 2007 at 5:52 am
“It’s actually something Jesus used to say and Addison Payne stole it from him and eventually Francis somehow heard it in 1936 when he graduated.
” Wow, I haven’t laughed that hard in quite some time. Wonderful as always Bobby/Owen.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:55 am
You know a bad guy is really evil when he doesn’t tell the crying children to shut the hell up right off the bat.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:35 am
I wonder who Grady will kill first. hmmm…
November 17th, 2007 at 8:02 am
NO OFFENSE but…
Kiiiiiiiiinda iffy writing. I mean. “Egad! Murdo’s grandpa, Francis murdo! Not at all an obvious recap!!”
I mean, this comic wasn’t rrly rrly needed. Could’ve just been
“He hated vampires and built the tunnel”
“Why did he build it”
“Saw a vamp, sully trusted ‘im, built it, trained to kill ‘em”
“Oh noes!!!”
And that way, AFP could have some kick ass line to go along with it. You could’ve even had him say the quote, and be like “What da fuck how’d he know dat?!!?”
But meh, I’m no author. And hell, I love it anyway.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:24 am
No clue what you’re saying, McGurker.
“What da fuck how’d he know dat?!!?”
How did who know what? Don’t know what you’re talking about.
I agree that this page had horrible writing, though, by the way (as I think about most of the pages, but especially this one among the recent ones). Just sent Owen the script for Page 101 and the e-mail began with “Great job with Page 100, thanks. It wasn’t a well written page, definitely one of those moments that will have major changes in the screenplay, but the art was just what I wanted.”
November 17th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Holy shite! Never heard of this strip b4 an just read the whole fuckin thing @ one sit-down. AWESOME comic, great plot! Can’t wait for more!
November 17th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Don’t want to sound ungrateful because I’m LOVING this story. But when can we expect the next page? This is the most excited i’ve gotten over a webcomic in christ knows how long :/.
November 17th, 2007 at 9:21 am
“It’s actually something Jesus used to say and Addison Payne stole it from him and eventually Francis somehow heard it in 1936 when he graduated. ”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I have to go change my pants now.
November 17th, 2007 at 9:24 am
If I was there, I would have said “Prove it,” after panel 7.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:17 am
its all coming together D:
November 17th, 2007 at 10:33 am
that oath is kind of heavy for a high school graduate no? i mean, seriously, what kind of a graduating senior makes a secret society that lasts beyond the first summer after school (shakes head in jealousy)
November 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
once again this is awesome.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I love this comic to un-death! This is the first time I’ve posted a comment though. Um, this page does seem to break from the speed of the rest of the comic. However explanation is good, but I can’t wait for some more action. That would be w00tiful.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:52 am
No matter how many people you kill, Francis, you just can’t win. I bet, in 20 years, they won’t even remember your name.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Incredible… Ive never heard of this before, and im a vampire fan. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time.. and now.. a cliff hanger.. Update soon… Im begging.
Fucking incredible…
November 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
@Tegu: No, they won’t. Because the only people on earth would be billions of mindless zombies.
So finally decided on TFZ being Murdo’s Grandfather (versus Great Grandfather, which didn’t seem to be decided till now).
So, if several of the men in the town were members of this “vampire-haters club”, why did none of them try to kill Math and Val when they showed up.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
“No matter how many people you kill, Francis, you just can’t win. I bet, in 20 years, they won’t even remember your name.”
I bet they will, since Murdo has the same name.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Because WLB was the only real vampire hater, others just want to know what’s going on with the tunnel and drink some booze.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Holy wow, I love this comic and the way everything fits together. Almost Heroes-esque is the way that things sort of fall into place.
Oh, and Bobby, what are you planning on doing for the music of the Last Blood movie? During the first few comics (with TFZ breaking out an’ stuff), the iTunes was playing Yngwie Malmsteen’s “Black Star,” and I can definitely see something Metallica-esque for the combat bits, personally.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
OSHITS I THINK I MAY HAVE JUST FIGURED SOMETHING OUT
Was Val the one who turned Murdo Sr. into a vampire to begin with?
November 17th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
“Was Val the one who turned Murdo Sr. into a vampire to begin with?”
Yes.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Fictional characters indeed XD
November 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I think TFZ just needs a hug.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
You hug him, then.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Ah, such a funny page. I’m so sick I can’t even laugh, but this was definately a highlight to my boring day xD. Very explicit oath, eh? Nice. I loved it.
November 17th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
“I just wanted a place to drink and goof off.”
Ah, I wish I had a clubhouse responsible for the end of human civilization.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
This isn’t so much a question as it is observations, I did run a goole search first but haven’t seen this covered.
TFZ spent the entire nuclear age isolated, in particular he missed the cold war and vietnam war. It’s quite probable he didn’t forsee just how paranoid about the end of the world some people got. Publicly known retreats like the Whitehouse bunker, and military bunkers never stood a chance, but could really have sniffed out every airtight hideaway in the world?
I guess my prime wonder is did AFP know or suspect this would happen, becouse if he did it would be easy for him to have helped ’scent proof’ a few places, places using the most modern air recycling and such technology available. This small town has been declared as ‘the last humans alive’ but it would be easy for AFP or one of the other vampires to be lying. I don’t think they would have told the others for the risk that TFZ would hear of it.
On a similar line I’ve thought about reference you’ve made to a ‘vampirism cure’. Vampires don’t need air, so if there’s any way to sedate vamps turning a few hundred just after the zombie plague began, sedating them, and than burying them in shrinkwrap would make the perfect trump card. Than if/when TFZ gets stopped dig up the dormant vamps, dose them with the cure, and bam instant human starter town.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
“but could really have sniffed out every airtight hideaway in the world?”
YES, jeez, as I’ve said a trillion times.
“it would be easy for him to have helped ’scent proof’ a few places”
There is NO WAY to scent proof any place.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
If you shrink-wrapped vampires and left them there, I just get this idea in my head of TFZ being stopped, human civilization being restarted (by cured vamps), and them forgetting to dig one up, so that a few centuries into the new world, you get another very very very pissed off schaemiac.
“Uh, who’s missing?”
“Frank.”
“Oh well; I’m sure that won’t come back to bite us later.”
November 17th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
People bring up every possible detail on the comments. Imagine the Last Blood characters trying to get answers about everything, and spurting out random comments. Or if you have a bad imagination you can just click below and see what it would be like with your own eyes.
http://www.freewebs.com/lastbloodfaq/2007%2D11%2D16.FTW.jpg
November 17th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Anko, if Bobby ever gets tired of writing, I nominate you take over.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Love the “Vampire baby?” line.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Anko, that is awesome! Very funny.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Oh man thats priceless Anko!
November 17th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Thanks guys!
“Anko, if Bobby ever gets tired of writing, I nominate you take over.”
I’m flattered… Busy making a comic of my own at the moment. LB fan comic, actually.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Well, give us a link.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Sorry, I can’t do that yet. I’ve only just finished drawing the first page and I’m still planning the details of the story.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Anko can you make an Email list or something on your unoffical site so that when you start churning them out we all know about it?
November 17th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
I think it’s fair to say Anko is the number one Last Blood fan. After all, who made the FAQ?
November 17th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Its not so much “fair” as it is plain fact
November 17th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I have a question….
Are there any plans for making more shirts?
See, not all questions are stupid.
I hope.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Not any time soon.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
““Did TFZ get married before he got turned?â€
No, but he did fuck Murdo’s grandma.”
Minor quibble, I’d say from the time period that TFZ did get married before going off to war. Yeah, maybe not and it could be worked into the story, but so much easier the other way without introducing the WW2 era bastard cover up issue. IMO, just a spurious distraction. Quite possible that Francis Junior never met his daddy who “died” in the Pacific.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
“Anko can you make an Email list or something on your unoffical site so that when you start churning them out we all know about it?”
As requested.
http://www.freewebs.com/lastbloodfaq/fancomic.htm
November 17th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I know bobby already handled it, but if I can say something as a reminder asking about how he killed people in
As has already been said, the zombies need not actually bite every single astronaut, president, miner, pirate, etc… When these people are left with minimal food, minimal water, they think everyone else in the world is dead, and every second they can’t sleep because there are countless zombies scraping and moaning along the sides of whatever it is they are living in, they go a LITTLE bit crazy.
Even Math was talking about the biggest problem being the fact that they go crazy and either kill themselves or the others.
There is absolutely no way that anyone else could be alive unless WLB wanted them to be.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
“Minor quibble, I’d say from the time period that TFZ did get married before going off to war.”
LOL.
“Yeah, maybe not and it could be worked into the story, but so much easier the other way without introducing the WW2 era bastard cover up issue.”
Huh? #1, it won’t even be said in this first graphic novel if they were married or not (who gives a fuck?), and #2 –
“Quite possible that Francis Junior never met his daddy who ‘died’ in the Pacific.”
Definitely never met, and Francis never even knew she was pregnant before “dying,” so it certainly wasn’t a “bastard.”
Fink6: Very few of the super rich people in underground bunkers killed themselves, I’m sure. TFZ had to handle them, which was of course very easy. He has access to the skills of anyone in the world he wants to control, and under his control they can do anything they could do as humans. Wouldn’t be too tough to find some good drillers and find a way to dig down into any underground bunker and drop a nuke on it if need be or find some way in. This all happens lightning fast when you have almost everyone in the entire world ready to do your bidding and none of them need sleep or feel pain.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Vampires can smell other vampires, right? Then… why didn’t Val or AFP go and kill TFZ rather than let him rot in a coffin for 65 years? They could just wait like 3 weeks, and go put a stake through his heart, and then this would not have happened.
(sorry if this question has been asked before…)
November 17th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
The TFZ can’t be smelled out. Bobby has said this many, many times. I’m saying it now so he won’t have to.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
After two weeks you can’t be smelled anymore — that’s when the pain gets really bad because you’re now totally out of blood, and it’s the blood that the vampires smell. Val didn’t tell anyone about what Francis said he was planning to do, didn’t tell anyone the details of that, until more than two weeks later. Sullivan didn’t start the hunger pains until almost three weeks after Francis did actually, which is why he only has 3,000 troops (complicated, though, haven’t finalized a lot of details for that yet — the sequels/prequels will tell the story). Anyway, Val didn’t worry about it much, didn’t think Francis would do it, and she was feeling guilty about it and didn’t want to tell anyone — she waited too long. They didn’t know exactly where he was dropped and it’s a big ass ocean and they didn’t want to tell many vampires about it and create a panic and only Sullivan (and possibly Addison) truly believed that Francis would do it, so they didn’t have many people to look (only one or two, and Sullivan concluded that they’d never find him and that he had to start the process of becoming a schaemiac almost instantly). Perhaps Addison spent a total of years looking in the past six decades, but he’s been pretty busy saving the world in other ways, and at least Sullivan was a backup plan. More details on all this in the sequels/prequels — it will all make sense.
That was the first time that was asked, by the way — such a rarity!
November 17th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
So they DID know when they disspeared! They just decided not to share it with anyone.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Sullivan started 3 weeks later? I thought you said 3 days!
Congrats on the 100th comic!!
PD: One of the spin-offs could involve the vampires in many situations of history, covertly helping to save the world. The cold war, the wars of Napoleon, Alexander the Great, the wars between Greeks and Persians (SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!), etc…
What do you think of that? You probably already thought of it.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
“I thought you said 3 days!”
Never said it officially and everything’s subject to change, really. All that really matters is what’s said in the comic. Recently I said “about 3-14 days,” I think, but what I’m MAINLY thinking of when I said those things is about WHEN SULLIVAN EMERGED ONTO LAND and had a chance to start actually doing something, which doesn’t have to exactly correspond to when he started the hunger pains as compared to Francis. It takes a while to walk across the ocean floor! Sullivan might not have been on the ocean floor anyway, but I think he probably was, probably spent his two weeks of pre-extreme torture time (those first two weeks before it gets so bad you can’t move) frantically searching the ocean floor for Francis, then the super bad pain hit him and he stumbled and fell and was stuck there in that spot for 65 years.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Im surprised no-one askes this: Who was the vampire that Sullivan saw?
November 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Current #1 choice is Addison, but I haven’t decided. That moment will most likely be featured somewhat early on in the next graphic novel, which may begin (Page 1) as early as Christmas Day, but we’re not sure (not even positive it will ever begin).
By the way, following up on my previous comment, it took 73 years to find the Titanic, which is considerably larger than a single coffin, and it required 1980s technology to do so. Addison also would have had to run the risk of being discovered by humans if he tried to mount such an expedition in this day and age.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
betcha addison has/had enough money to buy the entire red army after the fall of the soviet union…. Did he buy the entire red army nuclear stockpile after the colapse of the societ union -_- ? did he cause the colapse of the soviet union? Arrh Vampires everywhere!!!
dont feel obliged to answer. It started off as the point that money solves all problems and since hes 2000 years old i dont think that would be anything remotly even close to a problem for him.
November 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
People should take the time to reread all the other comics, and if they still ask a bunch of questions… well, try waiting for the rest of the comic to come out =)
I still think someone needs to bitchslap Francis. He obviously wasn’t beaten enough as a child. Or loved. Or something.
November 17th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Alright… I had actually had this question a while ago, but I dismissed it essentially by telling myself that the ocean probably covered up his scent from the vampires, but then when you said “There is NO WAY to scent proof any place.”, the question came back up for me, and I figured I would ask it. Yeah, the ocean floor is large, and it would take a long time to search it for something as small as a coffin, especially since there would be more than one coffin on the ocean floor. Thanks for the answer, Bobby.
November 17th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
It is actually possible to create a scent proof environment, but it requires lots of money, and lots of technologies that are just being created. And any kind of disturbance (ei, the shock from a bomb) would break the scent proofing.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Actually, most of the ocean floor would be at crush depths for any material, even solid steel. So TFZ would have had to be in a relatively shallow area or he would have been compressed to about 1 foot tall and unable to move under the weight of the millions of tons of water. This also makes walking across the ocean floor something of an improbable idea. Maybe he can’t die, but he would still be helplessly compressed and pinned down as a mini-zombie. And if you tell me that he is all powerful and so wouldn’t be crushed or could still move, then I would say something powerful enough to walk on the ocean basin could simply fart and destroy the world, and certainly a measley bullet wouldn’t penetrate his skull. I hearby move for an official “shallow water” policy. That’s still a big area to search.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Obviously was above crush depths.
November 17th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Sorry if someone asked it all ready but, when is the next update?
November 17th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Sent Owen script 15 hours ago, not sure what his schedule is. Possibly a page tonight, don’t know.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Cool, thanks a bunch.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:54 am
I know you’ve mentioned some of the big things Addison Payne has done for humanity, such as most big inventions and medical advances, but could you give some more examples of his role in history? In my opinion, AFP is the single most interesting character in a work of fiction that I’ve seen in a long time. What else has he done over the last 2000 years?
November 18th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Sorry, that’s all classified — too big to spoil so long before they’re revealed in the comics that star him in the coming years!
November 18th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I just found this comic today, but I wanted to say it’s amazing!! I’m a big graphic novel fan and huge movie buff and you’re going with both of them! Good on ya! Great storyline and great artwork, you guys have an awesome talent! Can’t wait to see more of it.
And congratulations on the 100th page!
November 18th, 2007 at 2:07 am
While I’m a bit glum at not hearing about the badassery of AFP, I nearly crapped myself when you said “comics that star [Addison Fucking Payne]“. Those will be pure, undiluted, concentrated awesome on a page. Write the Addison spin-off first? Please?
November 18th, 2007 at 4:26 am
I hope that I haven’t simply missed this detail in my searchings, but I do have a question about one of the aspects of this fantastic comic. Addison has to explain the pains and zombie process to the rest of the vampires (and us, in the process). Apparantly when you are turned, you don’t get a handbook (page 275-If, for some unknowable reason, you go without blood for 65 years you will wake from the pain with the ability to create zombies that will spread across humanity with every bite.) So, how did Francis TFZ know what he was doing? Did Val spill the beans to him? I’m not sure how that comes up in conversation with the person you hate for turning you into a blood-sucking monster (from TFZ’s eyes-not only did you turn me into a vampire, you then dumped me for my best friend! So, how does this “vampire-turned-zombie-master” process work again? Oh, no, it’s just because I’m really curious…)
If Val knew about his plans, then Sullivan TFZ of course makes sense as a backup plan, or a hopeful plan A to block/defeat Francis TFZ. The real question is: Who explained the schaemic process to Francis in the first place and why did they tell him?
Thanks in advance for your answer, I’m impressed with how well your background thoughts add to the flavor and continuity of the comic. Excellent work guys!
November 18th, 2007 at 5:00 am
Wow, that’s nice piece of work. I just finished reading the whole. I like it, and I’m waiting for next pages!
November 18th, 2007 at 5:18 am
“Addison has to explain the pains and zombie process to the rest of the vampires”
At least 80% of them knew already, but there are almost zero recorded cases in history of it actually happening, so there’s very little firm knowledge on the subject, and they’re now in the presence of Addison Payne, the smartest person ever born and the foremost expert on everything, especially vampire related things, so they want as much info as they can get from him.
“So, how did Francis TFZ know what he was doing? Did Val spill the beans to him?”
Yes. She’s a stupid evil bitch.
“I’m not sure how that comes up in conversation”
You’ll see the conversation in the next graphic novel.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:38 am
“She’s a stupid evil bitch.”
I couldn’t agree more.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:56 am
“There are almost zero recorded cases in history of it [a schaemiac forming] actually happening”
Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?
Cutting off people’s heads and shitting down their throats reminds me of a certain scene from full metal jacket, where Sergeant Hartman tells Private Joker that “You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!”
I cant decide what would be the best thing to do to Francis – rip off his head and exrete feces into his laryngx, or squick him in the forehead through his conveniently placed bullet hole. Maybe someone could do both at once? I’ve heard that pooping while running is imposiable. Is it posiable to take a dump while screwing something? Of course, we could just insert Sergeant Hartman into pallel two, where he will tell Francis that “I’m gonna give you three seconds–exactly three fucking seconds–to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face, or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!â€
All of this would be good fun, but what we really need is an ent with a chestfucking fetish.
Can flies lay eggs on zombies, producing maggots? Animals don’t seem to have eaten most of the zombies, so presumably their flesh is really toxic (or it just tastes really bad). Would this stop insects that usually eat dead flesh from growing in zombies? As Francis is a (sort of) zombie, would it be posiable for maggots to feast upon him? I’d really like to see what would happpen if someone were to shove some wriggly little maggots into that bullet hole in his head.
When schaemiacs bite someone, they probably end up with at least a little blood in their mouthes. As they do not use blood to survive, this blood would probably just stay there, and dry on their teeth. Could vampires smell this minute ammount of blood in the schaemiac’s mouth, or would the schaemiac somehow get rid of it? Vampires can obviously smell dead blood, as they can smell zombies, but can they smell small ammounts of dried blood on teeth?
November 18th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Uh, he could just brush his teeth. After all, he went through the trouble of ‘tidying up’ for the occasion. Technically speaking, he only had to bit the first human. After that, it spreads through them. And while the earth is turning, the vampires are so busy working on saving the survivors that the smell of some dried blood on TFZ’s mouth wouldn’t have been noticed. By the time they ‘could’ have tracked him with it, he found and oral-B and some listerine. Or, for that matter, gargled with bleach! Not like it would matter much to him. Plus, by that time there was so much dried blood on practically everything in the world from all the zombie vs. human slaughters it would be damn hard to pick out some moving. Remember, some of the zombies would be covered with it too. Even if they could pick it out, their range of smell isn’t infinite, they can’t be in say Utah and smell some one in New York.
Didn’t come into play.
Owen, Awesome artwork as usual. Really capturing emotions in facial expressions exceptionally well.
Bobby, The story line is what intrigues me the most, just because you don’t think it is ‘well written’ doesn’t mean you don’t the get points accross. You will have to almost re-write it for a movie script anyway. Love the plot, love the charicters. Keep up the great work.
If you need someone to help you make the movie, I’m more than willing. I can do anything from build sets to operate heavy equipment, so just ask and I’m there.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Herbert West: WLB can heal himself (if he wants to) so maggots couldn’t feast on him since he can just stop rotting.
But it brings the question, what happened to animals? I don’t think they can be infected so probably most domestic animals couldn’t survive without humans to take care of them.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:56 am
@Herbert:
-=“There are almost zero recorded cases in history of it [a schaemiac forming] actually happeningâ€
Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?=-
He didn’t say that incident was recorded, just that accounts had been passed down through the generations. Besides, one case is pretty much almost zero. In integer math, you can’t exactly get much closer to zero without being zero.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I have almost as much fun reading the comment on each page as the page itself. Awesome work once again Bobby.
Now i know this might have been asked before and im sorry in advance if it is. But, are you planning on doing any follow ups or prequels featuring one of the many vamps as main characters (given they’re obviously main characters in LB – but i mean as in the story of how they aquired vampirism or their lives with it if they were born with it). I’d love to see a comic featuring Rage as a main character, that would be about 28 different types of awesome.
Anyway, sorry in advance if this has already been asked /answered. Thanks.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:10 am
@ Vasili
Quoted from one of Bobby’s comments on page 99:
“Planning to give “Rage†his own comic book series (at least a 30% chance of that happening within a year). It would start with his origin story.”
November 18th, 2007 at 10:31 am
lol you know it occures to me that when a Noob reader is searching google for answers hes not going to find everything cause were using acronims (spelled wrong) like TFZ, WLB, AFP, for key concepts and ideas = P this is assuming the newb is too lazy to atualy go though and read the comments to see where they come from.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Mr. Cosby, you have outdone yourself
November 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am
AFP= Addison Fucking Payne
TFZ= The First Zombie
Whos WLB again?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am
“Whos WLB again?”
Whiny Little Bitch.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Bobby, sir, when do you plan on filming? I’m from South Dakota myself and my friends and I would love to be in on a zombie movie if we could. I know before you were hoping to have started by now, before it got cold, but we could probably get in on it this summer.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
“Didn’t you say earlier that there was a previous outbreak in Bulgaria, which was sucesfully contained?”
Obviously, which is why I said “ALMOST zero.”
“Vampires can obviously smell dead blood, as they can smell zombies, but can they smell small ammounts of dried blood on teeth?”
They could, yes, although they wouldn’t think much of it, wouldn’t think it’s a living being unless they could see it at the same time — they’d think a tiny amount of dried human blood on a spider crawling around or something. Also, TFZ doesn’t have any blood on him — groomed himself proper for the occasion.
“If you need someone to help you make the movie, I’m more than willing. I can do anything from build sets to operate heavy equipment, so just ask and I’m there.”
Thanks a lot, buddy — I enjoy your posts. If I make it myself, expect a request for help!
“when do you plan on filming?”
It’s a tricky question that gets trickier all the time as we receive more and more interest from producers who want to enter into certain agreements. The short answer is that my plan is to film it next September/October if I haven’t sold it for a very large sum of money before then. As of right now I’d say there’s a 40% chance I’ll ever make it myself and a 25% chance that it would be within a year, with a 60% chance of getting rich off it before then.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
It would be more accurate if you did it yourself, but the special effects would be so much better if you sold the rights and it would be shown in theaters. Either way, I’m definitely gonna watch that movie. I’d offer to help with it, but I live in Texas and am a poor college kid.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Congratulations on comment #10,000, KayRis! You win nothing!
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/11/16/page-100-the-oath/#comment-10000
November 18th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
speaking of money, how much have you made off the comic so far. Is it enough to live off of or do you have another job
November 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
About break even so far, but it will be very profitable after we receive the second WOWIO payment in February. No job, just comics (and poker). If WOWIO stays around, I’ll be making a good living off that alone (Owen too, especially with his cut of the “Sore Thumbs” profits). My main interest is in movie deals, though.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
sweet good for you man. Makes me glad im supporting a comic like this(I buy the comics from the local shop)
November 18th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Thanks, buddy, appreciate it.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Are there any chances that WOWIO will ever be available to the rest of the world? This comic is great, but i live in eastern europe so i’m not able to buy it at the shop, or download it from WOWIO… And i’m sure there are many readers in this situation. Maybe you should consider selling comic in some e-shop via mail, or at least give some sort of donating possibility (paypal or something)?
November 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
“Are there any chances that WOWIO will ever be available to the rest of the world?”
Yes, don’t know when.
“Maybe you should consider selling comic in some e-shop via mail”
You should read the blog posts and/or look at the links up there below the calendar to the right of the blog posts, like the one that says –
Order LAST BLOOD comic books!
November 18th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Page one of my fan comic came up, if anyone’s interested.
http://www.freewebs.com/lastbloodfaq/ComicPanel1.jpg
Probably won’t make another one for about a week, though.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I was reading through the comments on the first few pages and i saw how someone asked how much money you’d have if you made the movie yourself. Im just wondering, if you ended up filming it yourself how much would you have set to it now? as in i think you would have more than a bare minimum you said back at the beginning of this year
November 18th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
You know Bobby…I’ve see a progressive decline in your attitude/helpful-ness when replying to questions throughout all of your updates. Granted if people would just listen and actually search for it themselves…then this would never even happen. I guess that’s mostly due to impatience, laziness, and curiosity.
I find it amazing that you are still going through and answering them! You really don’t see a lot of creators put forth the effort to do that. You seem to get some help from “Anko†every now and then, and I must say Anko…that version you put up rocks! It would actually be pretty cool to see more parody strips from the series.
Also Bobby…you really shouldn’t degrade your writing from the comic or anything. It’s honestly your opinion and nobody can change that but you do have an audience who has read up to this point that are impatient/eager to get their hands on the next strip. So I would have some pride with your work! I know that I would ;D
Take it easy,
~from a Last Blood fan
November 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Michael: If you’re asking what the budget would be, it all depends on how it’s made. You can even get big special effects made cheaply (but they’d be bad obviously). If a very small amount of money is raised, I still plan to make it, but then it would basically just be a project for fun and for practice, with the hopes of possibly remaking it with a big budget later.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Got a quick question, Bobby.
So there are 2 TFZs. No that doesn’t make any sense.
So there is TFZ and TSZ, namely Francis and Sullivan. Are the initials intended? F for first and S for second. Or just coincidence?
November 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Yeah, finally got a Wowio account *dances*
November 18th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Arkus, sweet: I strongly suggest downloading all the Blatant Comics books –
http://www.wowio.com/users/comicshome.asp?cbPublisher=x53
All of those downloads go to helping the “Last Blood” cause in one way or another.
“Are the initials intended? F for first and S for second. Or just coincidence?”
Ha, just a coincidence. But neither of them are really the “first” zombie. There was at least one schaemiac before them, as both Math and Devian have said already.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I think the zombie in the 12th century was also called “the First Zombie”… i don’t think it literally means the first one EVER, just the schaemiacs is the “first” zombie in the group that he/she can control…
November 18th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Correct, but in that case a schaemiac can’t be referred to as a Second Zombie, which is my main point. They’re all just First Zombies or whatever you want to call ‘em.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
hey anko, is the pic on the laptop straight from this comic or did you do that yourself? either way i like the look of the whole thing.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Laptop picture.
November 18th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
One pf the best reasons to join the army :p
November 18th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
of*
November 18th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
“All of those downloads go to helping the “Last Blood†cause in one way or another.”
Already got some on my Qeue. Basically all the ones that had your name in them ^^;
November 18th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Awesome, thank you Anko.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
“…what we really need is an ent with a chestfucking fetish.”
I LOL’d.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Too much somethingpositive there Jesse
November 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
But with the staking heat that’s been described you’d have the Ent running around screaming with it’s ‘log’ on fire.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:33 am
I really like the series. I just finished reading it from start to finish and must say taht the characterization is amazing. If you do make it into a movie, I have no doubt that it will be great.
Just now though, I’ve got some criticism.
It seems an unbelievably big coincidence that the first zombie helped dig a giant tunnel in his childhood specifically for the purpose of killing vampires which were, at that point, considered to be little more than legends. After all, I can’t picture any schoolboys digging a tunnel to fight mythical creatures. It seems far more likely that, as Grady said, the hideout was just a place to drink. Taking out the cover story might make the tale seem more credible, but then again I don’t know how the next strips will resolve the issue.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Anyody else know that Richard Matheson is the author of ‘I Legend’? Which is about the last suviving human in a world of vampires. I was wondering if Bobby and Owen knew that when they named their characters?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Anko, you are awesome.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:02 am
“I was wondering if Bobby and Owen knew that when they named their characters?”
This is asked almost every page. ANSWER.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:51 am
“It’s actually something Jesus used to say and Addison Payne stole it from him and eventually Francis somehow heard it in 1936 when he graduated.”
I’m betting Francis was part of a nerd-gaming club. lol
November 19th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Lazarus: “But with the staking heat that’s been described you’d have the Ent running around screaming with it’s ‘log’ on fire.”
Quite possibly my favorite comment ever.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:15 am
“But with the staking heat that’s been described you’d have the Ent running around screaming with it’s ‘log’ on fire.”
This was intentional. I imagined that the ent in question would end up with a hotter encounter than he expected (and maybe the ent in question likes a little pain with his pleasure), but I didn’t think anything would catch fire. You are right, making him run around with his banging branch engulfed in flame would be utterly hilarious. Of course, it you set any part of an ent on fire, the flames spread kinda quickly (they are, after all, trees), so you’d end up with a huge bushy fireball crashing around like a rocket powered cat on LSD (imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJEw3A_QO9o&feature=related , except with rockets). This would quite effectively solve our zombie problem.
Remember, kids, skullsquicking is safer! Practice safe screwing or you’ll end up with a burning bush! (Pun intended)
November 19th, 2007 at 5:28 am
“But with the staking heat that’s been described you’d have the Ent running around screaming with it’s ‘log’ on fire.â€
November 19th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Whoops meant to add, at some point the comments took an odd turn.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Thanks guys. I’m glad people like my page, even though I’m not sure why.
“Anko, you are awesome.”
Owen, you are more awesome. I insist.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:57 am
wow this is so intresting i just read the first hundred in one go
November 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am
“It seems an unbelievably big coincidence that the first zombie helped dig a giant tunnel in his childhood specifically for the purpose of killing vampires which were, at that point, considered to be little more than legends. After all, I can’t picture any schoolboys digging a tunnel to fight mythical creatures. It seems far more likely that, as Grady said, the hideout was just a place to drink. Taking out the cover story might make the tale seem more credible, but then again I don’t know how the next strips will resolve the issue.”
Its that one out of a million chance that makes a story a story, If the entire story followed the line of probibility then you probibly wouldn’t have any vampires to begin with, Val would be staked by another vampire for being a bitch, and artists like Bobby Crosby would already be producing oscar winning movies = P
November 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am
P.S. I also vote for Anko being awesome
November 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Great comic… will be waiting for more!
Expecting not to be cast out merely for being n00b, i’d say no kid on earth could build a tunnel so precise a good hit with a shovel would bring the whole thing down… So i’d bet my ass it’s something bigger than that… And the comment on the very first pages about some sort of nuclear war makes me think this is far deeper…
November 19th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
“no kid on earth could build a tunnel so precise a good hit with a shovel would bring the whole thing down…”
It didn’t take anywhere near the whole thing down — Murdo specifically said it took out a 25-foot section, which is like 1/30 of the whole thing. Also, this tunnel was perfected over the past 75 years by tons of people.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
“And the comment on the very first pages about some sort of nuclear war makes me think this is far deeper…”
It was a foolish attempt to stop the zombies, also, some countries just randomly attacked others for fun, knowing how the world was ending anyway.
And WLB used some nukes to destroy bunkers and other ’safe’ places and hideouts, and probably launched missiles to get the stations in space.
Having zillions of mindless puppets to do your bidding can be handy.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I’m rather curious here, does the noble Dhampi feature in this tale?
November 19th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Never heard that name.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Hmmm…Wikipedia has never heard of Dhampi either. And none of the pages that come up when I Google it appear to be anything specific (or in English). I’m going to call this a very bad misspelling, as it also didn’t have any other spelling suggestions for me. Either that, or I call shenanigans. In fact, I feel like calling shenanigans either way.
SHENANIGANS!
November 19th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
TMC probably meant this. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dhampir
November 19th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I don’t know why I didn’t realize that; it’s actually one of the things that did come up when I typed Dhampi.
Man, I want to watch Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust right now.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
HAHAHAHA. I just checked to see if Last Blood has a Wikipedia entry. It does. I’m not reading the whole thing, but I think the issue summaries could probably do with some better writing. Or not. As a sample, here is the first line of the summary for Issue 3:
“Math kills Jimmy in the head.”
No offense if one of the fans posting here wrote the entry; I personally think whether that line was deliberately written that way or not, it’s awesome and should stay. And now that I’ve read some more, it’s actually a pretty good summary.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
You should have seen the first version before Anko corrected some of it. It said April’s last name was Sullivan and several other mistakes.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
“And WLB used some nukes to destroy bunkers and other ’safe’ places and hideouts, and probably launched missiles to get the stations in space.”
So someone was paying attention to my WLB post. :-p Cheers.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
WLB is much better than TFZ. It HAS to stay.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Congrats on getting 100 pages!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Congratulations on the one hundredth page. More than that, however, I must say… I do admire your ability to write in entirely different moods and personalities as well as you do between the separate characters, and graphic novels themselves. Not everyone pulls that one off well; I don’t.
And though I don’t know if it’ll be seen, definite props to Owen for the kick-ass artwork. That’s eye candy at its finest.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Thanks, buddy. Not sure what the “I don’t know if it’ll be seen” part means in that last paragraph.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Bobby do you happen to know what Trans-Siberian Orchestra is?
November 19th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
I do not (and don’t feel like looking it up).
November 19th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Hm… To sum it up it’s very talented musicians and LOTS of special effects (Lazers, Fireworks, etc.) I got back from it not long ago and am proud to say I’m a little blind and deaf now.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:15 am
*gets hunger pains from lack of update*
November 20th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Speaking of, any projection on when said update will arrive? Not whining, it just helps to have an idea. For instance, Rich Burlew just posted that the “late” Order of the Stick comic probably won’t be up until after Thanksgiving, so I no longer feel a compulsion to check it every hour or so.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
You know just as much as I do about it — sent Owen the script three days ago, haven’t had contact with him since. Hopefully tonight, but don’t know.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:00 am
“# Arkus Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Bobby do you happen to know what Trans-Siberian Orchestra is?”
Savatage!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Page tonight, maybe two if things go according to my plans.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Wh00t, two pages’d be sweet.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Also, just discovered the Last Blood wiki and it makes my eyes hurt…as an English major, I cannot let it be allowed for such….cut and paste sentences to exist. *twitches and gets to work*
November 20th, 2007 at 7:53 am
“Also, just discovered the Last Blood wiki and it makes my eyes hurt…”
As Bobby mentioned, you should have seen it before I had a go at it. Thanks for helping out.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:19 am
D4 H(_)|\|63|2 P4I|\|5!!!! L4CK 0F (_)PD473S PAIN!!!
November 20th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Thank you for the work you did. I added a few more characters, such as Addison, Rage and TFZ but tried not to give too much away about them since that’d just ruin it. Also edited a bit of the summaries so far and added your FAQ to the bottom, but I’ll add it up top as well.
You’re a good fan, Anko. =D
November 20th, 2007 at 9:25 am
“You’re a good fan, Anko. =D”
And likewise. The article looks loads better now. What would we do without you English majors?
“D4 H(_)|\|63|2 P4I|\|5!!!! L4CK 0F (_)PD473S PAIN!!!”
Boy, that took a while to read. Hey, keep hanging in there. We all know that the next few page will be extremely awesome, with AFP and Francis being dead and all. Plus, did you know that ‘krasno’ means ‘great’ in my native language?
November 20th, 2007 at 9:50 am
“And likewise. The article looks loads better now. What would we do without you English majors?”
Aww, thank you. ^ ^
Y’ve officially made my day. =D Which is awesome, considering yesterday was really shotty.
And in response to that, probably be a lot happier without people like me correcting your grammer every ten seconds. =3
Also! Bobby, question: (Dunno if it’s been asked or not, I was flipping through the comic again in an attempt to forage out information for the Wiki but I didn’t look to see if it was asked yet. Wait. *goes to Google for answer*)
Okay, I checked, but I don’t think it was answered.
Anyway! Did Jimmy gnaw on his mum or just rip her up to eat on in separate pieces, ’cause she’d've been a zombie if not, right? o_O
If she did become a zombie, I’m presuming that Matheson killed her either after he shot Jimmy or during his “Total-Math-Ownage” battle with the zombies.
So basically, asking what the hell happened to Jimmy’s mom?
November 20th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Bobby answers it here…. http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/06/07/page-56-anti-climax/, about 20 comments down.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:42 am
@Rith26
Ah, thank you.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am
““D4 H(_)|\|63|2 P4I|\|5!!!! L4CK 0F (_)PD473S PAIN!!!â€
Boy, that took a while to read. Hey, keep hanging in there. We all know that the next few page will be extremely awesome, with AFP and Francis being dead and all. Plus, did you know that ‘krasno’ means ‘great’ in my native language? ”
I was reading a comic strip at Megatokyo where a l337 speaking guy was ranting about killing zombies so I felt the language suited me at the moment
And well, my last name is Krasnokuki and comes from Ukraine (apparently, Ukrainian is not the same as Russian so I don’t know what does it mean exactly, but is something like “red headed”) and that’s why they call me Krasno (in my country names like these are pretty unusual, most people have Spanish or Italian names).
I should go to your country someday, and be introduced to as many people as I can XD
PD: You are “krasno”
November 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
As of this moment, I’m improving the wiki article. I hope you like the results.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Someone help! I can’t create a spoilers warning (man, I added a lot of plot stuff)
November 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
I see no reason to complain over waiting 3 or 4 days for an update – other web comics I frequent sometimes take WEEKS for an update. Jesus, VG Cats is a great example – My hatred seethes like a overcooked kettle for that site, but only because I love it so. I’d say Last Blood is definitely in my favorite top three, and honestly much more entertaining that most comic books you can buy at the store. By the way, Bobby, you mentioned once you played poker with Jason Mewes and Keven Smith right? Have they expressed interest in purchasing the film rights from you, or better yet funding you to make it yourself? If you’re going to sell it to anyone, please, make it them – It’d be awesome. On another note I hate you for so casually remarking that you play poker with my most favorite film maker ever to grace the no-longer silver screen. =’(
November 20th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
How would Francis know it was a vampire? Wouldn’t it be more plausible he saw a fake vampire, thought it was real, and then made the organization?
although, if he did see a vampire—Wouldn’t it be ironic if it were Val?
November 20th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Sorry, what I meant with the “I don’t know if it’ll be seen” bit was that I’m not sure if Owen reads these comments/would get the message. Apparently it happens, though – I noticed a recent comment above.
Also, for future reference (and since “buddy” is fairly gender-neutral in my book, I really do mean simply for the sake of future reference), I’m female.
…I only just now realized that TFZ’s text bubble colors are inverted, compared to the rest. Talk about unawareness.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
“D4 H(_)|\|63|2 P4I|\|5!!!! L4CK 0F (_)PD473S PAIN!!!”
0(_)CH |\/|Y 3Y35 H(_)r7 FR0|\/| 50 |\/|(_)CH 13375P33K!!!1!
November 20th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
First off, Jesse, just wow.
Secondly, decent page but i want some more action or degrading of WLB.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
“In my opinion, AFP is the single most interesting character in a work of fiction that I’ve seen in a long time. ”
Now, while I won’t dispute AFP’s PWNess (stupid stupid last name regardless), you MUST read more. Stupid non-comment-reading idiots have helped immensely by asking, on every single page, about I AM LEGEND. Oh, and read QUOTH THE RAVEN, a comic I’m starting up. Alvero F. Prospero, in my (highly biased) opinion, has got at least as much, if not more, PWNess, in the long run, than AFP.
Haha…
Just noticed, they got the same initials.
Still, real good comic. Could be reworked in a lot of places, but it isn’t sheer, unadulterated crap, like most stuff I find on the ‘net.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
“0(_)CH |\/|Y 3Y35 H(_)r7 FR0|\/| 50 |\/|(_)CH 13375P33K!!!1!”
|-|4|-|4!!! P(_)|\|Y |-|(_)|\/|4|\|
November 20th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Ok, that last line went “HAHA!!!! PUNY HUMAN CAN’T TAKE THE VAMPIRE L337NESS!!” but for some reason it was cut
November 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
“Secondly, decent page but i want some more action or degrading of WLB.”
OMGTFZBBQ!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Krasno: that’s because there is justice in the world.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Hahaha, nice one Jesse. But seriously, I imagine that your C was a “less-than” sign. Those delete themselves and everything after them in a post… It’s just something that forums don’t like. testing…
November 20th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I fail to see the criticism there Jesse, please elaborate on the subject that troubles you.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Ah-HA! I was right! Thought as much. I’d seen this before in a forum and discovered a way around it, and I just remembered it. If you type a greater-than sign after the less-than sign, then everything AFTER THE GREATER-THAN will be displayed. I don’t know if you can go less-than, less-than, greater-than… Not sure if it would show the sign or just be searching for another greater-than.
Well that’s one mystery solved.
moo
November 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Then I won’t l337 speak anymore ^_^
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 pm
so TFZ is Murdo’s Grandpa??
Good twist, setting us up that it ws April’s grandpa…
December 12th, 2007 at 9:03 am
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
March 27th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
rofl at duke nukem reference in the oath
March 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
*is now bothered to read through the comments*
someone else picked up on the quote, yay
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
Wilcox is the Duke, baby!
“eat shit and die…”