Page 52: No Fear
Friday, May 11th, 2007That Jimmy’s a real hero! I hope he lives forever!I also wanted to finally talk about the cool thing I hinted at a couple weeks ago. The Saturn Awards requested 500 copies of the first issue of Last Blood to give out in their gift bags, which we provided, and the show was last night, so hopefully we’ll make some good contacts from that. Even Dwight from The Office got a copy!
Here’s a great report about the awards from Ain’t It Cool News, which even mentions the gift bag stuffing process!
May 14th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Random thought for when you make the film – how are you going to get the town quiet enough? Countryside like this is so naturally silent in the middle of the night that you can hear cars honking horns five miles away sometimes.
Gunshots too.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I really like the comic, but just wanted to point something out:
Since you mentioned that there is a sequel(and prequel) planned. In case of surviving humans, you need at least a few hundred humans to repopulate, otherwise the genome would detoriate, due to the lack of different genes.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
“Hmmm… Suppose TFZ has any living blood kin? I will laugh my backside off if the cowardly principal turns out to be his grandson.”
I already mentioned this in the comments several times, that TFZ is related to someone we already know from the story. I thought I even said who, but just in case I haven’t, I won’t spoil that for now.
“Since you mentioned that there is a sequel(and prequel) planned. In case of surviving humans, you need at least a few hundred humans to repopulate, otherwise the genome would detoriate, due to the lack of different genes.”
Yes, this has been mentioned dozens of times in the comments and it’s pointless to the story, as you’ll see later. Also, don’t infer anything extra from this, since it would give you the wrong idea, but why such the big need to repopulate the species? Sometimes it’s just nice enough to have some people survive through this ordeal and live a long life, which seems 100 percent impossible at this point. Also keep in mind that Addison Payne is the smartest person ever born and he’s working on something major. Also, why assume that the sequels are set hundreds of years in the future? How long does it take for the genome to deteriorate? I don’t know, but I know that it would be at least a hundred years before anything too weird is going on, even with only 25 survivors or so (don’t infer anything from that number either).
May 14th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I was wondering about that whole ‘repopulate the planet’ thing until I remembered Mr Payne and his medical genius. Assuming his labratory facilities survived intact (quite possible) he likely has dozens if not hundreds (thousands?) of sperm/ova samples.
Not a problem – if he is alive and his lab is untouched.
And he isn’t the one who sent TFZ over the edge in the first place…
Any chance we can get a FAQ page for the questions that have already been answered 500 times?
May 14th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Also forgot to respond to this —
“Would it perhaps be…… Bob Swanhorst”
Just to clarify, I mean in the fictional world of the comic/film his name is on the gym wall.
And about an FAQ:
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/04/04/page-38-who-cares/#comment-1536
May 14th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Awww man.
http://www.sdshof.com/athletes/detail.cfm?id=161
Doesnt look like good TFZ material though anyway.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Awesome, GO JIMMY!… LOve the comic, read all of it in one dsay (GO ME). …. too bad Denvers gone… couldn’t you put one hold out?…. Keep up the work.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Urk…
Very nasty thought just hit me. TFZ is related to someone already shown in the comic, but who says it’s one of the *humans*…
moremoremoremore!!!!!!!!
heehee
May 14th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
“moremoremoremore!!!!!!!!”
No new pages until next Wednesday at the earliest actually, but you’ll see the cover for issue #3 (pages 57-80) this Wednesday, featuring a scene from the very end of issue #3.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Take your time, Bobby. While we’re all eagerly anticipating what comes next (talk about a cliffhanger) it’s worth waiting for the quality material you always seem to deliver. It’s so nice to finally see good artwork on a webcomic, I’m impressed. I need to order this in paper somehow, and add it into my “art inspiration” collection… how can we order if our local comic shop blows, again?
May 15th, 2007 at 12:38 am
“It’s so nice to finally see good artwork on a webcomic, I’m impressed.”
That’s all Owen Gieni!
“how can we order if our local comic shop blows, again?”
CALL THEM! NOW! Issue #2 and a re-release of Issue #1 is available to order right now through comic shops. Tell them you want to reserve copies of both! To repeat what I said in the blog post for Page 50 . . .
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I just hope the retailers take note of that and order lots of copies of Last Blood #2, and the re-release of Last Blood #1 with the variant cover by Remy “Eisu†Mokhtar, both of which are in Diamond’s PREVIEWS catalog right now for July shipping.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Call your local comic book shops and ask them if they’ll be carrying Last Blood, the new horror comic from Blatant Comics. Tell them you’d like to reserve a copy or two, if you want. We also have a retailer incentive for July where they get one free copy of the black and white variant cover for every four copies ordered of Last Blood #2. So if you could remind them of that and say you want the black and white cover, that might also be helpful! No matter what we’ll be completing the full graphic novel (four issue mini-series), which tells the first film’s story, but we most likely won’t do sequels or prequels (not even online) unless the comic book series is a success. So get on those phones and make sure the comic retailers know that you want Last Blood!
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May 15th, 2007 at 8:07 am
I just got my copies of Last Blood #1 in the mail, and even having read all the comments, I am freaking astounded, but something is bugging me, and that means i have to ask Bobby a fun question.
Right after Mac leaves and before Math and Val show up, a zombie group came at the school and someone(Grady, I think) yells, “We’ve got Zombies!” or something to that effect. Is it possible Jimmy heard that and that’s really how he knows about the zombies, and the other kids might know as well, but are just playing along so as not to upset the adults?
May 15th, 2007 at 8:08 am
PS. Let Jimmy call a zombie a motherfucker.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Jimmy swearing would violate the conventions of the genre, no?
Besides, given his reactions when it all hits the fan he’s one of the most mature people in the room. He won’t waste time swearing until he’s out of bullets or getting bitten.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Vo: The gym is way too far away from where Grady was for Jimmy to actually hear that about zombies. The only kids who had a chance to hear were the two super young ones with that guy we see on Page 12 in the very next panel after Grady’s “zombies” line.
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/01/19/page-12-zombies-for-breakfast/
One of them’s under 2 years old and the other is 4 at the oldest, I think. They’re too young for it to matter, really, if they hear “zombies,” and they were sleeping at the time anyway — didn’t wake up until their dad got out of bed quickly probably. Jimmy and the rest of the kids were in the gym, well out of earshot.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:15 am
TFZ’s anger against everyone is that he was forced to be a vampire, I believe Bobby said many posts and comments ago…
I love how people keep saying the same ideas over and over. Even ‘Make a FAQ’ is something I’ve said three, four times. If you’re gonna put forth ideas, folks, do a CTRL+F to search the pages and make sure it hasn’t been said many times before! Please!
May 16th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Interesting comment to make about Math not being woken up by the zombies’ smell because of the smell of human blood… I forgot where I read this, but research has been done, and people can’t ever be woken up by a smell. Obviously might not apply to vampires, but it’d be another interesting similarity.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:40 am
I’ll understand when/if Jimmy dies, but let him unload that clip first, man. Enjoy Valhalla, kid.
July 19th, 2007 at 8:55 am
holy crap, how did no one hear them coming in? and what happened to grady???
RJ
November 20th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I think it’s creepy how those two zombies are holding the door things open for the rest of the zombies. We assume that they’re all stupid, but then they show a creepy kind of intelligence. TFZ is influencing them, maybe? Or it could just be instinct.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:35 am
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
December 15th, 2007 at 2:59 am
That, is AWESOME
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Kid’s a good shot for someone who (presumably) has never used a gun before…
June 11th, 2008 at 1:30 am
damn. awesome. how old is he?