Page 5: Murdo and Grady
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007I like their names so much that I decided to put them in the title of this page, especially since their names don’t get mentioned for several pages to come. Murdo’s young and Grady’s old! This is the first scene at the school in South Dakota, with two of the survivors carrying a dead zombie (and not just ANY dead zombie — and he may not actually be “dead”) towards a dumpster (spoiler for the next page, you’ll see a DUMPSTER!).
Murdo’s the main sniper who keeps watch from the tower rooms of the school building and takes out the small groups of approaching zombies from a distance with head shots. He used to be a Marine and he knows his stuff. Grady’s just the unlucky guy who had to help Murdo carry the dead on this particular morning. I played poker with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes recently, and I’m thinking Jay would be a good option to play Murdo. And if I had to pick a Grady? Hmm . . . John Ratzenberger!
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 am
Hey, it’s me again. I love how the mood and setting in this scene has been carried out, especially in the second last panel, where you can see two swings, abandoned, alone. It kinda strikes a symbolism to me, how the humans in the world are now so isolated… As i said before, kudos to the small details!
Oh, and what will your budget be for your film, if it doesn’t get picked up?
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:39 am
Thanks, Jeff. The budget will be as much as possible! Looking for a bare minimum of like $15,000, but that would be to shoot it digitally and not on film. Would be great to get it up around $100,000 and be able to get SAG actors and an experienced DOP, and pay everyone, and shoot it on film, and get some cool special effets, among other nice things that money allows. We’ll see what happens.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
New reader. Just found this comic, like, five minutes ago. Love it! ^_^ I’ll be checking back here.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Heck, i just realised, this work is far off from what Owen usually draws. Heh, i’m just imagining this in a manga style now… o.O manga zombies with pink hair… I better stop thinking now.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Pink haired zombies… hmm.. I like. LOL
I like the direction that this story is heading. It feels gritty and tangeable. I’ll have to check on it more often.
Good job.
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:29 am
I’m trying to imagine Cecania as a zombie lol…She would probably be the worlds’ first, only, & last hot undead!
June 29th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
NO BOBBY NO Jay wouldnt work as murdo
July 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am
“I played poker with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes recently”
I’m sorry, you did WHAT? an example of the art of name-dropping casually perfected.
RJ
September 9th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Grady = Ron Glass
Hells yeah!
October 29th, 2007 at 11:48 am
wait…THAT’S the first zombieeeee!!
October 29th, 2007 at 11:48 am
the friend of sullivan!
November 14th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Ok i love how few coments these pages have! and the absence of dumb is pretty nice too.
Now, the reason i am commenting onthis page is that in going back and re-reading one goes “oh damn, if they had only known”
December 10th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
South Dakota? O.o
There are zombies here?! O.O I’m so dead then…
May 30th, 2009 at 9:04 am
if this was how it started, it could have ended SO fast too… just some baseballbats, maybe even some guns, that is if it isn’t some kind of zombo apocalypse where they are fast and dont die of trauma to the brain (he looks kinda fast but not too super-human fast), and if they are really strong, that could be a problem too… other than that ^_^ pure pwnge could be applied to remove the threat
anyway, awesome art!!!