Page 22: Mustache Man
Monday, February 12th, 2007Artist Owen Gieni and I really hate the guy in the second panel with the mustache and glasses. We see him as the leader of the jerks who chickened out and left Murdo and Grady to fight the zombies on their own. He first appeared in the last panel of Page 12. I haven’t named him yet, as he’s not a very big character, but I foresee a fun death scene where someone yells out his name as he gets killed, so comment below and tell me what you think his name should be.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:27 am
First comment, wee~
The second panel-guy doesn’t look too friendly. I think you did a good job of making him LOOK the part. I really like the final panel because of the shading on Math’s face. It’s a very loaded image.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Let’s call him mario. I love the swords on Math’s back, in panel 5. Also liked what Lydia liked.
Hehe, he still has that bullet wound in his chest
February 12th, 2007 at 3:34 am
I was thinking he looks like a Gary.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:35 am
If he suffers really painful and gruesome death, he should be called “Mr. Frist” or “Senator Frist” … now i know many people who would clap their hands there…
February 12th, 2007 at 3:38 am
He should be called “Dogface McGee”. But only his friends use his first name. AND HE HAS NO FRIENDS.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:55 am
I think George would be a good name for you… kind of a old timer kind of name.
February 12th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Jeff. Not because I have anything against OUR Jeff, but because the guy my ex-girlfriend cheated on me with was a Jeff. :/
February 12th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I like Gary
February 12th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Francis, or Frank. I’ve met some Franks that are complete jerks before.
February 12th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Glen.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:02 am
he should remain unnamed and someone should just yell asshole or something to warn him, and when he turns it’s to late.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Very cool comic like it very much…. …… And the guy that you are going to wack next……… Kahl……… Just looks like a kahl……….. Keep on writing and drawing.
February 12th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hope there is more of Val to come………. Very hot…… One question though on how you are going to deal with the myth on becomin a vampire………. There is so many ways just wondering which you are going…….And how many vampires are left and if any of them can be turned into zombies……. Love the vampire/zombie spin.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
He is clearly, “Thomas” the dick.
That’s really a moot point for me so long as his throat gets bitten out by a zombie from behind and i get to see his trachea pull out.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I have a question. Do the zombies rot or decay? I’d think that the bacteria and various other carrion feeding organisms like maggots corpse beetles would be having a field day in a zombie apocalypse.
But that means that a few weeks or months after becoming undead, the zombies would start falling apart, which may or may not be conducive to the story.
Actually, I’ve thought about that question in regards to all the zombie and even vampire movies. Vampires I always thought didn’t rot because they had blood to regenerate. Maybe zombies (not necessarily THESE zombies, but in general) are the same way - they have to feed or they’ll die. Hmm.
Fortunately there’s no such thing as zombies, so this line of thought is purely theoretical.
February 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I suggest something old, like Jonah, Jonas, David, Christian. Maybe something Dutch/German, like Johan, or Kristian. (I admit, I’m biased as to one of those.)
February 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Frederick. Or possibly Albert.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Palmer?
February 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Hernadez gutiama.
February 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Palmer brings back memoriez of FF7…
Obviously, we must now name him Sephiroth. Or quite possibly Tseng.
February 12th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Heh, Rude, for the win.
February 12th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I think you should refer to him by last name only. Something like Mc’Allister, or Zimmermann. Only nice people deserve given names.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I had a similar line of thought about the zombies decaying due to radiation, since it would destroy flesh regardless of if it was alive or dead. The point is, it really just has nothing to do with the story at this point, really. The zombie population is thought to be big enough that, even while some parts of it are collapsing, the pure numbers survive.
Humanity doesn’t die off due to some people having AIDs, yanno? Hence, Zombianity doesn’t die off due to some having maggots or forms of radiation sickness.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:43 am
k i gotta say he looks like a jenson
February 13th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Thanks for all the suggestions, and I especially like the responses from Henry, Marchocias, Drew, and Dave.
Schon, I agree about Val, and you’ll definitely see more of her, in more ways than one. And to answer your questions about becoming a vampire: Not gonna say exactly right now, but it will be fairly traditional. (The interesting thing is how you become a zombie, though, or at least how it all started.)
Interesting stuff from faentur. I have no answers, really, because none of that comes into play for the story, so I haven’t thought about it much. Very minor spoiler: The story only takes place over the course of about one week (starting with Page 5, I mean, after we’ve jumped ahead a month from the opening with the first zombie).
February 13th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I’d go with Gary. It lends itself to such wonderful phrases as:
“Gary, you asshole!”
or
“G’dammit Gary, shut the hell up!”
Of course I have never met a Colby that wasn’t a complete and utter ass, so that might work too.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I am definatly seeing Gary. Or maybe George.
And I am pretty sure that if the zombies went on long enough without making new zombies eventually they would all rot to the point of no longer working. The idea is that as long as humanity survives, there will always be people to become fresh zombies, so we would only have a completely zombie extinction after we ere all dead (or undead as the case may be) first.
The solution then is obviouse. Abandon the planet and live on the moon for a couple hundred years, then come back to a new zombie-free and richly fertilized earth ^.~
February 13th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
no way bro
jensons like..classic
it’d be all like
“JENSON, YOUR SUCH A DICK”
or
“JENSON WATCH OUT”
and then hed be eaten alive
k, i know someone was talking about why zombies dont rot
its cause they,similar to vampires, need living human flesh/blood
to survive. Though they do decompose until only muscle is left.
thats why they dont feed on eachother
February 13th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Reepicheep, love the name. Been re-reading the Narnia books lately. And yeah, living on the moon would be good.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hey Bobby, I think you should add a part for a 14-15 year old boy in the storyline.
Y’know… with longish Black hair, broad shouldered, green eyed… then he dies or some shit.
Y’know, a person like this: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/Paralda/Picture001.jpg
I’d so do that part… since… that’s me from like 3 months ago.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
“Of course I have never met a Colby that wasn’t a complete and utter ass…”
Heh. Colby’s Movieland. Hehe. Google it.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Hrm. I’d go with Tad or Ralph. I’ve never met a Ralph or Tad that wasn’t an ass-bastard, and that’s exactly what that mustachioed man looks like.
February 14th, 2007 at 4:33 am
He looks like a Patrick to me; sure as hell reminds me of my chicken-shit father. XP
February 16th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Hm, that dude looks like a Richard to me.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
The moustache man is definately a Larry if I ever saw one.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:19 am
How about “Richard”? Nobody calls a Richard for Richard… They are alwas call “Dick”, and he sure looks the part!
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:07 am
He’s Grady. Definately Grady.
Not sure if that’s his first name or last, and I bet most the people at that school don’t know either.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:12 am
Already is a Grady!
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/01/26/page-15-no-time-to-chat/
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 pm
As a nickname, Snails. Ralph somehow seems appropriate. Or Joey-ray. Obediah?
March 27th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
since i got to this late my ideas are late, but.
maybe a bacterium, that requires a small amount of formaldehyde to reproduce, is what causes zombism, people who have significant amounts of formaldehyde would be changed easiest. embalmers have noticed that in the last 60 or more years less preservative is needed, it’s postulated that formaldehyde in food builds up in the bodies, there’s a lot of it in white bread. so, maybe in the americas, besides odd circumstance, people who eat commercially produced bread, or drink red wine and rotgut liquor, would have high levels of formaldehyde.
but that gives me the idea that after the formaldehyde is used up the bacteria would die. if the zombies are not actually dead then they’d return to normal living humans after the bacteria die, if they are real walking dead then they’d collapse and become mush. zombies not actually being dead would explain their lack of rot, and bring up a moral quandary, kill them, or capture and quarantine.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Huh… he looks to me like a bit of a goomba (not the mob, but just… a goomba), so…. I dunno… Giulio? Italian form of Julius, meaning ‘downy-bearded’, or I guess it’s ‘downy-mustached’ in this case… or Giraldo, which is an Italian form of Gerald meaning ‘rule of the spear’, or the this case, ‘rule of the board with spikes’… but I guess I’m a bit late, huh? =P
Love this comic, too. Vampires are awesome.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:24 am
His name should definitely be Eugene. You can make that name sound nasally/annoying and sarcastic at the same time when you are yelling at him!
July 19th, 2007 at 8:12 am
lewis maybe?
RJ
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:57 am
math’s being so…… peppily cheerful. it’s rather irking.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Can you tell me how to get rid of the stupid Radio Shack advert that’s covering the top panel of the comic so I can read the comic? I’ve clicked on the advert, which opens up their page, but then it still won’t go away. There’s no “x” in the top right corner or anywhere that I can find. Guerilla advertising is so insulting.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Ah, it went away finally. Do you just have to wait it out or what?
November 20th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Definently Bruce. I’d pay money to see a Bruce get whacked. *Hate hate hate hate*
December 10th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
December 18th, 2007 at 6:42 am
I think Glen is a pretty good idea, especially if when he dies someone stutters it becuase the “gl” sound in the name makes a pretty good guttural choked sound if stuttered.
example
“G…G… Gl… Glen!!!” then one of those exxagerated (but effective) slow moments where he turns round to be torn apart.
Kudos on the comic btw, its brilliant
January 15th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Lewis Stein
April 1st, 2008 at 1:36 pm
i think his name should be butch. i can already imagine his name being called he turns and is bitten in the shoulder and dieds. Or mabye some 1 “accidently” shot him.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
just don’t name him frank in movies frank is always an unlikeable charicter even when his a “good guy” (which is rare) as a rule frank is the ass hole the chicken shit or the villain some time a combo of the 3
July 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Call him Engelbert or Jefferson.