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 11th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Too bad our vampire action heroes are otherwise… preoccupied, but, it looks like Jimmy’s getting it done on his own.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I’m sorta hoping it’s Jimmy dreaming. T.T But I suppose that’s unlikely if Val was smelling them on the previous page. Still, that’s odd, isn’t it? Didn’t Matheson say there weren’t any around for miles? Can zombies move that fast? Apparently…
May 11th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
you want to know what really scares me about this page???
its the two zombies holding the access point open for their fellow featers… i know the FZ can control them, but this is truely scary.
zombies cooperating…
kieran
May 11th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Datherine: Math said on Page 45 that the closest group was 10 miles away and just became a little harder to smell because they went underground. Then we learned on Page 49 that being close to April helps Math deal with the smell of the zombies, implying that it makes it even extra hard to smell them when he’s very close to the strong sweet smell of human blood, because that good smell blocks out the bad smell (partially at least). THEN Math accidentally falls asleep with his nose right over April’s heart, as close as possible to the smell of all that blood, AND we know that the zombies are coming from UNDERGROUND, so April’s heart is right between Math and the zombies, blocking their smell greatly, AND Math hadn’t slept for days and is fast asleep now, so the smell would have to be extra strong to wake him anyway. And Val just plain doesn’t care. She smells them, but she thinks it’s pointless to try to save all the humans anyway as she explained earlier and she just wants to have some fun before she dies. And about the timing of it: They don’t have to move fast. Page 52 was hours after Page 51. April’s asleep on Page 52. So the timing isn’t an issue at all.
All of that will at least partially be explained in the comic itself later.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
oh, and Bobby’s sick comment…
jk, I actually want to thank Bobb and Owen for all of their work up to this point. i havent done so yet, and really wanted to.
for a good zombie film/comic, there is 10 beyond reanimators.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
“That Jimmy’s a real hero! I hope he lives forever!”
Hahahaha that reminds me of the movie FEAST were when they went through the cast the little boy had a Life expectancy of “living till he grows old”…..then he got eaten XD
May 11th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Poor poor Jimmy, those zombies are really quiet bastards too. the survivors don’t have a fallback position so I guess they’re going to have to kill them all or die. They also need a new guard dog if a squad of zombies come out of the ground and just says woof.
No weaseling you’re way out of this battle mustache man! (though in many flicks, the cowards do manage to hide in the midst of battle) He’ll probably be the first ones to pull out the stakes and torches in the aftermath even after Math saves most of them.
Except poor, poor Jimmy…
May 11th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Heh. We all know Jimmys gonna die now.
May 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Don’t worry. I’m going to torture Mustache Man.
“Heh. We all know Jimmys gonna die now.”
Yeah, this was a pretty big clue.
May 12th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Hm….I’ve been reading Last Blood now and somewhere was explained that the Zombies were sstarving, crazy vampires…. then why don’t the zombies have the pointy Teath like Vampires normally do?
Or do they somehow lose some abilitys of the vampires?
Anyway, damn good work!
May 12th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Go down fighting, Jimmy!
Kid’s got better aim than me. I’m tired of being schooled by 12 year olds in Time Crisis, damnit!
May 12th, 2007 at 3:07 am
It just keeps getting better, love this comic.
“you want to know what really scares me about this page???
its the two zombies holding the access point open for their fellow featers… i know the FZ can control them, but this is truely scary.
zombies cooperating…â€
Kieran, your absolutely right,
I noticed this to gave me the creaps
xeno
May 12th, 2007 at 5:01 am
That had nothing to do with my reasoning, seeing as how I didnt remember it. I just flip past stuff that isnt an actual page.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:09 am
That dog really is useless. Good thing Jimmy has a deathwish.
“No fear, no regrets… oh, other than dying and coming back to eat my family members. There is that one.”
May 12th, 2007 at 6:30 am
That dog rocks. Did you notice how in every panel since the dog said woof, it isn’t there? Smart do runs from zombies. Dumb kid will be eaten.
Oh, and helping Math miss the zombies is TFZ masking their scent. I’ll bet that helps a lot.
I know that there isn’t going to be nudity in the comic, but this set-up lends itself way too well to naked Val with swords.
May 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Hm, there are 20 zombies on panel two. Jimmy’s gun holds no more than 15 bullets, probably even not that much. See my point?
Anyway, I just wanted to say hi from Poland. You have one devoted reader here
- I am with you from page 20 circa. Good job. Very good.
But in my humble opinion you give away too much spoilers
As I am a kind of story writer too, I understand the “Look what I’ve thought of next!” feeling, but you are killing the suspense, even with the most minor tips. I have ever sometimes deliberately lied to readers about what happens in the future - and the reactions when something else was happening were great. Of course, you have to be reasonable here, cause it may lead to aggresive behaviour of most devoted readers
May 12th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Nice shot for a first timmer.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:26 am
“Hm….I’ve been reading Last Blood now and somewhere was explained that the Zombies were sstarving, crazy vampires…. then why don’t the zombies have the pointy Teath like Vampires normally do?
Or do they somehow lose some abilitys of the vampires?”
Argh, comments like this are so frustrating. Only the FIRST ZOMBIE was ever a vampire. That’s it, just him. All the other zombies are just regular zombies. Zombies are made by a zombie biting a human, right, and turning him/her into a zombie. If ALL the zombies were once vampires, that means every single human on Earth was a vampire who didn’t drink blood for 65 years, except for the 230 or so who are currently left alive. Anyway, there wasn’t seven billion vampires, no — only the FIRST ZOMBIE, the one we see in the first four pages of the book, was ever a vampire, as Math explains on Page 31/32.
vZ: 99% of the spoilers that I give are about pointless little things that people think are errors because they haven’t been explained in the story yet. I’ve spoiled basically nothing of importance. Also, I’m only spoiling things for the people who choose to read these comments anyway, which is a very small percentage of readers. You of course have the option to wait until the book is done before coming back and reading the comments, or never reading them.
Quarion: Jimmy has tons of experience with guns. It is his first time shooting a zombie, though. Hard to miss when you’re aiming towards about 20 of ‘em bunched up, though, anyway.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Poor little guy…at least he’ll go down fighting…and getting an awesome head shot on a zombie.
Murdo’s probably going to have a guilt complex, especially since he’s doing it with that bitch instead of being on the roof.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I do like Murdo…just not Val. Grr.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Being on the roof would only make him take even longer to get down there. It’s actually a good thing that he’s not where he’d normally be (the roof). They wouldn’t have seen the zombies coming from underground either way, so then all that matters is how close he is to the action, and the roof is farther away than where Val’s bed is.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Hey, just wanted to say hi. ^^ I just found this site today, thanks to Sore Thumbs, and felt like letting you know that the comic is awesome. The art is fantastic, story-line’s interesting, and the character’s are hot. I love Devian. x] Valencia is a little too scary to me.. I can’t imagine not liking cuddling (I’m a hug person), but the character variety just makes the comic more interesting. Poor Jimmy. I didn’t even realize that pin-up was of him…
Right, though — anyway, you guys are doing a fan-tast-ic job. I’m really impressed. ^^
May 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Ok, I’ve kept silent until now, but no more. I LOVE THIS COMIC! Little Jimmy’s cussing made my day.
And you made zombies even cooler to read about- an accomplishment indeed! I love you Bobby Crosby, and your Marry Me comic too (hugs and kissed to Owen and Eisu)! Zombie cooperation= terrifying. And Math is totally hott. Yay for hott vampire guys!
May 12th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Even though it’s been said/shown Jimmy is gonna die… I can’t help but hope otherwise! For starters - he has a great name. Secondly, it takes some serious guts for a little kid to pack heat and knock out a decent head shot like that when faced with 10+ large, grisly assailants. I can only imagine what my little brother- about Jimmy’s age- would be doing at this point, and though i love my little Bro’, i doubt he’d be doing the selfless hero dealie.
So! Here’s to you, Jimmy! Intestinal fortitude personified.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
*sniffles* I know what’s going to happen, but I don’t want it too… At least he’s going to take some with him! *salutes Jimmy*
May 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
So are we gonna get to see Jimmy’s zombification? Or is it just gonna all of a sudden show him completely zombified?
May 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
All of a sudden.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
“They wouldn’t have seen the zombies coming from underground either way, so then all that matters is how close he is to the action, and the roof is farther away than where Val’s bed is.”
Ohhh. Underground. You said that before too. I’m silly.
Those tricky zombies. So now I get what you said before about Murdo not being on the roof saving lives.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
[”Hm, there are 20 zombies on panel two. Jimmy’s gun holds no more than 15 bullets, probably even not that much. See my point? “]
Depends on the gun. A Glock 17 has an ammo capacity of 17 rounds. Compact and subcompact can be loaded with up to 33 rounds.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
there are 21 zombies in this scene, and probably more in the tunnels…
what i wonder is, if the FZ has been playing with the group up to this point, why the sudden massive assault? especially so soon as not 2, but 3 vampires are seen here?? i dont think its a coincidence…
kieran
May 12th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Nice new review –
http://acomicaday.blogspot.com/2007/05/last-blood-1-fcbd-exposed-part-7.html
And another fan found, cool –
http://community.livejournal.com/comicfangirls/427021.html
May 12th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Now see, THIS is why we should teach our children to use and respect firearms.
Zombies people. They’re coming. And the only thing that will stop them is an 8 year old packin heat. Charleston Heston told me so.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
The gun doesn’t look like a glock it has a rounded grip
May 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Gun is a model 1911 .45 ACP. Without an extended clip, it’ll hold 7+1.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
… Jimmy SHOULD live forever.
But noooooooooooooooooo. You gotta kill the cute kid. Jerks.
Kidding. Great Comic.
May 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
“Gun is a model 1911 .45 ACP. Without an extended clip, it’ll hold 7+1.”
bummer jimmy!
well a .45 will do a lot more damage than a 9mm, but then again 8 rounds vs. 20 isnt good odds.
someone give that kid a machine gun! preferably a 7.62mm MG249
May 13th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Nice move there, Jimmy! Hope you live through the fight.
Kudos to Rex the Wonder Dog.
What the heck are the zombies coming up out of? Is that a tunnel they dug themselves or is it a pre-existing structure? A little of both maybe?
Hmmm…. You suppose TFZ is such a sneaky bastard that he chose to let this school live *because* it has this mysterious tunnel the zombie used to get in close?
Eeep. Just saw the variant cover with Jimmy the Zombie. That’s one scary little image. If TFZ really wanted to mess with their heads maybe he is going to ’speak’ through Jimmy - which would explain the eyes.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
wait a second, I thought Jimmy’s mom was supposed to be dead? (I try to read the comments when I have time, that did get covered right?)
May 13th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I actually made a mistake when I said that, jen, and I believe it was Nara who corrected me shortly after that on the same comments page.
May 13th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Hummm I just noticed that Jimmy and others are sleeping in the gym on what appear to be cots. Why is April sleeping in her own room on an actual bed?
May 13th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
P.S. Thanks y’all who pointed out I had the gun make wrong.
May 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Melia, there’s enough rooms for everyone to have their own, but most of the kids stay in the gym for various reasons, like general protection. A few of the mothers are in the gym with them, while most of the fathers are out at various posts looking out for the zombies, which wouldn’t have helped at all on this night, though. Also, they’re supposed to all have beds, which are their owns beds from their own houses in town, all moved into the school building in the first week after the outbreak.
“What the heck are the zombies coming up out of? Is that a tunnel they dug themselves or is it a pre-existing structure? A little of both maybe?”
Almost entirely pre-existing, as you’ll learn more about later. Here’s a photo of the actual place –
http://www.cresbard.k12.sd.us/Girls%20Basketball/Bball%205.jpg
See where #20’s right knee is pointing? That white screen that’s sort of loose and lifting up? Those are storage facilities under the stage and the zombies came from there.
May 13th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
I’ve been following this comic for awhile, I think it’s brilliant! The art is fantastic! Vampies and zombies in the same comic is almost too good to be true.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Mwahahaha…. and of course TFZ knows about the town because he lived there. Delicious… and kudos for not being afraid to kill a kid and a hero sacrifice at that too. Too many movies have taboos about killing off kids and people who say “go on without me! I’ll hold them off!” then later when the group is safe suddenly… they pop up again. “but how did you survive?” “I knew that if I shot the support beam at the exact angle of fuck-all then the cave would collapse and not crush me.” “Oh… Ok then. Let’s go” ::rolls eyes::
May 14th, 2007 at 12:34 am
“and of course TFZ knows about the town because he lived there.” THIS would make the Story relly great. Would be also an explanation why the Zombies spared this town until now…
May 14th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Minor spoiler: The First Zombie’s name is up on the gym wall right now for various school sports records.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Damn, you’re really mean. I thought this story couldn’t get much better, but you did it. Tragedy! Love it.
May 14th, 2007 at 3:57 am
man i told them schools are never good places to hide out on a zombie invasion they never lisen
May 14th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Would it perhaps be……
Bob Swanhorst
May 14th, 2007 at 8:42 am
I wondered if TFZ was from this town. Explains how he knew about the storage areas the zombies are coming out of too.
Dig the tunnel up until just short of the storage sometime during the preceding month (thus keeping the noise down), then wait until the vampires get there to stage the final break-in.
Man that’s cold.
I still can’t imagine what was done to him that he intentionally planned the destruction of his own species, but when he finally speaks it’s going to be a doozy.
Hmmm… Suppose TFZ has any living blood kin? I will laugh my backside off if the cowardly principal turns out to be his grandson.
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?