LAST BLOOD #3 Cover
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007Look, a new cover! My favorite part is Grady and Murdo cheering on the roof. Last Blood #3 will include pages 57-80, and the above event takes place around page 77 (hopefully). Owen is going on a trip soon and the next page (53) most likely won’t go up until next Wednesday, but the good news is that we may start doing more than three pages per week after that.
CLICK HERE to see my sketch of this cover.
And hey, we finally found a photo of me and Mac at Golden Apple! I’m the one who looks like Greg Grunberg.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Well well well, First time to post here, and first poster.
I love your comic Bobby, I’ve been a reader since the early 30s (page)
Those_are_vampires in the jet, right?
May 16th, 2007 at 4:01 am
**votes**
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ADDISON PAYNE AT LAST!!!!!!!!
(if you can’t guess, vote)
May 16th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Its a bird! Its Super Man!…no wait ITS A PLANE!
(yea ik its bad)
nice cover looks cool
May 16th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Excelent, excelent, ha hahaha! Like Mandark would laugh =D
I said it before and I’ll say it again. I love Last Blood so much that it’s becoming an addiction. Every page of LB is the most awaited webcomic that I am reading at the moment.
And you know what is killing me most? The time difference! You put them up late at night (I guess) and here in Poland its afternoon. I get up each MWF sit at work and I click refresh.. like.. every hour or more.
So, enough with the compliments, there is one thing that I have to ask you about.
The plane barely avoided school roof, and is about to land on the sea of zombies… it should be wheels down and nose up – other way it would simply crash. I know that You probably wanted a zombie beeing hit by a plane but hitting it with landing gear would make this scene a lot more realistic from the aerodynamical view.
Anyways – I really like your story and Owen’s art is great. So keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more frequent updates as you ‘promised’ – You promised, right?
Take care!
May 16th, 2007 at 5:40 am
sweet cover
cept if theyre in a jet, shouldnt they logically crash and explode?
do vampires have mystical healing powers?
May 16th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Man, Stasia’s Dad is so far off course he’s hit the wrong comic. Oh well.
Looking awesome, can’t till we get to see it actually happen.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:22 am
ROFLMAO > Bish.. I was actually thinking the same thing about Stasia’s dad! We need to encourage more crossovers in the web-comic world, although I’d hate to see Stasia turned eaten. Guy might make a decent vampire though – I can see him now, ripping the heads off of some zombies who get too close to his woman.. What would be cool though is Stasia and Val in a cat fight (Stasia would have to be turned into a vamp first tho’).. Wow, all these ideas running around in my head…
May 16th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Holy friggin zombie padded plane crash Batman! And if thats the school it looks a lot bigger than I imagined. Look sike Devian makes it back to the school too, lets hope Mac did as well.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:25 am
WOOOHOOOO looks Great
mann I love this comic !!!
May 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
COOL! I LOVE THE COVER! I love grady and murdo cheering at the roof!!!
wait….is that adyson payne in the plane? or is it Mac? and who is the other guy???????
May 16th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Go vote for this comic – and you’ll find out who are they =D
I voted! =P
May 16th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
“The plane barely avoided school roof, and is about to land on the sea of zombies… it should be wheels down and nose up – other way it would simply crash. I know that You probably wanted a zombie beeing hit by a plane but hitting it with landing gear would make this scene a lot more realistic from the aerodynamical view.”
LOL. They ARE crashing, on purpose, taking out thousands of zombies in the process. If that photo of the cover was taken 1/10 of a second later you’d just see a huge ball of flame.
“cept if theyre in a jet, shouldnt they logically crash and explode?
do vampires have mystical healing powers?”
You saw Math get shot in the chest earlier and have that heal just fine. Same thing here. You’ll see a lot more later. Also, there are about 50 vampires in that plane.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
This will be a sweet scene in the movie. Cool seeing Devian flying around too.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
To the person who made the Superman joke – I saw this and instantly went, “It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s… wait, yea, it’s a plane.”
Awesome cover. I can’t wait to see the actual strip for this.
Murdo and Grady rock my socks in the background there.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I hope those are vampires….and not Mac.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Oh, I just voted. Whew. But where’s Mac?
May 16th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
WOOOO!!!
This is gonna be an interesting chapter.
I wanna see more of Lance Lostblood (a.k.a. Killsword, who kills people with his sword). Is zombie hitler gonna come back? Does april have green hair? Does Wiley fit into the scene anywhere? Is So Bad behind the zombie menace?
Anyways, to those who don’t know what I’m talking about, I suggest you click on the link at the bottom that says WICKEDPOWERED and read the entire thing from the beginning.
Anyways Bobby, is Chris your brother?
Keep up the good work with the comic. Big fan of Marry Me also.
May 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Pfft. Amateurs aping Alucard.
I keed, I keed.
May 16th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Where’s the guy in the cowboy hat riding on the back of the plane as it plunges down into armageddon?
May 16th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
“But where’s Mac?”
SPOILER: He just ran into the school about a minute before the plane crash with a billion zombies on his tail, many of which were then taken out by the plane to give them some more time.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:47 am
“They ARE crashing, on purpose, taking out thousands of zombies in the process.”
Sounds logical. =]
But if I was a Vampire – I wouldnt waste my awsome healing power – because that would just waste my energy – which I need to fight the rest of the zombie cowd.
…and where to hell is TFZ? Care to give some more spoilers?
May 17th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Great picture! I can’t wait to see what happens next!
May 17th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I love how Murdo and Grady are in the back on the rooftop cheering with their guns up. You can just imagine them screaming,
‘F*CK YES!’
May 17th, 2007 at 7:40 am
I wonder where all the other vampires are coming from. They flew in from Mexico? Just kidding.
May 17th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Where is TFZ? Heck, he could be in AUSTRALIA and still pull this off.
I am still astonished that TFZ could ‘survive’ being in that coffin with enough of his mind intact that he could plan and run an operation on this scale. His strength of mind previous must have been incredible. Most would have come out of that coffin gibbering idiots.
Have the vampires ever had to ‘put down’ a zombie master before? If so, what happened the last time a vampire ‘went over’?
May 17th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
“But if I was a Vampire – I wouldnt waste my awsome healing power – because that would just waste my energy”
Healing doesn’t use up much energy for the vampires of this story, but I don’t see how you can call it a “waste” when it’s killing around 3,000 zombies and putting a huge wall of fire in front of the rest, without even wasting a single bullet or swing of a sword. It’s SAVING them tons of energy. They also just got quite a bit of blood from the humans in Mexico, so they’ve got a lot of energy as it is.
“I wonder where all the other vampires are coming from. They flew in from Mexico? Just kidding.”
I’m not sure why you’re kidding. That’s exactly what happened, of course.
“I am still astonished that TFZ could ’survive’ being in that coffin with enough of his mind intact that he could plan and run an operation on this scale. His strength of mind previous must have been incredible. Most would have come out of that coffin gibbering idiots.”
That’s not how it works. When the zombie powers click in at about 65 years of no blood, you instantly retain all of your mental capacity from before, and gain some extra, since you can now use telepathy to control the new zombies who spring from your outbreak. You’ll learn much more about this in the second graphic novel and also in one of the prequel graphic novels (the one that tells the full story of The First Zombie), if those things are ever made, and they only will be if tons of issue #2 are ordered right now, so get on those phones and call all the comic shops you can telling them you want “Last Blood.” The online ordering deadline is May 29th, I believe. You guys can definitely make the difference.
“Have the vampires ever had to ‘put down’ a zombie master before? If so, what happened the last time a vampire ‘went over’?”
Can’t spoil that.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Oooooh….
Nasty thoughts there.
Very nasty.
Would the question of where/when (why?) vampirism was introduced into the human race be a big spoiler?
May 17th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
“Would the question of where/when (why?) vampirism was introduced into the human race be a big spoiler?”
No. But I’ll say that we will learn more about previous First/Original Zombies.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
The most popular legend is that the first vampire ever was Kain – son of the first two people – Adam and Eve. After murdering his brother he was cursed by God. But you probably know it… And what I would like to know is Mr Crosby’s idea on the beginning of vampirism. =D
I like the fact that his (that means you Bobby =D ) ideas usually surprise me. In the positive way ofcourse.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
“And what I would like to know is Mr Crosby’s idea on the beginning of vampirism.”
I don’t have one. Doesn’t come into play in “Last Blood,” or at least not for the next few years, I’d guess.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
..oh.. since you seem to be online: Spoil me – What time should I expect the friday page?
May 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
From the original post above: “Owen is going on a trip soon and the next page (53) most likely won’t go up until next Wednesday . . .”
No new page until May 23 at the earliest, possibly May 25.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Oh crap.. I feel stupid now. =P I remember that you wrote about this pause.. Somehow it just seemed so long ago. Sorry to bother then =D
May 17th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
No problem.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
… Wait, no new page until… When…?
……….
Bobby, Mewt is going to go through Withdrawl…
Do you want your Mewt to go through Withdrawl?
Don’t do this to your Mewt, Bobby.
When Mewt goes through withdrawl, his mind begins to go…
When Mewt’s mind goes, he makes plans to eliminate the world…
…
Mewt needs to get laid.
Right, so. When are you gonna make some Message Boards for us to sit on? Because while the comments are nice and nifty, they lack the convenience that Message Boards have of knowing who’s online, and just… Stuff. Plus, people are more easily drawn to things like this when boards are involved, and the more public support LB gets, I’d suspect the easier it’ll be to get a producer, right?
…
Remember Bobby. Mewt Withdrawl. *Eyes gravely*
May 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Er…. For the Cain bit from earlier. God marked Cain, it wasn’t a curse, just a mark, it wasn’t for good or ill, in fact ti was proctection, he was protected by god from those that would try to take vengence on him…
Actually… that would still fit I guess…
So, these fifty vamps, how much of a drain will this place on the people in the school?
May 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
“So, these fifty vamps, how much of a drain will this place on the people in the school?”
None in the short term, not enough to hurt them in any possible long term. I’ve gone over this in detail in previous comments and it’s a rather complicated thing. Feel free to search for such things. Overall, though, the vampires NEED THE HUMANS TO LIVE FOR FOREVER and the only way they’d ever hurt them is if it was totally hopeless and the zombies were about to eat them for sure, which is what dozens of vampires will do to many of the people in Mexico shortly before boarding that plane, and they’ll have a good amount of blood from that to last a little while.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Lydia,
Mac’s right here where’s he’s always been – getting swacked on 2 bottles of 2-buck Chuck!
As far as the story line goes…refer to Bobby.
Thanks for the mention.
Mac (the original)
May 18th, 2007 at 3:02 am
So everyone in Mexico got killed then? All these are left with are the few in the school.
The situation is hopeless. So billions of Zombies will be matching towards that school. Even 150 vampires couldn’t stop them all.
It would be like a swarm!
Only hope now would be the Vampires to try and secure the surrounding area to try and keep the Zombies would. But then again it most likely around too late.
I love this story Bobby. But I not sure what direction your taking this? I mean we down to a few humans in the school, appox 55 Vampires vrs 6 billion Zombies all hell bent on killing them last humans.
How can this comic last when the situation is already hopeless?
I know you don’t like to give too many spoilers, but it seems like the comic is doomed at this rate.
May 18th, 2007 at 3:12 am
LOL. I’ve done my job, then. Good to know. The story could seriously go on forever. The main problem is having enough time to write it all and making sure I have artists for it. Here’s the solicitation summary for the third issue, by the way, for PREVIEWS, which I wrote last night:
“The humans are getting killed in the game of life, with the zombies winning six billion to thirty. Luckily for humanity they have fifty vampires ready to join the fight and preserve their blood supply, but their chances are still looking slim to none, and Slim just got his brain eaten.”
“How can this comic last when the situation is already hopeless?”
It does look like that, yes, and it will look even more like that soon. Also, 150 vampires? 150,000 wouldn’t have much of a chance either. Huge things will happen that you have no idea of yet. Also, I don’t like giving too many spoilers? I’ve given TRILLIONS of spoilers, but not for the HUGE HUGE stuff yet. If you read through all of the comments, though, which you obviously haven’t done, you can probably get a few big clues.
“Only hope now would be the Vampires to try and secure the surrounding area to try and keep the Zombies would.”
That’s nowhere near the only hope, no, and I’m really looking forward to the moment when you guys find out how they survive. You’ll also easily see how the story continues in that moment.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I was right? Oh neat. I put the “j/k” disclaimer on the chance I may be wrong. It seemed as if there was more of a chance in Mexico since there were more people…and more vampires…and more zombies. I’m sure the “more zombies” element is what lead the Mexico vamps to leave.
I’m really wondering how they will survive. At this point, I have no clue.
As you’ve given away many spoilers, has anybody pieced together any big future plot elements yet? Yes or no is fine, you don’t have to give me spoilers.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:25 am
“If you read through all of the comments, though, which you obviously haven’t done, you can probably get a few big clues.”
I’ve read them all thank you very much ^^ And I see the clues, but still looks hopeless to me.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:36 am
hey Bobby,
i love the comic, and read all the posts here . so i have got to say one thing:
if you hope to ever make this into a movie, please either get an agent to represent you or for the love of god learn some tact.
some of your comments are downright rude, intended or not. you kinda remind me of a teach here at UNF, a brilliant but arrogant man who is always right.
that said, i really do love your comic, and i hope it only gets better.
kieran
May 18th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I love this comic, is so cool!
but I must say that kieran is right…
May 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am
“I’ve read them all thank you very much”
LOL, no you haven’t. Or you have the worst memory of anyone ever. Some quotes from you that prove this from your previous comment . . .
“So everyone in Mexico got killed then?”
At least a dozen times in the comments I’ve said that everyone in Mexico will die and that the people at the school will be the only ones left alive. This is why there have been so many long discussions in the comments about how less than 30 people could re-populate the human race.
“I know you don’t like to give too many spoilers . . .”
Tons of people complain constantly in the comments that I give away too many spoilers and say that they can’t read the comments anymore because of all the spoilers I give.
“And I see the clues, but still looks hopeless to me.”
You apparently don’t see the clues, then.
“some of your comments are downright rude, intended or not.”
I really don’t give a shit. What’s rude is when people act like they know everything about the story and then I correct their errors and then they act pissed off, as if they’re the one writing it.
“you kinda remind me of a teach here at UNF, a brilliant but arrogant man who is always right.”
Um, and does he ONLY EVER TALK ABOUT THE BOOK HE’S WRITING? How the fuck could I be anything other than right when I’m only talking about what’s really happening in the BOOK THAT I’M WRITING? This is laughably stupid.
“As you’ve given away many spoilers, has anybody pieced together any big future plot elements yet?”
Well there are several big future plot developments and people have guessed at some of the basics for those, but nothing too specific. At least one person in the comments a while back made a very good guess about the basics for the HUGE HUGE thing that will happen at the end, the one I’m not trying to spoil at all. I almost deleted it, but decided to leave it up, because it only hinted at the possibility of something, but didn’t see the whole picture of it. I told Mac in detail about this thing at the Golden Apple signing and how it leads into the sequels. If you read all the comments, though, someone should be able to figure it out.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Great comic Bobby, I’m sufficiently hooked.
And man you guys should leave Bobby alone lol, it’s pretty easy to see his comments that you consider “rude” and whatnot are from frustration, not from him being an arrogant jerk. Frustration from answering the same questions over and over and people making fairly ridiculous comments in regards to the story that HE is writing. Considering some of what I’ve read in the comments section of some of these pages I’d say he’s actually been painfully nice and accomidating.
Keep up the good work Bobby and Owen.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
well, its easy to see that unless Bobby sleeps with somebody in Hollywood, anything his name is attached to will never be made into a film.
andrew: i know what frustrasted is. its when you are stuck in floridian traffic, in summer in a minivan with no AC.
that circumstance doesnt not permit me to be a rude, childish asshole to those people around me.
oh, and bobby:
Um, and does he ONLY EVER TALK ABOUT THE BOOK HE’S WRITING? How the fuck could I be anything other than right when I’m only talking about what’s really happening in the BOOK THAT I’M WRITING? This is laughably stupid.
you screwed up on the issue of Jimmy’s mother. so you CAN be wrong, but you dont see the people here being a ass about it.
kieran
May 18th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Great cover.
I’m still wondering why teh zombiezz have glowing eyes. :/
Did you ever clarify? Or is it because they look neat?
May 18th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
This ‘fight’ will not lead to anything good.
Bobby may be missing some minor details.
Those errors are details that you can sometimes find in some comix – as for an example i’d give a scene from Thorgal (drawn by Rosinski, written by Van Hamme) where one dude’s left hand is choped off – and later you can see clearly that it reallly is the right hand that is missing.
These mistakes happen all the time.
But Bobby will always be right about the concept . You know why? Cause it’s his concept and he’ll always be right about it. I am really glad that he’s patient enought to answer to our questions over and over again.
I much prefer when he writes: “This can be found in previos comments”
over not writing anything, and having no feedback from Mr Crosby
so kieran, please stop those insults – and let’s all enjoy the comic…
… damn… that will be a long wait for another page.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
“But Bobby will always be right about the concept . You know why? Cause it’s his concept and he’ll always be right about it. I am really glad that he’s patient enough to answer to our questions over and over again.”
I agree with the above. This is his story that he worked on and that he’s sharing with other people for free. He’s also nice enough to answer questions, give away spoilers and READ all of his comments. He really cares about this, and as for minor discrepancies about Jimmy’s mom or whatever. Who cares?
There’s been really critical posts in the past about his writing, his concept, or anything else that people could pick apart. So seriously people, back off.
More comic enjoying, less fighting and general dickery.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
General Dickery is the name of the game online unfortunately, however we love you Bobby (Hmmm…. scary…) and most of us agree that it’s your concept to deal with how you like/want to. We ask questions because we’re curious about the world you’ve created and want to know (sometimes silly) details. Such as if TFZ dies does the rest of the zombie hoard become individuals again or dead or does leadership pass on to only the zombies that TFZ bit because now they don’t have anyone controlling them but the zombies that got bit by second+ generation zombies are still mindless. Ohhh… Zombie Wars. Yays!
May 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
“well, its easy to see that unless Bobby sleeps with somebody in Hollywood, anything his name is attached to will never be made into a film.”
LOL. Because I’ve acted rude at times to total morons like you??? Ha! You’ve apparently never heard of anyone who works in Hollywood, which the following quote from you proves –
“if you hope to ever make this into a movie, please either get an agent to represent you or for the love of god learn some tact.”
Yes, because AGENTS are SO NICE! It’s crazy how stupid you are. Also, it’s sad that Harvey Weinstein never got to make a movie because he was too rude.
“that circumstance doesnt not permit me to be a rude, childish asshole to those people around me.”
You’re hilarious. So what’s your excuse for acting like a rude, childish asshole right now???
“you screwed up on the issue of Jimmy’s mother. so you CAN be wrong, but you dont see the people here being a ass about it.”
Why the fuck would they be an ass about it when I instantly admitted that I was wrong about it and thanked Nara for pointing it out??? You apparently skipped that part??? Of course I could say wrong things about pointless little details at times, but if I’m REPEATING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN ABOUT SOMETHING MAJOR IN THE STORY it’s impossible for me to be wrong about it when I’m the one writing it. Some people are just crazy morons like you, though, and refuse to accept certain things, or they just want to be an asshole for fun, which is probably what you’re doing.
“I’m still wondering why teh zombiezz have glowing eyes. :/
Did you ever clarify? Or is it because they look neat?”
That was all Owen. Just looks neat.
“Bobby may be missing some minor details.
Those errors are details that you can sometimes find in some comix”
I made zero errors in the comics. I made one tiny error in the COMMENTS when answering a very minor question that almost every other writer would have skipped entirely.
Oranges: If TFZ dies, the zombies remain zombies, but simply can’t be controlled by him anymore. They’d still want BRAINS and such.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Bobby, your comic rocks. You guys are doing an awsome job, I just want to make sure you know that because some of these people need to back off. Don’t let them get to you, please. I love the comic.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Hi there – I was idly browsing the ‘links’ section (this way I look for new webcomics to read) and I am reading +EV right now… and I found this owesome inter-comic reference:
http://www.plusev.net/d/20070124.html
Some of your readers probably already found it – but I just wanted to share it with people who didn’t =D
I laughed my ass off!
Cheers!
May 19th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Boddy to be honest I sure it must be hard for you to have to answer things over and over again, but all I can say is you need to learn to be more polite. Your comments about my memory were downright rude and not needed. I’m disappointed.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:18 am
“Your comments about my memory were downright rude and not needed.”
I didn’t make a single comment about your memory and I have no clue who you are. I’m horrible with remembering names and I rarely even look at the names of who is commenting here. I just quote what they say and respond. And what’s much more rude and pointless is you wasting even more time here to say stupid shit like you just said.
“all I can say is you need to learn to be more polite.”
If any of your future comments involve pointless crap like that, they’ll be deleted. Just talk about the fucking comic and stop wasting all our time.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Your responce to my comment here:
“I’ve read them all thank you very muchâ€
LOL, no you haven’t. Or you have the worst memory of anyone ever. Some quotes from you that prove this from your previous comment . . .
Guess you have the worst memory of anyone ever… you made that reply only yesterday
May 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
“Guess you have the worst memory of anyone ever… you made that reply only yesterday”
Ah, you’re correct. I thought you were referring to something else I said about memory after that, which wasn’t to you specifically, but to just anyone in general who made me repeat stuff because their memory sucks. But why the hell are you so angry about me simply saying you have a bad memory when I should have just called you a liar? You just proved (I think) that your memory actually isn’t bad, so I guess you’re just being a jerk for fun by saying you’ve read them all when you either clearly didn’t or were intentionally making me repeat stuff that you already knew.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Ok your right, I can be a jerk. Like you, like anyone. So lets agree to disagree. At the end of the day this comic is great.
But if anyone I would highly recommend you throw together a basic HMTL FAQ page which the most basic questions on it, otherwise people will continue to ask you the most basic things.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Um, yeah –
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/05/11/page-52-no-fear/#comment-2866
And I think several times since that long paragraph about an FAQ I’ve said that I just don’t feel like doing it and think it would be a waste of time. Either way, though, almost certainly not going to do it until after page 110 or so.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
meh, don’t let his stupidity get to you, Bobby, you’re doing the best job of keeping a comic updated and the storyline going hole-free that I have seen in a very long time.
May 19th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Thanks. Nothing on these comments could ever get to me. Slightly annoying at worst. No big deal.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
While I know that this comic doesn’t draw too heavily on traditional vampire stereotypes, I would like to ask a few things.
In traditional vampiric folklore, there was almost always a “head vampire”. This was the one at the top, who originally started the conversion of humans to vampires. Any vampires turned by vampires he turned would be under his control as well. So if you kill the head vampire, the ones under him die as well. If this hold true for the vampires in this story, does it also hold true for the zombies, seeing as they are basically evolved vampires.
Another thing(though this ones a bit more obvious). In some portrations of vampires, they are basically dead bodies with a soul forcibly tied to them. They need to feed on blood because their bodies cannot produce it naturally. If this holds true for zombies, then wouldn’t they want the continuation of humans as well. So far as I have seen in this comic, they don’t feed on blood, and so arn’t tied by that restriction. the problem would be that they are “dead” and will therefore eventully decompose to the point that their bodies don’t hold together anymore.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
“If this hold true for the vampires in this story, does it also hold true for the zombies, seeing as they are basically evolved vampires.”
It doesn’t hold true for either of them. No head vampire. Also, ONLY THE FIRST ZOMBIE was ever a vampire or has any relation to vampires in any way. All the other billions of zombies are just regular zombies.
“If this holds true for zombies, then wouldn’t they want the continuation of humans as well.”
Only the First Zombie can actually think properly enough to want anything other than “braaaaiiiiins,” and his entire mission is based on killing all the humans to TORTURE THE VAMPIRES, to make them go through the same torture he went through for 65 years, and he controls the other zombies, so even if they would have wanted to keep the humans alive, he tells them otherwise, and they do what he wants.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I think the zombies just don’t care
May 19th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I think they’re brainless husks trying ta eat me lucky brainmeats…. BRAINMEATS!!! (I think sleep deprivation is fun)
May 20th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Oranges: “we love you Bobby (Hmmm…. scary…) and most of us agree that it’s your concept to deal with how you like/want to. We ask questions because we’re curious about the world you’ve created and want to know (sometimes silly) details”
Bobby: “Some people are just crazy morons like you, though, and refuse to accept certain things, or they just want to be an asshole for fun, which is probably what you’re doing.”
Alex: “Boddy to be honest I sure it must be hard for you to have to answer things over and over again, but all I can say is you need to learn to be more polite.”
Katticus: “meh, don’t let his stupidity get to you, Bobby, you’re doing the best job of keeping a comic updated and the storyline going hole-free that I have seen in a very long time.”
This is a really great comic, Bobby. We all really do love you. If we didn’t like the comic, we wouldn’t read it. I think the issue with these comment-battles between you and people who tell you you’re an ass is that you assume that they’re stupid, like a lot of stupid people that we know are out there. Therefore, any miscomment they say can be blown way out of proportion. We don’t really know you, Bobby. You don’t really know us. Any stupid thing we say, you could launch out and bite our heads off, because you don’t know if that’s just a brain lapse or a different side of the logic. (by the way, we’ll say a lot of stupid stuff, because we don’t know the story as well as you, no matter how many thousands of comments we read, you’ll still be the only expert)
But on our part, every time you jump out and bite someone’s head off, that’s all we get to see. We don’t get to see any of those moments where you patiently ignore the stupid people (there are WAY too many stupid people, so the rest of us just gotta learn to ignore them). Because you actually take the time to write the comic and respond to all of our comments, sometimes we forget how lucky we are for that, and, as is human nature, we focus on the negative part, your irritability with stupidity. Feel free to ignore my advice, but I suggest that whenever someone makes a stupid comment, you respond with something bland and impersonal, like “You are wrong. This has already been addressed. Please read previous comments if you would like to know why you are wrong.” When you go into detail about how wrong we are, it makes you sound like an ass. :p Plus, if you’re impersonal, not only will it tick whoever commented off, but it won’t make anyone else mad at you, because you did nothing wrong (and I’m not saying you do anything wrong now, it just looks that way sometimes from our POV)
Also, don’t get defensive when people post rude comments, because it just makes you sound like you’re wrong, whether you are or not. There is no defense comment that doesn’t sound defensive.
A lot of the people out there who say that the rest of us should just shut up and get off Bobby’s back, you have to remember, you don’t know us, either. We all (well, I do) love Bobby, too. Sometimes we just forget, and focus on the negative.
Please, Bobby, I’d rather you just ignored my advise than posted back how wrong my advise is. There are a lot of asses out there, but I’m not one of them, so please don’t think I am.
May 20th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Courtney, I don’t quite understand why you began your post with that quote from Oranges and then posted one from me, making it seem like mine was in response to his. My quote about a “crazy moron” acting like “an asshole for fun” was to Kieran, who previously called me a “childish asshole,” “an ass,” said that I’d never make a movie unless I slept with somebody famous, LOL, and compared me to some jerk teacher of his, among other things he called me.
“. . . but I suggest that whenever someone makes a stupid comment, you respond with something bland and impersonal, like ‘You are wrong. This has already been addressed. Please read previous comments if you would like to know why you are wrong.’ ”
That’s what I do basically every time, I think. Earlier on this very page I said, “I’ve gone over this in detail in previous comments and it’s a rather complicated thing. Feel free to search for such things.” When I respond in a more “rude” fashion, it’s to assholes like Kieran who say things that are a lot worse than just “stupid.” I’ve never acted rude on these comments to someone who didn’t act rude to me first.
“But on our part, every time you jump out and bite someone’s head off, that’s all we get to see.”
Our definitions of “bite someone’s head off” must be very different.
“When you go into detail about how wrong we are, it makes you sound like an ass.”
When I go into detail about how wrong someone is, it’s almost always in the process of answering their questions and giving them the info they wanted — it’s not just “how wrong they are.”
“A lot of the people out there who say that the rest of us should just shut up and get off Bobby’s back, you have to remember, you don’t know us, either.”
I don’t see why someone needs to “know” someone else so well to tell them that it’s an annoying waste of time to complain about me acting slightly rude at times to people like Kieran, someone whose comments would have been instantly deleted on almost any other site.
“There are a lot of asses out there, but I’m not one of them, so please don’t think I am.”
I doubt I’ll remember your name the next time you make a post, so no worries there. You could start a whole new identity with the same name even, if you wanted.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:44 am
I was just putting quotes. I didn’t mean for it to sound like you were calling Oranges anything. Anyone that’s read the comments can see that’s not how it happened. I was trying to make a point, but I forgot what it was, and I wasn’t trying to take anything out of context. I think I was just trying to say that people love you and hate you… or something like that…
And yeah, I know you *basically* say that when you respond. I just don’t think it’s worth your time to go into detail. What I meant was, you should be more bland with your comments. But then, I guess you can reply however you want.
May 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Hem-hem, more updates, less bickering!
May 21st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
“I must not tell lies.”
May 21st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Geez, I stop reading the new comments for a couple days and come back to see a few Flames smoking here and there.
Chill out dudes. The man is busting his ass to get this put together, and even a seemingly simple webcomic is anything but. There are a LOT of frustrating little details that will drive the producer/ writer of said webcomic to the point of pulling their hair out in clumps – and that’s BEFORE you add in trying to get it produced as a movie.
Or taking time out of your day to answer questions from the readers.
Yeah, I got a million questions. I also have a couple of ideas of where and how this is going to end up that are interesting enough that I don’t want to spoil the surprise(s).
I just hope the aces up the vampiric sleeves get played while there are still humans around to save.
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Question to the writer – are you going to be at any SciFi conventions this year? I know some people from CONvergence (Minneapolis, July 4 roughly) who might be able to get you in as a guest for some panels if you were interested…
May 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
“are you going to be at any SciFi conventions this year?”
Doubtful, but you never know. If I do, it will be later in the year probably. I’ll be going to the San Diego Comic-Con for at least a day, possibly more. Depends on a lot of things, mostly how well “Last Blood” sells, so call your local comic shops! The only way I’d conceivably go to CONvergence (first I’ve heard of it) is if “Last Blood #2″ gets like over 10,000 orders maybe (extremely high amount).
May 21st, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Sorry to hear it. Hope you get a lot of sales, but 10,000? Tall order there.
Give CONvergence a thought if/when you manage to get the movie underway. Apparently we are getting a very good rep with former guests of honor for making sure their time is pleasant.
Getting someone who has been through the meat grinder to get a movie made from the ground up would get quite a bit of interest.
Especially if the movie does well. ((crossing fingers))
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 am
Just wondering, are people going to chill for a while, and stop trying to take chunks out of one another’s egos? It’s not as much fun to wait for the artist to come back and start drawing webcomics…. but it doesn’t mean we’ve got to start bickering about eachother’s personalities, cumunication abilties and knowledge.
If you don’t like how Bobby says stuff, don’t read the comments. If Bobby doesn’t like people’s comments, ignore them… What you don’t know/think about, doesn’t hurt you….
Sorry if I appear patronising… it just wasn’t all that great to come back and see “A few Flames smoking here and there.”
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 am
“If Bobby doesn’t like people’s comments, ignore them…”
I ignore almost nothing, and it’s practically never just “comments I don’t like” — it’s people saying incorrect things about the story and/or asking direct questions about it, so I clarify/answer those things. Also, it’s a total waste of time to keep talking about other people’s arguments, which only adds to the “problem.”
“Just wondering, are people going to chill for a while, and stop trying to take chunks out of one another’s egos?”
They’ll do that a lot quicker without pointless questions like that bringing it up again.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 am
Few things to point out.
- Here in the forbidden havana there is also somebody who loves the comic.
- The story about this vampire guy who has made up most of the humans vaccines (sorry for my English) has suggested me something about the humankind / vampirekind origins.
how about the first people in earth was vampires, and they just came up the idea of “producing” a “sheep race” just to harvest their blood??? This way, this vampire doctor would be just a vet.
What I’m finding interesting is we humans always think of ourselves as if we were “the first”, and it does not need to happen.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
“(“So everyone in Mexico got killed then?â€
At least a dozen times in the comments I’ve said that everyone in Mexico will die and that the people at the school will be the only ones left alive. This is why there have been so many long discussions in the comments about how less than 30 people could re-populate the human race.)”
Oh Bobby, You can’t kill everyone in Mexico. I’m not saying you can’t kill the Mexicans, I just suggesting you let at least 2 or 3 survive Mexico and the plane crash so that someone can make some funny comment about illegal aliens and then have his eyes chewed out of his skull. Then Kill the rest of the Mexicans. I don’t care past the joke. But the Joke deserves respect. somehow.
PS. How do the zombies hunt? Do they need eyes or is it by scent? Or is it some crazy low level telepathy they can control that just urges them toward living flesh?
PPS. Do zombies eat apes? I was just thinking that Humans could re-evolve at point X in the future if they don’t. I know it’s not relevant to the scope of the story, but these are the thing that come out of my head.
PPPS. I went to a friends wedding this past weekend, and I must say that if zombies every took over for real, I would just drink myself into submission. Maker’s Mark is good.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:12 am
awesome cover
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:13 am
Yeesh. I didn’t miss anything important these last few days, it seems… Well timed moving, I suppose. >_>; Just got Internet turned on at my new place, so… Meh.
*Pats poor Bobby, then poor Courtney* Now, both of you play Nice, or uncle Mewt’s gonna have to get out the belt. ‘kay? ‘kay.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Also, to Vo, the nearest common ancestor to Humans and Apes is basically a little rat-sized thing vaguely resembled a lemer. Humans wouldn’t evolve out of apes. That’d be like saying that if Horses die, they’d re-evolve out of Zebras. A very close relative, but simply not the same thing.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 am
Mewt: I’ve decided to play nice. :p
raise ‘humans’ to get blood.
Plus, the concept of humans re-evolving out of apes was actually pretty cool, but I guess it wouldn’t work.
Maybe Addison Payne could just clone more humans after they died off, after the zombies were irradicated, kinda like JoeZ said, about vampires kinda ‘creating’ humans. Maybe they’d probably be immensly stupid and die easily, from the inbreeding and gene-manipulation inherently involved, but it’s worth a shot if they fail (but I suppose Bobby’s plan is that they DON’T fail, so this would kinda be irrelevant). Other than the problems I’ve already mentioned, would clones of humans really be such a bad idea? I mean, all the vampires need is their blood. They don’t have to be smart, they don’t have to be perfect, they just have to have healthy blood. Maybe in the future there will be vampiric blood farmers.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
Fun ideas, but, minor spoiler: None of that happens! No cloning.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Here’s a thought for those wondering about what the vampires have up their collective sleeves:
If Mr Payne really is the source of many of the medical advances in the last couple centuries, that ((most likely)) means that he has ((had)) access to an impressive amount of money, high end equipment, and covert resources.
This same super-genius lived through the Cold War and the Cuban Missle Crisis, which could easily scare the vampires into working as a group and pooling their rescources. Note that this took place after TFZ went into the coffin, so he would know nothing about it.
TFZ just hit so hard/fast that the vampires didn’t have time to implement whatever it is they came up with.
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Which does little or nothing to help the people in this story live through the next day ((except explain where all the equipment came from)), but for long term there are options.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 am
Woo! A plane! And goodluck to the suspicious looking arm that is clearly trying to find its’ mother. =) I luff this comic.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:37 am
The german “girl” again.
How can I get a copy of Last Blood? I doubt that it is selled in Germany or across Europe, istn’t it? I wish I could have one. *puppyeyes* Not for free of course. I think the shipping is quite expensive.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Hmm. You kinda do look like Greg. Saw him on a CSI rerun the other night… completely random, I know
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
ebay has copies.
So what about my Mexican jokes? Good idea huh? Please, Please, PLEASE! ‘Specially since I was the first to guess TFZ was a vamp. *attempting to pluck heartstrings*
Oh yeah, And you still didn’t answer how Zombies hunt. not to be demanding or a pain in the ass. I’m just genuinely curious.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Frauke: I believe Diamond distributes in Europe and probably in Germany, but I’m not sure. Please call your local comic book shop and ask them about it. The online ordering deadline for July books (“Last Blood #2″ and the re-release of “Last Blood #1″) is on May 29 on the Diamond web site for retailers. Get your local shops to order copies! Let me know what happens with that. I will have the books for sale on the site here at some point.
Vo: No Mexican joke! The zombies hunt by simply being attracted to noise and lights, activity, and by simply being such a massive army that they can scan large areas rather quickly by just walking around and searching everywhere for brains to consume. To hunt the last remaining people in the past couple weeks, they’ve of course used the First Zombie’s nose to guide them.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Geez, are there gonna be some more comics or should I remove LB from my bookmarks..?
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
it’s wednesday. *sets self up at computer with day’s worth of food and caffeine* *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* ………
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I do not usually comment on web pages but after reading the hundreds of comments left on this comic I just had to say that I appreciate the way Bobby endures all of you, and the fact that he takes time out of his day to answer every question even if it has been asked over and over.
It seems that you all have forgotten the concept of FICTION. It means that the story is a creation therefor is controlled by its creator and not by what you think. The only reality that exist is what the author decrees.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I just got back from Vegas and I’m behind on everything so the next page will have to wait a bit longer. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. I’ve got the script so I can start it whenever. Bobby is more interested in quality than frequency of updates so I’ll probably have to slow things down a bit in general. We’ll see though. I’d rather speed up if I could.
If zombies attacked the world I’d go to Las Vegas and have as mush fun as I could til the end of days.
For the record I don’t think anyone here is an idiot, just reading this comic in the first place makes you all non-morons by default.
Also TFZ is a real asshole to destroy the entire human race just to torture around 200 individuals don’t you think? Now that’s a villain! Crazy too. I wonder what the vamps did to him?
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
“I wonder what the vamps did to him?”
Read the e-mail I sent you on March 8!
“I’d rather speed up if I could.”
Gonna try to start getting you more pages than normal soon.
“Geez, are there gonna be some more comics or should I remove LB from my bookmarks..?”
Read the blog post below the comic, where it said no new page until “most likely” Wednesday (today).
May 24th, 2007 at 1:13 am
About the book selling in Europe: I’m from Portugal and my comic shop had no problems using the REVIEWS catalogue from Diamond to order LB. I just pointed out the comic, they looked it up and wrote it down on the computer.
Pronto! I’m happily waiting for the start of August (when they’ll assure me I’ll have the comics in my power)
May 24th, 2007 at 2:36 am
My next Comic Dealer might be in the next “big” City. The fomer capital of Germany Bonn. But I found something better:
http://shop.kauftcomics.de/previews/index.php?site=artikel&hersteller=77&rubrik=COMICS&osCsid=$osCsid
I’m glad that’s in English. I’d rather read the original.
Vo: I know that Ebay has copies, but not for Euopeans. Thanks anyway.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:10 am
*is sleep deprived* well, I guess it’ll update today, then, while I’m in class. *sadness* won’t get to see it before 6 pm… unless it’s updated later than that. In which case, I’ll see it the same time as everyone else.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
My guess right now is that it will be around midnight Pacific time for a regular Friday update, but I’m not sure.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
oh, okey-dokey then.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
100th comment.
Move along folks. Nothing constructive to see here.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Damn you, Maxwell!
Hope you had a good trip, Owen! Lots of booze and gambling and prostitutes!
Did you see Elvis?
Also, learn to read your own artistic done comic! There’s only 50 vampires that TFZ is torturing…
Right…?
…
SPOILERZ!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:35 am
102th comment.
No particular reason.
Bobby? What about blind, deaf zombies?
May 25th, 2007 at 7:45 am
To VO:
102nd… not 102th
Message:
Whoop 103rd, I love the comic, log in everyday hoping for my next fix, it’s absence only makes me want it more.
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May 25th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I’m surprised that Bobby and Owen take so much time reading and responding to the comments. It’s unusual that writers and illustrators are so open and giving to their readers.
So, for all the people giving Bobby a hard time, get over it. Leave him alone. He could totally do away with the comments section and keep us all out of the picture. is that what you folks want?
That would be like me writing Stephen King all the time and giving him pointers and BS that doesn’t matter. Do you think SK would bother?
dragonhouse
May 25th, 2007 at 9:31 am
{drumming my fingers ever so patiently} Is it midnight yet?
May 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Page is drawn. I sent it to Bobby 6 hours ago but He and Chris must be asleep. Since coming back from Vegas I sleep in 2 hour intervals for every 10 awake. I suspect I’ll be dead soon. I spent over 7 hours on this next page. I’m sure Bobby will still hate it though
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
“Also, learn to read your own artistic done comic! There’s only 50 vampires that TFZ is torturing…”
It’s possible that there were 200 vampires 65 years ago, though, which is the only number that would matter in terms of what Owen was talking about. It’s also very possible that there were 200 vampires a month ago. Remember how Math needed Val to save him a couple weeks back after he was basically paralyzed from not having any blood for two weeks? Not all vampires got saved, and many killed themselves like Val wants to. If the comic book series is a success, you’ll learn all the details about that stuff and about what Math did in the first month in upcoming prequels, so call every comic book shop you can. The online ordering deadline for retailers is May 29th for the July books (LB #2 and re-release of LB #1). Hit the phones.
“I’m sure Bobby will still hate it though”
If I like the first panel, I’m sure I’ll love the whole page. I’m assuming the second panel will look pretty cool.
Page should be up in around four hours.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Nope. Still not up yet. This page better be good after making me wait so long for a completely . . . free . . .
Keep up the good work!
May 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
“Nope. Still not up yet.”
I said it “should be up in around four hours” only two hours ago.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
it’s been three hours now, one left!
May 25th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
edit: sorry, read the time wrong, didn’t see the 56. only two hours. my bad.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
112nd. I’ll do it my way, you do it yours. =P
December 11th, 2007 at 6:35 am
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!