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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
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September 23rd, 2007 at 9:59 pm
YAY FIRST COMENT
Yay there is mac and airplain full with vampires this is gonna be biggest fight in history: I mean Zombies VS Vampires and Humans.
Cant wait till I see the airplain crash.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Sorry for the second post but it looks like Lord of The Ring The two Towers.
I wonder what that big squere behind macs truck scotch? Resources? Guns?
Yup NOA IDEA WHAT THAT MIGHT BE
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
It’s the trailer he had from the start –
http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/01/12/page-9-scotch-and-porn/
You can also see a little more on that in my sketch by voting here.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Hah! The airplane scene!
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Holy crap, so many Zombies! They going to need an army to take that lot on. Can’t wait to see how the humans and Vamps get out of this one.
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Aaw, Grady’s such a nice guy. Nobody seems to like MM, but he stays up there with him.
Dunno why people don’t like him, I think he’s kinda cool.
(( Yeh, I know that Grady’s on the lookout, but it’s still nice of him to bare with MM..
*LeGasp* It was Grady’s fault that little Jimmy died! He gave him the gun, and MM called out to him for help beacouse he saw the gun!
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Hm, finally, the airplane scene.
Man, Devian’s a stick.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Love the comic so far.
To bad only US residents can download from that WOWIA thing.
Belgian reader here
Keep up the good work!
September 24th, 2007 at 12:57 am
This is going to be good.
though I worry if the vampires are going to start fighting over the humans to get some last drink of blood when the battle is over.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:04 am
nah all the vamps need is like 2 pints a day and theres about 30 humans so it could be all fine
September 24th, 2007 at 1:52 am
This one is very good, can’t wait until the next pages…..
September 24th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Oh man, oh man… I think i just crap my pants! =P
As I said earlier - I love the update rate, and I absolutely love the way Grady is drawn on this page! Yaaay for Owen!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:16 am
INCOMING!!!!!
September 24th, 2007 at 5:22 am
awesome
September 24th, 2007 at 6:10 am
when they come streaming in from the darkness that looks to be more than 4000 zombies ..that controlling vampire has a bit of theater in him it seems …ahh good to see mustache man survived his “therapeutic” dismemberment treatment … but to leave him up there all alone with the lookout might be inviting trouble….. and the condition of the roads has gone down since the fall of civilization ..that truck and trailer is bouncing all over the place..how many points is a zombie anyways… flyover country,where the sound of jet planes are 35000 feet or higher are not often heard …i’d give mustache man the binoculars and head downstairs …fast.. just to get the warning out..not that i was running or anything like that..lol..
September 24th, 2007 at 6:49 am
all i can say is….wow.
and oh shit!
September 24th, 2007 at 7:23 am
“nah all the vamps need is like 2 pints a day and theres about 30 humans so it could be all fine”
It’s only safe to donate 1 pint blood every 56 days according to the Red Cross. 3 vampires plus the Marine vet if he counts equals to 8 pints a day, leading to less than a 4 day cycle of humans, which means the vampires are totally fucked in less than a week.
I haven’t even counted the vampires in the flying plane.
And Mexico is a far distance away.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:56 am
“and the condition of the roads has gone down since the fall of civilization ..that truck and trailer is bouncing all over the place..”
That’s not the condition of the roads, that’s the condition of the pedestrians. One or two pedestrians might not make a truck bounce much, particularly if it’s loaded down. But a few thousand? Think of them as fleshy, hungry speed bumps.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:11 am
My first thought on seeing the comic was “aw, MM didn’t die”. I think i’m slowly turning into a sadistic psycho.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Achrin: I think it’s only like, 50 points for a zombie. They are already dead. But there is the splatter factor, so maybe it is higher.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Finally! Here comes Addison Payne and the rest of the calvary. I hope they brought a lot because they’re gonna need the numbers!
September 24th, 2007 at 9:47 am
As Linden Ashby said in Resident Evil: Extinction: “That was a juicy one!”
September 24th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I love the busy windscreen wipers detail. You can’t see much, but I can imagine the zombie body parts being pushed away
September 24th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I hope Mac has some mini guns. They realy gonna need some those guns and I hope Mac has enough of SCOTCH for evry one.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
judging by your spoilers on the previous page, can I guess that the new living relative is Murdo, and now that he becomes a vamp TFZ doesn’t kill off all the humans cause then he’d go through the whole TFZ process?
September 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Vampires don’t need anywhere near two pints a day to stave off becoming a schaemiac. They need more like one tablespoon every two weeks for that, but it’s all a matter of how strong they’ll be and how much pain they’ll be in. If they had like one tablespoon per day they’d probably not feel any hunger pains (schaemiac pains), but they’d be very weak, probably not even as strong as a human, not all that helpful in a big fight against thousands of zombies. They probably need something like half a pint a day to be at full strength.
SPOILER BELOW THIS POINT
Will: Yes, it’s Murdo, but that won’t affect TFZ’s decision at all. He hates all vampires, family or not.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
omgwtflolroflbbq!
that’s going to own zhe zombie bitchaz!
(ok, sorry for the spelling, but this is really really going to own XD)
i hope mac will turn the car early enough
September 24th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Pity they don’t have heavy artillery mounted on the school roof. Then they could’ve just fired mortar rounds into their midst.
Hagis: I think they put MM up there in case he goes zombie that way Grady can shoot him before he can get to anyone else instead of him being in the middle of a group of kids.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
hhmm……….iwonder if that plane has cluster bombs…..
or a ac-130 behind it
September 24th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
About fighting the zombies: It’s quite pointless at this point, as Math explained. Nothing’s going to stop them except TFZ. Keep in mind that this is just the first wave and that Math said MILLIONS will arrive by tomorrow. All the zombies in the Americas are headed straight for them. Hundreds of millions. Victory is impossible.
BIG SPOILERS –
(It’s not impossible, and you’ll see how they win in about 25 pages, but it’s certainly not from a basic military standpoint. And no, it’s not from TFZ stupidly deciding to just let them live either. Something entirely different.)
September 24th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
This is amazing. I just found it today, and I couldn’t stop reading. I’ll be checking it out from now on
September 24th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Bobby, Is it gigantic ravenous maggots? Please say it’s gigantic ravenous maggots! Controlled by Chuck Norris!
PS I just read the “Frightful Four” arc in Ultimate Fantastic Four. That’s why I like maggots as a weapons against zombies.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
No way to hold off that many zombies, TFZ probably not stopping the horde, no humans anywhere else on the planet to suddenly come out of the woodwork guns blazing to spirit our plucky heoes away to safety…
Hopefully no little green men from Mars either.
Hmmm.
Assuming some (hopefully most) of the humans survive, how could it be done?
The only things that come to mind at the moment are a zombie-only disease or some trick that is so repellent to zombies that even TFZ can’t get them to attack through it.
Killing TFZ isn’t enough at this point. The horde is moving, and might still keep moving the same direction if he got vaporized.
Can’t wait to find out.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I’ll say that it’s possible to guess it, but that I highly doubt anyone will. It’s not some crazy totally different thing. It’s simply different from the vampires and humans fighting their way to victory or from TFZ giving up.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Can i say it first?
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! =)
September 24th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
kickassnessoscity
in your sketch is that the school thats gonna be used in the movie!?
September 24th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
If I were to film it myself, yes.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Hey, I have a question >_> Can I translate “Last Blood” to Spanish?
September 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Sure, do it.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
i got it! a weird time loop happens,and the Master Cheif from halo comes to save them! they are nothing compared to the flood. just give hime a gun and a sword,theyre all dead!i can dream,cant i?
September 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Perfect! I’ll contact you as soon as I translate a few pages.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
“fighting is pointless”
WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
sorry, first thing I thought of.
heh, I’m such a trekkie…
Yays! There’s gonna be splodey’ plane and lotsa pretty shiny flames!
Hyshinara, Bobby said on the day they had the cover with the plane diving into the zombies that mac had gotten inside “just a few minutes” ahead of the plane crashing, so no worries.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
“mac had gotten inside ‘just a few minutes’ ahead of the plane crashing”
It’s much closer now, as you’ll see on the next page, which might be up tonight (tomorrow at the latest probably).
September 24th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Well…looks like lopping off an arm will stave off becoming a vampire. Well played MM…
Now all that needs to happen is to have his other hand become infected, then his right leg…and his left…
September 24th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
“looks like lopping off an arm will stave off becoming a vampire.”
#1, it’s a zombie, and #2, no, it won’t stave off becoming a zombie either. It hasn’t been 24 hours yet.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Master Chief wouldn’t be able to carry enough bullets for this group of enemies.
I think Moustache Man is still infected, and probably drunk to the gills or drugged up on painkillers. Here’s hoping he gets puhed off the roof in the upcoming fight by accident.
***
Can’t win by fighting and TFZ won’t give up. The temptation to play the guessing game is irresistable.
For something out of left field, how about this: If TFZ hates vampires so much how would he react to something that CURED them all and made them human again? No more vampires, no more reason to kill off the human race.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
SPOILERS –
Brellchild: That’s one important aspect to the story, but it’s not the huge thing that saves the humans. The “cure” actually comes at the very end, after they’ve already won the battle.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I kinda figured the uber-medic probably had figured out anything and everything about the vampiric condition by now. A cure *is* one of the most obvious avenues of research that he would pursue - if only to be able to STOP someone else from revoking his own immortality.
Mind you, it will take some explaining to have his personal labratory or medical storage facility survive when everything else has been destroyed.
Here’s an odd couple questions I am not sure if anyone has asked (my apologies if they have) - If someone becomes a ‘First Zombie’ how long can they survive in that new state, and do they have the choice of NOT starting a zombie horde?
September 24th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
“Mind you, it will take some explaining to have his personal labratory or medical storage facility survive when everything else has been destroyed.”
This doesn’t make any sense. Everything else has been destroyed? TFZ is trying to kill everyone on Earth, not destroy every building on Earth. And when you’re a vampire like Addison Payne and almost everyone on Earth is dead, you can go and take whatever laboratory you want and use anything you want.
“If someone becomes a ‘First Zombie’ how long can they survive in that new state, and do they have the choice of NOT starting a zombie horde?”
Of course they have a choice, yes — they retain full mental capacity. Their brain works the same way it did before when they were a vampire. And they can survive in that state for forever. Answered both of these before, just to let you know.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Thanks for answering everyone’s questions and for giving us this awesome comic to read! I have a crazy fear of zombies but I cannot stop checking for updates everyday. Your story telling and Owen’s art combine beautifully.
I’ve only been to a comic shop once but I will definitely call and ask them to carry Last Blood!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Sorry bout this…
Here come da boom!
Yes.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:56 am
So, if their mind still works the same as before they become a schaemiac, why would it be so dangerous for a vampire (who doesn’t want to see the world burn down, and then jump up and down on the ashes) to become one? I mean, if they didn’t already hate everyone and everything, and become a schaemiac by accident, why would they choose to create a zombie horde?
Seriously, if a vampire in a vampire community started to starve, other than mercy regarding the next 65 years followed by eternity as a rotting corpse, what reason would there be to kill them? With people like Adison Payne around, surely they’d hope for a cure to be developed eventually that could return their friend to the way they were.
As for my guess as to how they live through the night, it could be that Payne found a cure for becoming a schaemiac, something to reverse the process, but that seems unlikely. They could find and kill TFZ, and to be honest, with Math around I’m confused as to why they haven’t yet. (If he can smell everything living within a few hundred miles, why can’t he smell someone lurking around the corner?)
My money is on anti-zombie virus. Or, a virus that targets vampires (assuming that the virus that causes vampirism doesn’t really change much, if at all, when a vamp becomes a schaemiac) which would give them a reason to cure themselves of vampirism at the end. (Since they currently have a supply of willing food sources.)
September 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
“So, if their mind still works the same as before they become a schaemiac, why would it be so dangerous for a vampire (who doesn’t want to see the world burn down, and then jump up and down on the ashes) to become one?”
It’s not “dangerous” — it’s TORTURE. It’s 65 years of insanely horrible pain. It’s the worst torture imaginable. Math described on Page 32 how bad the pain was for just two weeks, but it gets a lot worse than just that even.
Math obviously can’t smell TFZ — that’s another advantage to being a schaemiac — can’t be smelled yourself.
“My money is on anti-zombie virus.”
A virus will not be involved in any way in terms of how they survive. It’s nothing simple like that. As I said, it’s something very tough to guess, but possible. It’s not going to be anything that you could imagine many other people also guessing, like a virus.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I meant dangerous for the rest of the world.
So if it’s not a virus, and it doesn’t involve fighting the horde, the only real plot device left is TFZ. So do they kill or cure him? I would suggest someone appealing to the shreds of his humanity, but that’s just a little too cliche.
I just had a funny thought from a bad old zombie movie… anyone who has seen it will recognize the quote… “Send more paramedics.”
September 25th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
“So if it’s not a virus, and it doesn’t involve fighting the horde, the only real plot device left is TFZ. So do they kill or cure him?”
#1, do you actually believe that killing or curing TFZ is something that wouldn’t be easy to guess? #2, I’ve already said multiple times in this page of comments that he doesn’t give up and let them live. #3, just to be clear, no, killing or curing TFZ has nothing to do with how they survive. #4, there are many plot devices left.
To repeat, if you actually do guess what it is, it’s going to be a big revelation where you go, “Wow, I wonder if it could be THAT!” It’s not going to be “Oh, they just kill TFZ, right?” or “Oh, they just make some cure or virus, right?” No, not gonna be anything like that, so it’s pointless to guess simple/obvious things like that.
I suggest reading this great screenwriting column about endings –
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp13.The.Big.Finish.html
In the movie it will have been set-up a little better, but I believe the ending of “Last Blood” will be decisive, set-up, inevitable — and unexpected. And as Terry Rossio says, that’s not easy to do.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I’d say ‘Scheamic#2′, but I’m pretty sure that’s been discredited before…
September 25th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I think it got stated somewhere that Scheamics can only control their own zombies and/or the people killed and turned into zombies by same.
Having a second Zombie Master show up seems too easy. I also thing TFZ would have noticed unless the other Zombie Master was being incredibly sneaky.
(There’s a zombie movie idea - two opposing groups of zombies competeing to be the ones who get to kill and eat our plucky band of heroes…)
Curing or killing TFZ wouldn’t stop the oncoming horde, and curing/ killing the zombies by the means thus far stated have been shot down. Tricky part is guessing what could possibly affect that many targets without affecting the humans in the school or the vampires protecting them.
It also has to be within the stated or explainable capabilities of the anti-zombie forces. Hmmm. An interesting puzzle.
If someone manages to guess right do they get a lollypop?
September 25th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
what if…they evacuate the humans via a bunch of helicopters or something, and then nuke the school with all those zombies there?
And they wouldnt be able to use the airplane because youd need to land on top of the school or somewhere, no time for runways.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
hey Nekokaburi,
i think thats revenge of the lving dead 2.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Oh man. Oh man. This comic is awesome, you know it could be a tornado, cause that could like just wipe out all the zombies on the ground by just throwing them around or something.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
kieran: the first one, actually. except here it’s return, rather than revenge.
Still, you get a cookie. They did re-use some quotes in the second one, but that wasn’t one of them.
So no killing, no curing, no convincing TFZ to bugger off and leave them alone… that leaves what? Hiding their smell so he can’t find them? (Could that be why Sullivan’s tunnel smelled like garlic? So Math couldn’t smell them till they came out from under the stage in the gym?) Nah, TFZ’d have to be pretty stupid to fall for that one…
Seriously, you’ve stated that they won’t kill him, won’t cure him, and he won’t change his mind. What does that leave? Breaking his control over the horde? Hiding their scent so he can’t find them? (As if he’d fall for that. Although it makes me wonder why Sullivan’s tunnel smelled like garlic. So Math couldn’t smell the zombies coming as easily, perhaps?)
The only thing that’s really been set up about the ending so far (That I can recall from the comic, at least. I may have missed something in early spoiler comments, but then a lot of the spoiler stuff has changed lately.) is Math and Val thinking TFZ is Sullivan, and April being related to him/having to save them all, although spoilers given in recent comments have said that TFZ isn’t sullivan, and that Murdo’s the relative, but that it isn’t going to change anything.
Here’s a few questions that may have been asked before… Is vampirism hereditary? Can vampires have children with each other? With humans? And, depending on the answer to each of those questions, what happens if they have kids?
September 25th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I shall guess something so out in left field that it’s on the other side of the parking lot…
All the zombies’ cells commit apoptosis. (wikipedia it and look in the 2nd section)
of course this is highly improbable and most likely impossible because apoptosis is such a similar idea to a disease. However, I felt the need to say something stupid, and direct attention to an inside joke a friend and I have, so I did.
(if you edit wikipedia and are irritated by that, I apologize to you. Feel free to edit it out- ’twas stupid whimsy.)
September 25th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
My only guess would be another TFZ. Say Vampire 1 hates all life on Earth, creates a plan to destroy it, but is found out by either another Vampire or one of those pesky humans. If said other party attempts to expose or stop the Vampire from becoming a TFZ, would it not be in the realm of possibility that if Vampire 1 caught them instead of just killing the pest, he would cause them at least 65 years of torment, Sure they could escape eventually, but before the point of no return?
Perhaps Sullivan has yet another part to play in this masterpiece. Only time will tell…
Great story. Btw
September 25th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
“Seriously, you’ve stated that they won’t kill him, won’t cure him, and he won’t change his mind.”
I have not stated ANY of those things, dammit. I’ve only stated that none of those things would be what saves them.
“What does that leave?”
A TRILLION THINGS. Please stop guessing. You’re never going to get it and it’s a little annoying when you misquote me and act like nothing could possibly work.
“Although it makes me wonder why Sullivan’s tunnel smelled like garlic. So Math couldn’t smell the zombies coming as easily, perhaps?”
I’ve explained this in the comments before. Not going to fully repeat it now, but the garlic smell was put in there long before the zombie outbreak began 31 days ago.
“Can vampires have children with each other? With humans? And, depending on the answer to each of those questions, what happens if they have kids?”
Devian’s comments on Page 66 basically confirm that vampires have vampire children. I do not know at the moment if vampires can have children with humans or what they’d be like if they did. Doesn’t come into play any time soon.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:29 am
“I have not stated ANY of those things, dammit. I’ve only stated that none of those things would be what saves them.”
Everything I’ve been talking about HAS BEEN ABOUT what saves them. In the end they have to do something to remove TFZ from the picture or render him harmless, but neither of us were talking about that. Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough in the third post about the topic, but I didn’t think it was necessary to say “survive to the end” on every third line.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Friggin awesome how the wipers are being used in panel 3. I can only imagine the blood wash , haha.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:52 am
THIS IS THE BEST PAGE SO FAR!
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Y’know, maybe you should stop telegraphing your most dramatic comments. There’s a reason commercial comic covers are either vague or have nothing to do with the contents. (But don’t do that 2nd one - it’s annoying :P)