Page 10: Open Wide
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This page kicks some serious ass. Anyone who complains about anything in the comments for this page should just kill themselves. Great job by Owen on this page. For the past few pages Owen’s been following my sketches almost exactly, and it’s pretty cool to compare them side by side, so I suggest checking that out –
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THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE FULL OF SPOILERS NOWADAYS. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Wow, this page was well worth the wait, in my opinion. Looks great. Also, I would pay to watch a movie like that.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Movies…Smovies.
This is a TV mini waiting. HBO.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
God I was dying for this. It’s awesome!!!!
June 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Damn cool page, and thanks for updating again.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
This fall the movie you’ve all been waiting for: “RAGE: KICKING ASS AND BEING AWESOME!!!1!” Also the reports of zombies attacking civilians are just silly.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
One must agree with this comment: Owned.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Oh my, a wonderful surprise!
Artwork is amazing - though I find that right zombie has a lot of teeth… It could be just me.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Pure unadulterated win! Welcome back
June 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
finnaly, sweet ja-hose-a-phats its here
June 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
awesome is the best word i can use
June 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Great page keep up the superb work. How often do you update?
June 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
DAMMIT!
Slow Down!
I’m not done with page 9 yet…
June 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
All right!
Oh, but Rage, you will be in a movie, hopefAll right, new page.
Go Bobby: write those awesome storyboards.
Go Owen: draw that incredible art.
Oh, but Rage, you will be in a movie, hopefully before everyone dies…
Is that Rage’s blood, or the zombies? It looks redder than half decomposed zombie blood. Basically, is rage drinking his own blood?
Would a vampire get any extra benefit from another vampire’s blood.
(Maybe I should start signing
Inquisitively yours, Sci Guy
again)
June 17th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
oh, hey, sorry for the weird cut and paste effect, ignore repeated line (the first time)
June 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Are those the zombie’s brains that rage’s holding or is that just his fist with a bit gray on them?
June 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Thanks so much for the new page. This comic is great!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Shock..Gasp..Drool..Faint.. Marry me Rage!! <3 <3 juat awsome guys
June 17th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I just thought of something about the movie, Bobby, if you want to get vampire movie fans to actually not complain about the vampire’s being out in sunlight you need to have an explanation as to why, like say that they could always walk in sunlight but their powers are enhanced at night, or that someone created a cure for their “allergy” or something. Also do the zombie in this series classic “Romero” zombie that shamble, or do they run, I’m not too clear on that part otherwise good work Bobby.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
“about the vampire’s being out in sunlight you need to have an explanation as to why”
Definitely don’t need that, no.
“Also do the zombie in this series classic ‘Romero’ zombie that shamble, or do they run, I’m not too clear on that part otherwise good work Bobby.”
That’s been answered in the comic itself, and answered in the comments 3,000 times. It’s a complicated answer obviously. Someone else will now try to answer it for you and get it either slightly or majorly wrong, then another person will try to correct them and also be at least slightly wrong, then eventually I’ll be forced to repeat the actual answer.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
God damn. Rage just steps the awesome up another level on every page he’s in.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I’d pay to see that movie!
June 17th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Wow… that was officially the best Rage quote EVER.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
i guess rage missed the active parts of the zombies brains cause they are still bright eyed … although some (soon to be dead) wishy/washy/sniffle/snaffle director type would try to tone him down a bit or try to add some romantic nonsense into the movie it would make for a nonstop action film… literally non-stop
June 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
ALRIGHT!
A MOMENT LIKE THIS SOME PEOPLE WAIT A LIFE TIME FOR A MOMENT LIKE THIS OH I CANT BELIEVE ITS HAPPENING TO ME!…some people wait a life time for a moment…like this.
P.S.luke i have 3 talents shadow puppets,magic,and singing…..
one uped ya bitch
June 17th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
So. Damn. Worth. The. Wait.
Much win in this indeed.
I would pay to see the movie! If everyone wasn’t dead.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
EEEEEEEEEEEE!
Oh. My. God. I love Rage. Scratch that. I love YOU Bobby and Owen!
Excellent artwork and hilariously written. Well played my good sirs.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:08 am
“Also do the zombie in this series classic ‘Romero’ zombie that shamble, or do they run, I’m not too clear on that part otherwise good work Bobby.”
When they were under control by the schaemiac WLB, the zombies could perform any task any human could do. Run, Climb, drive, fly a plain, use equipment, dance cossack.
After being “released” they can still run, you see that in panel http://www.lastblood.net/main/2007/11/30/page-106-nowhere-to-run
where they are running around the corner of the school, to catch the protagonists and their companions after jumping out a window.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Finally another page. Mr Crosby and Mr Gieni - I salute you!
June 18th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Just Rage doing what he does best… be completely and utterly awesome…
also gross Rage! That’s got zombie cooties all over it! Course… not like you care… Ha!
June 18th, 2008 at 7:35 am
HELL YEAH! Rage for the king of universe!
June 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am
WHATS STOPING US NOW! *pulls out camera.*
June 18th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Yay! Update!
June 18th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The awesomeness!!
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAAAANNND!!
June 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Rage = pure, unadulterated awesomesauce(tm) drizzled with hazelnuts and honey. Mmmmm.
Ben, as to the zombies *looks about furtively* don’t tell anyone else what I’m about to tell you. The zombies much prefer to move about in a moonwalk style, a la Michael Jackson, or basically any type of move like the “Thriller” video. The shambling/stumbling/running, etc., is just a cover; as soon as they are “off camera” so to speak? They go back to dancing. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. Just between you and me, OK?
June 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am
YAY PAGE!!!! Love the punching through the skulls
June 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I’ve never understood why Zombies’s eyes glow.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Yay! This page was definitely worth the wait.
Not that I’d wanna wait another month again, hint hint.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
YEAY! Luv it, ur great!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
DOUBLE BRAIN UPPERCUT!!!
decent.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWSOME
Totally wasnt expecting this but at the same time i sure as hell needed it
guys keep up the good work and keep the badassery coming
June 18th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Ben: “I just thought of something about the movie, Bobby, if you want to get vampire movie fans to actually not complain about the vampire’s being out in sunlight you need to have an explanation as to why, like say that they could always walk in sunlight but their powers are enhanced at night,”
Math explained that vampires can walk around during the daytime in the first Graphics Novel already. Heck… even in ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, vampires can be out in the day - this isn’t exactly new ground to say that vampires can be out in the daytime.
Oh it was also in Mighty Max. You know, the cartoon about that kid with the hat that makes portals, the warrior Norman, and that Lemurian chicken guy?
Cmon I’m not the only one who watched that cartoon.
“Also do the zombie in this series classic “Romero” zombie that shamble, or do they run,”
Zombies do run in some of the later Romero movies, actually. I think they ran in Dawn of the Dead. Also zombies run in Resident Evil, and the ‘hard science fiction’ version of zombies run -really- fast in ‘I Am Legend’
But that movie sucked.
Bobby’s won’t.
Katy: I was going to mention the zombie dancing thing but you stole my thunder.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:04 am
“Also zombies run in Resident Evil, and the ‘hard science fiction’ version of zombies run -really- fast in ‘I Am Legend’”
I thought the things in “I Am Legend” were unconventional versions of vampires, not zombies.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:06 am
The I am legend things were vampires. If you get the original book, I think it is last man on earth. They have the holy symbol and all other vampire weakness, but the author never called them vampires. Dawn of the dead did have running vampires but only in the remake. In the original three movies the best they could do was a fast stiff legged walk while they were after someone to eat. The remake of dawn has runners but Romero didn’t make that one.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:51 am
“I thought the things in “I Am Legend” were unconventional versions of vampires, not zombies.”
Depends on which version of I am Legend you’re talking about. The infected have elements of both ‘Zombie genre’ and ‘vampire genre’. The vampire part is the whole ‘only coming out at night’ aspect. Most of the rest is a hard science fiction version of a zombie story. It’s ‘classified’ as a vampire story, but even the author claimed that the infected were heavily influenced by the zombie genre. Also most zombies movie creators have referred to I Am Legend as a zombie movie, including George Romero. In “The Last Man on Earth”, the writers went with a more zombie approach to the infected. 28 Days later and 28 Weeks Later went a similar ‘hard science fiction’ zombie route.
Most of the aspects of the infected share zombie traits - a lack of survival instinct, single-mindedness, radical change to a feral state. Vampires, traditionally, are much more of a ‘thinking’ monster while zombies are usually seen as lacking higher thought processes.
Wow… all that and I didn’t write one thing that was funny. I’m slipping.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Zombies can have “higher thought processes”. Often, movies make references to the infection causing changes to the brain structure or chemistry… hence the changing of the eyes which are directly connected to the brain. There are a dozen references all over the place, but I did not feel like searching and making a list.
Vampires and zombies in very early times were often seen as one and the same anyway. There was no difference between the undead until people began to romanticize vampirism. I think the whole romaticism of it was to draw interest away from shapeshifters and lycanthropy which have been historically more popular except in the very post modern era. Vampires even claimed the traits of shapeshifters after the period which they were romanticized. That is when vampires became more commonly known as “The Stranger” instead of “Undead”. Vampires are essentially more creative, and more romanticized zombies.
Here is the basics of both vampires AND zombies. You get infected or cursed (sometimes through infection), and you die; then you rise from the dead and need to feed on the living to remain animated. You body undergoes changes/mutations. With enough effort and force of will, higher brain function is possible. (remember that a starving vampire and/or new born vampire usually has no more reasoning than the need to feed… after feeding they gain the willpower to have higher thought processing).
The SciFi show Sliders even satired how vampirism and zombie can be practically one type of creature. A diet drug turned every into vampire/zombies that exhibited qualities of both and often had higher reasoning if intelligent or willpowered enough. Even I am Legend and Romero’s zombies could reason through training and observation… just like a child… essentially you get reset to childhood and have to relearn how to act like a human. It just takes willpower… and people often do not show an abundance of willpower. (look at how many people can’t stop themselves from eating, drinking, or smoking)
June 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
…side note. Did anyone else notice that one of the zombies (lower left frame, the right one) seems to be scared? Or is he supposed to have a mest up jaw perhaps.
I dunno, his facial features just seems to make it look like he’s scared to me. And if thats true, why is he scared and the others not? Can zombies even be scared?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I think it’s funny how people like to talk about the “characteristics” of Zombies and Vampires, as if they are real.. some of you have even gone through some trouble to even site references that are made of mostly old sci-fi/Horror movies and or books.
I think the more important thing to state here is that a Zombie/Vampire can really do whatever the writer wants it to do.
Sure there are some base characteristics that we as an audience have grown to accept, but Let’s just remember that this is a comic being written by someone who has gone out of there way to give in to his imagination and even changed his mind on several occasions about his “world of zombies and vampires” in order to tell his story.
But some of you need this type of information in order to enjoy your entertainment. some how to make these “fake” things fit in to what you accept as being real. So here is my 2 cents about zombies being afraid…If it were real..ha ha ha….then the base instinct to eat would imply that they are being brought down to animal instinct..therefore, the need to survive..sure a zombie would recognize a threat to itself just like it recognizes a food source…anyways…who care….not real…..
June 19th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Andrew: I think it’s more of a stunned look than a scared one.
In reference towards everyone’s explanations of Zombies and Vampires and such, remember that both are fictional, and that neither creature has been “copyrighted” or “trademarked” by one person or group. They are subject to change based on the author’s needs and/or direction of the story. In this case, Zombies and Vampires are one in the same. In other cases, Vampires and Zombies are extremely differentiated by physical/mental capabilities and characteristics.
There is no “set” explanation for them. Only what others have seen or imagined for their own purposes. One may claim one explanation to be better than another, but the fact of the matter is, it might not be worth a thing to the person writing the story.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
awesome page but I would prefer to see what happened to the others, and I really really really want to see what happened to AFP and sofia
June 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Were you whining during “The Two Towers” and “Return of the King” whenever they were focusing on your non-favorite characters?
June 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Zevais: “Zombies can have “higher thought processes”. Often, movies make references to the infection causing changes to the brain structure or chemistry… hence the changing of the eyes which are directly connected to the brain. There are a dozen references all over the place, but I did not feel like searching and making a list. ”
I demand a list or I think you are fibbing.
“Vampires even claimed the traits of shapeshifters after the period which they were romanticized. That is when vampires became more commonly known as “The Stranger” instead of “Undead”. ”
Um…. vampires have had shapeshiting abilities of The Rat, the Bat, The Wolf, The spider, The Mist for quite some time actually. Funny thing - they had something about that on SciFi’s “The Scariest Places on Earth” last night. Had this freaky lady’s voice narrating all about Transylvanian customs which have gone back hundreds of years. They seemed to think the two are quite different creatures. You going to argue with actual transylvanians? hmm? They’re from freakin’ transylvania, man!
“You body undergoes changes/mutations.”
I think I had this talk when I was 10 and I asked where babies come from.
“With enough effort and force of will, higher brain function is possible. (remember that a starving vampire and/or new born vampire usually has no more reasoning than the need to feed… after feeding they gain the willpower to have higher thought processing).”
I demand references!
“The SciFi show Sliders even satired how vampirism and zombie can be practically one type of creature.”
Ah… a reference. That marine girl was hot. Not Wade. Her replacement. Rowr. Especially in that episode where they ripped off the movie “Species”. Double rowr.
“A diet drug turned every into vampire/zombies that exhibited qualities of both and often had higher reasoning if intelligent or willpowered enough.”
True fact. Diet drugs do turn people into zombies. That atkins guy didn’t stay dead.
“Even I am Legend and Romero’s zombies could reason through training and observation… ”
I am Legend (the Will smith movie)’s zombies dint learn reason - in fact they got less reasonable until they even lost the survival instinct. Smith said so when that one infected came out into the sun for a second.
Also, vampires doo not need to ‘train’ in order to remember how to do anything they did when they were alive, and they remember what they remembered when they were alive. Except for controlling their hunger. With zombies, it’s usually due to months of experimentation before they can learn to do even the simplest things.
“It just takes willpower… and people often do not show an abundance of willpower. (look at how many people can’t stop themselves from eating, drinking, or smoking)”
Which does, indeed, support your fact that diet drugs are the cause of zombification. I commend you, sir. Good show.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Gunslinger48: “I think it’s funny how people like to talk about the “characteristics” of Zombies and Vampires, as if they are real..”
Man, those Transylvanians from “The Scariest Places on Earth” are gonna call you a heretic if you keep talkin’ like that.
“I think the more important thing to state here is that a Zombie/Vampire can really do whatever the writer wants it to do.”
I agree. The ’speed of plot’ babylon 5 view.
“But some of you need this type of information in order to enjoy your entertainment.”
Personally, I just like to talk about zombie movies.
“some how to make these “fake” things fit in to what you accept as being real.”
Wait… wait… are you telling me there are no zombies OR vampires?
You lie, sir!
You lie!
“So here is my 2 cents about zombies being afraid…If it were real..ha ha ha…. then the base instinct to eat would imply that they are being brought down to animal instinct..therefore, the need to survive..sure a zombie would recognize a threat to itself just like it recognizes a food source…anyways…who care….not real…..”
Or are they? Dun dun duhhhhhhhhhhn!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
*Faints in pure joy*
June 19th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Hey hey hey! LB it’s avalaible to buy for the LA?…dang i like this comic
June 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
plz plz tell me there is more to come????
June 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Man I don’t like this page! I tried to handle its pure awesomeness but then I went into a coma. A health warning is needed
June 20th, 2008 at 6:07 am
wow, it took oy 2 months for 1 page, i’m very impressed
June 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I know this is late but way to go on getting picked up. We love your comic over here! And we belive that Sam Jackson is the only person badass enough to be Addison Pane. Keep up the good work.
By the way this page rocked my socks.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
sean r Says: “plz plz tell me there is more to come????”
No, that’s the end.
Dom Says: “wow, it took oy 2 months for 1 page, i’m very impressed”
Sarcasm. Wow.
Yeah, shame on Bobby for being in the hospital. He should know better - you have to have your comic fix after all. I’m sure if you were doing all the comics that Bobby does, you wouldn’t let a little thing like Gall Bladder surgery stop you, no sirree.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:39 am
I wrote the page two weeks before going into the hospital.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
oh sorry, I didn’t want to sound bitchy
June 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
This has to be a scene placed right after the trailers for the actual movie.
Has to be.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Rage with a line that MUST go in the Last Blood movie.
This is like the whole Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back film level of in-jokeness. If necessary, put Rage fighting the zombies in the credits since that would keep some in the movie theater. Seriously, I usually stay through the end credits, and am usually the only one left in the theater as the last of the credits roll while the house lights are up and an usher or two are cleaning up the floor.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I love this page. Love the entire comic. Start from the begining every once in awhile for the sheer joy of it. Love, love, love, love, love. I just want to hug it and squeeze the smelly, undead, zombie juice out of it.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
First off, glad everything went okay with the surgery Bobby. Hope you continue to feel better and don’t have any complications.
Katy: Your dancing Zombie line was awesome.
Mr. Pander: Funny as always.
As far as the aspects of zombies and vampires being similar or crossing over, it should be noted that the “historical” or “legendary” versions of zombie and vampires are extremely different and it is only in modern Western media that the two show much similarity. While undead creatures have existed in one form or another in the legends and myths of almost every continent the word and original concept of the “zombie” came from Haiti and has some African roots. Zombies were thought to be reanimated corpses brought back through Voodoo or some other form of dark magic, usually to be used as servants. They didn’t reproduce or spread “zombieism” and only in recent movies have zombies multiply through virus, infection, or the killing of regular people. The word and root of the vampire legend comes from Eastern Europe, and is very distinct from zombies. While vampire legends vary greatly several things were common in almost all vampire stories: they are, in and of themselves, evil (unlike zombies that served whoever “raised” them), they are intelligent, they live by consuming human blood, they have a form of reproduction (turning regular humans), and they are very hard to kill. Over all anyone who says that zombies and vampires are very similar must know virtually nothing of the legends that inspired these creatures and be relying almost entirely on modern movies and literature, mostly from the last 50 to 100 years.
Another note. In Greek or Roman mythology there were creatures that drank human blood and turned into wolves (though I don’t think they turned humans into more creatures like them, but I’m not sure) showing a fairly early tie between werewolves and vampires that has only existed the last 50 or 60 years between zombies and vampires. The closest things to zombies in traditional European folklore would be the spirits summoned by mediums and necromancers or the bodies of the dead possessed by evil spirits (creatures that exist in both Scandinavian and Celtic legends).
June 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am
YAY NEW COMIC :DDDD
i thought you died
June 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Gunslinger48:
Well here’s the thing about “scared zombies”. If it were indeed scared, it would need an explanation, I would think, for the storyline to make sense. Though I’ll admit I was assuming the writer is sticking to the “zombie rule book” sorta speak.
But as for the story… if zombies could indeed be scared, why would there be any problem for the humans? When the main evil guy (can’t remember his name, but he was killed a lil while ago) wasn’t/isn’t controlling a zombie, couldn’t a human kill a few with a machine gun and sorta scare off the rest “oh crap, he’s killing a lot of us! run!”. Animals run away if you kill enough of them quickly, whether or not they understand how you did it.
That and now, why are they now concerned about the zombies comming to the survivors. Couldn’t rage and the others just scare em off by tearing apart a few of em, basiclaly showing off the fact they can kill them. Thus, the zombies would start to run away, not wanting to be killed.
Djjiggens: “stunned zombie” is a bit odd to me personally, but if thats how the authors write it then all right they’re stunned. Its just suprise seems to me to mean some higher level of intelligence than the leaderless zombies have been showing before (you have to have expectations about what people can physically do to be suprised when rage jumps above you). I dunno, just any form of intelligence would seem to me that it’d have a sense of fear as well, though I suppose the authors could be writing it as if they just don’t have a sense of fear for soem reason. Eh, or maybe the zombies will pull of some cool intelligent shit down the line?
June 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
XD rage=COOL.
So you AREN’T a zombie then…
June 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
So, uh, couldn’t help but notice that there’s a debate going on here. Aaand, while this is my first time posting, I’ve been reading this comic for a while (since a while before the colored issues), and, to be honest, about the ’scared look’ of the zombie…
Think about this: Bobby sends Owen a picture stating what the zombies are supposed to look like. And he lets us see said picture. Now usually, there are details in said picture about which characters are supposed to look like what. Now, Bobby’s email is his own private matter, so it’s stupid to really ask about it, but my belief is that the look of the zombie is simply Owen’s creative style going to work, as he generally seems to do whatever he wants in the artwork, unless Bobby says for something specific. I dunno, I might be wrong. We’ll see!
Final opinion: Zombie = not scared by story standards.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Wonderful new page, guys! Still loving the colour, especially the glowy-ness of the zombie eyes. And Rage’s red plaid shirt. I don’t know why, but that makes me very happy.
As does the “debate” of zombie/vampire characteristics. I notice in all this chatter about I am Legend and Last Man on Earth no one’s mentioned The Omega Man, which is the middle adaptation of Richad Matheson’s novel…
Jon Pander, you remind me of someone with whom I went to high school. Where are you from?
June 21st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Jessica, are you from the UK? Just asking because the spelling of “colour”.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
SHIT!!!!!!! U’RE MAKING THIS COMIC!??!?!?! WHY U TAKE SO MUCH TIME TO SHOW US A FKING PAGE ?!?!?!?
Btw Jessica it’s a fking england girl 90-60-90
i know her 
June 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I wonder if uncontrolled zombies would even fight back against a vampire? Because they dont want to eat the vampires.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 am
Jessica: “Jon Pander, you remind me of someone with whom I went to high school. Where are you from?”
Man… this comments board is better than J-Date and Match.com combined.
I’m from Brooklyn, New York.
“And Rage’s red plaid shirt.”
Plaid is, as everyone knows, the most awesome of awesome patterns.
“I notice in all this chatter about I am Legend and Last Man on Earth no one’s mentioned The Omega Man, which is the middle adaptation of Richad Matheson’s novel…”
I thought I did mention The Omega Man in my painfully long diatribe.
Loki90: “SHIT!!!!!!! U’RE MAKING THIS COMIC!??!?!?! WHY U TAKE SO MUCH TIME TO SHOW US A FKING PAGE ?!?!?!?”
I’m going to have to make a flowchart to think of all the ways I can ‘zing’ this ‘comment’…
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 am
Loki90: Are you attempting some kind of sarcasm/humor, or are you just a fucking asshole?
June 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Yes! Finally an update! Worth the wait!
Please, sir, I would like some more…
Later,
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
“They should have made a movie about me before everyone died.” Oh, but they are, Rage. They are…
Another Pure Gold LB line.
DEFINENTLY WORTH THE WAIT!
Awesome. Rage is badass. No, wait. He isn’t badass. He makes badass people look like little babies.
And Rage kickass scenes can not go after the credits. I stay and watch too, but not enough people do. Besides, Rage kickass scenes have to go BEFORE the credits. It wouldn’t be right otherwise. I can’t remember who suggested that, but they were very very right about one thing:
That line has to go in the movie. It is gold.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Micah: Just a side note - Canadian spelling is “colour” as well.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
MMMOOOOOOOOORE????
YOU YOU WANT MORE??
(of course we want more!!)
great comic guys keep it up.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
Damn, that was good
Rage’s hidden message: the real-world zombie invasion will take place before the Last Blood movie is done… sooner than you expect it!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 am
“Plaid is, as everyone knows, the most awesome of awesome patterns.”
I disagree. Polka dots are much more awesome.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 am
Micah: “Loki90: Are you attempting some kind of sarcasm/humor, or are you just a fucking asshole?”
My personal belief is a little of A and a little of B.
Anko: “I disagree. Polka dots are much more awesome.”
If I find that Rage is wearing polka dot underwear or something, I’d agree with you. Until then, plaid rules. As they said in Spaceballs…
“Spaceball One….. they’ve gone to plaid!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg&NR=1
Did you see any polka dots there? No. I don’t think so. I think my point has been made. I am awesomely plaid. Plaid like a shirt that Rage wears.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 am
I’m asking cuz idk -_-
Can som1 answer my question?
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am
*walks in with a group of people who one could assume are students*
Alright class here we are in the Last blood comment area, a good place to observe conversations that are devoid of the general internet idiocy.
*notices Loki90*
Ah take notice class even this place is not immune to the horrors of the internet, this is a prime example from the family ‘Internetious leetious” or Leet speaker. Take notice how he makes an ass out of himself with his general lack of knowledge and grammar.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Loki90:”SHIT!!!!!!!”
This pretty much sums up how I feel about your post.
“U’RE MAKING THIS COMIC!??!?!?!”
Possible comebacks:
A: No, he’s making a cheese sandwich.
B: Welcome …. to….this….country… Your….english….is….impressive….for….a….village….idiot.
Wait.. not your. I meant u’r.
C: I’d like to hit U with a shovel, please.
“WHY U TAKE SO MUCH TIME TO SHOW US A FKING PAGE ?!?!?!?”
Possible comebacks:
A: Bobby wrote the pages with Valerie and Murdo FKing way back, but he skipped over the good parts. Still, Loki, you’re a perv. And not the good kind even.
B: He’s taken a lot of time because he hates you…. I mean U. Is it any wonder?
C: Please tell me what drugs you’re taking - they’re obviously very good to give you that really kitchy ’separation with reality’
D: I’d like to hit U with a shovel, please.
“Btw Jessica it’s a fking england girl 90-60-90″
Possible comebacks:
A: I rather like the idea of a Fking england girl. Better than frigid or a nun.
B: 90-60-90… Are those some sort of really wierd measurements?
C: Seriously, what drugs? I need to get a good fix.
D: I’d like to hit U with a shovel please. 90 times, then 60 times, then 90 times again.
“i know her”
I’m sure the witness relocation program is getting a call from her right now to hide her from your stalker 4chan self, buddy.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Mr. Pander, Jon, (can I call you Jon? Okay then,) Jon, you are the funniest person I have ever (well, not actually met, I guess, but,) associated with online. You bash people just as much as I do, but don’t get bitched at nearly as much because you’re funny when you do it. I love it. I bow to your superior wit.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
woot new page
The gods speak to us!!!!
yay, if there was anything about rage like a movie, i would lead the fan club.
the fists through the head and to thee brain part was awesome
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Yes I know this is extremely, extremely late and completly off topic, but I just thought of these few things, so here goes.
Dear Mr. Crosby, first off let me just say that this is by far the best zombie/vampire comic I have ever read. Now with that said I would like to mention a few things to you that I consider to be slight holes in the storyline. The first is when Murdo and Grady are carrying TFZ to the dumpster on page 5 and Murdo notices the dog tags on TFZ. Don’t you think that Murdo would have seen the name on the tag and realized that it was his grandfather??
The second is when April and Math are talking on page 32, if Last Blood does become a movie (and I really hope it does) I have a suggestion that during this scene in the movie that math explains that TFZ is unable to be smelt by vampires, (unless he doesnt know) it would save that viewers a lot of confusion. That’s all I have to gripe about. Keep up the good work!
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Glad you like the comic. Both of those points have been addressed a million times.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Well I guess I must have missed all of them. I’m not the kind of person who likes to read each and every 100-200 some comments. Do you think you could make it a million and 1? Plaese?
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Pretty please? Just one more time, that’s all I ask of you.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Jesus, shut the hell up — never heard of Google? WOW. Banned obviously.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I’ll have to admit. Love this comic just as much as all your others Bobby. Amazing story, and you’ve found amazing artists as well for all the comics I’ve been reading of yours. Thanks again.
Usually I’ll skip through and only read whatever comments Bobby’s been gracious enough to post in reply, but for some odd reason I am drawn over and over again to the insanely long ramblings of Mr. Pander, not because of their length per se(sp?), but because of their relevance and humor at correcting people. Keep up the good work lol.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
*sighs contentedly* That is soooo fricken cool. I love this comic sooo much, It kicks ass.
The comments on this page makes this one like, the vampire information network. Took me awhile to read it all.
# Bobby Crosby Says:
June 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Were you whining during “The Two Towers” and “Return of the King” whenever they were focusing on your non-favorite characters?
… well, yes actually… *chuckles nerveously* But seriously, who cares? Bobby’s in charge of the story. I’m sure he knows how it goes.
Oh, and Jon Pander: When you refer to the ‘marine chick’ from sliders, I belive you mean Maggie. And yes. She is very hot.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Bobby, you’re awesome. Can’t wait to see you at Comic Con.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ok, panel 4.
See Rage flying down? Good
See those zombies below Rage? Good.
Now, panel 5.
Rage double ground-pounds on empty land, and i’m just saying, it would have been better if he had applied the brakes on a second pair of zombies’s heads.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Shoryuken. That is all.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Some how, he reminds me of that one guy from X-men… cant remember his name though… he was the evil “counter-part” of Wolverine… you should get that guy to play his part^^
June 25th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I think I need to start posting shorter.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Going to try to streamline this a bit, since the other two times I must have given the comments board a conniption fit and it didn’t take what I posted.
Micah: I accept your well-placed praise. Brevity is the soul of wit, they say. Obviously I don’t agree.
Moddy: Rowr yes. Maggie Beckett. Played by Kari Wuhrer. I fantasize about her daily. She is -the- ultra hottie which other hotties aspire to be. Sliders, indeed.
And I personally couldn’t stand any scene in The Lord of the Rings movies where Sam and Frodo make googly eyes at each other. If I wanted midgets in soft core porn wannabe, there’s this place near Times Square….
b Wolf 22 (post-ban): Answers to your questions (accuracy may vary)…
1) Murdo can’t read.
2) TFZ uses Nullo ™ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYc_I1NKVaY
3) Pretty please? wtf
Mike: The name you’re thinking of is Sabertooth. Played by Tyler Mane. Awesomeness.
Colton: All glory to the Hypnotoad.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
“Bows to the glory of the hypnotoad”
-PFT yeah right, that stuff only works when the person in question is not super intelligent, o wait. garblpsjkkahks………………………………………
Still lovin it Bobby :).
And yes Tyler Mane, PURE Awesomeness with a can of whoopass to boot, and Jon Pander continues to draw me into his comments…. :).
June 26th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Micah: I am not from the UK, sadly, but from Canada. We like to pretend we’re still part of the British Empire in our rather numerous coins and in our spelling.
Loki90: If I ever knew you, I have mercifully repressed the memory.
Jon Pander: Definitely not the fellow from high school then. I shall henceforth read all of your comments with a Brooklyn accent.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Jessica Says: “I am not from the UK, sadly, but from Canada. We like to pretend we’re still part of the British Empire in our rather numerous coins and in our spelling.”
I like Canada. It’s one of my favorite states in the USA.
“Loki90: If I ever knew you, I have mercifully repressed the memory.”
I like this girl… she’s got spunk.
“Jon Pander: Definitely not the fellow from high school then. I shall henceforth read all of your comments with a Brooklyn accent.”
If you’re a hottie and want me to be from another high school, I will be.
As for the Brooklyn accent… “How you doin’?”
Colton: http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/animated/toad_animate.gif
June 26th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
ORDER THE LAST BLOOD GRAPHIC NOVEL RIGHT NOW!!!
June 26th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Wow, Jon Pander… You make me giggle… actually, more than giggle. You make me laugh my ass off.
Bobby: If I wasn’t poor, I totally would… *sigh* Wait… I got paid… mabe I shall not be so poor soon… Yay!
June 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Jon Pander: “I like Canada. It’s one of my favorite states in the USA.”
I wish I could argue with that statement. We spell things differently, darn it! And say “zed”. And our prime minister rolls over like a dog when the US tells him to. LeSigh.
“If you’re a hottie and want me to be from another high school, I will be.”
I don’t look much like Maggie Beckett, if that’s your standard. I can’t comment otherwise, as I’m likely biased.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:32 am
This comic is is one of the little things that make me smile.
http://filmcow.com/youtube-ferrets.html
June 28th, 2008 at 8:08 am
best page ever
June 28th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
YAY! New update.
Seems like forever but it’s worth the wait.
June 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Awesome new Page! The Movie will be very interesting methinks, I wonder how the cast will compare to the lifelike looking characters in the comic?
I wish Addison hadn’t died, he was awesome. Really awesome, although I would have liked to see what was under the glasses.
Last Blood is so worth the wait, does anyone know if the Movie will have the same title as the comic? Or something different? I wish I was a zombie movie fan.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
so in i-am-legend, they were are shaemics or something?
and shouldnt rage have broken his hand by landing on it at somewhere near 120 miles per hour?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
HAHA! Finally we can get back to the zombie action now that Marry Me has been finished. Not that that wasn’t a great comic, but I have been waiting for Last Blood to return forever.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I wrote this page the same day I wrote Page 81 of “Marry Me.” The two are not connected in any way.
the glock: Nothing in your comment made any sense.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
I think I know what “The Glock” Is saying… I think he means that there were Shaemiacs creating the Zombie/Vampires or whatever the hell those were… Which there weren’t and even if there were it’s unrelated in every way…
And rage was running 120mph when he hit those zombies, which should have destroyed every bone in his hand… which makes NO difference due to the regeneration that all vampires possess.
It made sense, but one question was completely irrelevant, and the other one was already answered about a hundred times by now.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
The Glock just forget the golden rule of all fiction, the badass>>>than any rule or law. This applies to all badasses right up until the point where they meet an even greater badass then themselves. At this point the natural distortion of rules and laws created by the badasses will ultimately favour the greater badass through a drawn out and brutal conflict where they will each undergo what should be mortal wounds for any normal individual. Unless of course the greater badass completely eclipses the lesser, if that is the case then he dies quicker than a triad mobster who thinks it’s a good idea to get in the way of Chow Yun Fat when he’s wearing sunglasses and chewing on a toothpick.
July 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
yoho all.
so i read 90% of the comments and all I have to say is this
1- I hate a lot of idiots
and
2- “Anko Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 am
“Plaid is, as everyone knows, the most awesome of awesome patterns.”
I disagree. Polka dots are much more awesome.”
anko you are wrong you have to have the black/white swirls that make people dizzy
July 7th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Umm marry me is over (for the most part)
When do you think we start seeing updates.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
would the graphic novel be autographed by you ? i bought the first 2 issues autographed by you before.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
damn…this comic is tight…
and the movie should be tight….if its low budget itll suck though….but it could be one bad ass movie ya know
July 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Two words: HELL YEAH! Generally not a big fan of zombie/vampire combos, but this one works. It works very well. *nods wisely like a mini Yoda thingy-ma-bobber*
Bobby, I bow before the awesome storyline. And I worship the April-is-seriously-insane-but-Matt-is-even-more-insane-cuz-he’s-the-human-formerly-known-as-the-vampire pairing.
Owen, I bow before the awesome art.
Jon Pander: Sire, you totally rocketh my socks. And I know ’tis absolutely dorky to type like this with a Star Wars reference, but I can’t help it. Forgiveth me.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Was moving. Order Marry Me now. It will encourage him to keep making more webcomics, and frankly if he didn’t I wouldn’t know what to do with my time. Plus the world is short on awesome at the moment, so this sort of thing should be supported.
Jessica Says: “I don’t look much like Maggie Beckett, if that’s your standard. I can’t comment otherwise, as I’m likely biased.”
I’m willing to still agree with you if you have hottie attributes. Maggie Beckett is just the alpha hottie to which other hotties should aspire.
Eloweasel Says: “I wonder how the cast will compare to the lifelike looking characters in the comic?”
I have it on good authority that Bobby will not be using actors in the movie, but rather he will be using felt puppets. Like the muppets.
“I wish I was a zombie movie fan.”
Heretic. Come over to the dark side where we all love zombie movies.
the glock Says: “so in i-am-legend, they were are shaemics or something?”
…
Yes. They were. And Bobby wrote I am Legend. It’s a big secret but he’s actually Richard Matheson. And he’s 72 years old.
…
Ok I’m lying. Are you surprised?
They are infected people in I am Legend - it’s a hard science fiction vampire/zombie book. Originally it was about vampires, but in interviews, Matheson had admitted he was heavily influenced by zombies and ghouls, not just vampires. Later ‘zombie’ genre visionaries like Romero said I am Legend was their inspiration.
“and shouldnt rage have broken his hand by landing on it at somewhere near 120 miles per hour?”
He wears invisible armored gauntlets on his hands which are made of awesome. Shhh.
Oh, and you spelled Shaemiacs wrong, glock. Anko is going to rip you a new one.
I will cheer.
Hide.
Shaun: “And rage was running 120mph when he hit those zombies, which should have destroyed every bone in his hand… which makes NO difference due to the regeneration that all vampires possess.”
Rage’s bones are also laced with awesome. Sort of like Wolverine’s are laced with adamantium. Shhh.
JR Says: “damn…this comic is tight…”
Word, G.
“and the movie should be tight….”
Word. To the mother, G.
“if its low budget itll suck though….”
Whachoo talkin bout? Evil Dead. Low Budget. High Awesome. The first Night of the Living Dead. Low budget, high awesome. Flash Gordon, freakishly low budget and you could see the strings on the bird men. Still high on awesome. Shh.
“but it could be one bad ass movie ya know”
Ya, Word. It be slammin’.
L.C. “Jon Pander: Sire, you totally rocketh my socks.”
Verily, I doth rocketh them?
“And I know ’tis absolutely dorky to type like this with a Star Wars reference, but I can’t help it.”
I may forgive your dorkishness if you give me $20.
“Forgiveth me.”
Seriously, where’s the $20?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Ack, I spelled schaemiacs wrong too. STupid c key stuck.
Anko, please spare me. It was the C key, honest.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
erm… updates?
July 9th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Is there a way to sign up for an alert when she updates?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Save money on the movie, let all of us in the forums be in it.
Oh, and I’m finally done reading page 10 so go ahead and put up 11. Thanks for waiting for me! I’ll try and read faster but all that awesome got in my eyes.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Holy crap! What happened to the peaceful comment page I left about a month back?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
muuuust….haaaave….moooooore…..*drool*
July 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Derrick: “Is there a way to sign up for an alert when she updates?”
Bobby will be most displeased that you gave him a sex change.
sco3tt: do not look directly at the awesome next time. It’s like a solar eclipse. Incredible to see but if you’re not careful it will burn your eyes out.
JT Cool: It was too peaceful for our warlike, Rage-worshipping psyches so we mentally supressed it like a boy scout supresses the private, ’special’ merit badge lesson his scout leader taught him before the police took him away in handcuffs.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
whao u had surgery?!
what for?
hope ur fine, and that this has not hindered comic production, and umm, i would like to say tha tagainst all of these arguments about how zombiefication works, almost every zombie story has a different way of explaining it, so it doesnt matter, its up to the author.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yes it’s possible to get warned when there is an update.
it’s called RSS-feed.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
…If I was in the Last Blood universe, I would want Rage to be my friend… It would suck royaly if he was not…
July 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Admittedly I don’t read all the forum stuff, but I was wondering if Bobby might post some of his past work in the interm. Sorta of a tid bit to tide some, like me, over, and expose more of the cool shit that is. I would find it hard to belive that someone who has brought a wicked story like this to us, doesn’t have other gems in his portfoilio. If there is a link for this sorta stuff already, I bow my head in shame.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Wow, comments have slowed down to a crawl these last few pages
July 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
This the first time I’m commenting and I just have to say you are definitely in my Pantheon of Comic Book Gods which include Joss Whedon, Mike Mignola and Frank Miller. Also I heart Rage very much.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I must admit Rage does have a certain lethal charm to him, that being said, Way to go on making this comic(The entirety of it). I only wish they came out faster, the anticipation is killing me…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Great job. Keep doing it. You’ve got the spirit to make this one of the greatest zombie comics ever….so don’t let the story die a slow and cruel death by disappearing from one day to the other.
Even if I still like what you allready did.
That’s all I wanted to say…with poor words!
July 16th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I think I just had an orgasm…
July 17th, 2008 at 6:29 am
the glock: “whao u had surgery?! what for?”
Bobby had too much awesome flowing through his blood, so they had to remove some and give it to more needy people.
daemon: “I think I just had an orgasm…”
Accessing possible replies:
A) Ew.
B) Heres a tissue, go clean yourself up.
C) Confuscius say, When having computer sex, wear a keyboard cover.
D) Drool from Anne and semen from Daemon. Bodily fluid is apparently the new way to repond on the forum. Makes sense, only fair that the other fluids make a showing, since there have been already been too many people like Wolf 22 who’s dumb questions piss everyone off
Get it? pi- oh forget it….
July 17th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
well, i guess its a good date to read the comic considering it just got updated. wicked awesome, know you get this more than you could possibly spend time reading, but just think you should always get to hear it.
im so sad that math lost his vampirism, he was crazy stuff
July 18th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Andrew: Well, keep in mind that the Zombies DO still have their brains, as Rage has aptly shown us, so they DO have the ability to feel emotion still, although they would be primitive forms. My guess would be that their fear creates anger at the source, so instead of running, they lash out at it. That, or their hunger out-weighs their fear.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I saw Bobby at Comic Con today. He signed the Last Blood and Marry Me books I bought. And then I got two complimentary pins (at least I think they were) with Coleman and Fairbanks on them. I was happy.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Awesome. I love this even more than Marry Me!
July 24th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Hey, Bobby, you OK? We’re worried about you, and we’re missing the Last Blood awesomeness, so here’s hoping you are fine and we’ll soon see some new and awesome pages!
July 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hey Bobby! Just writing to say how much I love yer damn work. I got to meet you today at comic con. I was the chick kinda smiling this big, dorky cheeser. Dark hair, dark eyes, arab. I had you sign a book for me and my friend and kinda made you feel bad for not updating as often as you do… yeah that evil fan chick. I had all these questions I wanted to ask but got so happy I was like kinda like… uuuh. Blank. Heh, anyway keep up the good work, would love to hear from ya.
-Danny
July 28th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Jon Pander, I see that you have quite the fan club over on the Marry Me comment board. Why haven’t you tried collecting fangirls here? Afraid vampire and zombie fans will bite?
You know, I’ve been saddened by the decrease in comments in general. Where’s Anko disappeared to? Barely commenting more than once these days.
We obviously need to spark yet another pointless and annoying debate so the wits can sharpen their claws again (like the one about whether or not the zombie apocalypse could work). ‘Course, that would probably upset Bobby.
July 28th, 2008 at 2:41 am
I spit on your mother, and your mothers mother for making a comic that i enjoyed, and stopping it so i am destined to keep coming to this site, to check if there are more pages, just be to dissapointed by your lazy faggot ass every fucking time.
I curse your soul to the darkest pits of hell… jibba jabba jibba… i hope you fucking die hard.
Fuck you
-Robin
July 28th, 2008 at 9:50 am
hey guys, if youre ever in pa near port alleghany, im taking ye out to dinner. great work… actually makes me feel inadequate as a writer, so you should feel pretty good about yourself.
July 30th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I have enjoyed reading this free online comic. It’s a great premise, and there are some really cool characters.
I think the most fascinating thing for me here is seeing the writer/creator interact on the boards and try to justify the things that commenters find fault with.
It’s always sort of demeaning when an author does that in my opinion. If the work stands on its own, then let it. When you’re reading a book or watching a movie you don’t have the writer/director there to tell you how stupid you are for not picking up on everything.
Also, this is a pretty long read on its own, nevermind the thousands of comments littered throughout. I wouldn’t expect people to read through every single one. But what do I know?
Then again, this is sort of a unique format, posting one page at a time online, so I suppose the rules are a bit different.
Anyway, I certainly look forward to reading the continued story. Thanks for your efforts.