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Although it's not limited to the two companies, Image and Boom! are particularly notable in just how many beautiful or eye catching books have been on comic book shops shelves in the last few years, in no small part to work of designs and design teams such as Comicraft on Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey's[...]

Ales Kot would like to remind you about his new Image comic book title Wolf he is creating with Matt Taylor and Lee Loughbridge While he sees his most recent Image title Material as something idiosyncratic, he believes Wolf has the potential to be a big blockbuster mainstream hit with a long run, something like[...]

He would very much like to. He moves in a Los Angeles of supernatural creatures: werewolves, vampires, Cthulu, demons and ghosts, but the worst monsters are still humans. This is Los Angeles as a landscape of metaphor, of symbols, of history and politics, of class resentment and hard-scrabbling grifters operating under the radar of the normal world. The[...]

By Jason Karlson Ales Kot has a lot on his mind Always one for a punchy title, this one is the most appropriate and self aware yet Material is something that Kot has more than enough of It's essentially what these very human stories could become in the hands of a writer working in a larger[...]

This week in stores from Valiant is Imperium #5 which kicks off the new story arc Broken Angels by Joshua Dysart and Scot Eaton and then there is Drop Dead #2 by Ales Kot and Adam Gorham. Imperium #5 (New arc! Broken Angels – Part 1) Written by Joshua Dysart Art by Scot Eaton Covers by Kano,[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, Ales Kot is the kind of creator who can't stop experimenting, testing, pushing the boundaries of the comics form Having just completed his deconstructionist spy series Zero and the subversive superhero satires of Secret Avengers and Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, he has launched the teen dystopian Science Fiction series The Surface and[...]

Anyway, what's particularly interesting about Dead Drop, written by the high-flying Ales Kot and drawn by Adam Gorham, colors by Michael Spicer, and letters by Dave Sharpe, is that it's very much a capsule story perfect for a limited series It has a very specific, enclosed premise that Aric is chasing an anarchist with a[...]

Valiant's newest series Dead Drop by Ales Kot and Adam Gorham has already sold out of issue #1 A second printing is being done up and will be in stores on June 10th. A week prior to that will see the second issue hit shelves And we have the second printing cover for Dead Drop #1[...]

And, especially for male readers, making us very uncomfortably self-identify with that eye, owning the male gaze and being responsible for it. No need to mention crossovers, just one simple moment of grabbing many-a-reader and making them an unwilling participant in the narrative. Grant Morrison, Jonathan Hickman, Geoff Johns, Ales Kot, Jeff Kline? Kelly Sue DeConnick wins… Today's[...]

Ales Kot is the writer on Secret Avengers and Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier for Marvel, and Zero for Image Comics. Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads are the creative team on The Punisher Mitch draws The Activity for Image Nathan writes for Image. Chris Kyle was a famed US sniper, who fought in the Iraq War, with 160[...]

We have a first look inside the upcoming Valiant series from writer Ales Kot (Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier) and artist Adam Gorham (Zero) Dead Drop is a four-issue miniseries featuring X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott, Detective Cejudo and Beta-Max on the hunt for a biological weapon that has been dropped into the secret New York black[...]

First giving us a splash page of utter superhero destruction, as might occur in an "event". And then looking at the process of writing superhero comics, with a little meta deconstruction… Children with their sandboxes… that would be the comic book creators? Or superhero comic readers? It's almost as if Ales Kot doesn't want to write superhero comics[...]

The new Dead Drop series coming from Valiant Entertainment... And Captain Victory #1 from Dynamite Entertainment from last summer.... In Swipe File we

Well now we can put some names to the title… names like Ales Kot and Adam Gorham The new series is being described as an undercover conspiracy action thriller and features X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott of MI-6, Beta-Max and Detective Alejandra Cejudo from Quantum And Woody. There is a secret black market in New York[...]

Ales Kot wrote a couple of books out this week Both wonderfully special in their own way Secret Avengers drawn by Michael Walsh and Zero, drawn by Marek Oleksicki. And they are both song and dance numbers With Jay Z… …and The Smiths. Is this the violence inherent in Morrissey? No, no, that's just silly[...]

— Andy Khouri (@andykhouri) January 28, 2015 And more pointedly… More publishers that let creators own 100% of the rights #ComicsForward — Ales Kot (@ales_kot) January 28, 2015 Yesterday, Bleeding Cool revealed that Boom! Studios were to launch their "Push Comics Forward" And plenty of comic book people have been sharing what such a thing means… to them. The[...]

We'd heard they were paring back the Avengers titles, But today's solicitations confirmed one. SECRET AVENGERS #15 ALES KOT (W) MICHAEL WALSH (a) Cover by TRADD MOORE "ARC OF A JOURNEY" • The end is the beginning is the end is the… • Unlikely partners have a meeting far away from the S.H.I.E.L.D[...]

And how the genre specialism of Image Comics is whatever the creator wants to do their passion project. Suddenly Ales Kot bursts on like Kramer, with Antony Johnston sneaking behind He and Richard Starkings fight for seats. Starkings talks about how his next comic, The Beef, with Shaky Kane, is all about a guy who turns into beef,[...]

Ales Kot writes, ZERO #11 is my first comic book to be rejected by Apple — apparently dead children and horrific brutality are okay but oral sex a no-no — Ales Kot (@ales_kot) October 29, 2014 It's never clear exactly who pulls books in such situations or why But this will have been the scene we expect to[...]

Remember the first page of All-Star Superman? Ales Kot and Michael Walsh on Secret Avengers definitely do, in what is rapidly becoming Marvel's best title. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.  Following the release of In Real Life, soon to be published byFirst Second, we'll have the pleasure of receiving Cory Doctorow here at Orbital for a talk on November 12, at[...]

By Adi Tantimedh Ales Kot talks eloquently about the themes of war, violence and politics in his writing, all present in Zero, Secret Avengers and Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixh82bUSaF4 [/youtube] Apologies for the slightly rough quality of the video. Conversations at lookitmoves@gmail.com Follow the official LOOK! IT MOVES! twitter feed at http://twitter.com/lookitmoves for thoughts and snark on media[...]

They say: "Ah, the rule of threes! Three awesome comic related releases hit on the first day of October in 2014! Three fantastic creators will be represented on the shelves and we will have them in the the flesh! Neil Kleid (Brownsville, The Great Khan) will be here for his Kraven's Last Hunt prose novel from[...]

His name is Ales Kot and he writes the creator-owned series Zero from Image, Secret Avengers and Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier for Marvel. This also marks Sam's first regular appearance on the show, so be on the lookout for his lovely face (and opinions) in future episodes! You can download us if you're on the go here or take a listen below. We're looking to get[...]

Ales Kot & Marco Rudy make the Winter Soldier the man on a very different wall as Captain America's former sidekick starts to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional threats. The status quo for Bucky Barnes has changed dramatically and his scope of interest has grown[...]

Look forward to that soon! Here is the audio: [audio:https://3ec68c83df76fbd08b75769ae98e6b3816bd35e3.googledrive.com/host/0B6sH5G4_jmKkS2VpaExDZXQ4X3c/TheBleedEp3%20-%20James%20Asmes%20Omar%20Spahi%20-%20Atomic%20Robo%20v1.mp3] On the program next week? Well, only since you asked! We've got Ales Kot who writes Zero for Image Comics, Secret Avengers and the upcoming Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier for Marvel, and more! Who else? Sam Morse, our good friend, comics critique and inside man at Google Inc.! We'll be delving into Ray Fawkes' new book The[...]

Well, we had kinda worked it out. But Ales Kot has confirmed it to Vulture, saying, Right, but disillusionment is nothing new Why, right now, in 2014, does Bucky still matter? What Bucky does is he takes over Nick Fury's old job as the "man on the wall," so to speak.On the wall between Earth and the rest[...]

The AV Club have been given the news by Marvel PR that Ales Kot and Marco Rudy are to launch a new Winter Soldier title continuing the story of Bucky Barnes, in the wake of the second Captain America movie. And just a Nick Fury now seems to have an intergalactic role, so does Bucky, quoting editor Wil[...]

This was July's solicitation from Marvel. IRON PATRIOT #5 ALES KOT (W) GARRY BROWN (A/C) "UNBREAKABLE" PART 5 • The conclusion of "UNBREAKABLE" arrives — and nothing will ever be the same! • He could have fallen alone But instead they ran to his rescue • Losses on both sides multiply as the country spirals towards a new future 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 August's[...]

Marvel's All-New Marvel NOW! relaunch programme has pretty much been a success, giving lesser Marvel characters a real shot in the arm, both Silver

And the second issues of Ghost Rider and Secret Avengers by Tradd Moore and Ales Kot were both better then the first and welcome editions to the 616. Over at Image we got a double shot of East of West (volume 2 and #11) If you haven't checked it out, a $1 one dollar #1 is[...]