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One of those smart independent comics is Ales Kot's espionage actioner, Zero This comic tells the story of Edward Zero, a secret agent working for a shady Agency in a near-future world full of intrigue and secrets and just a touch of super science weirdness While this isn't the first attempt at that kind of[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFK1hhW01UM&feature=share[/youtube]   Our own Aaron Haaland of A Comic Show from A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, helps host this live panel with Ales Kot and Tradd Moore (the team on the current Image series Zero) to discuss their work Dig in. *Note: This was a live feed of a panel and signing that is now complete[...]

  [youtube]http://youtu.be/DjPFpVW0Oj4[/youtube] Aaron Haaland, of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes: Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron, talking about new comics now! This is A Comic Show filmed in The Geek Easy! This week was have some more All New Marvel Now's like Secret Avengers, Batman's Dark City finale, and a it's like Christmas for Stray Bullets fans! Ales[...]

We just saw the publication of The Darkness: Vicious Traditions by Ales Kot and Dean Ormston, looking at Top Cow's The Darkness entity in the times of the Romans. This is clearly going to be a thing now. In June, we'll see Ales Kot and Maro Oleksicki giving us The Darkness: Close Your Eyes which will be[...]

By the end of these first five issues, the story may turn out to be something you weren't expecting it to be. Ales Kot is a writer who wears his intellect, his influences and his heart on his sleeve Last week, the first five issues were collected into a trade as Zero Volume 1: An Emergency,[...]

By Aaron Haaland [youtube]http://youtu.be/E4216iGBdoo[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron, back with new comics on Tuesday! What's hot at a comic shop tomorrow is on A Comic Show today! This time I lead with indie books and my personal favorite Zero by Ales Kot! Zero volume one is only $10[...]

Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts) and Toby Cypress (The Tourist) will be on hand to sign the 1st issue of their brand new Dark Horse series and Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) will also be here to sign the first volume of his hit Image Comics series The event will run from 7 to 9PM.  Thursday, February 20th Dare2Draw[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Ales Kot is one of the most interesting, innovative writers working in the field today His previous work including Change, Wild Children and a couple of really fun issues of Suicide Squad are all well worth tracking down Zero, his spy/science fiction series has been great from the first issue With Issue #5,[...]

Ales Kot made the case for giving colourists and letterers percentage points on the multimedia rights of a comic book It generated quite a bit of discussion. But it got me thinking Why stop there? Much has been made of Image Comics' contracts that don't give them ownership of any comic, but is that fair? Just[...]

And, as with The Walking Dead, when money gets thrown around, it can end up in court. But Ales Kot, creator of Zero and more, is carrying that one step further Yesterday, he posted on Facebook, It's colorist appreciation day? Cool I appreciate my colorists so much they get percentage of media rights Your turn, rest of[...]

– Ales Kot Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that ALEC is probably the best book-length comic about art and wine and midlife crises and families and friends and wine and love and art and saying goodbye and terror there is? – Neil Gaiman In the simplest of terms, Alec is Eddie[...]

I've been wanting to drill into that ever since." Who knows what it will be, or who will be illustrating/coloring/editing, but I'd bet money that it'll be published by Image Comics.  However, subscribers of Orbital Operations also know that Ellis won't be on the west coast until the end of January so this one is a[...]

It's better to take a little bit of time off and recharge my batteries. We remember that previous writer Ales Kot only got four issues before he was unceremoniously switched for Kindt Who at the time tweeted, after DiDio said this was the plan all along, @SpectacOptical @dandidio1 @Maijson: Hi Dan, I would love to discuss this[...]

The cover of Zero #05, drawn by Will Tempest, designed by Tom Muller. The issue comes out 01/22/2014. Cover illustration by Matt Taylor which will

Ales Kot had a rather reduced run on Suicide Squad, just four issues to relaunch the book before he was suddenly surplus to requirements But he prefers his revenge served cold. @ales_kot Now with 40% more made-up sex terms! — Wil Moss (@Wil_Moss) December 22, 2013   @greglockard @Wil_Moss: Let's talk about this It's time to disclose this to[...]

And who, you ask? Well, they include…Tim Seeley, Ales Kot, Ed Brisson, Alex de Campi, Frank Barbiere, Megan Hutchison, Fabian Rangel Jr, Matt Pizzolo, Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Egypt Mortimer. Here are the new stories, with a preview of the Tim Seeley contribution. "This Is You" Written by Tim Seeley Illustrated by Tim Seeley (pencils/inks), K[...]

Next weekend sees the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds. But first, on Wednesday, November 20th, Nathan Fox will be signing his full colour graphic novel Dogs Of War, in paperback and hardback, at Forbidden Planet in London from 6pm to 7pm Which takes place just after Ales Kot and Tom Muller signing Zero at Orbital Comics in[...]

Obviously Ales Kot started it off, based on a possibly erroneous report of a comics retailer ripping up a copy of Pretty Deadly But Brandon Graham was there to carry it on It's possible Brian Wood should stop reading now. @ales_kot and and maybe some talk of being honest about people's work and what goes[...]

Alejandra Bodden writes; The panel consisted of Ron Richards (Director of Business Development at Image Comics) as the moderator, and panelists: Tim Seeley (REVIVAL), Antony Johnston (UMBRAL), Joshua Williamson (Ghosted), artist Wes Craig (DEADLY CLASS), Glen Brunswick (REALITY CHECK), Ales Kot (ZERO), and Kieron Gillen (THREE). To start, Richards asked the panelists how their ideas began[...]

Iron Patriot is going to get his own series starting in March of 2014 written by Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) and art by Garry Brown (X-Men: To Serve And Protect) The series will focus on James Rhodes becoming his own man away from Iron Man This was the "Defender" teaser that Marvel had released. Iron Patriot[...]

The Zero #1 team work on something... Avengerish. Is this something Winter Soldierish? And if this is Secret Avengers, what was the Defend thing? Secret

Is Lee Garbett the new artist on Mighty Avengers? Or is this something new? Who do you trust??? And Chris Yost and Marcus To could be Scarlet Spider-style shenanigans… bit could this finally be the new New Warriors series being teased in Nova? A team of which Scarlet Spider was a member once? And CBR, who feel[...]

Here's a sampling of comic-shop based signings and events, as well as two hosted by Columbia University's Butler Library. Greg Rucka, Ales Kot, and Frank Barbiere Sign at Forbidden Planet on October 7th Greg Rucka, Ales Kot, & Frank Barbiere will be at Forbidden Planet in Union Square in New York to sign their new Image Comics[...]

Notable contributors include Cliff Chiang, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ming Doyle, Ales Kot, Mark Buckingham and many more solid comics creators The variety of art styles and the wildly divergent weird tales are part of the appeal in these "Nine Tales of Divine Horror".  Steve Beach's "Daniel" may be the standout story and art of the[...]

   In the list of those who receive credit least, or last, for their work on comics, designers may well be at the end of the line. Some readers are

Unscripted, reality CC. In this Issue of Collectors Cornered we feature Store Manager David Crispino interviewing comic creator Ales Kot during our In Store Signing for Zero #1 Ales is the writer of Wild Children, Change, Suicide Squad & soon Secret Avengers from Marvel. Seeya Next time! Continue the Collectors Cornered discussion in the forum here on BC,[...]

Ales Kot takes the opportunity to announce two new Image comics Two new graphic novellas, one called Quiet with Morgan Jeske in black-and-white, about a drug that causes people to lose the ability to deal with language, and Anti-Star, about an Islamic transgender pop star… – Rich. [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2613/0/PCHPodcastEpisode56.mp3] by Chris Thompson After last week's episode with Ian Churchill[...]

I'm writing live from my local comic shop Conquest Comics today, and while Villains Month continues for DC, it's a big week for Dark Horse (might even call it a big month), but also a strong week for Image and we have the new book by Neil Gaiman and Skottie Young today, too, Fortunately, the[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREM_Bdfh5U[/youtube] Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! It's me, Aaron, talking Ales Kot's Zero, DC Villains, and Infinity! First, Zero by Ales Kot was insane! A perfect comic from cover/inside cover to back inside cover/back cover Every issue is a single story mission with a different artist, all building a cumulative story[...]

Adi Tantmedh writes; This week sees the first issue of ZERO from Image Comics, the new spy series by enfant terrible Ales Kot. Edward Zero is a kind of all-purpose operative who's sent in for surgical strikes, for when things get messy He's a death machine trained from childhood to handle any situation, and with that comes[...]