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Ales Kot has brought an end to his Image comic book title Material, with an eye to transforming it into a periodical graphic novel He tweeted… https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654401846702837760 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654403538349518848 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/654707266659028993 https://twitter.com/ales_kot/status/655482493575938048 Here are the three which will be unpublished… for now. Material #5 (W) Alex Kot (A) Will Tempest (CA) Tom Muller Porn! Was due to be published 28th October. Material #6 (W) Alex Kot (A) Will[...]

Material #4, written by Ales Kot, with Will Tempest, Clayton Cowles and Tom Muller is published from Image Comics today. And it is missing a credit. He writes, Biggest personal failure of the year: due to a production error, @bijanstephen is not credited in Material #4. This is fixed in the collected edition that comes out September 30, and[...]

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 industry Material has four solid concepts, premises that fleshed out on their own could keep a writer busy for years More than anything it leaves you[...]

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 will be launching the supernatural thriller series Wolf and Material. It's Material that I'm most curious about, a series that deals directly[...]

The Plague, a being who has spent 50 years killing every previous host of The Mantle, is already coming for him. MATERIAL #1 story: ALES KOT art: WILL TEMPEST cover: TOM MULLER MAY 27 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50 A man comes home from Guantanamo Bay, irrevocably changed. An actress receives an offer that can revive her career. A[...]