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Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool; Ales Kot has been doing great work for a while now Wild Children managed to be one of the very few postmodernist deconstructions of comic narrative that was both clever and didn't make me want to self harm, Change is what Southland Tales wanted desperately to be and his work[...]

So I guess now it's Ales Kot's turn. The word is out — I am co-writing @Marvel 's "Secret Avengers" with @nickspencer , starting with #12 in December: http://t.co/ylG3kPSt65 — Ales Kot (@ales_kot) September 12, 2013 Congratulations Ales! But is this the same Ales who also tweeted; Marvel Comics supports SOPA Effective immediately, I've stopped buying all Marvel comics[...]

Zero is the comic from Ales Kot and a bunch of artists – the first issue headlining Michael Walsh I hear orders are high They may be higher with the Becky Cloonan cover above And not too shabby with the Chris Burnham cover below. ZERO is named for its main character, secret agent Edward Zero, a[...]

Co-writer of Captain Marvel and, as of yesterday, co-writer of Fantastic Four, Christopher Sebela is now also co-writing Shadowman with ex-writer of Suicide Squad, and a line of Image comics, Ales Kot Issue #13 of Shadowman will also lead into Shadowman #13X, free with October's Bleeding Cool Magazine Just saying. Oh and yes, Unity #1. Here are[...]

Ales Kot has written on his Tumblr; Since the solicitations for October's DC titles came out, I was repeatedly asked if I am no longer writing Suicide Squad Yes, Matt Kindt is writing SS #24 and I am no longer writing Suicide Squad Matt's "3 Story" is one of my favorite graphic novels I read in[...]

Ales Kot came onto the Suicide Squad comic at DC with a bit of a bang Previously writing comics at Image Comics with, frankly, a reputation for being a bit of an arty poser, the book went down rather well It was sparky, genuinely edgy in places, and reinvented a few characters for the better[...]

Ales Kot writes to tell me; As of now, the first chapter of CHANGE is free on the @ImageComics app and on @comiXology right here, Or if you prefer a DRM-less option, you can read the embed below, and download it The first trade paperback of Change by Ales Kot, Morgan Jeske,  Sloane Leong and Ed Brisson is out today, so[...]

Issue 20, out this week, sees a new writer take over; Ales Kot, best known for the excellent Wild Children graphic novella and Change miniseries He has exactly the right combination of nasty intellect and detail oriented plotting to make the book fly and based on this first issue of his run, that's exactly what[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/1850/0/PCHPodcastEpisode39.mp3] by Chris Thompson In a very special episode of the Pop Culture Hound podcast, I'm joined by the legendary John Ostrander and upcoming writer Ales Kot to discuss their work on Suicide Squad We look at the pressure on writers today, age-ism in comics, what it takes to make a good story, and how to expand[...]

The new Suicide Squad #20 is a pretty decent comic, Ales Kot's debut working for DC Comics Ales has a bit of a reputation as a hipster and started by having King Shark reading the works of Rumi while ordering vegetarian Russian food might only underline that. But it's a transformative moment for the book, details[...]

Last October during NYCC, we learned that Ales Kot has a series called Zero planned for Image Comics, for May this year. Which is now But t is coming, honesr. It's out in September instead Drawn by Michael Walsh… "it ain't the years, it's the mileage." Old soldiers never die, perhaps? Last October during NYCC, we learned[...]

We told you there were plenty of creative changes coming at DC, but even we didn't expect this much. DC Comics is continuing its recruitment policy from the likes of Image Comics, by signing up the writer of Wild Children and Change, Ales Kot, to write Suicide Squad, joined by new artist Timothy Green II. No[...]

Even though I try to follow the cardinal shopping rule of the San Diego Comic Con, which is of course "Don't buy anything you can buy at home", I still was looking for one mass market book this year, Ales Kot's Wild Children I didn't know what it was about, but I had read a[...]

These are two pages that are a prequel to the new comic Change by Ales Kot and Morgan Jeske for Image Comics They will not appear in the printed version, out next Wednesday. The eight pages below, however, will be An eight page preview to pore over on a Saturday. [...]

A look ahead at the new Image comic from Ales Kot, Morgan Jeske, Sloane Leong and Ed Brisson… A foul-mouthed struggling screenwriter who moonlights as a car thief An obscenely wealthy rapper completely disconnected from the real world A dying cosmonaut on his way back to Earth. Los Angeles is being toyed with by destructive forces that[...]

Luther Strode lives; but for how long? The sequel to 2011's breakout hit begins here! Change #1 by Ales Kot and Morgan Jeske, for December 12th A foul-mouthed struggling screenwriter who moonlights as a car thief An obscenely wealthy rapper completely disconnected from the real world A dying cosmonaut on his way back to Earth. Los Angeles is being[...]

Wild Children by Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo is published by Image Comics this week Here's a thematic teaser… Wild Children by Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo is published by Image Comics this week Here's a thematic teaser… Wild Children by Ales Kot and Riley Rossmo is published by Image Comics this week[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; WILD CHILDREN, the debut graphic novel by Ales Kot, is probably the most ambitious comic out this week. The book starts with a bunch of teenagers at a privileged school declaring the educational system sucks and taking their teachers and principal hostage at gunpoint What follows is not what you expect[...]

Max Schlickenmeyer will create the video for this final mission for Picard and Kirk. ChildWatch: Ales Kot (the man who rather exploded on Twitter in a hilarious fashion a couple of days ago) and Riley Rossmo (of Cowboy Ninja Viking) have an original graphic novella from Image in July, called Wild Children, about school shootings. Kot is[...]