Trust me, you want to know all you can about Ales Kot right now. His comic debut only happened a year and a half ago with the Image release Wild Children, a daring story about children taking their teachers hostage that eventually becomes a psychedelic head trip, its follow-up Change, about broken people fighting a giant monster trying to sink Los Angeles, but Kot has established himself as a force to be reckoned with. His current Image book is Zero, which is a brutal look at the superspy game with the neat hook of having a different artist for every issue. Kot has also been co-writing Secret Avengers with Nick Spencer, stuffing the A.I.M. vs. SHIELD arc full of big ideas and intense storytelling.
With the All-New Marvel NOW initiative, Kot will be taking over Secret Avengers and flying solo with artist Michael Walsh, bringing in more comic elements, and he'll also be giving us the former War Machine James Rhodes in his own book in Iron Patriot, alongside Garry Brown. Crave Online got a chance to talk with the confident Ales (pronounced "Alish") Kot about his history and the new projects, we found out that not only does he write intensely, but even his interviews have an epic flair. We've even got a couple of never-before-seen preview pages to show you from Secret Avengers #1.
Oh, by the way, he's probably going to kill Rhodey. Heads up.