Pour sa première série régulière Zero publiée par Image Comics, le scénariste Ales Kot imagine un comics d’espionnage dont l’histoire s’étalera sur la longueur tout en étant composée de récits courts. Chaque numéro sera illustré par un dessinateur différent chaque mois. Michael Walsch, Mateus Santolouco, Morgan Jeske, Tradd Moore, Will Tempest et Tonci Zonjic se chargeront des six premiers numéros de la série, tandis que le coloriste Jordie Bellaire s’occupe de l’unité graphique.
La série chronique la vie de l’agent Edward Zero, véritable machine de guerre qui se retrouve piégé en tentant de récupérer un objet à un bio-terroriste amélioré. Une mission qui l’oblige à mettre en perspective sa loyauté envers ses employeurs.
Ci-dessous, la couverture et la couverture variante du premier numéro par Michael Walsch et Chris Burnham:
[quote]ZERO #1
story ALES KOT
art MICHAEL WALSH & JORDIE BELLAIRE
cover A MICHAEL WALSH & TOM MULLER
cover B BECKY CLOONAN
cover C CHRIS BURNHAM
SEPTEMBER 18
32 PAGES / FC / M
$2.99
SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME.
Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine – a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there’s an entire army after it.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #1
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Michael Walsh
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Cover by Michael Walsh, Tom Muller, Becky Cloonan
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, September 18th, 2013
SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME.
Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine – a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there’s an entire army after it.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #2
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Mateus Santoluoco
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Cover by Matteus Santoluoco, Tom Muller, Tyler Crook
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, October 16th, 2013
Shanghai, 2019. An opulent skyscraper party full of terrorists looking for fresh funding. Edward Zero is about to sabotage it big time – and then the skyscraper starts to vanish, bit by bit. So maybe he should look into that first?[/quote]
[quote]Zero #3
Story By: Ales Kot
Art By: Mateus Santolouco
Colored By: Jordie Bellaire
Cover By: Mateus Santolouco
Cover By: Tom Muller
Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: SEP130651
Published: November 20, 2013
Shanghai, 2019. An opulent skyscraper party full of terrorists looking for fresh funding. Edward Zero is about to sabotage it big time – and then the skyscraper starts to vanish, bit by bit. So maybe he should look into that first?[/quote]
[quote]Zero #4
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Morgan Jeske
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by VC - Clayton Cowles
Cover by Morgan Jeske
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, December 18th, 2013
Rio, 2019. Edward Zero looks in a mirror and the mirror gives him unsettling answers. The mirror being Carlyle, ex-Agency spy, holed up in a favela, running his own gang.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #5
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Will Tempest
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by VC - Clayton Cowles
Cover by Tom Muller
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 22nd, 2014
The solicitation text for this issue of ZERO has been censored by the Agency. There is nothing to see here.[/quote]
[quote=« Ales Kot »]I have anxiety issues. I do my best to jump through them and just paddle through and learn about their roots and disassemble them and it works. It’s hard work sometimes but fuck — it’s so worth it. Sometimes this kind of stuff just comes out of nowhere. The task number one is not to project it out, not to let my own beliefs and hopes and ideas be affected by the fears. Because the thing about anxiety is, I can recognize the anxiety if I realize that it’s always focused on the future. Never on the present. When it comes to the present I can simply figure out what to do about a situation, and I even if I conclude that I should do nothing (doing nothing can be underrated), that’s still a solution if that’s what I have to do. But when anxiety comes? Oh it’s always screaming about the future trying to drive a wedge between me and what I want.
I am beginning to think that anxiety is an evolutionary thing. It helps me because living with it is not really living, so I always want to deal with it and understand it and let it go. Face my fear and emerge stronger.[/quote]
[quote]ZERO #6
Written by: Ales Kot .
Art by: Vanesa Del Rey.
Cover by: Vanesa Del Rey.
Description: The Large Hadron Collider. Edward Zero’s newly gained knowledge. A man with a plan to end the universe so a better one can be born. They all connect here.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: March 19. [/quote]
[quote]Zero #7
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Matt Taylor
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by VC - Clayton Cowles
Cover by Matt Taylor
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, April 23rd, 2014
Zero and Zizek come to a place fifty-six miles away from Juarez, Mexico. There is business to be made in human misery.[/quote]
[quote]ZERO #8
Written by: Ales Kot.
Art by: Jorge Coelho, Tom Muller.
Cover by: Jorge Coelho, Tom Muller
Description: The Mexico event sets off a brutal change. Cooke is hunted. The killers are prepared. Zero approaches.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: May 21. [/quote]
[quote]Zero #9
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Tonci Zonjic
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by VC - Clayton Cowles
Cover by Tonci Zonjic, Tom Muller
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, July 23rd, 2014
Bosnia, 1993. Roman Zizek is selling weapons to every faction involved in the conflict.[/quote]
STORY BY
Ales Kot
ART BY
Michael Gaydos
COLORS BY
Jordie Bellaire
LETTERS BY
VC - Clayton Cowles
COVER BY
Michael Gaydos, Tom Muller
PUBLISHER
Image Comics
COVER PRICE:
$2.99
RELEASE DATE
Wed, August 13th, 2014
[quote] “ZERO” and TV — developments yes, and I am feeling elated about them. Do I want to talk about them more? Not at the present time, but I’ll gladly admit I’m answering this question while in Silver Lake, Los Angeles for a variety of reasons.
The comic and the show — I have no interest in doing the same thing twice. Would there be similarities? Yes. Would there be differences? Yes.
Interest in fungi — my parents used to take me to the woods. We would look for mushrooms, bring them back home, put them into scrambled eggs and such. Nothing quite like fresh mushrooms. Later on I begin learning about mushrooms as complex organisms. Did you know that mushrooms are, according to our current science, closer to animals than to plants? And we don’t know what their biodiversity is like. The estimates are 1-5 million species. And these are just estimates based on our current understanding, which is limited.
Where are mushrooms? Mushrooms are everywhere. Look at the walls around you. Look at the ground. How many different types of fungi does your body currently contain? And speaking of, how do our bodies operate? How many organisms are operating us while we assume that we are operating “ourselves” ?
Mushrooms and fascination come easy. Look at the mushroom death suit. Consider that fungi recycle plants and convert them into soil, and plenty other ways they interact with the environment. What would this Earth look like without them? Consider the ancient practices of using mushrooms as spiritual helpers. Some of the oldest living mushroom colonies are the circles around Stonehenge. Could this have anything to do with what “ZERO” is about, considering “ZERO” is set (mostly) in the United Kingdom?
I mean: how is all of the above applicable for SF? It just is. Everything is SF. We live in a world that is effectively SF. This world is a speculative fiction world — we constantly create and discard fictions. Everything is permitted. Perhaps we’re finally realizing that the membrane between fantasy and reality can be extremely thin and sometimes perhaps non-existent. How is this going to change our lives, our society, our universe? These things are connected. The internal changes the external. The micro changes the macro. You are important. Everyone is.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #11
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Jordie Bellaire
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by Clayton Cowles
Cover by Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Jordie Bellaire
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, October 22nd, 2014
MATURE READERS
Iceland, one year later. Zero’s past comes knocking.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #12
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Adam Gorham
Colors by Jordie Bellaire
Letters by VC - Clayton Cowles
Cover by Adam Gorham, Tom Muller
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, November 19th, 2014
The Agency is back in play. The weaponized fungus spreads. An old incident brings repercussions.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #13
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Alberto Ponticelli
Cover by Tom Muller, Alberto Ponticelli
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, December 17th, 2014
A team of professionals goes after Zero and the entire Agency. It all points back to the Beit Hanoun incident.[/quote]
[quote]Zero #14
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Marek Oleksicki, Jordie Bellaire
Cover by Marek Oleksicki, Tom Muller, Tonci Zonjic
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 28th, 2015
It all mattered. All of it. Has the world gone mad?[/quote]
[quote]Zero #15
Story by Ales Kot
Art by Jordie Bellaire, Ian Bertram
Cover by Jordie Bellaire, Ian Bertram, Jeff Lemire, [more…]
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Mar 18th, 2015
Tangiers in the 1960s. United Kingdom in the 2020s. The trip begins.[/quote]