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Zero #3
Tenderness of Wolves
Edward Zero quit being a spy thug, left the Agency, found a better life in Iceland. But when a volcano erupts and the past comes back in a myriad of ways, what does the path ask of him? Palestine, Belfast, the laboratory in the woods—they all come back into play now.
Collecting: Zero 11-14
Collecting: Zero 11-14
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 10, 2015
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About the author
Aleš Kot
268 books177 followersAleš Kot is a post-Chernobyl, pre-revolution, Czech-born, California-based writer/producer who started in graphic novels and now makes films, television, and an occasional novella.
A. believe in art and community.
A. doesn't believe in borders nor cops.
A. believes in love, which they know is a very Libra answer. And what about it?
A. believe in art and community.
A. doesn't believe in borders nor cops.
A. believes in love, which they know is a very Libra answer. And what about it?
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July 4, 2015
There goes Ales Kot making me a liar. I made a statement about not sticking it out with this title in my review of Vol. 2 if there weren’t more in the way of answers with this one. Well, guess I’m fulla shit, because I’m in for vol. 4. Kot keeps givin’ me just enough to string me along.
Edward Zero’s back at it in Zero Vol. 3 The Tenderness of Wolves. And by "back at it" I mean he’s straight- up wreckin’ mother fuckers. Kot’s Zero seems to continue to borrow heavily from Ludlum’s Bourne series with the “rogue agency assassin” thing. Ales keeps pulling the curtain back a little bit at a time with this latest collection. While this book plays out a little more straight forward chronologically than the first couple volumes, don’t expect it to make a huge difference in terms of being any more concise. Chapter 12, while being something of a head scratcher, had a pretty unsettling revelation though. Eewww.
The off the chain violence helped to keep my attention. Believe me when I tell ya, there’s a butt-ton of it. Zero runs into a couple of folks that are just as hardcore as he is and shit gets REAL. The last 2 issues collected are especially light on dialogue and heavy on the kickassery. Loved it.
As in both the prior collections, a new artist tackles the drawing chores with each new chapter. This collection might be my favorite to date in terms of the overall consistency of the artwork. Everybody did a bang up job. Marek Oleksicki being something of a standout with the last chapter. He really nailed the visceral vibe that issue needed.
I know the lack immediate clarity about just what the fuck is going on story-wise will put people off to this title. Typically, I fit in that category. But Ales has set the hook and I’m seeing this one through to the end. Which, from I understand, is the next collection. Can’t fuckin’ wait.
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Edward Zero’s back at it in Zero Vol. 3 The Tenderness of Wolves. And by "back at it" I mean he’s straight- up wreckin’ mother fuckers. Kot’s Zero seems to continue to borrow heavily from Ludlum’s Bourne series with the “rogue agency assassin” thing. Ales keeps pulling the curtain back a little bit at a time with this latest collection. While this book plays out a little more straight forward chronologically than the first couple volumes, don’t expect it to make a huge difference in terms of being any more concise. Chapter 12, while being something of a head scratcher, had a pretty unsettling revelation though. Eewww.
The off the chain violence helped to keep my attention. Believe me when I tell ya, there’s a butt-ton of it. Zero runs into a couple of folks that are just as hardcore as he is and shit gets REAL. The last 2 issues collected are especially light on dialogue and heavy on the kickassery. Loved it.
As in both the prior collections, a new artist tackles the drawing chores with each new chapter. This collection might be my favorite to date in terms of the overall consistency of the artwork. Everybody did a bang up job. Marek Oleksicki being something of a standout with the last chapter. He really nailed the visceral vibe that issue needed.
I know the lack immediate clarity about just what the fuck is going on story-wise will put people off to this title. Typically, I fit in that category. But Ales has set the hook and I’m seeing this one through to the end. Which, from I understand, is the next collection. Can’t fuckin’ wait.
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August 5, 2015
Still don't know what the fuck is going on here, but Ales Kot is one twisted, yet beautiful writer. Painfully violent. More blood than one would want to see. The artistic team knocks the storyboards into the stratosphere of realism and horrific imagination. One more volume to go, I think.
December 17, 2015
And this is where I give up on this series. Although I should've given up around Vol 2, the decent reviews praising the writing in 3, made me stick it out for one more. And that was my third mistake. My second was continuing with this bullshit after picking it up in the first place, which was my first mistake. There was a mystery alluded to on par with season 1 of Lost, but the disproportionality of questions to answers makes it as frustrating (actually more) as the weakest episode of that show that eventually had a somewhat satisfying conclusion. At least the writers on that show knew how to string an audience along and keep them interested. In Zero, Ales Kot strings you along with a rotating door of artists that grow to have little variance from one another. It seems to me that he's only doing that just to distract the audience long enough for them to commit to four TPB before they realize that there is nothing truly remarkable about this series, especially when it comes to story.
July 14, 2021
I don't really know or understand what's going on in this anymore but there were a lot of fight scenes in here, no dialogue or narration really just pages upon pages of bloody battles with broken bonds and shots through the body and that stuff. Good action! Good art! I don't know what the story is and don't particularly care to find out.
October 9, 2017
Not sure what is going on in this really
October 5, 2017
Epic elevator fight scene.
July 4, 2015
Each issue is drawn by a different artist, and this fact for a some reason seems to keep this series fresh and also different from the rest of the Image output. Kot has a Warren Ellis vibe in his comics with a touch of Grant Morrison (when you read his newest comic The Surface #1, you know what i'm talking about).
Zero is very deeply serialized, so there's a need to re-read the previous volumes before diving to the new one. Volume 3 is full on brutal action with minimal dialogue (style of this whole series) and it's fast read. As for the art, Alberto Ponticelli and Marek Oleksicki (issues 13 & 14) make that aforementioned action work and they are this volumes stars. What i didn't like is this Marvel way creeping in, as this collection has only a four issues, but the price stays the same, not a good development at all.
Zero is very deeply serialized, so there's a need to re-read the previous volumes before diving to the new one. Volume 3 is full on brutal action with minimal dialogue (style of this whole series) and it's fast read. As for the art, Alberto Ponticelli and Marek Oleksicki (issues 13 & 14) make that aforementioned action work and they are this volumes stars. What i didn't like is this Marvel way creeping in, as this collection has only a four issues, but the price stays the same, not a good development at all.
July 12, 2015
Brutal. Absurdo. Insanidade. Horror.
Este volume é breve e avassalador, com tudo acontecendo muito rápido, com muito sangue e consequências que estamos longe de antever. E, como não podia deixar de ser, visualmente ESPETACULAR.
Este volume é breve e avassalador, com tudo acontecendo muito rápido, com muito sangue e consequências que estamos longe de antever. E, como não podia deixar de ser, visualmente ESPETACULAR.
March 1, 2015
Ales Kot and the artists on ZERO continually push the envelope for the comic narrative. Absolutely brutal.
May 14, 2015
Shit gets real.
June 27, 2016
If Jason Statham demonically possessed a comic book.
January 15, 2019
Holy shit.
This volume is brutal. There is a moment, that made me pause for a second to kind of let the moment settle in. This one is not for the faint of heart.
And the book works even better when juxtaposed against the last volume, which is more of a slow meditation on what its like to live life and how to start feeling again after living a life where you were taught to essentially turn those feelings off. This volume goes in the opposite direction.
We get a focused, action packed volume where Edward Zero is brought back into the world that he left. And we get to see exactly why he has survived in this world for as long as he has. The art compliments the story well as it is messy but cohesive, dynamic, and focused all at once.
Looks like the book is definitely ready to wrap things up in a big way. Ill definitely be reading the next volume.
Recommended for people who like spy thrillers with a side of crazy, bloody violence.
This volume is brutal. There is a moment, that made me pause for a second to kind of let the moment settle in. This one is not for the faint of heart.
And the book works even better when juxtaposed against the last volume, which is more of a slow meditation on what its like to live life and how to start feeling again after living a life where you were taught to essentially turn those feelings off. This volume goes in the opposite direction.
We get a focused, action packed volume where Edward Zero is brought back into the world that he left. And we get to see exactly why he has survived in this world for as long as he has. The art compliments the story well as it is messy but cohesive, dynamic, and focused all at once.
Looks like the book is definitely ready to wrap things up in a big way. Ill definitely be reading the next volume.
Recommended for people who like spy thrillers with a side of crazy, bloody violence.
December 25, 2019
Took me most of the year to realise this wasn't available in the comixology app because of the explicit scenes in issue 11. It is in the web store though...
Most of this is action and some of the most brutal hand to hand combat scenes you'll find. It's going to be hard to take Bond seriously after this.
Most of this is action and some of the most brutal hand to hand combat scenes you'll find. It's going to be hard to take Bond seriously after this.
April 30, 2024
the writing is nothing special, i feel the chapters don't follow each other very well. Also its overly gory, perhaps to try and distract the reader from the poor writing and story line.
I do like the way the art changes between chapters though.
I do like the way the art changes between chapters though.
December 20, 2017
Five stars for the art and dialog. But where the hell is this story going?
March 18, 2021
That fight scene at the end was brutal as fuck!
October 27, 2022
These need to be read all together. They're impossible to understand in chunks.
April 17, 2024
Lots of long fight scenes in these issues, not my thing.
May 13, 2024
Who has two thumbs and has totally lost the plot of this series? This guy!
March 16, 2017
best one yet.
February 10, 2017
Quick and brutal. A good overall volume.
November 10, 2016
Zero finds true love, but the Agency still has him as a target and he accepts their offer to come back. He is given his full file while in the Agency's headquarters when some men assault the building. The Agency's guards are cut to pieces, but Zero kills some of the men, including the leader, in a couple of the bloodiest and most dynamic scenes I've seen in comics. He saves the children left in the training program while Sara blows up the building while she is still inside.
July 28, 2015
This continues to be one of the best comic series I've read, certainly in recent memory and possibly ever. Extremely stylish, entertaining, and well-written. Very much looking forward to the continuation.
August 25, 2015
Enjoying this still, however I'm starting to get a little weary of the motifs, e.g. "where did all the horses go?" We do like hearing a created universe speak its own alien little language, but perhaps it should learn to keep quiet.
September 27, 2015
Not much to say about this. It's best if you go in knowing very little. Kot is a brilliant writer and Zero is so much fun to read. It's also great to see a comics writer that really lets his artist be free to do whatever they want.
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April 24, 2016By far the most linear volume, but for me the choice of artist on the first issue was a little puzzling; in scenes which seem intended to represent a bucolic escape, Ortiz instead renders everything in the manner of a creepier Jeff Lemire. His representation of a cock is especially rum.
March 1, 2015
I'm looking forward to rereading this series. hopefully it'll make more sense the second time through.
March 11, 2015
Totally brutal. Blimey
March 25, 2016
Where did the horses go?
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