Q&A: Ed Laroche Discusses His New Image Comic Book Series ‘Almighty’
The graphic novelist talks his new Image Comics series, his creative process, and the intersection between music, cinema, and comic books in his work.
I’ve been a fan of Ed Laroche for as long as I’ve known Ed Laroche, which is more than a decade now. The storyboard artist-by-day and graphic novelist-by-night and I struck up a friendship over long movie marathons in my living room — this was back when I lived in Los Angeles — drawn to each other as much by our love of cinema as artistic philosophies that overlapped by half. The half that didn’t has provided us no end of entertainment through lengthy debates about the nature of art in all its forms as well as the role of art criticism, none of which ever seem to get resolved.
This month, Laroche has a new comic book series out from Image Comics. ALMIGHTY is a harrowing tale of an abducted girl and the professional killer — a killer with unique abilities — who is hired to find her. It’s set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop populated by corrupt law enforcement, violent biker gangs, and environmental collapse. Like a lot of the work in this space, much of what I just described sounds familiar enough to many of us, but Laroche distinguishes his story…
