Capes and Tights Podcast

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic writer Joey Esposito to the program to discuss his latest comics Killer Influences, Power Rangers Unlimited, and more! Joey Esposito grew up in New England reading comic books, playing video games, renting movies, and writing stories. After high school, Joey attended film school in New York. In college, Joey honed his writing skills, which he soon applied to his love of prose and comics. He released his first creator-owned comic Footprints, which was featured in USA Today’s Best of 2011 roundup and inspired a sequel, Footprints: Bad Luck Charm, in 2014. More recently Esposito has written comics such as DC's Batman: Urban Legends, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Pedestrian, Power Rangers: Zord Quest, Shitkickers, and more. In 2026, Joey is setup for a fun year with the release of Killer Influences and Power Rangers Unlimited on July 1 (FOC: May 25). Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Zack Kaplan and John Pearson to the podcast to discuss The Smart Division, Mindset, and more! Kaplan is a break out science fiction comic writer and creator of such comics and graphic novels as Eclipse, Port of Earth, The Lost City Explorers, Join the Future, Break Out, Metal Society, Mindset, and more recently, Forever Forward, Beyond Real. The Midnight: Shadows, Masterminds, and Kill All Immortals. He has worked with publishers such as Image Comics/Top Cow, Dark Horse, Aftershock Comics, Vault Comics, Humanoids, Scout Comics and DC Comics. He has a new series coming to Dark Horse on June 3, Only the Savage are Left. Pearson is the Eisner Award-winning artist and illustrator of such comics as The Infernals, In Bloom, and with Kaplan, Mindset. He has built a reputation as an inimitable talent through his varied portfolio producing work for clients as diverse as DC Comics, Image Comics, Vault Comics, Z2 Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, Netflix, WWE, Rue Morgue Magazine, The Ray Harryhausen Foundation, Burning Witches Records and Arrow Video amongst many others. Together the two are set to release a new series at Dark Horse in fall 2026 entitled The Smart Division. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie! Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world. The 1993 film based (loosely) on the Mario video game series by Nintendo was directed by the husband-and-wife team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel and written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon. Super Mario Bros. stars Bob Hoskins as Mario Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario, Dennis Hopper as President "King" Koopa, Samantha Mathis as Princess Daisy and the Queen, Fisher Stevens as Iggy Koopa, Richard Edson as Spike Koopa, Mojo Nixon as Toad, and Frank Welker as the voice of Yoshi and Goombas. The Super Mario Bros. movie hit theaters on May 28, 1993 and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. We discussed the artwork of Bob Tkacik. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Caroline Bicks to the podcast to discuss Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King and more! Caroline Bicks is an internationally-recognized Shakespeare scholar who has published widely on early modern drama, gender, and the history of science. She studied Renaissance poetry at Harvard University as an undergraduate and received her Phd in English Literature from Stanford University. She was tenured at Boston College in 2008, the same year that she began summer teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English. In 2017, she became the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. The endowed Chair’s mission is to support the public humanities, a challenge that Bicks has embraced by giving talks around the state to a wide variety of audiences, and bringing award-winning fiction writers, journalists, educators, and activists to speak and work with different Maine communities. The position also allowed her to develop a working relationship with Stephen Kingthat led to him granting her access to his personal papers and to her writing a book about what she discovered, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King. The uniquely public-facing nature of her position as King Chair complements the creative nonfiction pieces she has delivered to popular audiences over the years across various media platforms, including the Modern Love column for the New York Times, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and the show Afterbirth, which she performed in alongside Andrew McCarthy, Andrea Martin, and other stars. Bicks’s award-winning blog, “Everyday Shakespeare,” was the inspiration for her humorous book, Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas, co-authored with Michelle Ephraim. In April 2023, they launched their Webby-Award honored Everyday Shakespeare podcast, where they use their talents as educators and entertainers to deliver fresh, funny insights into how Shakespeare’s world connects to ours. Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King is available at bookstores everywhere from Hogarth. The audiobook, narrated by the author herself, is available via Libro.fm! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author and comic book writer Sarah Gailey to the podcast to discuss Neighborhood Watch, Make Me Better, and more! Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by Tor Books in 2019. More recently Gailey has release novels Just Like Home and Spread Me with their latest novel coming this May. Gailey's most recent original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Know Your Station, is also available now. They have also written comics for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Steven Universe, Predator, White Widow, and more. Their shorter works and essays have been published in Mashable, The Boston Globe, Vice, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their work has been translated and published around the world. They are the editor and publisher of Stone Soup and Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive. Neighborhood Watch #1 hits local comic shops on April 8, 2026 from BOOM! Studios. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Jacob Phillips and Tate Brombal to the podcast to discuss their comic series Everything Dead & Dying and more! Brombal is a comic book writer based in Toronto, Canada. His comic series House of Slaughter at BOOM! Studios with artist Chris Shehan spun out of James Tynion IV & Werther Dell’Edera’s hit Something is Killing the Children and debuted in 2021. His Eisner-nominated mini-series Barbalien: Red Planet (Dark Horse) alongside Eisner-winning artist Gabriel Hernández Walta also released in 2021 as a part of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer universe. Tate's also is the writer behind Behold, Behemoth (BOOM! Studios), and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos(Dark Horse). Brombal also has written comics for DC such as New Titans, Batman, The Question, Batgirl, Green Lantern: Dark, and more! Phillips is a comic artist and colorist residing in Manchester, UK. He has been drawing his whole life, self publishing first comic ‘Roboy’ at the age of 11 and selling it at Brighton Comic Con. Skip forward 16 years and today he is the artist on That Texas Blood and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery with writer Chris Condon and as well as Newburn with Chip Zdarsky as well as coloring projects such as Reckless, Criminal, and Madi. Together, Brombal and Phillips released a five-issue miniseries Everything Dead & Dying at Image Comics. The collected edition hit shelves at local comic shops on April 8, 2026 and at bookstores everywhere on May 5. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the Deadpool movie for the film's 10th anniversary! Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life. Directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, it is a spin-off of the X-Men film series and its overall eighth installment. Ryan Reynolds stars as the titular character, alongside Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle, Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman / Ajax, T.J. Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, and Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead. The film achieved both critical and commercial success, earning $782.6 million against a $58 million budget, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2016 and breaking numerous records, including the highest-grossing film in the X-Menseries and the highest-grossing R-rated film at the time. Based on the comic character created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza who first appeared in New Mutants #98(December 1990). The film released originally on February 12, 2016 and is available to stream right now. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author and comic book writer Alex Segura to discuss his Daredevil novel Enemy of My Enemy and more! Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. The sequel, Alter Ego, hit shelves everywhere on December 3, 2024. His science fiction novel Dark Space with Rob Hart released on October 8, 2024 while his Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow book released in May 2023. In the world of comics, Segura is the writer of Archie, Dick Tracy (Mad Cave), Spider-Society (Marvel), Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku (Marvel), The Black Ghost (ComiXology), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DC), and many more! Alex also has a trade paperback of The Legendary Lynx which ties into to his novels Secret Identity and Alter Ego. More recently Segura has been at the helm of the main Star Wars series at Marvel Comics. His latest novel, Enemy of My Enemy, hits bookstores everywhere on March 24, 2026. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creator Tony Fleecs to the podcast to discuss Deathstroke: The Terminator and more! Tony Fleecs is a prolific and critically acclaimed comic book creator and TV writer. His comics have sold millions of copies in the United States and have been translated and reprinted all over the world. Tony's creator owned books include Stray Dogs (2021,) Feral (2024,) Uncanny Valley (2024,) Local Man (2023) and Time Shopper (2022.) His work has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards and the Ringo Award. Tony has worked for every major U.S. comics publisher. You've seen his name on some of your favorite comic book titles like Star Wars, Rick & Morty, Avengers, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Batman, TMNT, Transformers, Army of Darkness and a literal ton of My Little Pony. He also wrote on the wildly popular Netflix show My Little Pony: Make Your Mark. Deathstroke: The Terminator hits local comic shops on March 18, 2026 from DC Comics. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book writer Jude Ellison S. Doyleto the podcast to discuss his latest comic series Dead Teenagers and more! Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York. Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. He is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called "smart, funny and fearless" (Boston Globe), "compelling" and "persuasive" (New York Times Book Review). The Atlantic predicted that "Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon." Doyle’s second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words award. His first non-fiction book under his real name, DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, was published by Melville House in the fall of 2025. In 2021, Jude published his first comic: Maw, a limited-series horror comic with artist A.L. Kaplan, for BOOM! Studios. His follow-up, The Neighbors with artist Letizia Cadonici, was published in 2023, and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD award for “Outstanding Comic.” Both are now available in collected edition. Jude’s third limited series with BOOM! Studios, Be Not Afraid with artist Lisandro Estherren, debuted in summer 2025, and Dead Teenagers, a limited series with artist Caitlin Yarsky, will be out from Oni Press in March 2026. Jude Doyle has led several successful social media awareness campaigns, including #MooreandMe and #MenCallMeThings, won the Women's Media Center’s first Social Media Award in 2011, and was a founding staffer at Rookie Magazine and a contributor to the bestselling anthologies Book of Jezebel, Nasty Women and It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. His pieces have appeared in Elle, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, and all across the Internet. He co-wrote the libretto for a German experimental music piece about Princess Diana. He currently writes a regular column at Xtra, Canada’s premier LGBTQIA+ magazine. He has a newsletter that’s not on Substack. He’s been invited to Italy three times, which was not enough. He once made a flowchart about farts for the New York Times. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus to the podcast to discuss Partially Devoured and more! Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. He is the author of books such as Rotters, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Pay the Piper, Whalefall, Angel Down and the upcoming Partially Devoured and The Sixth Nik. The movie adaptation of Whalefall is set to hit theaters soon starring Josh Brolin. It was recently announced that Angel Down has been optioned for a feature film as well! In the world of Comics, Kraus is the writer of Year Zero: Volume 0, The Autumnal, Trojan, and the recently released Athanasia. Partially Devoured hits shelves at bookstores everywhere on March 10, 2026 from Counterpoint Press. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Barry Hertz to the podcast to discuss his book Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious and more! Hertz is the award-winning Deputy Arts Editor and Film Editor for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, based in Toronto. Over the past two decades, he has reviewed thousands of movies, interviewed hundreds of actors and filmmakers, and covered every angle of the industry from festivals, sets, and markets around the world. His book, Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, hit bookstores everywhere on November 25, 2025 from Grand Central Publishing. The audiobook, narrated by the author himself, is available via Libro.fm! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book writer Fearless Fred Kennedy to the podcast to discuss his latest comic series The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre and more! Kennedy is a radio host, actor, and comic book writer. He works for the Toronto radio station Q107. He is known for his Image Comics series Dead Romans as well as his fan made Star Wars story podcast, Mud79. His latest comic The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre hit local comic shops on February 18, 2026 from Mad Cave Studios. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creator Kyle Starks to the podcast to discuss his latest comic series End of Life, Wrestle Heist, Devil on my Shoulder, and more! Starks is a three-time Eisner nominated comic creator from Southern Indiana. He is likely best known as the longest tenured writer and occasional artist for Oni Press' Rick and Morty comic and the hit series Peacemaker Tries Hard! for DC Comics. He was nominated for Eisners for Sexcastle, Rock Candy Mountain, and I Hate This Place for best humor publication. In recent years Kyle has released Where Monsters Lie, Where Monsters Lie: Cull-de-Sac, Those Not Afraid, and his Minor Threats' miniseries Barfly all at Dark Horse. His current series include Wrestle Heist, Devil on my Shoulder, and The Unprintable Rick and Morty. His latest series End of Life hits your local comic shops on February 18 from the Vertigo imprint at DC Comics. He has also worked on Skybound’s Assassin Nation with Erica Henderson, 6 Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton with Chris Schweizer at Image Comics, Marvel Unleashed at Marvel Comics, DC Comics' Harley Quinn: Black White and Redder, Wild Dog in Batman: Brave and the Bold, Dynamite Comics' Mars Attacks with Schweizer, Oni Press' Dead of Winterand many more. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cap...

Star Wars Podcast Day 2026 is here! Star Wars comic book writer Marc Guggenheim joins Justin Soderberg to discuss Guggenheim's upcoming Star Wars: Jar Jar comic series as well as more from the Star Wars universe! Star Wars Podcast Day is an unofficial celebration of the Star Wars fan audio community. Every year our event brings together approximately 100 shows, sharing their love of fan made audio with other Star Wars fans, as well as the wider podcast listening audience. Think of it as a little version of May the Fourth. Guggenheim is former Boston lawyer who left practicing law when he was hired to write on David E. Kelley's Emmy-winning show about Boston attorneys, The Practice. Guggenheim then joined Law & Order, where he wrote for three seasons before moving on to the critically acclaimed series Jack & Bobby and the ratings juggernaut CSI: Miami. Marc continued in writing for the screen when he collaborated with Greg Berlanti on feature film versions of the DC Comics characters Green Lantern and The Flash. Green Lantern was released as a major motion picture starring Ryan Reynolds in June 2011. The duo then went on to co-create Arrow, which spawned a “universe” of related series and events, culminating in 2020’s Crisis On Infinite Earths, a five-hour, six-series crossover. In 2020, directed his first episode of television (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) which made several “best of year” lists. A life-long comic book fan, Guggenheim has been writing comics professionally for twenty years, working on titles for both Marvel Comics (Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man), DC Comics (The Flash, Superman, Batman), and original creator-owned works (Resurrection, Halcyon, Nowhere Man, Jonas Quantum, Stringers). He is currently developing two of his creator-owned graphic novels Too Dead to Die and Last Flight Out as a movie for Universal Studios and a television series for Netflix, respectively. In the world of Star Wars, Guggenheim has written Star Wars: Age of Republic Special (2019), Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Special (2019), Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca (2022-2023), Star Wars: Revelations (2022 & 2023), Star Wars: Yoda (2022-2023), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace (2023), Star Wars: Dark Droids – D-Squad(2023), Star Wars: Jedi Knights (2025), Free Comic Book Day 202...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author Saratoga Schaefer to the podcast to discuss their upcoming novel Trad Wife and more! Schaefer is the author Serial Killer Support Group and sophomore novel Trad Wife coming in February 2026, as well as The Last Time We Drowned and A Thousand Monstrous Forms out later in 2026. Saratoga was born and raised in New York City. Besides being an avid reader and writer, Saratoga is also sober, and in their spare time, teaches yoga, climbs rocks, and hikes mountains. Trad Wife hits bookstores everywhere on February 10, 2026 from Crooked Lane Books Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Brian Raftery to the podcast to discuss his latest book, Hannibal Lecter: A Life, and more! Raftery is a journalist, podcaster, and author. His works include the books Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen (2019) and the upcoming Hannibal Lecter: A Life (2026), both published by Simon & Schuster. He also wrote and hosted the narrative podcasts Mission Accomplished, The Hollywood Hack, Do We Get to Win this Time?, and Gene & Roger, all produced by Spotify and The Ringer. He is a former senior writer for Wired, Brian’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, The Ringer, and New York, among several other publications. Hannibal Lecter: A Life hits bookstores everywhere on February 10, 2026 from Simon & Schuster. The audiobook, narrated by the author himself, is available for preorder via Libro.fm! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer and illustrator Kristen Gudsnuk to the podcast to discuss Touched by a Demon and more! Kristen Gudsnuk is a comics writer and illustrator. She got her start with the webcomic Henchgirl, which was later published by Scout Comics in single issue and Dark Horse as a collection. Her other works include the middle grade graphic novel series Making Friends from Graphix, the Minecraft: Wither Without You trilogy, co-illustrating Amelia Aierwood: Basic Witch by Emily Hampshire, and illustrating Modern Fantasy by Rafer Roberts. Her upcoming Dark Horse series Touched by a Demon kicks off January 21, 2026 at local comic shops. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer and author Benjamin Percyto the podcast to discuss all things comics and more! Benjamin Percy is an author and comic book writer who has seven novels to his name including most recently The Sky Vault, the final book in The Comet Cycle series. He broke into comics in 2014 and has many big titles on his resume including a long run on X-Force, Wolverine, Teen Titans, Nightwing, and the upcoming Dungeons of Doom, Punisher, and Star Wars: Shadow of Maul. Percy wrote two, ten-episode seasons of the audio drama Wolverine, which are presently streaming now on all podcast apps. The Long Night was listed as one of the top 15 podcasts of the year by Apple and won the iHeart Radio Award for best scripted podcast in 2018. His latest podcast is Wastelanders: Old Man Starlord (produced by Marvel and SiriusXM/Pandora), a post-apocalyptic take on the Guardians of the Galaxy that stars Timothy Busfield, Chris Elliot, Vanessa Williams, and Danny Glover. He also has sold many scripts to major production companies, including a few currently in development. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes IDW Publishing's Gregg Katzman to the podcast to discuss the year that was and the year upcoming at IDW and more! Katzman is the Senior Publicity Manager at IDW Publishing where he is in charge of promoting the entire IDW catalog by working with the creative teams, press, and media to ensure the success of the series. He works with the direct market, such as comic book stores, to promote the series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, Godzilla, IDW Dark, and more! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book retailer Paul Eaton back to the program to discuss our 2025 Comics of the Year. It's that time of the year once again! Our good friend and Galactic Comics & Collectibles shop owner, Paul Eaton, joins us again this year to countdown our favorite comics of 2025. This year, as in the past, both Justin and Paul discuss MOSTLY independent comics. What comics made the cut? Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author and actor Tim Blake Nelson to the podcast to discuss his latest novel Superhero and much more! Nelson is an author, actor, and playwright best known for his acting roles in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America: Brave New World, Minority Report, The Fantastic Four, Holes, and many more! As an author his has penned novels such as City of Blows and the recently released Superhero. Superhero hit bookshelves everywhere on December 2, 2025 from Unnamed Press with an audiobook dropping on February 3, 2026. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Hannah Rose May to the podcast to discuss The Guy in the Chair, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Smile: For the Camera, and more! Hannah Rose May is an Irish writer and actress know for her comics Rogues' Gallery, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, and The Guy in the Chair. Hannah has a stacked start to 2026 with the 1600 Penn sequel The Exorcism at Buckingham Palaceas well as Smile: For the Camera based in the Smile world from the feature films. As an actress, May has starred alongside her The Guy in the Chair co-writer Utkarsh Ambudkar on Ghosts, as well as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ballers,Shooter, Altered Carbon, and more. The third issue in The Guy in the Chair drops on December 24, 2025 from Dark Horse. Smile: For the Camera #1 and The Exorcism at Buckingham Palace #1 are set to hit local comic shops in February and March 2026 respectively from IDW Publishing. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creator Tyler Crook to the podcast to discuss his contribution to Hello Darkness #17, Out of Alcatraz, and more! Crook is a comic book artist and writer. After more than a decade of working in the video game industry, he transitioned to creating comics in 2011 with his first book, Petrograd. This effort won him the coveted Russ Manning Promising Newcomer award. In the years since then he has worked on titles like The Sixth Gun, BPRD: Hell on Earth, Witchfinder, Black Hammer, and most notably Harrow County, which was nominated for an Eisner award. In 2022, Tyler released The Lonesome Hunters, the first comic book series he both wrote and drew. His work has been awarded two Ghastly Awards and a Brahm Stoker Award and has been nominated for several Eisner Awards. His comics are notable for their lush traditional watercolor and ink rendering and emotive character work. Crook contributed to the Hello Darkness issue #17 which hits local comic shops on December 24, 2026 from BOOM! Studios. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss everyone's favorite Christmas movie, Die Hard! New York City policeman John McClane is visiting his estranged wife on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages, but him. Die Hard was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Over the years, there has been much debate over whether the film is a Christmas movie. Some have defended that since Die Hard's Christmas setting is enough to classify the movie as a Christmas film. While others, argue that it is an action film whose events happen to take place at Christmas. Die Hard released in theaters on July 15, 1988. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic writer David M. Booher to the podcast to discuss Malloch the Damned, EC Comics Shiver SuspenStories and more! Booher is a GLAAD-nominated writer who has created comics for Dark Horse, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Vault Comics and BOOM! Studios. His all-ages fantasy series Canto is in development as a feature film with Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios. His LGBTQ-led Killer Queens has been featured in the New York Times as a must-read in honor of Pride Month. He is also known for his work on Ghostbusters at Dark Horse as well as Specs at BOOM! Studios. Shiver SuspenStories hits shelves at local comic shops on December 11, 2025 from Oni Press. You can back his Kickstarter for Malloch the Doomed right now! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

 This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writers Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall to the podcast to discuss their upcoming holiday one-shot, Dread the Halls, and more! Jordan Hart is the creator of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated comic series Ripple Effects. Centered on an invulnerable superhero with type 1 diabetes, the story was placed on the American Library Association’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults reading list and was a finalist for the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards. Additionally, he is known for his Image Comics supernatural adventure series The Cabinet with co-creator David Ebeltoft and artist Chiara Raimondi. Recently he has released one-shot comics including Dread the Halls, Dread the Hall H, and more. Chris Ryall is the co-founder and publisher at Syzygy Publishing, an imprint at Image Comics, that launched in January 2022 with the Eisner-nominated Joe Hill’s Rain. He is also the writer and co-creator of Syzygy titles Zombies vs Robots, Onyx, The Hollows, and Tales of Syzpense, among other titles. Prior to forming Syzygy, Ryall spent nearly two decades developing unique stories from multiple sides of the business. Prior to founding Syzygy Publishing, Ryall served as IDW Publishing's Editor-in-Chief, Chief Creative Officer, President, and Publisher over his long tenure with the publisher. He also worked with creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez in the development of Locke & Key, serving as editor on the acclaimed comic series and as an EP on its three-season Netflix series. Additionally, in 2017 joined Robert Kirkman and David Alpert’s Skybound Entertainment as Editor-in Chief and Special Projects in a gap at IDW. Ryall also authored Marvel Age of Comics: Daredevil: Born Again which hit bookstores everywhere on November 11, 2025. Hart and Ryall co-created Dread the Halls, a horror holiday one-shot. The 2025 edition hits shelves at local comic shops on December 3, 2025 from Syzygy Publishing / Image Comics. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 1997 Spawn film and more! Covert government assassin Al Simmons is killed after being double-crossed by his boss, Jason Wynn. Upon arriving in Hell, Simmons is offered an opportunity to return to Earth if he's willing to lead an evil army. He accepts, and is reincarnated as a "Hellspawn" – a twisted, horribly disfigured version of his former self. However, Spawn serves as a force of good, much to the dismay of the Devil's henchman, a wicked clown. The film was directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé, written by Alan B. McElroy and Dippé, and stars Michael Jai White as the titular character, alongside John Leguizamo as The Violator, Martin Sheen as CIA Director Jason Wynn, Theresa Randle as Wanda Blake, D. B. Sweeney as CIA Agent Terry Fitzgerald and Nicol Williamson as Sir John of York / Cogliostro. First released in theaters on August 1, 1997 and more recently released in 4K. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author Clay McLeod Chapman to the podcast to discuss his upcoming novel Shiny Happy People and more! Chapman is the author of novels What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middle grade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. His new novel, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, arrived on January 7, 2025. Recently he released projects such as the novelette Stay On The Line (Shortwave Books), the novella Kill Your Darling (Bad Hand Books), a short story collection Acquired Taste (Titan Books), and the creator-owned comic limited series Seance in the Asylum (Dark Horse). His young adult novel Shiny Happy People hits shelves on November 11, 2025. In comics, Chapman is the writer of the Marvel series Scream: Curse of Carnage. He has written Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid Fever, as well as for Edge of Spider-Verse and Venomverse, The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, American Vampire, Scream: King In Black, and ORIGINS among others. He is the creator of Self Storage (451 Media) and Lazaretto (BOOM! Studios). Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

Finishing out Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Dave Schilling to the podcast to discuss Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse and much more! Dave is known for contributing to the LA Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and more. His short film, which he wrote and directed, Can’t Float, is coming soon. More recently Schilling co-wrote with those at Blumhouse, Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse which hit stores this September. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

Next up for Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Becky Siegel Spratford to the podcast to discuss Why I Love Horror and much more! Becky Siegel Spratford, MLIS, is a librarian specializing in serving patrons ages thirteen and up. She trains library staff all over the world on how to match books with readers through the local public library. She writes reviews for Booklist and a horror review column for Library Journal. Known for her work with horror readers, Becky is the author of three text books for library workers, most recently, The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Horror. She is on the Shirley Jackson Award Advisory Board and is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association, currently serving as the association’s secretary and cochair of their library committee. She recently edited Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature which is available at bookstores everywhere. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

Continuing Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Anna Dupre and Matt Morristo the podcast to discuss the horror genre, bookstagram, and more! Dupre is a contributing writer at Capes and Tights as well as a popular voice in the horror genre on Instagram and YouTube known as Anna Rose Reads. Matt Morris is another popular voice on Instagram as well as hosts a number of horror book clubs, he is known online as Matts Books and Drams. To celebrate our milestone 250th episode on the Capes and Tights podcast we found it fitting to discuss the world of horror with two of the great voices on social media and beyond! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

Kicking-off Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Tanya Pell to the podcast to discuss her latest novel Her Wicked Roots, the horror genre, and more! Pell is a former high school teacher and aerial arts instructor who is the author of Killer VHS: Cicada as well as the upcoming Her Wicked Roots. Her stories have been featured in Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror, Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night: A Halloween Horror Anthology, Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology, and more! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer Steve Orlando to the podcast to discuss their upcoming comic series War Wolf at Mad Cave Studios and more! Orlando has written for every major American comic book publisher. He's received Eisner Award Nominations for Outlaw Territory (Image Comics) and Rainbow Bridge (AfterShock Comics). Steve is also known for his work for DC Comics in Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Wonder Woman, and two series starring Midnighter, which were nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. More recently Orlando has written Scarlet Witch, Godzilla vs. America: Boston, and the upcoming War Wolf. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Laurel Hightower to the podcast to discuss their upcoming novella Killer VHS: The Long Low Whistle and more! Hightower is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Long Low Whistle, Whispers In The Dark, Crossroads, Below, Every Woman Knows This, Silent Key, and The Day of the Door, and has more than a dozen short fiction stories in print. The Long Low Whistle hits bookstores everywhere on November 4, 2025 from Shortwave Publishing. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the podcast to discuss banned or challenged graphic novels for Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Typically held during the last week of September (this year October 5-11), the annual event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the entire book community — librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas. The theme of this year’s event is Censorship Is So 1984 — Read for Your Rights. The most common justifications for censorship provided by complainants were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes; and covering topics of race, racism, equity, and social justice. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes award-winning screenwriter, comic book writer, and author Eric Heisserer to the program to discuss his debut novel Simultaneous and much more! Heisserer is the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Arrival (2016), as well as Bird Box (2018), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Thing (2011), Final Destination 5 (2011), Bloodshot (2020), and more. He is also the creator of the television series Shadow and Bone. As for the print medium, Heisserer is credited with writing comic books such as Shaper (Dark Horse), Lone Wolf 2100 (Dark Horse), Zombie Tales (BOOM! Studios), Secret Weapons (Valiant), and more! His debut novel, Simultaneous, hits bookstores everywhere on October 28, 2025 from Flatiron Books. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer, actor, and singer Utkarsh Ambudkar to the program to discuss his comic The Guy in the Chair and much more! Utkarsh Ambudkar is known for his acting roles including Pitch Perfect, The Mindy Project, Ghosts, and World’s Bestwhich he also co-wrote. The Guy in the Chair which he co-wrote with Hannah Rose May is his comic book miniseries debut. His fifth season of Ghosts is set to premiere on October 16, 2025 on CBS. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss Jaws as we all celebrate the films 50th anniversary in 2025! When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper and grizzled ship captain Quint offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature. Jaws was written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Benchley, and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as Quint, Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper, Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody, Murray Hamilton as Mayor Larry Vaughn, Carl Gottlieb as Meadows, Jeffrey Kramer as Deputy Leonard Hendricks, Susan Backlinie as Chrissie Watkins, Lee Fierro as Mrs. Kintner, and Peter Benchley as Interviewer. The feature film celebrated 50 years this June 20, 2025 as it was released in theaters on June 20, 1975. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry to the program to discuss their comic series Barstow and much more! Rebekah is a filmmaker, writer, producer, director, and academic who has established herself as a prominent figure in the horror and science fiction genres. She has directed films such as Glorious starring J.K. Simmons; Elevator Game; All the Creatures Were Stirring (which she also wrote); and more. Rebekah also co-wrote the horror film reboot of the 2000 film Bring It On with writer Dana Schwartz entitled Bring It On: Cheer or Die. David Ian is a filmmaker, writer, producer and director who has written such films as Glorious (which he wrote alongside our friend Joshua Hull); Elevator Game; All the Creatures Were Stirring (which he also directed); and more! Together, Rebekah and David Ian have written a comic miniseries for Dark Horse entitled Barstow. The collected edition of the series hits bookstores everywhere on September 23, 2025. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book creators Jeremy Haun and Mike Tisserand to the program to discuss their comic Murder Podcast and much more! Haun is the creator of The Realm, The Beauty, The Red Mother, and The Approach, and more. His other projects include Batwoman, Constantine, Wolf Moon, and Knight Terrors: Black Adam. Jeremy has worked for nearly every publisher in the industry as well as doing self-publishing via Kickstarter. In 2025 he launched Ignition Press. Tisserand began his career in animation in 2006 and has worked as a 2D and 3D animator, designer, storyboard artist, and head of story on productions for Disney, Dreamworks, 20th Century, Nickelodeon, and Netflix on projects including The Dragon Prince, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Big Hero 6: The Series, among others. Together the two have created Murder Podcast which hits shelves on September 10, 2025 from Ignition Press. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author Ashley Cullins to the program to discuss their book, Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror and more! Cullins is an award-winning entertainment journalist with over a decade of experience. After graduating with a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School, Ashley began her career in broadcast news before making the jump to print. Your Favorite Scary Movie is her first book. Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror is available at bookstores everywherefrom Dutton Books. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author Brian McAuley to the program to discuss his latest novel, Breathe In, Bleed Out and more! Brian grew up in Weird, NJ on a steady diet of Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. He received his BA in Creative Writing and Horror Theory from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study before getting his MFA in Film from Columbia University. As a WGA screenwriter, Brian has written five films for the Lifetime Network in addition to writing and producing the award-winning thriller Dismissed for BoulderLight Pictures. He sold his TV series pitch Affliction to Syfy Network in a pilot development deal and penned an episode of Fuller House (episode 12) for Netflix. Brian’s debut novel Curse of the Reaper was published through Simon & Schuster and named one of the Best Horror Books of 2022 by Esquire. His Christmas horror novella Candy Cain Kills released in 2023 through Shortwave Publishing with the sequel published on November 12, 2024. His latest novel, Breathe In, Bleed Out, hits bookstores everywhere from Poisoned Pen Press on September 2, 2025. Brian McAuley is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at the Sidney Poitier New American Film School of Arizona State University. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss The Toxic Avenger film from 1984! Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. A 98-pound nerd from New Jersey lands in a vat of toxic waste and becomes a benevolent monster. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose. The Toxic Avenger was produced and directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (Samuel Weil) from a screenplay by Joe Ritter, based on a story by Kaufman. The film stars Mitch Cohen as Melvin Ferd / The Toxic Avenger, Andree Maranda as Sara, Pat Ryan Jr. as Peter Belgoody, Jennifer Babtist as Wanda, Robert Prichard as Slug, Cindy Manion as Julie, Gary Schneider as Bozo, Mark Torgl as Melvin pre-mutation, and Kenneth Kessler as the voice of The Toxic Avenger. Troma Entertainment released the film initially on April 14, 1984. During the next year, it had a long run as the midnight movie on the single screen of the Bleeker Street Cinema in New York City. Two years later on April 4, 1986, the film opened on 45 screens and earned $140,000 for its opening weekend. The movie released by Troma on VHS and Betamax in 1986 and for the first time on DVD on March 25, 1998. Troma released the film on Blu-ray on August 12, 2014. The Toxic Avenger is getting a reboot written and directed by Macon Blair releasing on August 29, 2025 which stars stars Peter Dinklage as the title character, alongside Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon. You can stream the 1984 classic on Prime Video. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Timmy Heague to the program to discuss Archie vs. Minor Threats and more! Heague is a comic book writer known for his work in the world of Riverdale. His work on Archie Comics is a big reason why he is tackling From the World of Minor Threats: Archie vs. Minor Threats along with co-creators Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt. Timmy is also the owner of the five-time Eisner nominated Arsenal Comics and Games in California. From the World of Minor Threats: Archie vs. Minor Threats hits local comic shops on August 6, 2025 from Dark Horse. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz to discuss Revivaland more! Koontz is a producer, writer and director. He is the founder and CEO of Paper Street Pictures, a film production company in Austin, Texas. Koontz is the writer, director and producer behind The Pale Door, the Scare Package franchise, and Camera Obscura. As a producer Koontz has also worked on Old Man, The Artifice Girl, and Shelby Oaks. More recently Koontz is the showrunner, producer, writer and director, along with Luke Boyce, of the SyFy television adaptation of Revival based on the comic book series created by writer Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton. WATCH REVIVAL ON PEACOCK! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic retailer Paul Eaton to discuss the 2005 Fantastic Four movie. Scientist Reed Richards persuades his arrogant former classmate, Victor von Doom, to fund his experiments with cosmic energy. On von Doom's space station, the crew -- including astronaut Ben Grimm, researcher Sue Storm and pilot Johnny Storm -- are exposed to a mysterious cosmic storm that bestows super powers upon them. As they cope with their transformations, von Doom vows his revenge. The film was directed by Tim Story on a script by Mark Frost and Michael France based on the Marvel Comics' characters co-created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The team first appeared in comics in The Fantastic Four #1(November 1961). Starring Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic, Jessica Alba as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman, Chris Evansas Johnny Storm / Human Torchs, Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm / The Thing, Julian McMahon as Victor von Doom / Doctor Doom, and Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters. Fantastic Four released in theaters on July 8, 2005 and is now available to stream. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Bram Stoker-nominated author Craig DiLouieto the program to discuss My Ex, the Antichrist and more! DiLouie is the author of novels such as How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive, Episode Thirteen, Suffer the Children, The Children of Red Peak, and many more. His works have been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award. His latest novel, My Ex, the Antichrist, hit bookstores everywhere on July 1, 2025 from Run for It. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes bestselling author Paul Tremblay to the program to discuss his upcoming novel, Another, and more! Tremblay is the author of Horror Movie, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things and Other Stories. He has won Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards. His young adult horror novel, Another, hits bookstores everywhere on July 22, 2025 from Quill Tree Books. The audiobook, narrated by Ramon de Ocampo, is available for preorder at Libro.fm! Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com

 This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes cartoonist Patrick Horvath to the program to discuss Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring and more! Horvath is a filmmaker and comic book creator best known for IDW Publishing's Eisner-nominated comic book series Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees as well as the upcoming sequel, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring. Horvath is also the mind behind the Zoop funded and Oni Press released Free For All. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring #1 hits local comic shops on July 9, 2025 from IDW Publishing. Facebook: https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter: https://twitter.com/capestightspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/capesandtightspodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/capesandtights.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@capesandtights Website: https://capesandtights.com