Capes and Tights Podcast

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writers Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly to the program to discuss Star Trek: The Last Starship , You'll Never Leave This Place Alive , Dungeons & Dragons , and more! Lanzing and Kelly, also known as Hivemind, are an Eisner-nominated and New York Times bestselling writing duo known for their work that spans across t...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes The Lawrence Brothers to the program to discuss The Lawrence Brothers: Detective Agency and more! Joey, Matt and Andrew have been a part of Hollywood since the 1990s and likely part of your childhood. That might be Joey as Oliver in Oliver & Company or Joey Russo on Blossom , Matt as Chris Hillard from Mrs. Doubtfire or Jac...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Kiersten White to the program to discuss Something is Killing the Children: Hope is a Knife , and more! Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of dozens of books for readers of all ages, including The House of Quiet , the And I Darken trilogy , the...

It's here. The 300th episode of the Capes and Tights Podcast and with this, Justin Soderberg welcomes writer, director, actor, comedian, and podcaster Kevin Smith to the program to help us celebrate in fitting fashion! Kevin Smith came to prominence with the low-budget comedy Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo "Jay & Sil...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Richard Chizmar to the program to discuss his Boogeyman series including his final installment, Killing the Boogeyman , and more! Chizmar is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author best known for his collaborations with Stephen King on Gwendy's B...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes Star Trek Editor Heather Antos to the program to celebrate 60 years of Star Trek on Star Trek Day 2026. Heather Antos is the Senior Group Editor in charge of Star Trek at IDW Publishing. Antos oversees the Star Trek line which includes titles such as The Last Starship , Red Shirts , Lower Decks , Starfleet Academy: Lost Contact...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creator Christian Ward to the program to discuss The Forever Home , The Patron , and more! After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner winning comic book artist and writer. He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C co-created with Matt Fr...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creators Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo to discuss their upcoming comic No Gods, No Masters and more! Salcedo is an Eisner Award-nominated comic book illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. He is the artist on Dark Horse miniseries, It's Only Teenage Wasteland with writer Curt Pires . Jacoby has also been featured in m...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Adam Cesare to the program to discuss Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo! and more! Cesare is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Clown in a Cornfield series and several other novels and novellas including the cult hit Video Night which gets a new edition this September 29, Influencer , and The Toxic...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back Paul Eaton of Galactic Comics and Collectibles to discuss the 1991 film, The Rocketeer . Cliff Secord is a cocky stunt pilot in love with a beautiful actress, Jenny Blake. When he discovers a jetpack hidden in a biplane, Cliff straps on the rocket, dons a flashy helmet and becomes the high-flying hero known as The Rocketee...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back author Joshua Millican to the program to discuss Dopefoot , his latest novel from Mad Axe Media, and more! Over the past decade-plus, Joshua Millican has proven himself to be a horror expert of the highest caliber. After establishing a personal blog in 2011, Millican quickly became one of the genre’s premiere journalists,...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Dan Watters to the program to discuss Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder , The Twilight Zone , and more! Watters is an Eisner-winning comic writer located in England who has worked on numerous projects from DC , Marvel , Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, IDW Publishing, and more. These titles include Nightwing , Des...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Dane Erbach to the program to discuss Meat Bees , his upcoming novel from Clash Books, and more! Erbach is a writer from Chicago’s northwest suburbs. He teaches English and journalism at a public high school. In 2006, Dane received his bachelor's degree in English and Education from Lake Forest College, where he wrote fo...

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...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book retailer Paul Eaton of Galactic Comics and Collectibles to the podcast to discuss the comics of 2026...so far, moving Galactic into their new shop, and more! Eaton is the owner of Galactic Comics and Collectibles located at 499 Hammond Street, Bangor, Maine. Opened six years ago, Galactic expanded into their current...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Kenny Porter to discuss Operation: Iron Coffin , Power Rangers Unlimited , Superman: Father of Tomorrow , and more! Kenny Porter is a comic writer living in Michigan. He is known for his work on Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow , The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive , DC: Mech , Superman , Green Lantern at DC Comics; The...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Griffin Sheridan to the podcast to discuss Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone , The Horror of Godzilla , Supergirl: Survive , and more! Griffin is half of the Eisner-nominated comic writing duo along with Ethan S. Parker. The two of them are known for their Image Comics horror / fantasy series Kill Your Darlings . Since...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast ,  Justin Soderberg  welcomes back comic creator  Tyler Boss  to the podcast to discuss Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy and more! Boss is the artist behind such comics as  What's The Furthest Place From Here? ,  4 Kids Walk Into a Bank ,  Dead Dog's Bite , a few issues of  The Department of Truth  and more. Tyler also has many variant covers under his bel...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 1984 Supergirl movie! After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch. The film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by David Odell , based on the DC Comics character...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Paul Doiron to the podcast to discuss his Mike Bowditch Mysteries including Storm Tide and more! Paul Doiron is the author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels, including The Poacher's Son , which won the the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award, an Ant...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creator Ande Parks to discuss his latest comics Bad Thoughts , Tyler Rake: An Extraction Story , and more! Ande Parks has worked as a comic book artist for nearly three decades, inking titles such as Daredevil, Ant-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman and Nightwing. He is best known for his long stint on Green Arrow, with frequent...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie! The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull. Masters of the Universe was directed by Gary Goddard , produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan , an...

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...

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...

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...