Capes and Tights Podcast

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...

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...

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 y...

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 Somet...

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 leave...

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...

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 in...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle to 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...

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 , Ang...

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...

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 W...

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 co...

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...

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...

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....