Capes and Tights Podcast

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...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer and author Benjamin Percy to 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 resum...

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...

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 discu...

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! A...

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...

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 cov...

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...

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 w...

 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 Libra...

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 rein...

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...

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 Blumhou...

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 re...

Continuing Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes Anna Dupre and Matt Morris to 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 numb...

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...

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 f...

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 f...

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...

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), Bloo...

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 Best which he also co-wrote. The Guy in the Chair which he co-wrote with Hannah Rose May is h...

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 h...

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 ;...

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 fo...

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...