Capes and Tights Podcast

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 gettin...

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 a...

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 O...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz to discuss Revival and 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 Koon...

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...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes Bram Stoker-nominated author Craig DiLouie to 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...

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 st...

 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 back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss Back to the Future in honor of the film's 40th Anniversary. In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown goes awry. Traveling through time in a modifie...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic writer Zack Kaplan to the program to discuss Kill All Immortals , Masterminds , 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,...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Philip Fracassi to the program to discuss his novella D7 and upcoming novel The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre . Philip Fracassi is the author of the novels Don't Let Them Get You Down , A Child Alone with Strangers , Gothic , Boys in the Valley and The Third Rule of Time Travel . He is also the author of severa...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creator Kyle Starks to the program to discuss Those Not Afraid , Where Monsters Lie , Kill Them All , 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 serie...

 This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Adam Rose to the program to discuss Huge Detective and more! Rose is a writer and comic book creator living in Los Angeles. He has written such comics as Playground: Attack of the Gurgle Bots (Markosia Entertainment), Corollary (Source Point Press), and Huge Detectiv e (Titan Comics). His prose writing has been fe...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the Clown in a Cornfield movie! Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back Adam Cesare to the program to discuss having his novel Clown in the Cornfield adapted into a feature film and more! Cesare is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Clown in a Cornfield series, the graphic novel Dead Mall , and several other novels and novellas including the cult hit Video Night . The third installment...

Rounding up Star Wars Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book artist Vladimir Popov to the program to discuss coloring Star Wars comics and more! Popov is the colorist responsible for comics such as Where Monsters Lie, Flash Gordon, Highlander, Robocop, Fearscape, Port of Earth, Hellraiser, Ice Nine Kills, Yungblud and many more. More recently Vladimir has color...

Next up for Star Wars Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes Jason Munoz to the program to discuss This Dad Reads and more! This Dad Reads is a place for chronicling his journey through books and more. Jason reads and reviews anything but particularly loves Star Wars , thrillers, modern literature, sci-fi and fantasy. Facebook : https://facebook.com/capestightspod Twitter...

First up for Star Wars Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book creators Alyssa Wong and Liana Kangas to the program to discuss Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Annual and more! Wong writes award-winning fiction, comics, novels, and games. Their stories have won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. Alyssa was a finalist for the J...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creator Tyler Boss to the program to discuss You'll Do Bad Things 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 belt. For his latest comic h...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes writer Dan Baillie and artist Tim Bradstreet to the program to discuss their graphic novella Look Out and more! Bradstreet is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator who is most well known for being the regular cover artists for Marvel 's The Punisher (2000-2008) and Vertigo's Hellblazer (1998-2005) as well as IDW Publishing's St...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes filmmakers Gary Smart and John Campopiano to the program to discuss the documentary Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3 , now streaming on ScreamBox . Smart is the writer and producer of such titles as Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser (2015); You’re so cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night (2016); RoboDoc: The Creat...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Saratoga Schaefer to the program to discuss their novel Serial Killer Support Group and more! Schaefer is the author the recently released Serial Killer Support Group and is currently writing their sophomore novel Traditional Wife . Saratoga was born and raised in New York City. Besides being an avid reader and writer, S...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes writer Anthony Cleveland and artist Alex Cormack to the program to discuss their Buried Long, Long Ago release and much more! Cleveland burst onto the scene with his comic series Stargazer and followed up the successful first series with Show's End , both at Mad Cave Studios. His latest series Charred Remains with artist Andrea...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer and podcaster Matthew Klein to the program to discuss his podcast Comics For You and more! Klein the comic book writer behind IDW Publishing's Crashing as well as a number of webcomics on Tapas. While not writing or pitching comics, Klein works in U.S. Comic Market Sales for Penguin Random House. In 2025, Matthew l...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Keith Rosson to the program to discuss his novels Fever House , The Devil by Name and more! Rosson is the author of the novels The Devil by Name , Fever House , Smoke City , Road Seven , and The Mercy of the Tide as well as the Shirley Jackson Award–winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons . His short fict...