Capes and Tights Podcast

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer Chris Condon to the program to discuss his comic series Far Down Below and more! Condon is the writer of the Image Comics series That Texas Blood  with artist Jacob Phillips along with its Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre , which was selected as one of the best comics of 2023 by The Hollywood Repor...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Patrick Barb to the program to discuss his upcoming Killer VHS book, Night of the Witch-Hunter . Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales. His works include novellas Gargantuana's Ghost (Grey Matter Press), Turn (Alien Buddha Press), novelettes Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare (Spooky House...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 2003 Daredevil movie. Attorney Matt Murdock is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night, he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante, a relentless avenger of justice. When Wilson Fisk hires...

LISTEN:   APPLE   |   SPOTIFY This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer Matthew Rosenberg to the program to discuss his upcoming comic series We're Taking Everyone Down With Us . Rosenberg is the award-winning writer of comics such as What's The Furthest Place From Here? , 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank , and We Can Never Go Home . He has also written a lot...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer and editor Steve Foxe to the program to discuss his upcoming Let This One Be a Devil  comic and more! Foxe is the Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated author of over 80 comics and children's books including Spider-Woman , Dark X-Men , X-Men '97 , All Eight Eyes , Rainbow Bridge , the Skybound Creepshow anthology,...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author and screenwriter Joshua Hull to the program to discuss his novel 8114 and so much more! Hull is an author, screenwriter, and filmmaker based out of Indiana. He's the co-screenwriter of Glorious , a 2022 Lovecraftian horror film starring Ryan Kwanten and the Academy Award winning J.K. Simmons . He is a past winner of the...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the 1997 Steel movie. John Henry Irons is a weapons designer for the United States military. When his project to create weapons that harmlessly neutralize soldiers is eradicated, he resigns in disgust. When he sees criminal gangs are using the weapons that he helped...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer Ed Brisson to the program to discuss his upcoming SilverHawks comic and more! Brisson is a comic book writer who first started to garner attention with his self-published crime series Murder Book . He broke into the public spotlight in 2012 with the crime/time-travel thriller series Comeback . In the short time sin...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes New York Times bestselling author Fred Van Lente to the program to discuss his Bloodshot novel, Murder Kingdom , and more! Van Lente is a six-time New York Times bestselling comics writer, novelist and playwright whose work spans mystery/thrillers to historical fiction to superheroes to comedy. Fred has worked with publishers s...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Eric LaRocca to the program to discuss At Dark, I Become Loathsome and more! LaRocca is a two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the "Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age" and praised by Locus as "one of strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fic...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes artist Tim Jacobus to the program to discuss his artwork on the original Goosebumps book series by R.L. Stine . Jacobus is responsible for well over 100 pieces of art. Best known for his cover art work on the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series , Tim is responsible for creating the iconic 62 original series covers, followed by the Goo...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book retailer Paul Eaton back to the program to discuss our 2024 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 2024. This year, as in the past, both Justin and Paul discu...

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 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 2025 followup Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes cartoonist Jay Martin to the program to discuss his graphic novel Yellow and much more! Martin started his career as a cartoonist, creating the nationally syndicated strip Tommy before segueing into film and working as storyboard artist on such films as  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ,   Constantine , I Am Legend , Ad Astra , and Th...

It's here. The 200th episode of the Capes and Tights Podcast. For this special milestone episode, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creator Liana Kangas to the program to help celebrate! Liana Kangas is a freelance comic artist, illustrator, and writer, with previous professional history in graphic design and outreach. They recently released the TRVE KVLT trade paperback they co-created and ill...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss Jingle All The Way . A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one. The film was written by Randy Kornfield and directed by...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author and comic writer Alex Segura to the program to discuss The Legendary Lynx , Alter Ego , Dick Tracy , and more! Alex 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 receive...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes writer, producer, and educator Steven Barnes to the program to discuss Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss and more! Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels of science fiction, horror, and suspense. The Image, Endeavor and Cable-Ace Award winning author also writes for television, including The T...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer Brandon Montclare to the program to discuss DuckTales and more! Montclare is a comic book writer with credits to his name such as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur , Fear Itself: Fearsome Four , and Marvel Voices from Marvel and Rocket Girl from Image Comics. NPR proclaimed his adventure series "effervescent" while...

This week on  the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes Brian McAuley back to the program to discuss Candy Cain Kills Again: The Second Slaying 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 hi...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Lukas Ketner, Leah Kilpatrick, and David Dastmalchian to the show to discuss the Headless Horseman Annual 2024 and more! Ketner is the artist and co-creator of Witch Doctor , the hit launch title for Robert Kirkman ’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics. He was a 2009 nominee for the Russ Manning Award for his Witch...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Jason Rekulak to the program to discuss his latest novel The Last One at the Wedding and more! Rekulak is an Edgar-nominated author. His is the writer of The Impossible Fortress  as well as the thriller, Hidden Pictures , which was an Amazon Thriller of the Year, a Goodreads Choice winner, and has been optioned for Netfli...

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic and tv writer David A. Goodman to the program to discuss his latest comic The Masked Macher and more! Goodman is a television, film, and comic book writer known for his work as staff writer on Family Guy , The Orville , Star Trek: Enterprise , Futurama , Honor Society , and the upcoming Hysteria! He has also served as prod...

Lastly in Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes comic writer and author Clay McLeod Chapman to the show to discuss Seance in the Asylum and his upcoming novels. 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 T...

Continuing in Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast , Justin Soderberg welcomes author Nat Cassidy to the show to discuss his upcoming novella Rest Stop and much more! Cassidy is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and musician. Nat has appeared in television shows like Blue Bloods, Bull, The Following, The Good Fight, Quantico, The Affair, and more! He is also acclaimed novelist,...