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  • #193: Jason Rekulak - Author of The Last One at the Wedding
    Oct 16 2024

    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 Netflix. His latest novel, The Last One at the Wedding, was released at bookstores everywhere on October 8, 2024 from Flatiron.

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    46 mins
  • #192: David A. Goodman - The Masked Macher Writer
    Oct 9 2024

    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 producer on a number of tv series. In the world of comics, Goodman has written series such as Space Job, The Masked Macher and various The Orville comics for Dark Horse.

    The Masked Macher #1 hit shelves at local comic shops on September 18, 2024 with the second issue coming October 23.

    All eight episodes of Hysteria!, where David serves as showrunner, stream on Peacock on October 18.

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    43 mins
  • #191: Clay McLeod Chapman // Horror Week
    Oct 4 2024

    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 Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.

    His new novel, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, arrives on January 7, 2025. Recently he released projects such as the novelette Stay On The Line (Shortwave Books), the novella Kill Your Darling (Bad Hand Books) and the creator-owned comic limited series Seance in the Asylum (Dark Horse).

    In comics, Chapman is the writer of the Marvel series Scream: Curse of Carnage. He has written Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid Fever, as well as for Edge of Spider-Verse and Venomverse, The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, American Vampire, Scream: King In Black, and ORIGINS among others.

    He is the creator of Self Storage (451 Media) and Lazaretto (BOOM! Studios).

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    44 mins
  • #190: Nat Cassidy // Horror Week
    Oct 3 2024

    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, authoring books such as Mary, Nestlings and the upcoming novella Rest Stop at Shortwave Publishing. Additionally, Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home dropping in April 2025 from Tor Nightfire.

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    58 mins
  • #189: Isaac Goodhart and Tate Brombal // Horror Week
    Oct 2 2024

    Continuing in Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book creators Isaac Goodhart and Tate Brombal to the show to discuss The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Halloween Special.

    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 Something is Killing the Children and debuted in 2021. His Eisner-nominated mini-series Barbalien: Red Planet (Dark Horse) alongside Eisner-winning artist Gabriel Hernández Walta also released in 2021 as a part of Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer universe. Tate's latest comic series Behold, Behemoth dropped from BOOM! Studios in November 2022.

    Goodhart got his start in comics in 2014 as one of the winners of the Top Cow Talent Hunt. After drawing Artifacts #38, he moved on to illustrating Matt Hawkins’s Postal for 26 consecutive issues. He recently illustrated Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale and Victor and Nora: A Gotham Love Story, written by Lauren Myracle and published by DC Comics.

    Together Brombal and Goodhart have teamed up as writer and artist of James Tynion IV's The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. The first few issues of the series were originally released via The Empire of the Tiny Onion Substack, but has since been promoted to an on-going series at Dark Horse with it's 13th issue coming October 23, 2024.

    The two join the podcast for horror week to discuss The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Halloween Special which hits stores on October 16.

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    36 mins
  • #188: Swamp Thing Movie Review // Horror Week
    Oct 1 2024

    Continuing in Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss the Swamp Thing movie.

    On the verge of a breakthrough in his quest to wipe out world hunger, altruistic botanist Dr. Alec Holland is placed under the protection of special government agent Alice Cable. Mad outlaw scientist Anton Arcane wants to steal Holland's research for his own nefarious ends, but an unforeseen accident during the heist turns Holland into the Swamp Thing, an enormous plant-like creature that fights back against Arcane's henchmen to save Cable.

    Swamp Thing was written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. The film stars Ray Wise as Alec Holland, Adrienne Barbeau as Alice Cable, Louis Jourdan as Anton Arcane, David Hess as Ferret, Nicholas Worth as Bruno, Don Knight as Harry Ritter, Al Ruban as Charlie, Nannette Brown as Dr. Linda Holland, Reggie Batts as Jude, and Karen Price as Karen.

    Swamp Thing released on February 19, 1982 based on a budget of about $2.5 million. The film was primarily shot on location in Cypress Gardens, Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

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    58 mins
  • #187: CJ Leede // Horror Week
    Sep 30 2024

    To kick-off Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back CJ Leede to the program to discuss her latest novel American Rapture and much more!

    Leede is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and a BA from NYU's Gallatin School, where she studied Mythology and the Middle Ages. When she is not driving around the country, she can be found in Los Angeles, Calif. with her boyfriend and four rescue dogs. Alongside Maeve Fly, CJ has two more horror novels coming from Tor Nightfire including American Rapture in October 15, 2024.

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    44 mins
  • #186: Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo - This Land is Our Land
    Sep 25 2024

    This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo the program to discuss their upcoming graphic novel This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story and more!

    Salcedo is an Eisner Award-nominated comic book illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-creator of the Harper Collins YA graphic novel Frontera. He is also the artist on Dark Horse miniseries, It's Only Teenage Wastelandwith writer Curt Pires. Jacoby has also been featured in multiple comic anthologies such as DC's Legion of Bloom, Panel X Panel, Graphic Mundi's Covid Chronicles, and A Wave Blue World Young Men in Love.

    Anta is an Eisner Award-nominated author of many graphic novels including Frontera, Home, , Se Puede: The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States and the upcoming This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story along with Salcedo.

    This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story hits bookstores everywhere on October 1, 2024 from DC Comics.

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    49 mins