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 fiction," LaRocca's notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood. Their upcoming novel, At Dark, I Become Loathsome, will be published in January 2025. The book has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus.

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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 Goosebumpsseries, Tim is responsible for creating the iconic 62 original series covers, followed by the Goosebumps series 2000, special edition books, calendars and other Goosebumps promotional art.

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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 discuss MOSTLY independent comics.

For the first time, the comics of the year episode was recorded in front of a live audience. We took over Galactic Comics & Collectibles and invited the public to join us while counting down the comics of the year. With this, we welcomed a few questions and comments from the audience.

What comics made the cut?

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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. Horvath is also the mind behind the Zoop funded and Oni Press soon-to-be released Free For All.

The collected edition of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees has sold out at the distribution level and headed back for a second printing.

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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 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He directed his first music video for Death Cab for Cutie’s The New Year and has continued on, directing clips for a wide variety of artists – Kelly Clarkson, Shawn Mendes (Stitches, Mercy, Never Holding Me Back, In My Blood, Lost in Japan), Tiesto & Post Malone (Jackie Chan), Cold War Kids, Nas, Melissa Etheridge, Christina Perri and many, many more.

In 2015, he wrote and directed his first feature film, 7 Minutes starring Jason Ritter, Luke Mitchell and Kris Kristofferson. In 2018 his video for Shawn Mendes In My Blood was nominated for three MTV VMAs including Best Direction. In 2019, he executive produced the Blumhouse feature Don’t Let Go starring David Oyelowo and Storm Reid.

Jay Martin released his original graphic novel, Lost Boy, in August 2023 from Dark Horse with letters by Frank Cvetkovic. While his latest graphic novel, Yellow, hits bookstores everywhere on December 17, 2024 and comic shops on December 18. Martin is also serving as storyboard artist for Sony's Spider-Man Noir television series featuring Nicolas Cage set to stream on MGM+.

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It's here. The 200th episode of the Capes and Tights Podcast. For this special milestone episode, Justin Soderbergwelcomes 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 illustrated with writer Scott Bryan Wilson at IDW Publishing as well as the original graphic novel, Mariko Between Worlds, they illustrated and co-created with writer Matthew Erman for Mad Cave Studios. The trade paperback of Know Your Station they illustrated and co-created along with writer Sarah Gailey. his local comic shops on September 20, 2023 from BOOM! Studios.

Kangas illustrated short written by James Tynion IV for Razorblades, published by Image Comics and contributed to a short with David M. Booher on Canto: Tales of the Unnamed World.

They have also worked on the IDW Publishing / LucasFilm title Star Wars Adventures written by Sam Maggs, co-writing the short one-shot Seeds of Eden, co-written by Joe Corallo, drawn by Paul Azaceta, and published by TKO Studios, co-created and drew a mini series titled She Said Destroy, written by Corallo and published by Vault Comics, and the BlackAF series title Devil's Dye written by Vita Ayala published by Black Mask Studios.

Liana’s work has been featured in anthologies including 2000 A.D., Z2’s The Final Symphony, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Comic Mix’s Mine!, Image Comics Where We Live, and A Wave Blue World’s All We Ever Wanted, Dead Beats, Embodied and Dead Beats: London Calling.

Liana Kangas has drawn covers for series published with Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Comixology, Oni Press, Ahoy Comics, Vault Comics, Mad Cave Studios and Scout Comics and licenses such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Dark Spaces: Wildfire, and more.

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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 Brian Levant. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston, Sinbad as Myron Larabee, Phil Hartman as Ted Maltin, Rita Wilson as Liz Langston, Jake Lloyd as Jamie Langston, and Jim Belushi as Mall Santa.

Jingle All The Way hit theaters on November 22, 1996 is available to stream on Disney+, Amazon and more!

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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 received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. The sequel, Alter Ego, hits shelves everywhere on December 3, 2024. His science fiction novel Dark Space with Rob Hart released on October 8 while his Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow book released in May 2023.

In the world of comics, Segura is the writer of Archie, Dick Tracy (Mad Cave), Spider-Society (Marvel), Star Wars: The Battle of Jakku (Marvel), The Black Ghost (ComiXology), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (DC), and many more! Alex also has the upcoming trade paperback of The Legendary Lynx which ties into to his novels Secret Identity and Alter Ego.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes writer, producer, and educator Steven Barnesto 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 Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda and an Emmy Award winning episode of The Outer Limits.

He also has taught at UCLA, Seattle University, and lectured at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. With his wife, British Fantasy Award winning author Tananarive Due, he has created online courses in Afrofuturism, Black Horror, and Screenwriting. Steven was born in Los Angeles, California, and except for a decade in the Northwest, and three years in Atlanta Georgia, has lived in that area all his life.

Steven's last novel, Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss was released at bookstores everywhere on October 15, 2024 from Random House Worlds. The audiobook is also available.

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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 Broken Frontier called it "the Saturday morning cartoon you wish was on TV." Brandon's next. Brandon has also edited comics such as Madame Xanadu, Detective Comics, Batman and more for DC Comics as well as Sweet Tooth for Vertigo.

His latest comic DuckTales releases on November 6, 2024 from Dynamite Entertainment.

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