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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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, Sí, 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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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back Dakota Brown to the program to discuss his original graphic novel Death Comes for the Toymaker and much more!

Brown is the writer and creator of Death Comes for the Toymaker at Magma Comix as we all as Grandma Tilly’s Hell-Tech Mech at Band of Bards. The debut issue of Toymaker hit shelves summer of 2023 from Scout Comics, but after a long wait the trade paperback of the entire series hits shelves at local comic shops on November 6, 2024 (FOC: September 30) and bookstores everywhere on November 19.

Death comes for us all. But for Gil the Toymaker, the visit is an eternal tragedy! Every year the holiday gift giver visits children all over the world on a special night, but Gil’s immortality comes at a cost. Forced to do the work of Death, carrying a list of ready-to-harvest souls alongside his naughty and nice lists, Gil gives toys and takes souls all in one night! But as the Toymaker reflects on the relationship he’s had with Death for several millennia, an associate reveals a scheme that may just put an end to Death’s contract (and, perhaps, Death himself!).

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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 the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

In New York, mysterious radioactive ooze has mutated four sewer turtles into talking, upright-walking, crime-fighting ninjas. The intrepid heroes -- Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo -- are trained in the Ninjutsu arts by their rat sensei, Splinter. When a villainous rogue ninja, who is a former pupil of Splinter, arrives and spreads lawlessness throughout the city, it's up to the plucky turtles to stop him.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on the comic book created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It is the first film adaptation of the characters and was directed by Steve Barron and written by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeckfrom a story by Herbeck. The film stars Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas with the voices of Brian Tochi, Josh Pais, Corey Feldman, and Robbie Rist.

Paul Eaton joins the podcast to discuss the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in honor of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Turtles.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back Jay Bonansinga to the program to discuss his novel The Killer's Game and more!

In the world of fiction, Jay Bonansinga has established himself as a fixture in the genres of horror and suspense. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Walking Dead novels (four volumes in collaboration with the creator of the franchise, Robert Kirkman, and four volumes as solo author). Bonansinga is also the author of fourteen original novels, including the Bram Stoker finalist The Black Mariah, the International Thriller Writers Award finalist Shattered, the acclaimed YA horror novel, Lucid, and Jay’s latest horror opus, Self Storage. Jay’s work has been translated into sixteen languages, and he has been called “one of the most imaginative writers of thrillers” by the Chicago Tribune.

In the world of film, Bonansinga has worked as a screenwriter with George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), Dennis Haysbert (24), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), and Will Smith’s Overbrook Productions. In 2009, Jay’s directorial debut, Stash, starring Tim Kazurinsky and Marilyn Chambers, won top honors at three separate independent film festivals, as well as premiering in 50 million households on-demand. Jay is a lifetime member the Writers Guild of America, and has optioned several original screenplays now in development as major motion pictures.

In the world of non-fiction, Jay’s 2004 historical narrative, The Sinking of Eastland, received national acclaim as well as the certificate of merit from the Illinois State Historical Society, ultimately becoming the source for the hit musical, Eastland, staged in Chicago by the Tony-award winning theater company, Lookingglass. Jay has also authored acclaimed books on Alan Pinkerton and the Las Vegas mob.

In other media, Jay has also created or co-created the stories for a number of video games in The Walking Dead universe, as well as directed several music videos that have received national airplay.

More recently Bonansinga has author Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code (February 2022) and Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Shadow Society.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back Daniel Kraus to the program to discuss his latest novel Pay the Piper, co-authored by legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, television, and film. His latest novel, Whalefall, received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, the New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more.

With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more.

As with the release of Whalefall, Kraus partnered with Orono Brewing Company to release a Pay the Piper India Pale Alein Maine.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back Adam Cesare to the program to discuss his latest novel Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo and more!

Adam 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 in the Clown in a Cornfieldseries hit shelves on August 20, 2024 at bookstores everywhere. In 2023, Cesare released an Audible original audiobook, Influencer, which will get a paperback release on October 1 with added material.

Adam is a multiple-time guest of the podcast including a horror week episode as well as discussing Dead Mall with co-creator David Stoll.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book writer Zac Thompson to the program to discuss his latest comics Into the Unbeing and The Body Trade.

Zac Thompson often writes about nature, the horrors of the human condition, and everything in between. He is the writer of books such as The Dregs at Black Mask Studios; Nature’s Labyrinth and Project Riese at Mad Cave Studios; Cable, Ka-Zar Lord of the Savage Land, and Yondu at Marvel Comics; Hunt for the Skinwalker and Blow Away at BOOM! Studios; Cemetery Kids Don't Die at Oni Press; and various other books at publishers like DC Comics.

In September, Thompson's newest comic hits shelves in the form of The Body Trade at Mad Cave (FOC August 19) and he is super excited for Alien: Romulus in October from Marvel.

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