Capes and Tights Podcast

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes author and comic book writer Sarah Gailey to the podcast to discuss Neighborhood Watch, Make Me Better, and more!

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by Tor Books in 2019. More recently Gailey has release novels Just Like Home and Spread Me with their latest novel coming this May.

Gailey's most recent original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Know Your Station, is also available now. They have also written comics for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Steven Universe, Predator, White Widow, and more.

Their shorter works and essays have been published in Mashable, The Boston Globe, Vice, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their work has been translated and published around the world. They are the editor and publisher of Stone Soup and Love Letters: Reasons To Be Alive.

Neighborhood Watch #1 hits local comic shops on April 8, 2026 from BOOM! Studios.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic creators Jacob Phillips and Tate Brombal to the podcast to discuss their comic series Everything Dead & Dying and more!

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 also is the writer behind Behold, Behemoth (BOOM! Studios), and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos(Dark Horse). Brombal also has written comics for DC such as New Titans, Batman, The Question, Batgirl, Green Lantern: Dark, and more!

Phillips is a comic artist and colorist residing in Manchester, UK. He has been drawing his whole life, self publishing first comic ‘Roboy’ at the age of 11 and selling it at Brighton Comic Con. Skip forward 16 years and today he is the artist on That Texas Blood and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery with writer Chris Condon and as well as Newburn with Chip Zdarsky as well as coloring projects such as Reckless, Criminal, and Madi.

Together, Brombal and Phillips released a five-issue miniseries Everything Dead & Dying at Image Comics. The collected edition hit shelves at local comic shops on April 8, 2026 and at bookstores everywhere on May 5.

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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 Deadpool movie for the film's 10th anniversary!

Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

Directed by Tim Miller and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, it is a spin-off of the X-Men film series and its overall eighth installment. Ryan Reynolds stars as the titular character, alongside Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle, Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman / Ajax, T.J. Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, and Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

The film achieved both critical and commercial success, earning $782.6 million against a $58 million budget, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2016 and breaking numerous records, including the highest-grossing film in the X-Menseries and the highest-grossing R-rated film at the time.

Based on the comic character created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza who first appeared in New Mutants #98(December 1990).

The film released originally on February 12, 2016 and is available to stream right now.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back author and comic book writer Alex Segura to discuss his Daredevil novel Enemy of My Enemy and more!

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, hit shelves everywhere on December 3, 2024. His science fiction novel Dark Space with Rob Hart released on October 8, 2024 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 a trade paperback of The Legendary Lynx which ties into to his novels Secret Identity and Alter Ego. More recently Segura has been at the helm of the main Star Wars series at Marvel Comics.

His latest novel, Enemy of My Enemy, hits bookstores everywhere on March 24, 2026.

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This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic creator Tony Fleecs to the podcast to discuss Deathstroke: The Terminator and more!

Tony Fleecs is a prolific and critically acclaimed comic book creator and TV writer. His comics have sold millions of copies in the United States and have been translated and reprinted all over the world.

Tony's creator owned books include Stray Dogs (2021,) Feral (2024,) Uncanny Valley (2024,) Local Man (2023) and Time Shopper (2022.) His work has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards and the Ringo Award.

Tony has worked for every major U.S. comics publisher. You've seen his name on some of your favorite comic book titles like Star Wars, Rick & Morty, Avengers, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Batman, TMNT, Transformers, Army of Darkness and a literal ton of My Little Pony. He also wrote on the wildly popular Netflix show My Little Pony: Make Your Mark.

Deathstroke: The Terminator hits local comic shops on March 18, 2026 from DC Comics.

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