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#209: Joshua Hull - Author of 8114 and Screenwriter of Glorious
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 Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award for his contributions to Indiana film by the Indiana Film Journalists Association. His debut novella Mouth was published by Tenebrous Press in March 2024. His novel debut, 8114, hits shelves everywhere on August 26, 2025.
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#208: Steel Movie Review
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 manufacture on the street, he uses his resources and his Uncle Joe's equipment in his junkyard to fight back against the man who's been selling them to those gangs: Nathaniel Burke. In order to do so he uses the resources that are available to him to forge himself a suit of armor and the weaponry necessary to carry out his war on crime.
Steel was released in 1997 and is based on the DC Comics character of the same name which was co-created by Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove. The film was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson and stars Shaquille O'Neal as John Henry Irons / Steel; Annabeth Gish as Susan Sparks; Judd Nelson as Nathaniel Burke; Richard Roundtree as Uncle Joe; Irma P. Hall as Grandma Odessa; Ray J as Martin Irons; Hill Harper as Slats; Kevin Grevioux as Singer; Charles Napier as Colonel David; Kerrie Keane as Senator Nolan; Thom Barry as Sergeant Marcus; and Rutanya Alda as Mrs. Hunt.
Steel can be streamed on Amazon.
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#207: Ed Brisson - Writer of SilverHawks
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 since then, he's written and co-created four other series published by Image: Sheltered, The Field, The Mantle and The Violent. His self-published series Murder Book was collected and released by Dark Horse in early 2015.
Ed has also written comics for DC, Marvel, BOOM! Studios, IDW Publishing and many others. These series include Old Man Logan, Iron Fist, Dead Man Logan, Sons of Anarchy, Batman Incorporated, The Brave and the Bold: Stormwatch, X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, Predator, Sins of the Salton Sea, The Displaced, Alpha Flight, the upcoming SilverHawks, and many more!
He's been nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Best Canadian Writer several times.
His run on SilverHawks is set to release on January 29, 2025 from Dynamite Entertainment.
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#206: Fred Van Lente - Author of Bloodshot
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 such as Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Valiant, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment and more!
Some of his popular comic book works are Incredible Hercules, Weapon X, Marvel Adventures: Iron Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong, Big Trouble in Little China, Conan the Avenger, and more recently Bloodshot. His recent novels include Never Sleep (2023) and the upcoming Bloodshot.
Bloodshot hits bookstores everywhere from Blackstone Publishing on January 21, 2025 with an audiobook narrated by James Fouhey available at Libro.fm!
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#205: Eric LaRocca - Author of At Dark, I Become Loathsome
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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The Capes and Tights Podcast - a hub of comic, film, books and pop culture exploration hosted by Justin Soderberg. Every Wednesday, expect the unexpected with special guests from across the industry!