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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!

#206: Fred Van Lente – Author of Bloodshot

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