This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes comic book creator Amanda Kahl to the show.

Kahl is the primary writer and sole artist for the comic book Age of Night. She hails from a cabin the woods of Maine where she works on Age of Night and many other freelance art projects. Between drawing and fending off bears she enjoys cooking, listening to music, watching movies, analog gaming, exploring the outdoors, and playing with her son and her cat.

The comic book creator also lived in Georgia for a bit, where she learned a lot of amazing things about drawing, life, and the magic of friendship and earned a degree in Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

You may see Kahl at the occasional New England comic book convention selling her art and talking to fans.

In addition to Age of Night, Kahl is co-creator of I Am The First with writer Jeremy Flagg. The first three issues of the series is now available at Brave New Comics with the others on pre-order.

#61: Amanda Kahl – Comic Book Creator

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg is joined by filmmaker John Campopiano to discuss his documentary Pennywise: The Story of It and more!

Campopiano both wrote and co-director (along with Christopher Griffiths) the documentary which released October 3, 2021 on digital and later in the month on October 24, 2021 on Blu-ray and DVD. Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment acquired the UK distribution rights for the documentary.

Pennywise: The Story of It features interviews with director Tommy Lee Wallace (It, Halloween III) plus Tim Curry (Rocky Horror), Seth Green (Robot Chicken, Family Guy), Richard Thomas (The Waltons), and many more. The film touches on themes spanning the cultural phenomenon of the fear of clowns to Curry’s portrayal of the notorious clown.

The television mini-series is based on Stephen King‘s novel from 1986. Later the feature films It, and It: Chapter Two were released in theaters in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

Campopiano is also the man documentaries such as Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made (2022) and Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017). The filmmaker is currently working on RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop and Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.

The filmmaker wrote a short-film in 2020 entitled “GEORGIE” for Creepy Kingdom. The film is a reimagining of the 1990 “It” miniseries that answers the question “what if Georgie came back?”. Starring Tony Dakota, the actor who portrayed Georgie Denbrough in the original series in his first role in 25 years! Also starring Meredith Binder and Ben Heller!

If you live in the Bangor Area, Campopiano will be appearing at the Bangor Comic and Toy Con’s Weekend of the Wicked from September 30-October 2, 2022. The filmmaker will have a few screen-used pieces in addition to his appearance.

#60: John Campopiano – Filmmaker

The Capes and Tights Podcast crew are back in the Star Wars Universe with episode 59. Justin Soderberg and Gibran Graham review and discuss Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.

Rogue One released on December 16, 2016 to the tune of $1.056 billion box office on a $265 million budget. The film was directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) with a screenplay by Chris Weitz (Cinderella, The Golden Compass) and Tony Gilroy (Armageddon, Michael Clayton) based on a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta (After Earth, The Book of Eli). The main cast consists of Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso, Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic, Donnie Yen as Chirrut Îmwe, Mads Mikkelsen as Galen Erso, Alan Tudyk as K-2SO, Riz Ahmed as Bodhi Rook, Jiang Wen as Baze Malbus, and Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera.

The film is the first installment of the Star Wars anthology series and takes place following Revenge of the Sith (2005) and prior to A New Hope (1977). It received two Academy Award nominations for Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.

Lucasfilm and Disney+ are set to release a prequel television series entailed, Andor. The series will focus around Luna’s Cassian Andor character from the 2016 film. Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, and Fiona Shaw also star.

In an era filled with danger, deception, and intrigue, Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a Rebel hero.

The first season of Andor is scheduled to premiere on Disney+ on August 31, 2022, with its first two episodes. The rest of 12-episode season will release weekly. A second 12-episode season is in development, which will conclude the series and lead into the events of Rogue One.

Andor’s first season will cover approximately a year in Cassian’s life with the second season 12 episodes will cover four years—time jumping ahead every three episodes.

Episode #59: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story Review