What an amazing year on the Capes and Tights Podcast. Once again, we couldn’t do this without you, the listener, and especially without our fantastic guests. In 2025 (and the last few weeks of 2024) we welcomed 64 different guest over 59 episodes. Of these guests we hosted 34 comics creators, 18 authors, 12 filmmakers, and discussed nine movies.
You all have tuned in and made our podcast what it is today, Thank you. With this, we have put together our top-20 most popular episodes of the year!
#20 | Episode 211: Matthew Rosenberg
Matthew Rosenberg is the award-winning writer of comics such as What’s The Furthest Place From Here?, 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, and We Can Never Go Home. He has also written a lot of comics for DC and Marvel, such as Uncanny X-Men, The Punisher, Hawkeye Freefall, DC vs. Vampires, Task Force Z, and The Joker. He also once co-wrote an album with a member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
#19 | Episode 204: Tim Jacobus
Tim Jacobus is responsible for well over 100 pieces of art. Best known for his cover art work on the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series, Tim is responsible for creating the iconic 62 original series covers, followed by the Goosebumps series 2000, special edition books, calendars and other Goosebumps promotional art.
#18 | Episode 241: Jeremy Haun & Mike Tisserand
Jeremy Haun is the creator of The Realm, The Beauty, The Red Mother, and The Approach, and more. His other projects include Batwoman, Constantine, Wolf Moon, and Knight Terrors: Black Adam. Jeremy has worked for nearly every publisher in the industry as well as doing self-publishing via Kickstarter. In 2025 he launched Ignition Press.
Mike Tisserand began his career in animation in 2006 and has worked as a 2D and 3D animator, designer, storyboard artist, and head of story on productions for Disney, Dreamworks, 20th Century, Nickelodeon, and Netflix on projects including The Dragon Prince, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Big Hero 6: The Series, among others.
Together the two have created Murder Podcast which hits shelves on September 10, 2025 from Ignition Press.
#17 | Episode 245: Eric Heisserer
Eric Heisserer is the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Arrival (2016), as well as Bird Box (2018), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), The Thing (2011), Final Destination 5 (2011), Bloodshot (2020), and more. He is also the creator of the television series Shadow and Bone. As for the print medium, Heisserer is credited with writing comic books such as Shaper (Dark Horse), Lone Wolf 2100 (Dark Horse), Zombie Tales (BOOM! Studios), Secret Weapons (Valiant), and more! His debut novel, Simultaneous, hits bookstores everywhere on October 28, 2025 from Flatiron Books.
#16 | Episode 222: Alyssa Wong & Liana Kangas
Alyssa Wong writes award-winning fiction, comics, novels, and games. Their stories have won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. Alyssa was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and their fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson Awards.
Wong’s comic credits include Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Marvel, DC, and Adventure Time. In 2023, Alyssa joined the Star Wars: The High Republic storytelling initiative and their debut novel releasing January 2024. Alyssa has also written for Overwatch and Blizzard Entertainment’s Story and Franchise Development.
Liana Kangas is a freelance comic artist, illustrator, and writer, with previous professional history in graphic design and outreach. They recently released the TRVE KVLT trade paperback they co-created and illustrated with writer Scott Bryan Wilson at IDW Publishing as well as the original graphic novel, Mariko Between Worlds, they illustrated and co-created with writer Matthew Erman for Mad Cave Studios. The trade paperback of Know Your Station they illustrated and co-created along with writer Sarah Gailey. his local comic shops on September 20, 2023 from BOOM! Studios.
Kangas illustrated short written by James Tynion IV for Razorblades, published by Image Comics and contributed to a short with David M. Booher on Canto: Tales of the Unnamed World.
They have also worked on the IDW Publishing / LucasFilm title Star Wars Adventures written by Sam Maggs, co-writing the short one-shot Seeds of Eden, co-written by Joe Corallo, drawn by Paul Azaceta, and published by TKO Studios, co-created and drew a mini series titled She Said Destroy, written by Corallo and published by Vault Comics, and the BlackAF series title Devil’s Dye written by Vita Ayala published by Black Mask Studios.
Liana’s work has been featured in anthologies including 2000 A.D., Z2’s The Final Symphony, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Comic Mix’s Mine!, Image Comics Where We Live, and A Wave Blue World’s All We Ever Wanted, Dead Beats, Embodied and Dead Beats: London Calling.
Kangas has drawn covers for series published with Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Comixology, Oni Press, Ahoy Comics, Vault Comics, Mad Cave Studios and Scout Comics and licenses such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Dark Spaces: Wildfire, and more.
#15 | Episode 210: Steve Foxe
Foxe is the Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated author of over 80 comics and children’s books including Spider-Woman, Dark X-Men, X-Men ’97, All Eight Eyes, Rainbow Bridge, the Skybound Creepshow anthology, the 2023 Marvel Voice’s: Pride special, and the Spider-Ham series from Scholastic. Along with character designer Kris Anka, he is the co-creator of Web-Weaver, Marvel’s first gay Spider-hero.
He is also the co-creator of Razorblades: The Horror Magazine alongside James Tynion IV, and is the editor of W0RLDTR33, The Deviant, and the multiple-Eisner-nominated The Department of Truth at Image Comics. In the world of licensed kids books, he has written for properties like Pokémon, Mario, LEGO City, Batman, Justice League, Baby Shark, and many more.
He is also a freelance editor for First Second; was the editor for Paste Magazine’s comic section (when it existed); has contributed to PanelxPanel, The MNT, and The Comics Journal; and spent five years at Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
#14 | Episode 214: Chris Condon
Chris Condon is the writer of the Image Comics series That Texas Blood with artist Jacob Phillips along with its Wild West spinoff, The Enfield Gang Massacre, which was selected as one of the best comics of 2023 by The Hollywood Reporter, The Comics Journal, CBR, and The Comics Beat. Other comics to his name are The Night People (Oni Press), Green Arrow (DC), Ultimate Wolverine (Marvel), and more! Far Down Below hit local comic shops on March 26, 2025 from Mad Cave Studios.
#13 | Episode 219: Gary Smart & John Campopiano
Gary Smart is the writer and producer of such titles as Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser (2015); You’re so cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night (2016); RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (2021); What an Institution! The Story of Police Academy (2020); Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2024)–which he also directed; and more!
John Campopiano is the writer and producer of Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made (2022); Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017); Georgie (2019); and more. Campopiano also produced RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (2021); Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2024); and Stream (2024).
Together the pair co-wrote and produced Pennywise: The Story of IT (2020).
Smart and Campopiano worked together on the recently released Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3, a documentary following the filming of Damien Leone‘s third Terrifier film which was released in 2024.
#12 | Episode 229: Philip Fracassi
Philip Fracassi is the author of the novels Don’t Let Them Get You Down, A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, Boys in the Valley and The Third Rule of Time Travel. He is also the author of several novellas, including Sacculina, Shiloh, Commodore and D7. His upcoming books include the novels Sarafina and The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre.
Other work includes the story collections No One Is Safe!, Beneath a Pale Sky, and Behold the Void. He is also the author of a children’s book, The Boy with the Blue Rose Heart, and a book of poetry, Tomorrow’s Gone.
As a screenwriter, his feature films have been distributed by Disney Entertainment and Lifetime Television, with several projects in various stages of development.
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre hit bookstores everywhere on September 30, 2025 from Tor Nightfire. The audiobook, narrated by January LaVoy, is available via Libro.fm!
#11 | Episode 224: Vladimir Popov
Vladimir Popov is the colorist responsible for comics such as Where Monsters Lie, Flash Gordon, Highlander, Robocop, Fearscape, Port of Earth, Hellraiser, Ice Nine Kills, Yungblud and many more. More recently Vladimir has colored Star Wars comics for Dark Horse including Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures – The Wedding Spectacular, Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, and Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories – Qui-Gon.
#10 | Episode 233: Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay is the author of Horror Movie, Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and the short story collection, Growing Things and Other Stories. He has won Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards.
His young adult horror novel, Another, hit bookstores everywhere on July 22, 2025 from Quill Tree Books. The audiobook, narrated by Ramon de Ocampo, is available at Libro.fm!
#9 | Episode 239: Brian McAuley
Brian McAuley grew up in Weird, NJ on a steady diet of Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes. He received his BA in Creative Writing and Horror Theory from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study before getting his MFA in Film from Columbia University.
As a WGA screenwriter, Brian has written five films for the Lifetime Network in addition to writing and producing the award-winning thriller Dismissed for BoulderLight Pictures. He sold his TV series pitch Affliction to Syfy Network in a pilot development deal and penned an episode of Fuller House (episode 12) for Netflix.
Brian’s debut novel Curse of the Reaper was published through Simon & Schuster and named one of the Best Horror Books of 2022 by Esquire. His Christmas horror novella Candy Cain Kills released in 2023 through Shortwave Publishing with the sequel published on November 12, 2024. His latest novel, Breathe In, Bleed Out, hits bookstores everywhere from Poisoned Pen Press on September 2, 2025.
Brian McAuley is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at the Sidney Poitier New American Film School of Arizona State University.
#8 | Episode 244: Utkarsh Ambudkar
Utkarsh Ambudkar is known for his acting roles including Pitch Perfect, The Mindy Project, Ghosts, and World’s Best which he also co-wrote. The Guy in the Chair which he co-wrote with Hannah Rose May is his comic book miniseries debut. His fifth season of Ghosts premiered on October 16, 2025 on CBS.
#7 | Episode 240: Ashley Cullins
Ashley Cullins is an award-winning entertainment journalist with over a decade of experience. After graduating with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School, Ashley began her career in broadcast news before making the jump to print. Your Favorite Scary Movie is her first book.
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror is available at bookstores everywhere from Dutton Books.
#6 | Episode 218: Saratoga Schaefer
Saratoga Schaefer is the author the recently released Serial Killer Support Group and their sophomore novel Traditional Wife comes out in 2026. Saratoga was born and raised in New York City. Besides being an avid reader and writer, Saratoga is also sober, and in their spare time, teaches yoga, climbs rocks, and hikes mountains.
Serial Killer Support Group is available wherever books are sold. The audiobook, narrated by Abby Craden & Timothy Andrés Pabon, is available at Libro.fm!
Saratoga returns to the podcast in early 2026.
#5 | Episode 205: Eric LaRocca
Eric 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. At Dark, I Become Loathsome, published in January 2025. The book has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus.
#4 | Episode 232: Patrick Horvath
Patrick Horvath is a filmmaker and comic book creator best known for IDW Publishing’s Eisner-nominated comic book series Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees as well as sequel, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring. Horvath is also the mind behind the Zoop funded and Oni Press released Free For All.
#3 | Episode 220: Dan Baillie & Tim Bradstreet
Tim Bradstreet is an Eisner Award nominated illustrator who is most well known for being the regular cover artists for Marvel‘s The Punisher (2000-2008) and Vertigo’s Hellblazer (1998-2005) as well as IDW Publishing’s Star Trek (2011-2013), BOOM! Studios’ 28 Days Later, and more recently AWA Studios’ Sins of the Salton Sea.
Dan Baillie has teamed up with legendary artist Bradstreet to create AWA Studios’ first graphic novella, Look Out. The comic is the first in the Future of Fear collaboration between AWA Studios and acclaimed producer Roy Lee‘s Vertigo Entertainment (Barbarian, It, Late Night with the Devil).
#2 | Episode 215: Keith Rosson
Keith Rosson is the author of the novels The Devil by Name, Fever House, Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide as well as the Shirley Jackson Award–winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. His short fiction has appeared in Southwest Review, Nightmare, Cream City Review, PANK, Redivider, December, and more.
Rosson’s latest novel, Coffin Moon, hit bookstores everywhere on September 9, 2025 from Random House.
#1 | Episode 202: Patrick Horvath
Patrick Horvath is a filmmaker and comic book creator best known for IDW Publishing’s Eisner-nominated comic book series Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees as well as sequel, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring. Horvath is also the mind behind the Zoop funded and Oni Press released Free For All.
