TLPP: The Problem with Modern Comics w/ Artist Brett Smith

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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I’m joined by comic-book artist and colorist Brett R. Smith, who’s worked with DC Comics, Marvel, and Rippaverse. We talk about the problem with comic books today, Val Kilmer’s greatest performances, and why Romancing the Stone works and The War of the Roses doesn’t. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Attorneys on Retainer https://attorneysforfreedom.my.site.com/signupattorneysonretainerus/s/?promoCode=LU51ZEZ324 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network. I am your host, Lou
0:12.2	Perez, and today I am joined by Brett R. Smith. He's a commercial artist, a comic book artist,
0:19.0	and at one time, maybe currently a colorist, which is
0:23.2	very specific. It's a very specific role, and I know little to nothing about comic books,
0:28.0	but I'm looking forward to get into it with him. So Brett, thank you so much for joining me on
0:33.0	my old podcast today. Oh, absolutely. My pleasure. Yeah. And we started off.
0:39.8	I asked him, what did his shirt say?
0:42.3	And for those of you who have a video, you know, have the video, you could read what his shirt
0:46.9	said.
0:47.3	And I thought it said surf lasagna, but apparently it's surf Nicaragua.
0:52.8	And it happens to be a reference to one of my favorite,
0:58.6	not just one of my favorite Val Kilmer movies, but one of my favorite movies, especially from the 80s.
1:04.8	Yeah, same here.
1:05.9	Yeah, real genius.
1:07.1	Great, great film.
1:08.4	Heavy and heavy rotation on cable, probably in the, in the early 80s, as I recall.
1:14.2	I was on HBO or one of those movie channels back then, but I don't think it did great in the theater,
1:18.4	but it's, I think it's had a resurgence. It's, it's on, I saw it was on Cluto TV, not too long ago,
1:25.4	but yeah, there's, there's a website which makes Chris Knight T-shirts, all the T-shirts that he wore and Real Genius. And I've had a couple of them over the years. They have the I Love Toxic Waste. They have the Surf Niparagua, obviously. There's an international order of gorillas, a Roy Rogers one. They got a a bunch of them and somehow they've recreated them
1:45.2	and they're beautiful so i've owned a couple there's but they also do other movies so i've got a breaking
1:49.7	away one which is the cutters uh-huh uh jersey with the 34 on the back lisa and i just recently
1:54.8	watched that because she had never seen breaking away but um yeah real genius fantastic films so much fun
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