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DC Meets Looney Tunes

Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1

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After a chance meeting with billionaire Bruce Wayne, Elmer Fudd’s obsession quickly escalates into stalking Batman through the dark alleys and high-class social settings of Gotham City. Welcome to Bat Season! And the bonus Looney Tunes backup story features DC characters written by Tom King and artwork by Byron Vaughns.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 28, 2017

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Profile Image for Sam Quixote.
4,816 reviews13.4k followers
November 26, 2017
I think like most people I viewed the DC/Looney Tunes crossover comics skeptically, that they were simply novelty products that couldn’t possibly be any good. And while I can’t speak to the quality of the others as I haven’t read them, Batman/Elmer Fudd was bizarrely quite decent!

Elmer Fudd and Silver St Cloud fall in love so her jealous ex, Bruce Wayne, has her killed - or so Elmer thinks. Wabbits? No. Elmer’s hunting wich pwayboys for revenge - ssshhh!

The relative success of this comic stems in large part from the expectations the reader brings to it. Because I had no idea what angle this comic would take and expected it to be the usual Looney Tunes hyper-silliness, I was pleasantly surprised and immediately interested with the dead-serious, noirish tone writer Tom King went for - it upends those assumptions, immediately becoming more interesting, and actually works really well!

King writes Elmer completely straight - though he retains his characteristic and humorous speech impediment which, as the issue is written from his perspective, does get annoying to read quite quickly - and I liked that he gave him dignity and honour when he’s usually the farcical clown, the butt of every joke. I even bought that he was a quasi-serious threat to Batman and thought their encounter was astonishingly exciting.

In keeping with the tone, artist Lee Weeks draws the famous Looney Tunes characters as realistic humans. It’s fascinating to see Weeks’ interpretations, particularly for the animal characters like Porky, Taz and Wile E. Coyote, to name a few. Bugs especially was kinda shocking and unexpectedly sad.

As clever as the setup is, the story’s resolution is very weak, abrupt and forgettable (as most noir stories tend to be as they’re overly reliant on a huge dump of clunky exposition to wrap things up). It lets the issue down, exposing it as the contrived and half-baked crossover it seemed like from the title. There’s also a Batman/Elmer Fudd backup written/drawn in the classic Looney Tunes style full of wacky comedy that, like the cartoons themselves from a grown-up’s viewpoint, was more tedious than funny.

All that said, Batman/Elmer Fudd definitely wasn’t bad. The premise, characterisation and art were very strong though the way the story played out was unsatisfying and the backup was disposable. On the whole it was an unusually clever crossover comic that’s worth a look for curious fans of either franchise.
Profile Image for Bradley.
Author 9 books4,893 followers
July 27, 2019
I'm very surprised by this one. What should have been a hack job joke comic featuring Loony Toons characters and Batman actually became a classy Noir with grittily-hidden references to the original cast, drawn in Batman's universe. And better? It pulled it off, turning the seriously good artwork into the ultimate straight man.

The joke is in the story. Misdirection, misdirection, misdirection. I actually laughed and had a great time picking out all the MCs from the Loony Toons universe. Tweety, Porky, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian... and of course BUGS. And yes, he's a real stinker. And great as a noir character. :)

It actually comes off serious, too. And that's the great part. Them dames really punch our ticket, you know? :)

Well worth checking out, yo. :) Works on so many levels.
Profile Image for Trish.
2,397 reviews3,751 followers
July 27, 2019
Here's the deal: Brad told me about this and about the fact that Tom King is supposed to be a god among comic book writers. I didn't know who Elmer Fudd was by name but the little guy made me think of the hunter from Looney Tunes who always tries to get Bugs Bunny. Here's the kicker: HE IS.

Yep, folks, you read that right: they mixed Batman with Looney Tunes. Pretty crazy. Crazy enough to get me interested. And since this is a one-issue-comic only, I decided to spend tonight giving it a shot.

The story? Simple: A noir version of Elmer Fudd is in Gotham to hunt a noir version of Bugs Bunny. He, in turn, swears that while he did what Elmer Fudd is hunting him for, Bruce Wayne made him do it. So Elmer Fudd hunts Bruce, meets Batman and ... well, I won't tell you how it all ends.

As a bonus, we get a Looney Tunes backup story that features some DC characters written by Tom King and which actually made me chuckle (yes, I enjoyed it more than the actual comic).

The artwork in the Batman/Elmer Fudd Special as well as and the backup story's artwork by Byron Vaughns was pretty good. The former was very appropriate for a noir crime story, the latter was the typical style you'd expect from Looney Tunes.

But the story itself ... too simple if you ask me. Maybe the writer just wanted to have some fun by combining two unlikely worlds, I don't know, but I need a bit more substance to my comics, even if they are just meant to be some silly fun with nods to classic characters.
Profile Image for Christopher.
354 reviews62 followers
August 15, 2021
There's some nonsense to how ratings work. There's a lot of nuance involved in how one book can be 5 stars and a seemingly (objectively) better book can be 4 stars. A lot of times, expectations are at the heart of these oddities, and that is certainly the case here.

What did you expect when you saw this book has Batman and Elmer Fudd in it? If you said anything other than "complete garbage, terrible jokes, and a reminder of why crossovers are terrible," you're a liar. Which is why this gets as many stars as it does. It's not that it's great. It's that it is so much better than expectations that I don't know what else to do with it.



The only things you need to know about this is that the Looney Tunes characters are humans, it's a noir story, and it's way better than it has any right to be.

But now you've read this and your expectations are all messed up, so it's going to be terrible. Sorry.
Profile Image for Anthony.
816 reviews62 followers
December 2, 2024
So, this was great! It's a very noir-y tale about a scorned man (who happens to be Elmer Fudd) wanting revenge on the man who took his woman. The man he's seeking happens to be Batman.

They've gone about the route of setting this in Gotham and making it a Batman style comic, but all the supporting characters are regular people made out to be familiar looney tunes character. That's a terrible way for me to explain, its best you just read it for yourself.

And there's also the classic looney tunes style as a back up in the back
Profile Image for Rory Wilding.
805 reviews30 followers
July 31, 2025
Following a successful first year of the current Batman run, which is now on The War of Jokes and Riddles, Tom King inserts our favorite bumbling hunter who likes to go after wabbits into the dark abyss that is Gotham City.

Please click here for my full review.
Profile Image for Ryan Stewart.
501 reviews40 followers
February 24, 2019
2019 re-read: Still amazed by how good this is.

2018: Howy cwap. This is the bwest Tom King Batman stowy I've wead yet and it's a siwwy Wooney Twoons mwashup? Sewiouswy?

This is honestly astoundingly good. A silly idea executed perfectly. This made me smile from the opening line to the last. The script is clever, smart, funny, touching and deeper than this silly idea deserves.

This, somehow, is one of the top 5-10 individuals issues I've read in a few years. It's really that good.

That's all, folks.
Profile Image for Juho Pohjalainen.
Author 5 books350 followers
December 19, 2021
As crossovers go, this one is pretty funny. Take one of the brightest and most comedic franchises in all creation, and combine it with one of the most grimdark yet absurd - you're halfway done to comedy gold as it is. The story pretends to be serious, the artwork grim and gritty, yet most of the characters are just humanized Looney Tunes and Elmer Fudd's Frank Miller -esque narration forgets to get rid of his lisp.

Bathos at its best, except for the finale where it just kind of sputters out without a real climactic conclusion.
Profile Image for Julio Bonilla.
Author 12 books40 followers
September 17, 2017
I love the noir of the first story! Second one is a straight-up short, like the cartoon.
Profile Image for Siona Adams.
2,625 reviews54 followers
June 29, 2017
I was expecting this one to be good since Batman's involved, and I was right. Elmer Fudd was actually a really interesting character and I wouldn't mind if he got his own series in this manner similar to The Flintstones.
Profile Image for Shelby.
258 reviews
September 26, 2017
4 stars
The reason why I had read this book is because one of my goodreads friends had recommended this book to me. He thought I would like it and I did like it a lot. I am not a big into all the marvel comics and super hero stuff but after reading this book then I change my mind about the marvel hero's. I never read any marvel comic books because it never had tooken my interest like this book. I thought this book was really good and it had amazing art done to the book. I am glad I had read it. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested or already into the marvel comic books.
Profile Image for Logan.
1,022 reviews37 followers
August 21, 2017
I didn't really get it... Why was bugs bunny humanized, did I miss something?
Profile Image for Quentin Wallace.
Author 34 books178 followers
July 15, 2017
This one would seem impossible to pull off, but they did it. Not only did they do it, they put Elmer Fudd in a noir style tale and made it work.

Some of the other Looney Tunes characters show up, but they are presented as human. Bugs Bunny is a human murderer, Elmer Fudd is a speech impaired hitman, and Batman is well...Batman. I really can't do this one justice in a summary but this is a dark noir that was shockingly good.

The back up was beyond silly, but fit in well as some lightness following the dark. Hats off to the creative team on this one.
Profile Image for Cristina.
203 reviews95 followers
December 17, 2025
Dos historietas que entrecruzan algunos famosos y bien reconocidos personajes de los Looney Tunes con nuestro cruzado enmascarado favorito.

En la primera historia, el fantástico y detallado dibujo de Lee Weeks les otorga ciertos rasgos que hacen reconocibles a Bugs Bunny, Piolín y Porky aunque estén caracterizados como personas y no como el animal que verdaderamente son.

En la segunda, el dibujo es de estilo cartoon, más acorde con un guion más cómico e infantil que el anterior dibujado por Lee Weeks, más dramático y adulto, con más tensión y suspense, hasta resolverse en un giro final inesperado.

Recomendable si eres fan de Lee Weeks y si lo conseguiste como yo saldado a 4'50€ tras la quiebra de ECC. Valoración final: 3⭐ de 5.
Profile Image for Kayıp Rıhtım.
375 reviews305 followers
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November 6, 2018
Crossoverlar her zaman ilginç veya güzel olmaz. Farklı kişilerin yarattığı iki farklı dünyayı alıp aynı sayfalara taşıdığınızda birbirleriyle uyuşmayan şeyler göze batarcasına parlayabiliyor. Ya da belki de bana hitap etmiyorlardır. Ancak sizlere aşık olduğum bir crossover’ı anlatmak istiyorum, Batman: Elmer Fudd!

Yavasa Sezonu!

Son zamanlarda Looney Tunes karakterlerini DC evreninde çokça görüyoruz. Tam olarak içinde görmüyoruz aslında, varyant kapaklardan bahsediyorum elbette. Fazlasıyla da ilgi çeken bir varyant çeşidi oldular. DC ve Looney Tunes’un sahiplerinin Warner Bros. olduğu düşünüldüğünde bir yerde bu karakterlerin çatışmasını beklemeliydim.

Tom King’in yazarlığını üstlendiği Batman: Elmer Fudd, kendilerinden daha eski çizgi filmleri izlemek için sabahları erkenden kalkan bir nesil için büyük bir değer taşıyor. Tom King’in Batman için harika bir yazar olduğunu düşünmüşümdür her zaman. Özellikle de kısa soluklu işlerinden her daim tatmin olmuşumdur. Aksiyon uğruna sizi olayların ortasında atmak yerine hikayelerinde Batman’in ruhsal durumu ve yaşamı üstüne yaptığı karakter gelişimleri beni etkiler. Elmer Fudd da bundan nasibini fazlasıyla almış.

- Burak İpek

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Profile Image for Jeff Morgan.
1,387 reviews27 followers
October 1, 2024
“I’m hunting pwayboys. Shhhhh.”

A few years back DC Comics and Looney Toons did a crossover. It should be absolutely silly. I mean, Batman and Elmer Fudd? Really? Yes!

Tom King writes this DC/Looney Toons in a totally serious, crime noir style. Elmer Fudd is our narrator and protagonist. He seeks out the killer of his girlfriend. At Porky’s bar, we meet all the anthropomorphized versions of all the Looney Tunes characters (most importantly, Bugs “The Bunny”). Bugs blames Fudd’s love’s murder on Bruce Wayne. Of course, Bruce sets him straight and the two go “hunting” together.

The final few pages of the book is a mirrored image of rhetoric first part. Rather than having Fudd set in the Batverse, we have Batman set in the Looney Tunes-verse.

This was just silly fun and well executed. Well done.
Profile Image for Marc.
996 reviews135 followers
July 18, 2017
We discovered (by which I mean just realized there's this great place that's been there all along) Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, MD. One of their staff was kind enough to give us recommendations and he gushed over the DC-Looney Tunes series (specifically, this one and the title where Wile E. Coyote hires Lobo the bounty hunter to kill the Road Runner). The execution is delightful and the whole thing is captured in Fudd's accent. It's like when peanut butter met chocolate (only grittier and more Dark Knightish)...
Profile Image for Matěj Komiksumec.
324 reviews20 followers
June 29, 2020
Celý speciál DC meets Looney Tunes mě nějak nebavil tak jsem se radši pustil do tohohle protože Tom King, a bylo to fakt zábaný. Elmer je hrozně dobře napsaný a jako celek jde o krásnou jednohubku, že mě až mrzí jak málo prostoru v rámci tohohle crossoveru King dostal.
Art je super, příběh je povedený takže za mě rozhodně spokojenost na rozdíl od ostatních příběhů kde vidíme DC postavy a Looney Tunes.
462 reviews2 followers
January 25, 2026
Almost certainly not what you expect it to be based on the premise alone, but absolutely banging none the less.
Profile Image for Frédéric.
2,011 reviews85 followers
August 23, 2017
Never thought I'd give 4* to a book whose title is "Batman/Elmer Fudd". No siree.

Yet here I am, disconcerted for having liked this book I totally dismissed in the first place. I've been a huge fan of Lee Weeks for decades and really like most of Tom King's latest stuff but that wouldn't have been enough if not for the good reviews I'very seen here and there.

So I bought it. And liked it.

The plot is as basic as can be. It's the context that makes it good. King brilliantly appropriates all the noir codes (rainy night, off monologues, seedy barroom, femme fatale, etc.) in a situation where most of the characters are humanized Looney Tunes characters and the main antagonist is Batman.

It's as seriously written-with a somehow surprising level of violence- as it's seriously fun-with of course lots of references to the cartoons- and Weeks is just the guy that was needed to illustrate it.

The 2nd story, illustrated by Byron Vaughns is much more innocuous, totally cartoony in style and spirit. Fun but not amazingly fun. Not a problem, the first one totally makes up for it.
Profile Image for Nicolás Miranda.
21 reviews2 followers
January 28, 2021
No encontre la Edición en español qje yo leí y que contiene 2 historias. Ambas me parecieron muy buenas, manteniendo la escencia del mundo en que se desarrollan. Particularmente la que está ambientada en un universo DC me parece excelente, King mezcla ambas mitologías de manera magistral y demuestra que se puede contar una gran historia condensada en pocas paginas (cosa que todos sabemos pero que los guionistas de comic actual parecen haber olvidado).
Altamente recomendable.
Profile Image for John Yelverton.
4,439 reviews38 followers
October 17, 2018
There was no balance to this book. The A story was Elmer Fudd in Batman's world and the B story was Batman in Elmer Fudd's world. The point of a crossover is to take the best of both and mash them together, and this was not done here.
Profile Image for Brandyn.
49 reviews4 followers
April 1, 2021
"I'm hunting pwayboys, shhhhh"

Tom King turns an idea so oddly specific that it should never work into a fun issue that works on multiple levels.

Elmer Fudd is a man who had to hunt to survive, and he turned that into a business being a hitman, hunting others for a living. That is until he met Silver St. Cloud, life was good...until she turned up dead. And when Bugs "The Bunny", that stinker, convinces Elmer that Bruce Wayne put the hit out on her well...you read the opening quote.

The book is simultaneously a comedic romp, with the hard boiled noir narration and art playing the straight man to an inherently ridiculous concept while also being a short but genuinely engaging story about a noir mystery.

Lee Weeks' art is as stunning as it is on any other of his Tom King collaborations, with the gritty visuals both enhancing and deliberately undermining the story, depending on how you wanna read into it.

It's short so there's not necessarily a lot to dive into, but it's a fun romp based on an idea that really had no hope of working without the miracle dream team of Tom King and Lee Weeks saving the day.
Profile Image for Andy Pandy.
221 reviews
November 24, 2023
This comic had NO RIGHT being as damn good as it was! The noir-feel to the story and seeing all the looney Tune’s characters drawn in a realistic setting was equal part’s hilarious and equal parts awesome! The action in the first part was also amazing- and again the artwork was absolutely fantastic! It also had a surprisingly deep and great story! The second part was classic looney tunes Hijinks WITH batman thrown in- and it was great! Overall- this comic is SO MUCH BETTER than I was expecting! Give it a read if you’re interested in either looney tunes OR Batman! 4.5/5 Stars!
Profile Image for Kitkat.
427 reviews110 followers
May 27, 2025
Honestly I probably look so dumb loving this. But I freaking loved it! I loved the Looney Tunes references. It brought me back to my childhood. I loved how they teamed up and fought everyone. I liked the additional comic that was in Looney Tunes art style. I loved and enjoyed every minute of the story.
Profile Image for Octavi.
1,239 reviews
July 19, 2017
Una puta MARVILLA! Leedlo YA! Puro Noir+Batman+Looney Tunes.
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2,091 reviews86 followers
September 29, 2017
This has absolutely no right to be as good as it is. And yet, it is.
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