Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 Is the Hardest Shit You’ll Read All Year. Period.

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Lee Weeks / DC Comics “I wonder if they know how soft they all look today Fuck a drive-by, I just hop out the car and mush a face”- Royce Da 5’9 I don’t know what world we are living in where a team up with Elmer Fudd and Batman is one of the best written and illustrated books, not only of the year, but of the past several. On paper these Looney Toons and DC Comic book characters should be a joke, but that isn’t the case. It feels like all the creatives assigned to these held a competition with one another on who could make the most bomb character with the most unlikely match-ups, similar to Mary Shelly, Percy Shelly, Lord Byron, and John Polidori competition on who could create the best horror story. Tom King introduces the Looney Toons universe by having these characters portrayed as humans in Gotham’s underworld. We’re introduced to Elmer Fudd as a country-born hitman. Fudd’s entering a bar to take out local criminal Buggs “The Bunny” Woves. Yeah, you see where this shit is going. Fudd isn’t the bumbling hunter we know from his cartoon iteration here. Fudd is a gritty noir, matter-of-fact hitman, still with his signature country accent. I love it. I fucking love this.

Buggs has killed someone close to Fudd and Fudd’s here for revenge as Buggs exchanges the name of the person who hired him in hopes of keeping his life. That man is Bruce Wayne. Oh, this ain’t spoilers either, baby — this ain’t even the thick of it. King draws out the connection b…