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BATMAN/ELMER FUDD

Batman/Elmer Fudd #1 is here to make some very funny and beautiful noir comics out of the bumbling and gullible hunter. Disclaimer - NO OFFICIAL CANON CLAIMS HAVE BEEN MADE, but they should.  I just think Fudd and the rest of the Looney Tunes (who might be in the book) should be in Gotham all the time. The tracks have been laid and we need only to buy our ticket into a new vibrant world where our most treasured comedy characters stalk the streets at night.

Tom King and Lee Weeks bring about the most old-school Batman story this year.  Elmer Fudd is an intense as all heck gun for hire who has been sent to take out Bugs “The Bunny,” a sleazy crook who hangs out at Porky’s Bar down the way.  After a brilliant opening monologue in Fudd’s trademark Rhotacism up against Bugs’s clever roundabout ploys the hunter goes looking for Bruce Wayne.  It isn’t Wabbit Season.  It’s Bat Season.

This is some simple fun for everyone who loves Looney Tunes and Batman. Weeks’s art is intense classical Batman noir which always works on me and anybody with eyes.  Tom King’s writing is intensely hysterical because it has all the beats of a good Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short while capturing the crisp, rain drenched sulk of our favorite crime thrillers.

This one issue is one for the ages, and I hope to high heaven it becomes canon.

Most importantly, EVERYONE should try to read Fudd’s dark dialogue out loud and as grim as they can make it.  

Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and he thinks you’re super cool.