@@ash9898 You are entitled to your preferences, but I have never been one to avoid the piss-taking of idols, so I shall simply point out - Frank Miller thinks all Muslims are conspiring against America, that Robin is ‘a retard’ and should eat rats.
or silver was just wearing ugly man make up. Come to think of it, With the pulpy designs they gave all of the characters, if you swapped Batman with Dick Tracy not much of the story would be different.
To be fair, Three Witches Haxel made a bet with aren't someone you should talk back to. I lid you not, they're the Kindly Ones from Sandman, this is more like their hobby on the side.
The fact that this issue is legit some of Tom King's best writing, with Elmer's monologue at Silver's reveal before the end being one of the best descriptors I've ever read of the quiet depression of having your heart broken by someone you loved with your entire being, makes the comic so much funnier Simply putting Elmer's speech impediment over that beautiful noir dialogue leaves you in stitches
@@bthsr7113 yes but as can be shown here the dude has one hell of a sense of humor. For instance, he is the first batman writer to ask, "so how would this sheltered, raised by the butler, rich kid eat a hamburger from mcdonalds?" The answer? Treating the plastic fork and knife like fine silverware
Tom King, I wonder have the same reaction today which Frank Miller has during his golden years. His style is some occasions feel natural, like in his own series"Sheriff of Babylon"(trully recomend!) or in "Mister Miracle" was well fitting, but in every other works feels almost grimdark. In the recent "Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow" artist Bilquis Avery and colorist Mat Lopez act as foils to the depressing dialogue, with breathtaking visuals and amazing coloring.
I will never get tired of Noir Elmer Fudd Narration. I demand that the entirety of The Dark Knight Returns be rewritten in a matching style. _"A shawtgun is a kiwwew's weapon...a wiaw's weapon...We kiww too often because we have made it too easy...spawing ouwsewves da mess...and da wowk..."_
Linkara: "I demand to know whose responsible for these crazy crossovers?! Hmm!?" :::cartoon door drawn around him and closes::: Bugs: (sitting at Viga's computer) "Gosh, ain't I a stinker?"
My only problem with the whole thing is that as a child of the 80s I have a hard time getting past any place named "Porky's" not being a sleazy strip club.
I think my absolute favorite thing about these kinds of episodes is hearing Linkara try to copy the original characters voice to extremely varying degrees of success, I love it!
Not to mention how many characters have a color in their name. Black Manta Black Lightning Black Canary Blue Beetle Red Hood Red Robin Red X Red Tornado Green Arrow (Color) Lantern
@@MegaManXPoweredUp Blue Devil, Blue Jay, Black Hand, Black Mask, Black Racer, Black Orchid, Black Adam, White Canary, Silver Banshee, Silver Swan. The list is pretty crazy if you even just consider maybe 10 colors (Black, White, Silver, Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Green, and two more to boot)
"Someone wipped me off, and so one wast contwact was fowged. One wast job." "Huh? Who awe you? How dawe you intewupt my gweat pwan!!!" "Cwient told me to bwing back Hawvest's scythe and magic hewmet."
This comic works soooo much better than it has any right to work. Hell Elmer Fudd went toe to toe with Batman in a fight and I didn't find it ridiculous!
it is a nice concept for a realistic Elmer: A Hunter so skilled to kill anything that moves with a hunting shotgun who decides to become a professional hitman. You have your regular thugs who have guns, or snipers, or even minor metas who would also do this thing, but here you have this short pudgy bald man with a weird speech impediment and unassuming chill attitude, perfectly capable to blend into society with no one being the wiser. who can kill you with a shotgun just like that. and is that skilled a fighter that can actually stand up to BATMAN mano-a-mano? that guy must be a legend among Gotham's criminals. the guy you would hire for those special hits that you definitely dont want screwed over.
Black Canary: Eh, why isn't my name on the title of the comic? I'm just as much of a main character as Catwoman, Sylvester and Tweety. Baragon: First time? Great review as usual Linkara.
I thought the same. Probably because the title would get too long, with Linkara noting how many "ands" there were already. They probably went with Catwoman because "Batman and co. sells more."
9:43: "My name is Elmet Fudd. He's Batman. And we're hunting Wabbits". That's something I never thought I would hear someone read from a comic book....
Nothing quite sums up the AU-fanfic air of the concept like that quote, that sounds so perfectly like the first line in a DC/Looney Tunes crossover fic you'd see on fanfiction. net.
First, yes Tweety is just an asshole in any thing I've seen. Second, the scene of Bug and Elmer ordering carrot juice only for batman to hold up three fingers and ask for one honestly made me laugh. It's just a great visual gag.
"You ate what you hunted. In duck season you ate duck. In wabbit season you ate wabbit." Funny thing actually. In one cartoon Bugs and Duffy start to quote from cookbooks recepts for rabbit and duck dishes, and then Fudd is like: "Oh, I'm a vegetarian. I only hunt for sport." I remember that because I always found it bizzar.
17:03 Actually that was Tweety's original personality in his oldest shorts. A lot of fans even got mad years later when they started going the "innocent birdie" route with no irony.
When people ask me why I like Tom King, I point to stories like this. The man can write and write damn well. The problem with something like Heroes in Crisis was his own story was hijacked by higher ups (mainly Didio) and the same happened for the second half of his Batman run. He has done plenty of great stuff like Vision, Grayson, Mister Miracle, Sheriff of Babylon, Strange Adventures, the first half of his Batman run, Superman: Up in the Sky, etc (I am really enjoying his Supergirl too right now). I feel he is just best when he does one shots or limited series for the most part.
He’s a bit of a one trick pony, I think. He has a story he wants to tell and he forces the characters he uses to fit these specific moulds and archetypes he has set up, regardless of if that makes sense or not. This issue is great, but taken in context with the rest of his work that’s just like Tom King to make Elmer Fudd a broken wreck if not downright awful (like he did with Batman, Victor Mancha, Mister Miracle, Wally West, Adam Strange, the list goes on) and the love interests are usually all snarky and sarcastic.
Didn't he make Mister Miracle suicidal, which his character has shown no signs of until then? (The whole reason he does his escape artist stunts is to feel alive and remember the freedom that came from escaping Apokolips, according to one story I read long before the New 52.) He may be a good writer but that doesn't mean I like the kinds of stories he's known for.
@@ShadowWingTronix yeah except the Mr Miracle stuff was handled with care and grace, made sense for the character dealing with repressed trauma from his horrific childhood, was woven into the themes of Darkseid representing tyranny including the tyrrany of Abusers, and was cohesive start to finish. HiC "Hmm, I want someone to have mental health issues that makes them murder people" *throws dart at board*
@@genth3575 Maybe and not having read it I can't comment on the quality of the story itself since I've only seen...it was either Just Some Guy or Mim Headroom (who took down all his comic reviews to put the channel in a new direction) reviewing and it just didn't feel like something I'd want to read. I'm just at a point where deconstruction overload is starting to annoy me as a superhero fan who doesn't need a universe where people in spandex (or basketball coverings that Hollywood uses lately) flying around punching each other needs to reflect the real world. I don't want to see one of the happier superheroes contemplating suicide. It's totally a personal taste issue but it's a pass for me.
@@genth3575 Except King's gone on record that he never wanted to make a murder mystery and wanted to just focus on mental health (the murder was by DC editorial bc they wanted another Identity Crisis), nor did he have specific characters in mind to write for one (he had a blank script without specific characters attached, DC editorial pushed specific characters, including making the killer Wally West; a character that DIC Dan DiDio has historically hated with an enormous passion).
Y’know what could be a fun idea for a comic mini-series? Comic adaptations of various DC related superhero MOVIES, featuring the Animaniacs cast. As a proof of concept, I volunteer the original Richard Doner Superman film with Yakko as Superman, Helloise Nurse as Lois Lane, and the Brain as Lex Luthor. Pinky can be Lenny Luthor, Wacko and Dot can be the Kents.
I remember seeing this on the shelf. Didn't have the courage to read it. And after watching the review... I am so regretful that I didn't. DC needs more like this.
Well, if you get the trade, you can read Batman/Elmer Fudd alongside other stories like Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam, Martian Manhunter/Marvin the Martian, Lobo/Road Runner and more.
This is some of Tom King's best work, along with Mister Miracle and Strange Adventures. It truly straddles the line between tragedy and comedy so well, making you laugh like the best Loony Tune but making you sad like an episode of Batman TAS.
Actually a little sad that if one wants to recommend Tom King works, freaking Batman/Elmer Fudd is one of them. I mean OK, the Vision series as well especially since that was a partial inspiration for WandaVision, but I think after what happened with Heroes in Crisis, many are starting to reconsider King’s stuff.
@@myriadmediamusings King really is a great writer under the right circumstances. It's just that the man doesn't have a meh comic script in him. It's either one of the best things you've ever read...or something that makes you wanna hunt him down and slap him in the face with an unusually large trout His batman run is the most emblematic of this. The guy is way more at home with miniseries like Mister Miracle or Vision. His batman run is fucking phenomenal one minute...and it's The Gift the next
@@myriadmediamusings The Vision miniseries only really inspired Wandavision thematically. The plot is very different. Also, the Vision miniseries is absolutely spectacular, the best comic that I have ever read. Finding out that the same person wrote Heroes in Crisis would be like finding out that Steven Spielberg had directed Plan 9 from Outer Space. It was hard to believe that the same guy wrote both stories considering how drastic the quality difference was.
Man, those were awesome! Seeing this episode made me feel a lot better about some of the weird crossover fanfics I wrote the first couple years I was out of college. I'm glad to see that the pros could pull something like this off.
YES! I was so hoping you'd eventually review ONE of the DC x Looney Tunes crossovers! I love it when they have these two franchises meet, especially since this book is NOT the first case of this happening. There was a crossover in the early 2000s, Batman showed up in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, heck, there was an entire episode of Duck Dodgers where Daffy accidentally got his hand on Hal Jordan's power ring. You can even find Green Lantern Daffy if one of the DC Lego games. It's absurd, wacky, toony, and I love it all! Not gonna lie, this is my new favorite episode of Atop the Fourth Wall.
I remember when these were announced and the reaction was mosty confusion because of that conceit on how Looney Tunes was children’s only fare. I gotta give DC and WB credit for actually having fun with this, because I honestly can’t see Marvel and Disney doing it themselves. Marvel I can see wanting to interest but Disney shooting it down because of how sacrasanct they view their in-house works.
Since Disney is currently lossing a tone of money because of the pandemic, they may be force to lighten up their restriction and try something new to grab people attention.
And as a big Duck fan, I can imagine plenty of great stories. The Hulk going on a rampage so they decide send the only person that match the Hulk in strength and aggression, Donald Duck. Huey Dewey and Louie teams up with Spiderman and they find out that Spidey was a former junior woodchuck but he left after Uncle Ben died, but he still carries the spirit of being one by being Spiderman, And a story where Scrooge McDuck invites Tony Stark for the potential of buying up a considerable share of Stark industries and Tony is seriously considering it as he considers Scrooge an inspiration and a mentor but the meetings is interrupted by the Beagle Boys attacking the Money Bin so Tony suits up. And I can just go on but I need to stop at some point.
This reminds me of that early issue of Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man where he met an immortal Wile E. Coyote expy who was banished to the mortal world by a vengeful cartoonist God. ... MAN comics are weird.
"The Coyote's Gospel." Great issue. I honestly think that that is the first time that Grant Morrison became Grant Morrison. Their stuff on Animal Man before then was good, but it didn't quite hit the weird note that most of their work does.
17:10 Mostly to antagonists, though I think he got more verbally antagonistic after Chuck Jones took over and the modern era of Looney Tunes began, you know when Daffy started getting paired up with Bugs and later started getting sick of living in his shadow. Course it really depends on what you mean by "this much of a dick" because even as far back as A Tale of Two Kitties in the Schlesinger era, he straight up _tried to murder_ the cat versions of Abbot and Costello (voiced by Tedd Peirce and Mel Blanc (who was of course doing double duty with Tweety) respectively) (mostly Catstello because Babbit made him do all the work, also they were mice and dogs in two of their appearances, which is strange because of Catstello's name). Clampett even gave him this sh*t-eating grin that the modern version never does.
These crossovers were a blast. The Super Sons and Blue Falcon/Dynomutt one was my favorite during this goofy little event of Looney Toons and Hanna Barbara crossovers they did.
I hope someone patrons you for the Lobo/Wile E Coyote crossover there's something just so fun about seeing Lobo put through the ringer trying to get the Roadrunner for Wile
@@shadowldrago yep indeed it is, Wile hires the Main Man to get him the Roadrunner and hijinks ensue, also has a cameo from Sam Sheepdog confusing Wile for Ralph the Wolf
19:24 Did you know that Witch Hazel is based on a Disney character of the same name (and even voiced by the same person, albeit from the WB version’s second appearance onward)?
Me: Good lord. Is there a comic out there that seems more like it was brought about by Snowflame and Floro hanging out? Linkara: Next week is Batman Odyssey. Me: Oh yeah. That one.
I actually love Odissey... Not for the right reason, mind you, but it's nice seeing genuinely ridiculous writing that makes you laugh rather than whince inducing like asbar is. Granted I only learned about odissey through linkara so my judgement was colored by how he presented the comic
In my opinion, this is one of the funniest AT4W episodes from this year. If we could get more Patreon-sponsored reviews of DC/Looney Tunes crossovers (including that Superman & Bugs Bunny miniseries from 2000), I certainly would watch them.
12:03 surprisingly enough it isn't. Tom King decided "I want this to be canon in my vision of Batman" and had Porky's pop up once in a while during his run after this issue..... Tom King is weird
That was goddamn HILARIOUS! I laughed my ass off at both these stories. The tongue-in-cheek looney grimdark of the first story and the bizarrely increasing stakes of the second just had me rolling. Your jokes only added to how much fun it was. This might be my favorite review of yours in terms of sheer comedic value. Thumbs up! :D
13:50 I don’t know about the heel thing since I’ve never worn them but i imagine if you wear them often the pose develops into a habit and I’m a creature of habit sometimes said habits can happen on instinct sometimes you don’t even realize your doing it or don’t think about it when your doing it
I can't believe I actually knew about this comic before you brought it up. Looked through TV Tropes pages for Looney Tunes characters......because, and it mentioned Elmer fighting Batman. I could hardly believe, and I still can't. It seems both so right and so weird.
As someone who only casually watches these I'm shocked that this wasn't a bigger thing. RUclips needs a randomness multiplier on it's algorihtm for something like these.
didn't know that was a thing, thanks for this and also done with every episode just finished it now and love the show we see so much love and dedication on this every time
I wonder if Lewis at least saw some clips of the DC Universe scenes from Space Jam 2. Those were reasonably fun. Also, kinda cool that it helps to tie in with the 25th annivsaries this year of not only the original Space Jam, but also Superman: the Animated Series.
Dude, what a video to drop on my birthday 🎉. Thanks for making my day that much better, as you do any day you upload. Always looking out for what comes from Atop the Fourth Wall 😉
See Linkara, I don't see it as these folks hanging out. Its more like being in a community for any interest...you show up because you are interesting in X or Y thing and then run into other people that are interested in X or Y thing. You and those people don't have to have literally anything in common except for a common interest and like always with any group like that, there are always people you like and people you don't. Raven and Zatana probably had never said two words to each other, but when she started being an actual magic user, seems likely that you would meet a fellow superhero and one of the strongest mortal mages around. I could even buy them being friends. Its like having that one buddy that you share book recommendations with whenever you see them, we don't always see each other, but we like to keep up with what's going on with that thing we both love.
4:24 Actually, the Looney Tunes _do_ exist in that story. They're just a part of everyone's tragic backstory. 5:54 I guess the off the wall comedy of the Looney Tunes and... However you describe Tom King's writing even each other out. 11:47 The fact that the alt-universe story feels like it could fit in with the main lines while Heroes in Crisis is _loaded_ with retcons is kind of concerning. 13:32 You can just hear the guy saying through his gag, 'It's weird, but I'm into it.'
I actually bought those comics when they first came out! There's a bit in the Yosemite Sam/Jonah Hex issue that I'm thinking of doing in one of my stories (if I ever write the damn thing down).
Anyone remember that There Will Be Brawl web show that gave Super Smash Bros a Sin City aesthetic and treated the concepts almost 100% seriously? ...Definitely getting that feel from these comics.
I really did not expect these to be so good. XD I mean, these are brilliant, especially the first one. Can't we have more silly, fun stuff like this in comics? :D
Ok this entire collection of stories was just really fun and really interesting they each did their own thing with the same material and pulled out some of the lesser known names which I always enjoy. And in the theme of cross overs of Warner Bros properties Shaggy Rogers is still a Wizard in my eyes and probably pals around with Klarion. That is all.
With the first one, you can really feel how Tom King was inspired by Frank Miller's earlier work, especially Daredevil. And honestly, a hitman with a hunter gimmick is probably one of the more mundane things in Gotham. Of the DC/Looney Tunes comics, I've read these two and the Martian Manhunter/Marvin the Martian one. I should probably check out the others some time.
13:06: Raven briefly met Zatanna when she tried to tell the Justice League about Trigon in the first issue of The New Teen Titans in 1980 and again in an issue of Action Comics where Superman teamed up with the JLA and the Titans to defeat Brainiac. 16:17: Dinah: True, but the weirdest thing I encountered as a superhero is the time where Superman and the JSA told me that I have all of my mother’s memories back in 1983 as a way to let me know how I was able to stay young for so long and how I got discovered my Canary Cry since I’ve joined the JLA in 1969. 17:33: Speaking of the Black Canary’s age, how old is she now post-Infinite Frontier, since there are now two Black Canaries in that continuity since the Golden Age Black Canary made her debut in 1947? I know that the Silver Age Black Canary is 70 years old in real time (or 58 years old in sliding time in my head canon) in 2021, but I need to know how old is she in universe. 18:59: Looks like this one-shot has turned into the War of Cats and Birds.
My guy, I fell asleep with my RUclips on autoplay, and this came on as I woke up, and I'm not convinced that I'm not still passed out at my work desk. God I love comics. So much weirdness.
For Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Where were Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, the Roadrunner, and that tiny chicken hawk whos name I don't remember during that fight scene?
Unfortunately, this story is somewhat canon to DC. Tom King referenced Porky's bar in his run on batman a couple of times. He even waisted an entire issue of his "Knightmares" storyline that was nothing but a roadrunner joke.
@@charlesjunior5087 I think it might have been issue 65. Might have been the third to last issue of that arc. All I remeber is that the issue was Batman chasing a coated figure across Gotham. It turned about the Joker, who at the very end blew a horn at Batman that made a "Meep Meep" sound.
Raven: "they all just sort of assumed I was invited, and I was bored."
Frank Miller *wishes* he could come up with anything as gritty as Detective Noir, Elmer Fudd!
SIN CITY . and let's face it frank miller is WAYYYY better than Tom king
Sin City and Daredevil. Miller is actually a good writer and artist.
@@ash9898 You are entitled to your preferences, but I have never been one to avoid the piss-taking of idols, so I shall simply point out - Frank Miller thinks all Muslims are conspiring against America, that Robin is ‘a retard’ and should eat rats.
@@kutless45 only the pre 2000 frank miller. post 2000 frank miller might as well be a competly different person
@@ash9898 Now I want to see "Tune City", Sin City with Looney Tunes characters!
Anyone else disappointed that Silver wasn't just Bugs in really convincing drag?
Agreed. That would have been glorious!
Batman's world greatest detective title would then be revoked.
or silver was just wearing ugly man make up. Come to think of it, With the pulpy designs they gave all of the characters, if you swapped Batman with Dick Tracy not much of the story would be different.
Now that you mention it, yes!!
"every Bird and bird-themed being will die"
Raven, who was there: Wait I didn't fuckin' agree to that part!!
“or every Cat and Cat-themed being will die”
Klarion, who was also there: bitches say what?!
Robin, who wasn't even in the comic: "Well, at least you APPEARED in such a cataclysm!"
@@jlev1028 No, I did not. Thanks for pointing it to me.
To be fair, Three Witches Haxel made a bet with aren't someone you should talk back to. I lid you not, they're the Kindly Ones from Sandman, this is more like their hobby on the side.
The fact that this issue is legit some of Tom King's best writing, with Elmer's monologue at Silver's reveal before the end being one of the best descriptors I've ever read of the quiet depression of having your heart broken by someone you loved with your entire being, makes the comic so much funnier
Simply putting Elmer's speech impediment over that beautiful noir dialogue leaves you in stitches
between this and his Mr Miracle run he's far better in self contained character studies than massive event comics
So even when he's at his best, he still writes about mostly pain?
@@bthsr7113 yes but as can be shown here the dude has one hell of a sense of humor. For instance, he is the first batman writer to ask, "so how would this sheltered, raised by the butler, rich kid eat a hamburger from mcdonalds?"
The answer? Treating the plastic fork and knife like fine silverware
@@ThePichagree. He’s a lot like Bendis in that way.
Tom King, I wonder have the same reaction today which Frank Miller has during his golden years. His style is some occasions feel natural, like in his own series"Sheriff of Babylon"(trully recomend!) or in "Mister Miracle" was well fitting, but in every other works feels almost grimdark. In the recent "Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow" artist Bilquis Avery and colorist Mat Lopez act as foils to the depressing dialogue, with breathtaking visuals and amazing coloring.
Elmer: "Be verwee, verwee quiet. I'm hunting vigwantes. Ha.ha ha ha."
Batman: "What's up, Scum?"
@@darthcinema4262 Superman it’s bat season
@@ericjohnson5462 Batman: "It's Kryptonian season!"
@@darthcinema4262 bat season
@@ericjohnson5462 Kryptonian season
I like to imagine that zatanna invited Raven as her plus one so she could make some magic friends
Knowing Gail Simone is into small character interactions like that, yeah XD
I will never get tired of Noir Elmer Fudd Narration. I demand that the entirety of The Dark Knight Returns be rewritten in a matching style. _"A shawtgun is a kiwwew's weapon...a wiaw's weapon...We kiww too often because we have made it too easy...spawing ouwsewves da mess...and da wowk..."_
Linkara: "I demand to know whose responsible for these crazy crossovers?! Hmm!?"
:::cartoon door drawn around him and closes:::
Bugs: (sitting at Viga's computer) "Gosh, ain't I a stinker?"
If he had the ability to edit that, he would have, guaranteed.
Okay that’s genius
Did not know there's a legend among us, well done!
I would pay money for this ending.
Spider-Noir: "I'm the coolest non-traditional noir character"
Noir Elmer: "Awwow me to intwoduce myself."
Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh
I think next season is Spider Season
@@neptuneplaneptune3367 Ehhhh, hate to boist ya bubble, Doc, but I think its suppossed to be Goblin Season.
Mysewf
My favorite thing is that Porky's bar shows up later in the Tom King run, thus actually making it cannon.
My only problem with the whole thing is that as a child of the 80s I have a hard time getting past any place named "Porky's" not being a sleazy strip club.
I think my absolute favorite thing about these kinds of episodes is hearing Linkara try to copy the original characters voice to extremely varying degrees of success, I love it!
I could spend an entire day listening to Linkara trying to imitate the Looney Tunes' voices.
I really like his Sylvester.
I liked his guesses about characters' voices in his review of the Star vs.The Forces of Evil comic.
One never realizes how many cat and bird-themed characters there in DC until it's directly pointed out to you, huh
Not to mention how many characters have a color in their name.
Black Manta
Black Lightning
Black Canary
Blue Beetle
Red Hood
Red Robin
Red X
Red Tornado
Green Arrow
(Color) Lantern
@@MegaManXPoweredUp Blue Devil, Blue Jay, Black Hand, Black Mask, Black Racer, Black Orchid, Black Adam, White Canary, Silver Banshee, Silver Swan.
The list is pretty crazy if you even just consider maybe 10 colors (Black, White, Silver, Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Green, and two more to boot)
One of the first Green Lanterns was an ancient Tamaraean who is still alive some how. I think that's him at 19:50 at the center left.
"Someone wipped me off, and so one wast contwact was fowged. One wast job."
"Huh? Who awe you? How dawe you intewupt my gweat pwan!!!"
"Cwient told me to bwing back Hawvest's scythe and magic hewmet."
Magic helmet?
@@shadowldrago magic helmet.
@@AxionZetaOne Yes, magic hewmet, and dey wanted a saaaampwe.
Is this a "The Culling" reference, along with "What's Opera, Doc?"
@@retrofan93 Eyup.
This comic works soooo much better than it has any right to work. Hell Elmer Fudd went toe to toe with Batman in a fight and I didn't find it ridiculous!
it is a nice concept for a realistic Elmer: A Hunter so skilled to kill anything that moves with a hunting shotgun who decides to become a professional hitman.
You have your regular thugs who have guns, or snipers, or even minor metas who would also do this thing, but here you have this short pudgy bald man with a weird speech impediment and unassuming chill attitude, perfectly capable to blend into society with no one being the wiser. who can kill you with a shotgun just like that. and is that skilled a fighter that can actually stand up to BATMAN mano-a-mano? that guy must be a legend among Gotham's criminals. the guy you would hire for those special hits that you definitely dont want screwed over.
@@Marvin06260 Considering Elmer is so badass, Bugs must be the coolest
@@Marvin06260 He's playing the most dangerous game.
Linkara: Shhh! Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting bad comics!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
DC: Marvel Season!
Marvel: DC Season!
*Critic Season*
Linkara: Uh oh
All he has to do is write them
Black Canary: Eh, why isn't my name on the title of the comic? I'm just as much of a main character as Catwoman, Sylvester and Tweety.
Baragon: First time?
Great review as usual Linkara.
I thought the same. Probably because the title would get too long, with Linkara noting how many "ands" there were already. They probably went with Catwoman because "Batman and co. sells more."
@@Rixec2 That is a possible explanation.
Are you referring to Baragon from "Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack"?
@@alexanderstavroulakis335 Yes.
@@vaggos2003 Aaaahhh, I see you're a man of culture as well.
9:43: "My name is Elmet Fudd. He's Batman. And we're hunting Wabbits".
That's something I never thought I would hear someone read from a comic book....
Nothing quite sums up the AU-fanfic air of the concept like that quote, that sounds so perfectly like the first line in a DC/Looney Tunes crossover fic you'd see on fanfiction. net.
@@ShadowKnux372 I know, right?
First, yes Tweety is just an asshole in any thing I've seen.
Second, the scene of Bug and Elmer ordering carrot juice only for batman to hold up three fingers and ask for one honestly made me laugh. It's just a great visual gag.
"You ate what you hunted. In duck season you ate duck. In wabbit season you ate wabbit."
Funny thing actually. In one cartoon Bugs and Duffy start to quote from cookbooks recepts for rabbit and duck dishes, and then Fudd is like: "Oh, I'm a vegetarian. I only hunt for sport."
I remember that because I always found it bizzar.
Man I was gonna make a joke like "Oh sure, all the DC magic characters are there, but where is Witch Hazel?" And then the ending happened. Good comic
Viga’s title card in this video is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
Maybe Raven's just hanging out because she's embracing her gothiness.
Raven: Look, I can only go to so many of Starfire's bubblegum pop parties okay? This is my palate cleanser...
@@jordanloux3883 The funny thing is, I can actually see that being a thing in the main continuity.
Maybe Raven was just Zatana's plus one
Or she’s someone’s plus one.
Zatana maybe?
I would love to have "Fat Grandma vs Witch Hazel" comic book.
Batman: Be very very quiet,
I'm Hunting One Faces hahahaha
"Starfire, since Tamaranians are descendant from cats."
TIL.
I thought it was because Mumbo Jumbo turned her into a cat once.
One of the original Green Lanterns was an ancient Tamaranean who is still alive some how. I think that's him on the left at 19:50
17:03 Actually that was Tweety's original personality in his oldest shorts. A lot of fans even got mad years later when they started going the "innocent birdie" route with no irony.
When people ask me why I like Tom King, I point to stories like this. The man can write and write damn well. The problem with something like Heroes in Crisis was his own story was hijacked by higher ups (mainly Didio) and the same happened for the second half of his Batman run. He has done plenty of great stuff like Vision, Grayson, Mister Miracle, Sheriff of Babylon, Strange Adventures, the first half of his Batman run, Superman: Up in the Sky, etc (I am really enjoying his Supergirl too right now). I feel he is just best when he does one shots or limited series for the most part.
He’s a bit of a one trick pony, I think. He has a story he wants to tell and he forces the characters he uses to fit these specific moulds and archetypes he has set up, regardless of if that makes sense or not. This issue is great, but taken in context with the rest of his work that’s just like Tom King to make Elmer Fudd a broken wreck if not downright awful (like he did with Batman, Victor Mancha, Mister Miracle, Wally West, Adam Strange, the list goes on) and the love interests are usually all snarky and sarcastic.
Didn't he make Mister Miracle suicidal, which his character has shown no signs of until then? (The whole reason he does his escape artist stunts is to feel alive and remember the freedom that came from escaping Apokolips, according to one story I read long before the New 52.) He may be a good writer but that doesn't mean I like the kinds of stories he's known for.
@@ShadowWingTronix yeah except the Mr Miracle stuff was handled with care and grace, made sense for the character dealing with repressed trauma from his horrific childhood, was woven into the themes of Darkseid representing tyranny including the tyrrany of Abusers, and was cohesive start to finish.
HiC "Hmm, I want someone to have mental health issues that makes them murder people" *throws dart at board*
@@genth3575 Maybe and not having read it I can't comment on the quality of the story itself since I've only seen...it was either Just Some Guy or Mim Headroom (who took down all his comic reviews to put the channel in a new direction) reviewing and it just didn't feel like something I'd want to read.
I'm just at a point where deconstruction overload is starting to annoy me as a superhero fan who doesn't need a universe where people in spandex (or basketball coverings that Hollywood uses lately) flying around punching each other needs to reflect the real world. I don't want to see one of the happier superheroes contemplating suicide. It's totally a personal taste issue but it's a pass for me.
@@genth3575 Except King's gone on record that he never wanted to make a murder mystery and wanted to just focus on mental health (the murder was by DC editorial bc they wanted another Identity Crisis), nor did he have specific characters in mind to write for one (he had a blank script without specific characters attached, DC editorial pushed specific characters, including making the killer Wally West; a character that DIC Dan DiDio has historically hated with an enormous passion).
Had to say this, since no one else seems to have said it: Linkara’s Bugs Bunny impression is damn good.
Y’know what could be a fun idea for a comic mini-series? Comic adaptations of various DC related superhero MOVIES, featuring the Animaniacs cast. As a proof of concept, I volunteer the original Richard Doner Superman film with Yakko as Superman, Helloise Nurse as Lois Lane, and the Brain as Lex Luthor. Pinky can be Lenny Luthor, Wacko and Dot can be the Kents.
Would Dot be Supergirl and Wakko be Jimmy Olsen?
@@juhaniaho6698 I would have wakko be superboy
If the brain is lex luthor, who would pinky be?
@@alexjewett7455, doesn’t Lex have a nephew in those films? Pinky can be him.
@@alexjewett7455 Either Otis or Metallo.
I remember seeing this on the shelf. Didn't have the courage to read it. And after watching the review...
I am so regretful that I didn't. DC needs more like this.
Well that's why linkara made this patron (I'm stupid) so people can make him review good comics or something Weird
Well, if you get the trade, you can read Batman/Elmer Fudd alongside other stories like Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam, Martian Manhunter/Marvin the Martian, Lobo/Road Runner and more.
This is some of Tom King's best work, along with Mister Miracle and Strange Adventures. It truly straddles the line between tragedy and comedy so well, making you laugh like the best Loony Tune but making you sad like an episode of Batman TAS.
OMG that Elmer Fudd impression is hilarious af.
About time we got to see some good Tom King writing because when he's on point he really is
Tom king doesn't really has a middle ground
Actually a little sad that if one wants to recommend Tom King works, freaking Batman/Elmer Fudd is one of them.
I mean OK, the Vision series as well especially since that was a partial inspiration for WandaVision, but I think after what happened with Heroes in Crisis, many are starting to reconsider King’s stuff.
@@myriadmediamusings King really is a great writer under the right circumstances. It's just that the man doesn't have a meh comic script in him. It's either one of the best things you've ever read...or something that makes you wanna hunt him down and slap him in the face with an unusually large trout
His batman run is the most emblematic of this. The guy is way more at home with miniseries like Mister Miracle or Vision. His batman run is fucking phenomenal one minute...and it's The Gift the next
@@johndavidtibbetts7320 I agree, the short form somewhat out of continuity comic format is best for Tom King.
@@myriadmediamusings The Vision miniseries only really inspired Wandavision thematically. The plot is very different. Also, the Vision miniseries is absolutely spectacular, the best comic that I have ever read. Finding out that the same person wrote Heroes in Crisis would be like finding out that Steven Spielberg had directed Plan 9 from Outer Space. It was hard to believe that the same guy wrote both stories considering how drastic the quality difference was.
Man, those were awesome! Seeing this episode made me feel a lot better about some of the weird crossover fanfics I wrote the first couple years I was out of college. I'm glad to see that the pros could pull something like this off.
YES! I was so hoping you'd eventually review ONE of the DC x Looney Tunes crossovers! I love it when they have these two franchises meet, especially since this book is NOT the first case of this happening. There was a crossover in the early 2000s, Batman showed up in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, heck, there was an entire episode of Duck Dodgers where Daffy accidentally got his hand on Hal Jordan's power ring. You can even find Green Lantern Daffy if one of the DC Lego games. It's absurd, wacky, toony, and I love it all! Not gonna lie, this is my new favorite episode of Atop the Fourth Wall.
You mean the Green Loonturn right? If we’re gonna discuss Looney Tunes/DC crossovers we’re going to have to give them the right names.
@@dubbingsync Either way, it's Daffy Duck wielding a Green Lantern ring. It is equal parts goofy and glorious!
Just finished watching your “Beast Morphers” video and now I’m watching this! What a coincidence!
Aquaman meets Jabberjaw, Black Lightning meets Hong Kong Phooey, and a long series of Scooby Doo and his gang popping up.
My favourite was the Scooby Doo/Swamp Thing crossover. A close second is Bugs Bunny/Legion of Superheroes.
8:57 That is an amazing two panel shot the artist did. Work of art.
I remember when these were announced and the reaction was mosty confusion because of that conceit on how Looney Tunes was children’s only fare.
I gotta give DC and WB credit for actually having fun with this, because I honestly can’t see Marvel and Disney doing it themselves. Marvel I can see wanting to interest but Disney shooting it down because of how sacrasanct they view their in-house works.
Since Disney is currently lossing a tone of money because of the pandemic, they may be force to lighten up their restriction and try something new to grab people attention.
Yeah guess Disney didn’t want Mickey Mouse to have a gun.
@@Ihartwalrusguy He did actually used guns before in some of his early cartoons, believe it or not.
Spider-Man meets Donald Duck. Make it happen Disney/Marvel.
And as a big Duck fan, I can imagine plenty of great stories. The Hulk going on a rampage so they decide send the only person that match the Hulk in strength and aggression, Donald Duck. Huey Dewey and Louie teams up with Spiderman and they find out that Spidey was a former junior woodchuck but he left after Uncle Ben died, but he still carries the spirit of being one by being Spiderman, And a story where Scrooge McDuck invites Tony Stark for the potential of buying up a considerable share of Stark industries and Tony is seriously considering it as he considers Scrooge an inspiration and a mentor but the meetings is interrupted by the Beagle Boys attacking the Money Bin so Tony suits up. And I can just go on but I need to stop at some point.
This reminds me of that early issue of Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man where he met an immortal Wile E. Coyote expy who was banished to the mortal world by a vengeful cartoonist God.
...
MAN comics are weird.
"The Coyote's Gospel." Great issue. I honestly think that that is the first time that Grant Morrison became Grant Morrison. Their stuff on Animal Man before then was good, but it didn't quite hit the weird note that most of their work does.
17:10 Mostly to antagonists, though I think he got more verbally antagonistic after Chuck Jones took over and the modern era of Looney Tunes began, you know when Daffy started getting paired up with Bugs and later started getting sick of living in his shadow. Course it really depends on what you mean by "this much of a dick" because even as far back as A Tale of Two Kitties in the Schlesinger era, he straight up _tried to murder_ the cat versions of Abbot and Costello (voiced by Tedd Peirce and Mel Blanc (who was of course doing double duty with Tweety) respectively) (mostly Catstello because Babbit made him do all the work, also they were mice and dogs in two of their appearances, which is strange because of Catstello's name). Clampett even gave him this sh*t-eating grin that the modern version never does.
These crossovers were a blast. The Super Sons and Blue Falcon/Dynomutt one was my favorite during this goofy little event of Looney Toons and Hanna Barbara crossovers they did.
Wow. 10+ years of this show and I think this is the first time Silver St. Cloud has been on the show.
I hope someone patrons you for the Lobo/Wile E Coyote crossover there's something just so fun about seeing Lobo put through the ringer trying to get the Roadrunner for Wile
Are you serious? Is that a real thing?
@@shadowldrago It is, and it's hilarious.
@@shadowldrago yep indeed it is, Wile hires the Main Man to get him the Roadrunner and hijinks ensue, also has a cameo from Sam Sheepdog confusing Wile for Ralph the Wolf
19:24 Did you know that Witch Hazel is based on a Disney character of the same name (and even voiced by the same person, albeit from the WB version’s second appearance onward)?
The one from “Trick or Treat” (man, that song is catchy)? Although, she is much shorter than green-faced Witch Hazel.
Me: Good lord. Is there a comic out there that seems more like it was brought about by Snowflame and Floro hanging out?
Linkara: Next week is Batman Odyssey.
Me: Oh yeah. That one.
I actually love Odissey... Not for the right reason, mind you, but it's nice seeing genuinely ridiculous writing that makes you laugh rather than whince inducing like asbar is. Granted I only learned about odissey through linkara so my judgement was colored by how he presented the comic
The MCU: This is the most ambitious crossover of them all!!
DC: Hold my comically large mallet
Now I want to see a crossover with Henry the Chickenhawk and Hawkgirl.
Chickenhawk being a harbinger of destruction attempting to destroy Thanagar….that sounds totally stupid that I’d want it to be a reality
That should've happened, DC.
This is the same humor that made Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden an instant comedy classic.
My God, that Sylvester impression is amazing!
Daffy Duck's reaction to his review..
Daffy: You're despicable!
2:50 - The first line, and it's already amazing.
I’d love to see more of these! This was a lot of fun seeing these zany stories.
In my opinion, this is one of the funniest AT4W episodes from this year. If we could get more Patreon-sponsored reviews of DC/Looney Tunes crossovers (including that Superman & Bugs Bunny miniseries from 2000), I certainly would watch them.
12:03 surprisingly enough it isn't. Tom King decided "I want this to be canon in my vision of Batman" and had Porky's pop up once in a while during his run after this issue.....
Tom King is weird
Your impressions of these characters are on point! I think everyone can appreciate a good impersonation
Great name
@@benjaminjohnson8849 thanks BJ!
That was goddamn HILARIOUS! I laughed my ass off at both these stories. The tongue-in-cheek looney grimdark of the first story and the bizarrely increasing stakes of the second just had me rolling. Your jokes only added to how much fun it was.
This might be my favorite review of yours in terms of sheer comedic value. Thumbs up! :D
12:03 it actually is canon…kinda…Porky’s Bar showed up after for the rest of King’s run after this crossover One-Shot.
Fucking hell I was not ready for the ending bumper, that got me to burst out laughing. Great work as always!
This loony toons crossover with the dc universe was really weird but really funny at least in my opinion.
I would absolutely love an ongoing series of backups featuring the Canary & Sylvester/Catwoman & Tweety duos.
Black Alice and raven should totally hangout
13:50 I don’t know about the heel thing since I’ve never worn them but i imagine if you wear them often the pose develops into a habit and I’m a creature of habit sometimes said habits can happen on instinct sometimes you don’t even realize your doing it or don’t think about it when your doing it
6:25 Speaking of Marvin, did you review his DC crossover with Martian Manhunter? Yeah, that totally happened!
This is now my favorite Linkara video ever. THIS IS THE STUFF OF LEGEND.
I can't believe I actually knew about this comic before you brought it up. Looked through TV Tropes pages for Looney Tunes characters......because, and it mentioned Elmer fighting Batman. I could hardly believe, and I still can't. It seems both so right and so weird.
Last I checked it’s was pronounced Klarion, dun dub dunnn, the witch boy.
I actually have to mentally correct myself from doing that whenever I mention him.
Only know Clarion from Young Justice, what's the reference?
@@vcom741 The one from Young Justice is based on the one from the comic as usual. He also showed up in Batman TAS.
@@Pikachu2Ash Ok but what's the dun dun dun for?
@@vcom741 it’s something he did briefly in the 2000s. He’s long since stopped but since when do fans forget stupid stuff like that.
As someone who only casually watches these I'm shocked that this wasn't a bigger thing. RUclips needs a randomness multiplier on it's algorihtm for something like these.
didn't know that was a thing, thanks for this and also done with every episode just finished it now and love the show we see so much love and dedication on this every time
I wonder if Lewis at least saw some clips of the DC Universe scenes from Space Jam 2. Those were reasonably fun. Also, kinda cool that it helps to tie in with the 25th annivsaries this year of not only the original Space Jam, but also Superman: the Animated Series.
Dude, what a video to drop on my birthday 🎉. Thanks for making my day that much better, as you do any day you upload. Always looking out for what comes from Atop the Fourth Wall 😉
I think this might just beat Christmas Carol with zombies as my favorite weirdly well done comic adaptations
this was the strangest episode of batman the animated series. real talk: this was very entertainin. wabbit season! 😸
I say it's Baseball season. Now go get the ball.
I didn't know what to expect from this and yet, I want to see more.
This review made me reread my copy of Marvin the Martian and Martian Manhunter. Still a lot of fun!
See Linkara, I don't see it as these folks hanging out. Its more like being in a community for any interest...you show up because you are interesting in X or Y thing and then run into other people that are interested in X or Y thing.
You and those people don't have to have literally anything in common except for a common interest and like always with any group like that, there are always people you like and people you don't.
Raven and Zatana probably had never said two words to each other, but when she started being an actual magic user, seems likely that you would meet a fellow superhero and one of the strongest mortal mages around. I could even buy them being friends. Its like having that one buddy that you share book recommendations with whenever you see them, we don't always see each other, but we like to keep up with what's going on with that thing we both love.
Black Canary, Tweetie, Sylvester, Catwoman. The puns
4:24 Actually, the Looney Tunes _do_ exist in that story. They're just a part of everyone's tragic backstory.
5:54 I guess the off the wall comedy of the Looney Tunes and... However you describe Tom King's writing even each other out.
11:47 The fact that the alt-universe story feels like it could fit in with the main lines while Heroes in Crisis is _loaded_ with retcons is kind of concerning.
13:32 You can just hear the guy saying through his gag, 'It's weird, but I'm into it.'
I actually bought those comics when they first came out! There's a bit in the Yosemite Sam/Jonah Hex issue that I'm thinking of doing in one of my stories (if I ever write the damn thing down).
Anyone remember that There Will Be Brawl web show that gave Super Smash Bros a Sin City aesthetic and treated the concepts almost 100% seriously? ...Definitely getting that feel from these comics.
I really did not expect these to be so good. XD I mean, these are brilliant, especially the first one. Can't we have more silly, fun stuff like this in comics? :D
Ok this entire collection of stories was just really fun and really interesting they each did their own thing with the same material and pulled out some of the lesser known names which I always enjoy.
And in the theme of cross overs of Warner Bros properties Shaggy Rogers is still a Wizard in my eyes and probably pals around with Klarion.
That is all.
Reminds me of the Scooby-Doo Team-up comic.
so this is basically the "i can't even" episode of at4w. gotcha XD
1:17 If you want to see how many "ands" you can fit then you forgot the "& Knuckles"
6:34 To be fair, Michigan J. Frog always looks like that when there's more than one person to watch him.
Gail Simone is a genius! I will fight anyone on this claim.
10:58 Are you saying bruce wayne couldn't get surgery from his childhood friend Dr Thomas Elliot?
4:52 "Well Mac, you go a few rounds with the Noyd then tell me how ya sense of direction is after that!"
This actually sounds really interesting, I think it helps that they are being fun and creative with the stories.
Was expecting a reference to the White Rabbit from The Dark Knight comics...
And Linkara did NOT disappoint!
With the first one, you can really feel how Tom King was inspired by Frank Miller's earlier work, especially Daredevil. And honestly, a hitman with a hunter gimmick is probably one of the more mundane things in Gotham.
Of the DC/Looney Tunes comics, I've read these two and the Martian Manhunter/Marvin the Martian one. I should probably check out the others some time.
13:06: Raven briefly met Zatanna when she tried to tell the Justice League about Trigon in the first issue of The New Teen Titans in 1980 and again in an issue of Action Comics where Superman teamed up with the JLA and the Titans to defeat Brainiac.
16:17: Dinah: True, but the weirdest thing I encountered as a superhero is the time where Superman and the JSA told me that I have all of my mother’s memories back in 1983 as a way to let me know how I was able to stay young for so long and how I got discovered my Canary Cry since I’ve joined the JLA in 1969.
17:33: Speaking of the Black Canary’s age, how old is she now post-Infinite Frontier, since there are now two Black Canaries in that continuity since the Golden Age Black Canary made her debut in 1947? I know that the Silver Age Black Canary is 70 years old in real time (or 58 years old in sliding time in my head canon) in 2021, but I need to know how old is she in universe.
18:59: Looks like this one-shot has turned into the War of Cats and Birds.
Yes, but there have been like two reboots since then.
Man this was just amazing! I love it! No words to describe it!
My favorite visual joke in the Batman/Elmer Fudd comic is how most of the sound effects ALSO share Elmer's speech impediment
I am absolutely miserable today with health issues coming back in big and painful ways. Thank you for this. My mood needed this boost. Thank you.
My guy, I fell asleep with my RUclips on autoplay, and this came on as I woke up, and I'm not convinced that I'm not still passed out at my work desk.
God I love comics. So much weirdness.
I just love the utilization of the cat themed & bird themed characters all getting together.
For Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Where were Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, the Roadrunner, and that tiny chicken hawk whos name I don't remember during that fight scene?
Unfortunately, this story is somewhat canon to DC. Tom King referenced Porky's bar in his run on batman a couple of times. He even waisted an entire issue of his "Knightmares" storyline that was nothing but a roadrunner joke.
What do you mean unfortunately? The story was weirdly amazing in my opinion
You wouldn’t happen to know which issue would you?
@@charlesjunior5087 I think it might have been issue 65. Might have been the third to last issue of that arc. All I remeber is that the issue was Batman chasing a coated figure across Gotham. It turned about the Joker, who at the very end blew a horn at Batman that made a "Meep Meep" sound.
Unfortunate? These were weirdly good and fun
Unfortunate? Dude, the Road Runner is a classic for a darn good reason.