DC Meets Looney Tunes Review (Tom King, Lee Weeks)

DC Meets Looney Tunes: makes sense from a financial standpoint as I’m sure a bunch of people will check this out for the sheer novelty of it. From an artistic or entertainment perspective though? Gawd no - these some shitty comics!

Sam Humphries opens the book with a Bugs Bunny/Legion of Super-Heroes story that is easily the worst of the lot. Bugs becomes Superman and together with the Legion - after the most insufferable blithering - they punch a monster. It goes on and on and none of it was worth reading. This is why I avoid Legion of Super-Heroes and Sam Humphries comics as a rule!

Then there’s the backup written and drawn by Juan Manuel Ortiz that literally REPEATS THE PRECEDING DRIVEL!!! Whose fucking idea was it to do that?! Christ on a crudite, I was ready to pack it all in at that point (and in retrospect I should’ve listened to my instincts)!

I’m not gonna mention every backup included here but suffice it to say they’re all superfluous and terrible. Whoever thought these beyond pointless additions were worth including needs to be fed into an Acme wood chipper!

Martian Manhunter has to stop Marvin the Martian from destroying the Earth in another issue of eye-and-brain-cancer from Steve Orlando and Frank Barbiere; Aaron Lopresti’s art is actually quite decent though. Wonder Woman and Taz punch some monsters, Lobo tries to kill Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote takes on the Green Lantern Corps (no prizes for guessing how both turn out). Kelley Jones (ugh) makes Wile look awful and Barry Kitson’s Taz was just weird.

I didn’t mind Jimmy Palmiotti and Mark Texeira’s Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam/Foghorn Leghorn story. It surprisingly wasn’t bad to read like the others. The story was kinda interesting, the Old West setting was well done and Texeira’s art was ok.

The only crossover worth bothering with was, predictably, by DC’s current best writer, Tom King: Batman and Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd is hunting wabbits the Batman! King writes Elmer with dignity, even managing to make him seem a genuine threat to Batman. I liked the real-world approach too with artist Lee Weeks drawing all the Looney Tunes regulars as warped humans. The ending is a bit flimsy but it’s a decent comic and by far the standout in this otherwise pitiful collection.

By golly, these are some tedious, unfunny, and uncreative stories - if you’re thinking they might be fun or even slightly entertaining, think again! But if you do, see how far you get into Sam Humphries’ garbage - which is representative of most of the book - then flick straight to the end, read King/Weeks’ issue, then move onto anything else. But honestly, don’t pick it up in the first place. This. Was. Horrible! Another big fat “Not Worth It!” from DC!