10 Crazy Comic Books Way Better Than They Had Any Right To Be

In the world of comics, anything can happen.

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Marvel Comics

"Just what the hell were they smoking?" A question asked by many readers when these comics were new. The ideas are crazy, they're weird and some of them just might fly in the face of everything the audience thinks that it wants.

But somehow, seemingly against all common sense, these wild and wacky (or just plain counter-intuitive) comics actually worked.

Some of these books are real classics today, but at the time of their release may have been the cause of much head scratching. Who could expect them to find an audience? Yet these are comics that in spite, or perhaps because of their weirdness, resonated with the readership and succeeded in being memorable.

These comics stand above expectations, as books that conventional wisdom says should be bad, but in actual fact are absolute quality. They defy all logic in being genuinely good, and in doing so prove that no idea is too strange for the world of comics. The following is a list of crazy comics that turned out to be far better than they had any right to.

10. Bruce Wayne Agent Of Shield

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DC Comics/Marvel Comics

After the insanity that was DC VS Marvel event - which itself was the epitome of weirdness - the two companies decided to get even weirder. The short-lived imprint known as Amalgam Comics was a wild collection of twenty-four one shots in which the universes of DC and Marvel are merged and many of their characters combined.

One stand out issue of this imprint is Bruce Wayne Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. While many of the other Amalgam books focus on wacky combinations, this book is more of a character study. It's not uncommon for Batman fans to question his rule against killing, and this explores a version of the man who never had this rule.

The comic takes the character of Bruce Wayne and changes one crucial detail of his backstory, by having his parents be murdered by Hydra.

So, instead of becoming a vigilante, he becomes a spy, and as a spy he has no qualms with killing his enemies. This is the story of what happens when Bruce Wayne has all of vengeful obsession of Batman, and none of the restraint.

It's a tragedy of self destruction, as Wayne proves beyond any doubt that he is in fact a sociopath. He's a killing machine whose obsessed war with Greenskull has resulted in countless deaths and destroyed the lives of those around him, leading to a disaster of epic proportions.

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