10 Genius Comic Book Ideas That Should've Been Terrible

The nineties were full of dreadful crossovers. For some reason, publishers were obsessed with pairing up unlikely characters and this gave us some interesting books. Batman would team up with Tarzan, the WILDC.A.T.s teamed up with the X-Men and Spider-Man filled in for Powdered Toast Man in Ren & Stimpy.

Unsurprisingly, around 90% of these crossovers were complete garbage and part of the reason behind the general dislike of comics of that era. Yet there are some brilliant books to be found if you're willing to dig deep enough.

One such example is 1992's RoboCop Vs. Terminator from Dark Horse Comics, which saw legendary writer Frank Miller team up with the equally incredible Walter Simonson for an action-packed extravaganza that no-one was expecting.

Miller managed to do something that most of the crossover books couldn't and made the two characters feel like they were always a part of the same universe. Instead of the conflict coming from the drastically different origins, linking RoboCop with Skynet was a touch of genius that really made this book stand out above the other attempts at the time.