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| Marvel 2099 | |
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 Variant cover art toSpider-Man 2099 vol. 3 #4 (December 2015). Art byPasqual Ferry | |
| Publication information | |
| Schedule | Varied |
| Formats | Varied |
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 1992–1998 |
Marvel 2099[1] was aMarvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that wasoriginally about one possible future of theMarvel Universe, but later revealed to be the Earth of themain Marvel continuity in the distant future.[2] It was originally announced byStan Lee in his "Stan's Soapbox" column as a single series entitledThe Marvel World of Tomorrow, which was being developed by Lee andJohn Byrne. This later changed to aline of books under the bannerMarvel 2093 (the date being one hundred years from the year in which the titles launched) before finally being published asMarvel 2099.
Three of the initial four titles launched—Doom 2099,Punisher 2099, andSpider-Man 2099—starred futuristic takes on pre-existing characters. The fourth,Ravage 2099, featured an all-new superhero, scripted for several months by Stan Lee. The 2099line soon expanded to include2099 Unlimited,Fantastic Four 2099,Ghost Rider 2099,Hulk 2099,X-Men 2099, andX-Nation 2099. While it has been confirmed to be a possible future version ofEarth-616, the mainstream Marvel Universe, the 2099 universe has been officially designated asEarth-928 and alternatively dubbed asEarth-616 circa 2099, or simplyEarth-2099.
The initial universe began withSpider-Man 2099,Ravage 2099,Doom 2099, andPunisher 2099 being launched in subsequent months.Peter David wroteSpider-Man for the bulk of the series, and it was consistently the most popular series.[citation needed] It satirized corporations, with Spider-Man constantly clashing withAlchemax, which employed him in his secret identity. Stan Lee wrote the first eight issues ofRavage as an extremely political story about corruption, corporate pollution, and the environment. After Lee left, he was replaced by a series of writers. In 1993,Wizard reported that the 2099 line had "gone over fairly well with the fans".[3]
Fans requested further titles, and Marvel providedX-Men 2099. They also introduced aHulk 2099 in the series2099 Unlimited, which featured occasional Spider-Man 2099 stories, as well as early work byWarren Ellis. The comics had a strong degree of interconnectivity that was similar to comics published by Marvel in the 1960s due to the imprint's editor Joey Cavalieri. The only cross-title crossover within the 2099 universe,The Fall of the Hammer, detailed a plot by the corporations to technologically recreate the Norse pantheon, along with a newThor, to distract attention from the anti-corporate superheroes.
The 2099 series expanded to includeGhost Rider 2099, about a hero whose consciousness had been downloaded into a robotic body. Hulk 2099 was also given a brief chance at his own series. As sales began to flag on all titles besidesSpider-Man andX-Men, Marvel commissioned ideas from various writers, including a proposal byGrant Morrison andMark Millar, before accepting Warren Ellis's idea that Doom 2099, revealed to be, in fact, Victor Von Doom, would take over the United States.[citation needed] Each title had the modifier "A.D." ("After Doom") added on the logo to reflect the change. The new storyline allowed Marvel to cancel several low-selling titles (Hulk,Ravage, andThe Punisher).[citation needed] The in-universe reason for the heroes' deaths was President Rogers (an impostorCaptain America who was instated after Doom was violently ousted from office) ordered the execution of the super heroes, including Punisher, Hulk and a handful of low-tier heroes who had appeared in2099 Unlimited.[4]
In 1996, when Marvel, during a cost-cutting exercise, fired Cavalieri, many of the 2099 creators (including Peter David and Warren Ellis) quit the line in protest. With the line floundering, two additional titles were launched:X-Nation 2099, a spin-off ofX-Men 2099, andFantastic Four 2099, which featured characters who were apparently the present dayFantastic Four accidentally sent into the future.[citation needed]
Around this time,Doom 2099 became the only 2099 comic to crossover with a present-day Marvel comic when he traveled back to 1996 and metDaredevil, the Fantastic Four, andNamor in a story partially told inFantastic Four #413. Spider-Man 2099 met the originalSpider-Man in a special one-shot issue, making them the only characters to meet their counterparts.
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After sales slumped, the 2099 titles were canceled and replaced by2099: World of Tomorrow, a single title featuring the surviving characters from all the titles. The series lasted only eight issues before being canceled.[citation needed]
The 2099 line was concluded with aone-shot,2099: Manifest Destiny (March 1998), in which Captain America was found in suspended animation and, with Miguel O'Hara, assembled various 2099 heroes into a new team ofAvengers. The story summarized the years from 2099 to 3099, with humanity transforming the corporate world of 2099 into a utopia and then expanding into space.
The 2099 world has been seen occasionally since, most notably in Peter David's "Future Tense" storyline inCaptain Marvel, which revisited bothSpider-Man 2099 and the alternate future of theMaestro that David created inThe Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, explaining a plot point which had been left dangling since David had abruptly leftSpider-Man 2099.
In 2004, writerRobert Kirkman wrote a series of one-shot comics for the fifth anniversary of theMarvel Knights imprint, under the headingMarvel Knights 2099. The future portrayed in this series is unconnected to the original 2099 Universe, which included a different Punisher 2099.
In 2005, theOfficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe one-shot designated the Earth of 2099 as Earth-928, withMarvel Knights 2099 designated as Earth-2992. A cover of a second printing from the Spider-Man storyline "The Other: Evolve or Die" features Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099.
In 2006, theExiles visited the Marvel Universe 2099 inExiles #75-76 as part of the "World Tour" arc. This future split from the mainstream 2099 fairly early, as Doom 2099 had not yet met Spider-Man 2099. Spider-Man 2099 joined the Exiles and left with them.
In 2009 Marvel published miniseries "Timestorm 2009–2099", crossing the current Marvel Universe with yet another alternate version of 2099. The Spider-Man 2099 of this reality is a teenager.
In 2013, Spider-Man 2099 became trapped in the mainstream Marvel Universe inThe Superior Spider-Man. In 2014 he would star in an ongoing series and become involved in the "Spider-Verse" storyline, along with numerous other alternate reality Spider-Men. Notably the Spider-Men 2099s of the "Exiles" and "Timestorm 2009–2099" series are killed during this event. At the end of this storyline, the 2099 timeline has been altered.
The 2099 universe is involved in the 2015 storyline "Secret Wars".
In 2016, a storyline inDeadpool debuted the 2099 versions of Deadpool, a moniker shared by Wade's daughters, Warda Wilson (his daughter with Shiklah) and Ellie Camacho. The storyline also reveals that Wade Wilson and Iron Fist are still alive in this time period, as they work with Ellie and Wade's ally Emily Preston to stop Warda's war on the city as she attempts to find out what happened to her mother.[5]
In 2019 inAmazing Spider-Man #25,Dr. Connors is giving a lecture on the negligence of the world and environment due to focus on the countless occurrences of superhero activity will end up negatively impacting the future, to the point of catastrophe. Meanwhile, set to his lecture, strange weather phenomenon is occurring above a burning oil rig. A rift opens in the sky and a figure falls out of it, landing on the dock of the rig. The workers un-bury the figure, revealing an unconscious Spider-Man 2099. There was later a series of one-shots to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Marvel 2099. It incorporated the ongoing storyline fromAmazing Spider-Man that not only reintroducedSpider-Man 2099,Fantastic Four 2099,Doom 2099,Punisher 2099, andVenom 2099 in individual one-shot issues, but also introducedConan 2099.[6] Ulana the Watcher narrated that this reality of Earth-2099 is a combination of Earth-928 and the other Marvel 2099 realities which have been rewoven together.[7]
The world of 2099 is acyberpunkdystopia (similar to the world ofBlade Runner).North America is acorporate police state ruled by a few huge megacorporations, most notablyAlchemax, which owns the private police force the Public Eye (which primarily punishes criminals' bank accounts). There were, prior to the launch of the comics, no active superheroes in this world, and the previous heroes are mythologized through religion, as with the Church of Thor. The present-day Marvel continuity is referred to as an "Age of Heroes" that abruptly ended in a catastrophe a century before that also set back society (this catastrophe was averted in the present when Miguel O'Hara—Spider-Man 2099—temporarily swapped places with his past self shortly before the cataclysm, turning Miguel's world into an alternate future of the Marvel Universe rather thanthe future).
In the 2099 Universe, the monetary currency system uses implants commonly known as cards, which are credit ID implants. There are aluminum cards, gold cards, and platinum cards. Another type of card are black cards, which give the owner unlimited funds and law immunity.
There is also a status known as "decred", which denies access to many public places, such as hospitals, hypermarkets, and shopping malls.
This section contains the characters from each of the 2099 realities:
| Title | Issues | Date | Collected in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2099 A.D. | 1 | 1995, May | |
| 2099 A.D. Apocalypse | 1 | 1995, December | Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus |
| 2099 A.D. Genesis | 1 | 1996, January | Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus (material from) |
| 2099 Alpha | 1 | 2020, January | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| 2099 Limited (Ashcan) | 1 | 1993 | |
| 2099 Manifest Destiny | 1 | 1998, March | |
| 2099 Omega | 1 | 2020, February | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| 2099 Sketchbook | 1 | 1993, September | |
| 2099 Unlimited | 10 | 1993, July – 1995, October 1995 | Material from #1-3, 8-10:Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 2 Material from #5-8:Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus |
| 2099 World of Doom Special | 1 | 1995, May | Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus |
| 2099 World of Tomorrow | 8 | 1996, September – 1997, April | |
| Annihilation 2099 | 5 | 2024, July | Annihilation 2099 TPB |
| Black Panther 2099 | 1 | 2004, September | Marvel Knights 2099 TPB |
| Conan 2099 | 1 | 2020, January | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Conquest 2099 | 5 | 2024, October - December | Conquest 2099 TPB |
| Daredevil 2099 | 1 | 2004, September | Marvel Knights 2099 TPB |
| Deadpool 2099 | 4[9] | 2016, January - 2017, January | Deadpool 2099 TPB |
| Doom 2099 | 44 | 1993, January – 1996, August | Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus (#25 only A and C stories collected) |
| Doom 2099 (vol. 2) | 1 | 2020, February | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Doomed 2099 | 1 | 2025, July | |
| Fantastic Four 2099 | 8 | 1996, January – August | Fantastic Four/Doom 2009 Omnibus |
| Fantastic Four 2099 (vol. 2) | 1 | 2020, January | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Ghost Rider 2099 | 25 | 1994, May – 1996, May | Ghost Rider 2099 Omnibus |
| Ghost Rider 2099 (vol. 2) | 1 | 2020, February | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Hulk 2099 | 10 | 1994, December – 1995, September | |
| Inhumans 2099 | 1 | 2004, September | Marvel Knights 2099 TPB |
| Miguel O'Hara - Spider-Man 2099 | 5 | 2024, January | Miguel O'Hara - Spider-Man 2099 TPB |
| Mutant 2099 | 1 | 2004, September | Marvel Knights 2099 TPB |
| Punisher 2099 | 34 | 1993, February – 1995, November | |
| Punisher 2099 (vol. 2) | 1 | 2004, September | Marvel Knights 2099 TPB |
| Punisher 2099 (vol. 3) | 1 | 2020, January | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Ravage 2099 | 33 | 1992, December – 1995, August | |
| Secret Wars 2099 | 5 | 2015, May - 2015, September | Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 2 |
| Spider-Man 2099 | 46 | 1992, November – 1996, August | Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 1 |
| Spider-Man 2099 (vol. 2) | 12 | 2014, July – 2015, June | Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 2 |
| Spider-Man 2099 (vol. 3) | 25 | 2015, October – 2017, July 2017 | |
| Spider-Man 2099 (vol. 4) | 1 | 2020, February | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| Spider-Man 2099 Annual | 1 | 1994 | Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 1 |
| Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man | 1 | 1995, November | |
| Spider-Man 2099 Special | 1 | 1995, November | Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol 1 |
| Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis | 5 | 2023, May | Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis TPB |
| Spider-Man 2099: Exodus | 5 | 2022, May – August | Spider-Man 2099: Exodus TPB |
| Spider-Man 2099: Exodus Alpha | 1 | 2022, May | Spider-Man 2099: Exodus TPB |
| Spider-Man 2099: Exodus Omega | 1 | 2022, September | Spider-Man 2099: Exodus TPB |
| Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 | 5 | 2024, March - July | Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 TPB |
| Timestorm 2009/2099 | 4 | 2009, October - December | Timestorm 2009/2099 TPB |
| Timestorm 2009/2099 Spider-Man One-Shot | 1 | 2009, June | Timestorm 2009/2099 TPB |
| Timestorm 2009/2099: X-Men One-Shot | 1 | 2009, June | Timestorm 2009/2099 TPB |
| Venom 2099 | 1 | 2020, February | Amazing Spider-Man: 2099 Companion |
| X-Men 2099 | 35 | 1993, October – 1996, August | X-Men 2099 Omnibus |
| X-Men 2099 Special | 1 | 1995, October | |
| X-Men 2099: Oasis | 1 | 1996, August | |
| X-Nation 2099 | 6 | 1996, March – August | |
| The End 2099 | 5 | 2025, December | The End 2099 TPB |
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