Marvel 2099

Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that explores originally as one possible future of the Marvel Universe, but later revealed in a climax of Superior Spider-Man Goblin Nation arc and Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 #14 to be the same universe in distant future. It was originally announced by Stan Lee in his "Stan's Soapbox" column as a single series entitled The Marvel World of Tomorrow, which was being developed by Lee and John Byrne. This later changed to a line of books under the banner Marvel 2093 (the date being one hundred years from the year in which the titles launched) before finally being published as Marvel 2099. The three of the initial four titles launched — Doom 2099, Punisher 2099, and Spider-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 2099 line soon expanded to include 2099 Unlimited, Fantastic Four 2099, Ghost Rider 2099, Hulk 2099, X-Men 2099, and X-Nation 2099. While it has been confirmed to be a possible future version of Earth-616, the mainstream Marvel Universe, the 2099 universe has been officially designated as Earth-928 and alternatively dubbed as Earth-616 circa 2099.

Publication history

The initial universe began with Spider-Man 2099, Ravage 2099, Doom 2099, and Punisher 2099 being launched in subsequent months. Peter David wrote Spider-Man for the bulk of the series, and it was consistently the most popular series. It satirized corporations, with Spider-Man constantly clashing with Alchemax, which employed him in his secret identity. Stan Lee wrote the first eight issues of Ravage as an extremely political story about corruption, corporate pollution, and the environment. After Lee left, he was replaced by a series of writers who failed to provide consistent direction for the book. In 1993, Wizard reported that the 2099 line had "gone over fairly well with the fans".[1]

Growth and decline

Fans requested further titles, and Marvel provided X-Men 2099. They also introduced a Hulk 2099 in the series 2099 Unlimited, which featured occasional Spider-Man 2099 stories, as well as early work by Warren 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 new Thor, to divert attention away from the anti-corporate superheroes.

The 2099 series expanded to include Ghost 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 besides Spider-Man and X-Men, Marvel commissioned ideas from various writers, including a proposal by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, before accepting Warren Ellis's idea that Doom 2099, revealed to be, in fact, Victor Von Doom, would take over the United States. 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, and The Punisher). The in-universe reason for the heroes' deaths was President Rogers (an impostor Captain 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 in 2099 Unlimited.[2]

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 of X-Men 2099, and Fantastic Four 2099, which featured characters who were apparently the present day Fantastic Four accidentally sent into the future.

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 met Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, and Namor in a story partially told in Fantastic Four #413. Spider-Man 2099 met the original Spider-Man in a special one-shot issue, making them the only characters to meet their counterparts.

Ending and future revisits

After sales slumped, the 2099 titles were canceled and replaced by 2099: World of Tomorrow, a single title featuring the surviving characters from all the titles. The series lasted only eight issues before being canceled.

The 2099 line was concluded with a one-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 of Avengers. 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 in Captain Marvel, which revisited both Spider-Man 2099 and the alternate future of the Maestro that David created in The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, explaining a plot point which had been left dangling since David had abruptly left Spider-Man 2099.

In 2004, writer Robert Kirkman wrote a series of one-shot comics for the fifth anniversary of the Marvel Knights imprint, under the heading Marvel Knights 2099. The future portrayed in this series is unconnected to the original 2099 Universe, which included a different Punisher 2099.

In 2006, the Exiles visited the Marvel Universe 2099 in Exiles #75-76 as part of the "World Tour" arc. This future had split apart 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 2005, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe one-shot, involving alternate universes, designated the Earth of 2099 as Earth-928, with Marvel Knights 2099 designated as Earth-2992. A cover of a second printing from the Spider-Man crossover The Other: Evolve or Die features the Miguel O'Hara Spider-Man.

In 2009 Marvel produced a miniseries event, "Timestorm," crossing the current Marvel Universe with yet another alternate reality version of 2099. The Spider-Man 2099 of this reality is a teenager.

In 2013 Spider-Man 2099 became trapped in the current Marvel Universe in the "Superior Spider-Man."

In 2014 he would receive a new ongoing series and become involved in the "Spider-Verse" event, along with numerous other alternate reality Spider-Men. Notably the Spider-Men 2099s of the"Exiles" and "Timestorm" series are killed during this event.

In 2015 after "Spider-Verse" ends with most of 2099 timeline a bit changed, this universe will also be involved in Secret Wars (2015), as Marvel will have a large scale reboot around a Multiverse, such as Spider-Man 2099's new design.

In 2016, Deadpool's ongoing series will feature an issue debuting a version of the character from the 2099 universe.[3]

Setting

The world of 2099 is a cyberpunk dystopia (similar to the world of Blade Runner). North America is a corporate police state ruled by a few huge megacorporations, most notably Alchemax, 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 than the future).

Card system

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.

Characters

Heroes

Protagonists

X-Men 2099

X-Nation 2099

Fantastic Four 2099

Other heroes

Villains

Mega-corporations

Marvel Knights 2099 heroes

Main article: Marvel Knights 2099

2099 series and one-shots

Title Issues Date
2099 A.D. 1 May 1995
2099 A.D. Apocalypse 1 December 1995
2099 A.D. Genesis 1 January 1996
2099 Manifest Destiny 1 March 1998
2099 Sketchbook 1 September 1993
2099 Special: The World of Doom 1 May 1995
2099 Unlimited 10 July 1993 – October 1995
2099: World of Tomorrow 8 September 1996 – April 1997
Doom 2099 44 January 1993 – August 1996
Fantastic Four 2099 8 January – August 1996
Ghost Rider 2099 25 May 1994 – May 1996
Hulk 2099 10 December 1994 – September 1995
Punisher 2099 34 February 1993 – November 1995
Ravage 2099 33 December 1992 – August 1995
Spider-Man 2099 46 November 1992 – August 1996
Spider-Man 2099 Volume 2 12 July 2014 – June 2015
Spider-Man 2099 Volume 3 Ongoing October 2015 – Present
Spider-Man 2099 Annual 1 1994
Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man 1 November 1995
Spider-Man 2099 Special 1 November 1995
X-Men 2099 35 October 1993 – August 1996
X-Men 2099 Special 1 October 1995
X-Men 2099: Oasis 1 August 1996
X-Nation 2099 6 March – August 1996

In other media

Television

Video games

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wizard Market Watch". Wizard (22). June 1993. pp. 134–5.
  2. ↑ 2099 ApocalypseOne-shot
  3. ↑ http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/vader-down-concludes-deadpool-2099-debuts-more-marvel-january-highlights
  4. ↑ Ghost Rider 2099 #18-19 (October–November 1995)

On the 30th anniversary of the amazing spider man(comic book series) they announced Spiderman 2099.It had showed the first four pages of the first comic book.

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