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The Wave Master posted...

I love Spider-man 2099. The comic needs to have another run because it was great, and I still have the comics in my long box in ny hallway closet.

I like the idea of 2099 more than I liked the reality of it. Though Doom 2099 was the one I gravitated to before I sort of drifted away from Marvel entirely in the 90s (I mostly started buying Valiant exclusively, before Acclaim fucked that up and I dropped comics entirely until 2008 or so).

The premise of someone showing up in the future claiming to be a time-displaced Doctor Doom (which is more than possible, since he literally invented the main time machine tech that gets used in the Marvel universe), with no memory of how he got there, or whether he's even the real Doom or just some broken failsafe the original Doctor Doom established (similar to Kristoff), was kind of neat. It sort of combined the idea of this mystery of just who this really was and how they got there, with the idea that Doom in a world without Reed Richards could actually be a hero instead of a villain. And having to use his genius intellect to catch up after 100 years worth of technological advancement left things like his previously cutting-edge armor painfully obsolete.

I also wanted to like X-Men 2099 because I loved Ron Lim's art, but it was just so 90s it hurt, and I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters.

The 2099 universe basically went to absolute and complete shit almost before it was launched, sadly. Spider-Man 2099 is probably the only one that really managed to transcend the crap and come out at least somewhat unscathed, but the Spider-Man IP does seem to be particularly teflon for that sort of thing (like with Mayday being about the only part of MC2 that anyone remembers or cares about these days).
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