Marvel 2099
Marvel 2099 was an imprint of Marvel Comics in the 1990's which explored the future of the Marvel Universe. Many of their titles starred futuristic versions of existing characters, including Spider-Man 2099, The Punisher 2099, Ghost Rider 2099, Doom 2099 and X-Men 2099.The world of 2099 was a cyberpunk dystopia, similar to the world of Blade Runner. The world was a corporate police state ruled by megacorps, most notably Alchemax, which owned the private police force Public Eye. Miguel O'Hara, the 2099 Spider-Man, was an Alechemax employee and Jake Gallows, the Punisher, was a Public Eye.
The comics had a strong degree of innerconnectivity, even when not explicitly crossing over, that reminded readers of early Marvel Comics. Much of this was due to Joey Cavalieri, the editor.
When Marvel, during a cost-cutting exercise, fired Cavalieri in 1996, many of the 2099 creators (including Peter David and Warren Ellis) left in protest. The 2099 line was reduced to a single comic entitled 2099: World of Tomorrow, which lasted eight issues. A coda to the series, 2099: Manifest Destiny, was published in 1998, in which Captain America was found in suspended animation and, with Miguel O'Hara, assembled the various 2099 heroes into a new team of Avengers.
The 2099 world has been seen occasionally since, most notably in David's "Future Tense" storyline in Captain Marvel, which revisits both Spider-Man 2099 and the alternate future David created in The Incredible Hulk.
In 2004 it was anounced that Robert Kirkman was writing a series of one-shot comics for the fifth aniversary of the Marvel Knights imprint, under the heading Marvel Knights 2099. The future portrayed in this series is unconnected to the original 2099 Universe.
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2099 Solo Protagonists
X-Men
Fantastic Four
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Mega-Corporations