Earth-928, the year 2099. It’s not exactly the cheery future we were hoping for, but it’s about to get a little darker. Doom has finally reclaimed Latveria and intends putting the world to rights the only way he knows how… by taking over America. While his intentions are mostly good, the corporations who profit from the suffering of the population of the planet don’t see it that way.
To keep some of the rogue elements under control, Doom aims to give Spider-Man, Ghost Rider and the Punisher and others key roles in his administration. But not all superhumans are potential allies. The Hulk and Ravage are among those who solely pose a threat to his regime. He may have some powerful friends, but Doom’s more powerful enemies may prove enough to topple him.
The world of 2099 goes through some major changes in this major crossover event, though it’s arguably the storyline that steered Marvel’s 2099 titles towards their end. Doom’s actions aren’t consistent between his own series and the tie-in issues causing major continuity problems. If you aren’t familiar with the characters appearing in these titles, very little is done to help you understand what their history is, the motivations of their foes or – in the case of Ghost Rider and Hulk – what the hell is going on in general. ONE NATION UNDER DOOM was also used to clear some of the less popular characters from the line which led to one of the bleakest endings of the era.
Major Event: The event ran for six months through every one of Marvel’s 2099 titles and impacts of 50 individual comics issues – both officially and unofficially.
Must-Reads: Issues marked with a ✔are essential to the story.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue.
2099AD: The official tie-ins add the letters AD (referring to ‘After Doom’) to the title graphics on each cover, though this isn’t an official change to the title of each book.
Spoilers: The issue descriptions and fallout section contain spoilers, so be warned!
Previous events that directly impact this story:
- THE RISE OF THE HAMMER (1993-1994) – Doom takes on Alchemax and claims Valhalla
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the chronological reading order without story descriptions, or spoilers:
- ✔ Doom 2099 #26-28 (tie-in)
- 2099AD #1
- Ghost Rider 2099 #12 (tie-in)
- ✔ Doom 2099 #29
- X-Men 2099 #20 (tie-in)
- Spider-Man 2099 #32 [1/2]
- Spider-Man 2099 #33 [1/2]
- Ghost Rider 2099 #13
- ✔ Doom 2099 #30-31
- ✔ X-Men 2099 #21
- Hulk 2099 #7-8
- ✔ Ravage 2099 #32-33
- Ghost Rider 2099 #14
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #28
- Ghost Rider 2099 #15-16
- Ghost Rider 2099 #16
- ✔ X-Men 2099 #22
- ✔ Doom 2099 #32
- ✔ Spider-Man 2099 #34 [1/2]
- ✔ Spider-Man 2099 #35-37
- ✔ Spider-Man 2099 #38 [1/2]
- ✔ Hulk 2099 #9
- ✔ X-Men 2099 #23
- ✔ Hulk 2099 #10
- ✔ X-Men 2099 #24
- ✔ X-Men 2099 #25
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #29
- Ghost Rider 2099 #17
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #30
- Ghost Rider 2099 #18
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #31
- Spider-Man 2099 #39 (tie-in)
- Ghost Rider 2099 #19
- ✔ Doom 2099 #33
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #32
- Spider-Man 2099 #40 (tie-in)
- Ghost Rider 2099 #20 (tie-in)
- ✔ Doom 2099 #34
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #33
- Ghost Rider 2099 #21 [1/2] (tie-in)
- ✔ Punisher 2099 #34
- ✔ Doom 2099 #35
- ✔ 2099AD Apocalypse #1
See how this story fits into the wider Marvel Universe with these reading orders:
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #26 (tie-in) Having finally reclaimed Latveria, Doom sets his sights on putting the world to rights. He sends the highly-skilled Net-Gliders in to Latveria, releases Environmental Maintenance Platforms (EMPs) into the air to fix the pollution problem, addresses the drug war brewing in Makhelastan and renames the flying fortress Valhalla as the Libera Cielo (Latverian for Clear Sky). Despite her recent betrayal, Doom allows Fortune to stay among his key advisers. Her friend Poet decides to take on the drug dealers in Makhelastan himself and successfully kills a number of them. But one called Majick shoots Poet in the head. 1st appearances: Joset Afusto, Communion Jack, Ken Ironwine, Majick, Net-Gliders, Makhelastan New identity: Valhala as Libera Cielo |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #27 (tie-in) Riots break out in Makhelastan when the population learn they’re owned by the American corporation Angel’s Breath. In Latveria, Doom uses Poet’s state funeral as an opportunity to win potential allies. In Columbia, Wire is resurrected by psychotic tencho-magician Dr Jose Fleischmann. Doom heads to Makhelastan where he publicly murders Majick. 1st appearance: Indigo Eshun |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #28 (tie-in) Doom arranged for Wire’s resurrection and has him transported back to Latveria. Since his consciousness existed in Cyberspace after the death of his body, Wire now exists in his new physical form and Cyberspace at the same time. Doom uses Wire’s link to the Cyberspace ‘goddess’/sentient programme Paloma to send his army of Net-Gliders to Angel’s Breath’s systems and reveal their plans to turn Makhelastan’s citizens into toxic sludge. Doom gathers his personal advisors, the Black Cabinet, and reveals to Fortune that he instigated the riots in Makhelastan. He also knows Fortune betrayed him to Neon Angel in order to restore her brother’s mind. Now Doom plans to take over America. 1st appearance: American Captains, Angel’s Breath, Black Cabinet, Sharp Blue, Nkrumah, Panther’s Rage, Morphine Somers New identity: Net-Gliders as the Cyberdive Cadre |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| 2099AD #1 (pp.1-12) The Black Cabinet assess potential threats to Doom’s takeover of America. The collector Lohengrin seeks out an alien artefact that can restore life. But he falls under the sway of the Theatre of Pain who take possession of the artefact. The same artefact is also sought by Doom and the Hulk (John Eisenhart)… 1st appearance: Lohengrin | |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #12 (pp.21-22) (tie-in) Doom heads into Cyberspace to visit the artificial intelligences who inhabit the GhostWorks… | |
| 2099AD #1 (p.13-38) Doom convinces the GhostWorks to send the Ghost Rider to retrieve the alien artefact for him. The Punisher (Jake Gallows) learns Alchemax CEO Avatarr is after the same artefact and asks Spider-Man (Miguel O’Hara) to help retrieve it. They – along with the Hulk, Ghost Rider, Halloween Jack and Meanstreak – all converge on the Theatre of Pain who are attempting to use the item to resurrect their deceased member Mistress Wintre. But the Punisher destroys the artefact before she can fully return. Ghost Rider returns the remains of the artefact to GhostWorks, unaware that Doom wanted to use it to resurrect Poet for Fortune. | |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #12 (pp.1-20, 23-24) (tie-in) Ghost Rider (‘Zero’ Cochrane) storms through Neo-Chicago, taking out crooked rent-a-cops in order to get to the Pioneer Society – a secret cabal of the super-rich who kill for sport using cybernetically-controlled robots. Reporter Willis Adams tries to talk Ghost Rider out of killing the last of the Society, but they’re interrupted by the contract killer Coda who tears Ghost Rider apart and explodes what’s left. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #29 Doom initiates his plan to take over America, flying the Libera Cielo above the White House and sending in his troops, while his band of Net-Gliders (now known as the Cyberdive Cadre) break through the country’s Cyberspace defences. Paloma explains to Wire that death in Cyberspace means death in the real world. From the Libera Cielo, Doom televises his takeover and restores the powers of the President in line with the Constitution – removing all power from the MegaCorporations. Doom announces the merging of all police forces into SHIELD whose first job is arresting the CEOs of the MegaCorporations. He then makes his way through the White House, killing all who resist him. The current President takes his own life rather than face Doom. Now, Doom rules. 1st appearance: SHIELD/Punishment Police |
| X-Men 2099 #20 (tie-in) A Monstrobot (a surviving Sentinel) rampages through Arizona, killing anything in its way. Bloodhawk meets the robot’s reluctant keeper Jade Ryuteki who helps him stop the Monstrobot’s rampage, then sends it into space to self-destruct. Elsewhere, Krystalin and her brother Zak Ogada escape the Free Radicals and end their latest insane scheme to bring about anarchy. They catch the announcement over the holomonitor that Doom now rules America. 1st appearance: Jade Ryuteski | |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #13 Doom’s announcement rings through Transverse City while the remains of Ghost Rider left by Coda are cleared up by scrap collectors. Doom warns D/Monix CEO Dyson Kellerman to leave Ghost Rider alone and inserts an obedience chip in his brain. Ghost Rider discovers he’s been rebuilt – though doesn’t know how – and that Doom now rules America. 1st appearance: UnderNet (Crackerjack, Kabal, Lady Ada, Reptilicus, Sirius) | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #32 [1/2] Having learned his boss, Tyler Stone, is his biological father, Miguel O’Hara has fled to Mexico City for a few days with his ex, Xina Kwan. Miguel bumps into his brother Gabriel O’Hara and Gabri’s girlfriend Kasey Nash. A blinding flash lights up the Day of the Dead festival, caused Nando Morgez‘ attempt to raise his sister from the grave. Instead, all the dead in Mexico City rise up, with the ironic exception of Nando’s sister Nita Morgez. Miguel sneaks off and dons his Spider-Man costume and soon meets a mystic who calls herself Strange. And she insists on working with him… 1st appearance: Nando Morgez, Orb of Agamotto, Eye of Agamotto, Strange/Jeannie | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #33 [1/2] Spidey and Strange try to take the mystic amulet from Morgez, but it instead brings out Strange’s demonic side. Xina, Gabri and Kasey face walking corpses on the streets of Mexico City. Kasey realises Gabri isn’t Spider-Man as she’d originally believed. Spider-Man helps Strange regain control and use her powers to animate Nita Morgez’ corpse to calm Nando. But the amulet burns them both, returning the dead to true death with Nando now among their numbers. Strange destroys the amulet. Spider-Man decides it’s time to return home to America. |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #30 Doom continues to make changes across America. He gives free Cyberspace access to all, but soon learns that death in C-Space now means true. The newly-appointed Minister of Punishment, Jake Gallows, rounds up the MegaCorp CEOs for a meeting with Doom, who announces that their companies have been nationalised with their profits being ‘gifted’ to the government. They will produce Environmental Maintenance Platforms (EMPs) under government contract. To prove his power, Doom orders the CEOs to choose who among them will be sacrificed. They choose Avatarr, CEO of Alchemax. But when Doom blasts him in the eye, Avatarr doesn’t die and proves not to be human at all. Elsewhere, on the island Hellrock, former mercenary and Doom’s Minister of Order, Sharp Blue, looks for a way to save the island’s outcasts… New identity: The Punisher/Jake Gallows as the Minister of Punishment |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #31 (pp.1-16) Doom quickly realises Avatarr is an alien, but he’s not quick enough to stop him from spitting a powerful hallucinogenic acid at Doom’s armour. Spikes from Avatarr’s chest puncture the glass protecting Doom’s eye, allowing the fumes in. Doom pummels Avatarr to death then, under the hallucinogens’ influence, parades the corpse on TV. Doom turns his rage against the American people for allowing this creature to gain control of the country. He decides to lay low for a few days… |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #21 Doom launches his Environmental Maintenance Platforms across all fifty-one states of the US to undo 200 years of pollution. Halloween Jack activates his Virtual Unreality Projector in Las Vegas in the hope of bringing chaos to the world by altering reality itself. Krystalin reunites with Meanstreak and tries to stop Jack, but it’s Doom who comes closest to disrupting his plans by surrounding Vegas with EMPs in order to contain the chaos. Meanstreak turns his back on Halloween Jack and departs to rejoin the X-Men… |
| Hulk 2099 #7 John Eisenhart and his Lotusland friends become suspicious of Doom’s motives. While Quirk and Angel Zamora start working on a film that could turn opinions against Doom, John turns into the Hulk and starts trashing EMPs. Hulk then takes Doctor Apollo up to an EMP to find out how they work. But Draco has already sabotaged it and forces it to launch higher into the sky… | |
| Hulk 2099 #8 With the Hulk heading towards space, Draco sends his forces to attack Lotusland, capturing Quirk. Above, Hulk destroys the EMP’s power system which sends it hurtling towards the ground. His arrival along with the arrival of Doom’s troops force Draco to retreat. Doom reveals Zamora made a deal with him for Hollywood’s freedom to produce whatever they want in exchange for gamma-powered mind-influencing technology. Enraged, Quirk leaves town. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #31 (pp.18-22) EMPs continue to spread across the country while the citizens come to believe their new President is a conspiracy-obsessed madman. On Hellrock, Sharp Blue learns Ravage is in charge… |
| ✔ | Ravage 2099 #32 Ravage has killed Dethstryk and is desperate to end the fighting on Hellrock. He stops Hela (Tiana Sikoski) and Alchemax’s agent Crisp from killing the island’s Mutroids and vice versa. A hologram of Doom appears and claims ownership of Hellrock. Crisp restores Ravage to an almost-human form. The ‘Revenge Program’ that emulates Dethstryk’s deceased wife Seeress activates, threatening to destroy Hellrock and contaminate America. Having lain in wait for millions of years, an alien creature called Mindrot the Mind-Eater emerges from the ocean depths and attacks Hellrock, killing Ravage’s friend Ferra… 1st appearance: Mindrot, Slugfest/Colin Doherty |
| ✔ | Ravage 2099 #33 Ravage gives way to his beast side to save the inhabitants of Hellrock, battling alongside Hela, Crisp and the Mutroids. Doom senses the build-up of energy from the Revenge Program as it edges towards detonation. He lands on Hellrock, fries Mindrot and reveals his plan destroying the island. Doom uses a safeword to deactivate Hela’s powers, then dropps her into the sea. Ravage and the Mutroids attack Doom, but he flies to safety. His bio-hazard containment vessel Lazarus fires liquid adamantium down onto the island, encasing it completely. Anti-gravity lifters hurl the island into space, ending its threat along with the lives of Ravage and the Mutroids. |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #14 SHIELD agents bring in the Ghost Rider for a face-to-face with Doom. In order to make Ghost Rider his agent, Doom employs Willis Adams to create positive publicity for him and orders Coda to leave him alone. Ghost Rider initially turns down Dooms offer, but the deal Doom made with GhostWorks allows him to alter Ghost Rider’s programming to make him more compliant. Giving himself a makeover, Ghost Rider becomes the SHIELD Marshall to Transverse City… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #30 Doom continues to make changes across America. He gives free Cyberspace access to all, but soon learns that death in C-Space now means true. The newly-appointed Minister of Punishment, Jake Gallows, rounds up the MegaCorp CEOs for a meeting with Doom, who announces that their companies have been nationalised with their profits being ‘gifted’ to the government. They will produce Environmental Maintenance Platforms (EMPs) under government contract. To prove his power, Doom orders the CEOs to choose who among them will be sacrificed. They choose Avatarr, CEO of Alchemax. But when Doom blasts him in the eye, Avatarr doesn’t die and proves not to be human at all. Elsewhere, on the island Hellrock, former mercenary and Doom’s Minister of Order, Sharp Blue, looks for a way to save the island’s outcasts… New identity: The Punisher/Jake Gallows as the Minister of Punishment |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #31 (pp.1-16) Doom quickly realises Avatarr is an alien, but he’s not quick enough to stop him from spitting a powerful hallucinogenic acid at Doom’s armour. Spikes from Avatarr’s chest puncture the glass protecting Doom’s eye, allowing the fumes in. Doom pummels Avatarr to death then, under the hallucinogens’ influence, parades the corpse on TV. Doom turns his rage against the American people for allowing this creature to gain control of the country. He decides to lay low for a few days… |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #21 Doom launches his Environmental Maintenance Platforms across all fifty-one states of the US to undo 200 years of pollution. Halloween Jack activates his Virtual Unreality Projector in Las Vegas in the hope of bringing chaos to the world by altering reality itself. Krystalin reunites with Meanstreak and tries to stop Jack, but it’s Doom who comes closest to disrupting his plans by surrounding Vegas with EMPs in order to contain the chaos. Meanstreak turns his back on Halloween Jack and departs to rejoin the X-Men… |
| Hulk 2099 #7 John Eisenhart and his Lotusland friends become suspicious of Doom’s motives. While Quirk and Angel Zamora start working on a film that could turn opinions against Doom, John turns into the Hulk and starts trashing EMPs. Hulk then takes Doctor Apollo up to an EMP to find out how they work. But Draco has already sabotaged it and forces it to launch higher into the sky… | |
| Hulk 2099 #8 With the Hulk heading towards space, Draco sends his forces to attack Lotusland, capturing Quirk. Above, Hulk destroys the EMP’s power system which sends it hurtling towards the ground. His arrival along with the arrival of Doom’s troops force Draco to retreat. Doom reveals Zamora made a deal with him for Hollywood’s freedom to produce whatever they want in exchange for gamma-powered mind-influencing technology. Enraged, Quirk leaves town. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #31 (pp.18-22) EMPs continue to spread across the country while the citizens come to believe their new President is a conspiracy-obsessed madman. On Hellrock, Sharp Blue learns Ravage is in charge… |
| ✔ | Ravage 2099 #32 Ravage has killed Dethstryk and is desperate to end the fighting on Hellrock. He stops Hela (Tiana Sikoski) and Alchemax’s agent Crisp from killing the island’s Mutroids and vice versa. A hologram of Doom appears and claims ownership of Hellrock. Crisp restores Ravage to an almost-human form. The ‘Revenge Program’ that emulates Dethstryk’s deceased wife Seeress activates, threatening to destroy Hellrock and contaminate America. Having lain in wait for millions of years, an alien creature called Mindrot the Mind-Eater emerges from the ocean depths and attacks Hellrock, killing Ravage’s friend Ferra… 1st appearance: Mindrot, Slugfest/Colin Doherty |
| ✔ | Ravage 2099 #33 Ravage gives way to his beast side to save the inhabitants of Hellrock, battling alongside Hela, Crisp and the Mutroids. Doom senses the build-up of energy from the Revenge Program as it edges towards detonation. He lands on Hellrock, fries Mindrot and reveals his plan destroying the island. Doom uses a safeword to deactivate Hela’s powers, then dropps her into the sea. Ravage and the Mutroids attack Doom, but he flies to safety. His bio-hazard containment vessel Lazarus fires liquid adamantium down onto the island, encasing it completely. Anti-gravity lifters hurl the island into space, ending its threat along with the lives of Ravage and the Mutroids. |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #14 SHIELD agents bring in the Ghost Rider for a face-to-face with Doom. In order to make Ghost Rider his agent, Doom employs Willis Adams to create positive publicity for him and orders Coda to leave him alone. Ghost Rider initially turns down Dooms offer, but the deal Doom made with GhostWorks allows him to alter Ghost Rider’s programming to make him more compliant. Giving himself a makeover, Ghost Rider becomes the SHIELD Marshall to Transverse City… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #28 The Punisher’s heavy-handed approach to justice is now legal, allowing him to kill high-level corrupt corporate ‘black carders’ and lawyers on the streets as a warning to others. Jake Gallows thinks back to the announcement that Doom had taken over America, recalling the moment when Doom outed Jake as the Punisher to his Public Eye bosses and made him Minister of Punishment. The Punisher also leads his own elite squad of Punishment Police. Now, believing the Gallows has sold out, his former-ally Matt Axel reconstructs the Gold Heart robot as the ‘Real Punisher’. 1st appearance: Jillian Wong New identity: Gold Heart as the ‘Real Punisher |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #15 Taking to the streets of Transverse City as an agent of SHIELD, Ghost Rider starts taking down gangs like the Anarquistadores and the Toxic Zombies. The UnderNet plot to remove Ghost Rider from Doom’s control. While investigating White Heat – a new street drug that boosts IQ and physical ability – Ghost Rider ends up in the path of an assassin called Heartbreaker. 1st appearance: Heartbreaker | |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #16 Heartbreaker is hired to kill drug dealer Max Synergy, but Ghost Rider withstand her deadly ‘heart punch’ trying to keep Synergy alive. She departs when Ghost Rider knocks off her mask and reveals her scarred face. Ghost Rider arrests Synergy. Elsewhere, Anesthesia Jones questions Zero Cochrane‘s ex-girlfriend, Kylie Gagarin, about Ghost Rider throwing in with SHIELD. But Jones is unaware that Doctor Neon is listening in and now know Ghost Rider’s true identity. Coda rallies allies to aid him in killing the Ghost Rider. 1st appearance: Ice 9, Neurodancer, Warp Angel | |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #22 (tie-in) Morphine Somers – Doom’s Minster of Humanity – arrives in New Mexico, surveying the devastation caused by the bomb that destroyed the X-Men’s compound. Morphine and Doom recover the body of Junkpile with the intention of using him for their own purposes. With his dark personality fully in control, Xi’an Chi Xan goes through the initiation process to join the Theatre of Pain. After facing spectres of his past generated by Brimstone Love, Controller Prime and Felicity, Xi’an succeeds in becoming Controller X. X-Men members Cerebra, Skullfire and La Lunatica turn to Broken Haiku for help in tracking Xi’an down. 1st appearance: Quiver/Rentaro Nakadai, Sham/Diamonda LaSalle New identity: Desert Ghost/Xi’an Chi Xan as Controller X |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #32 (pp.1-20) The MegaCorp CEOs gather at the Chicago Reserve, neutral ground run by John Anthony Herod who holds the secret stockpile of Heroic Age technology. In an unexpected move, Herod asks for more power from them, explaining his plot to rule America himself and run it dry until the MegaCorps can relocate to Mars with the surviving 25% of the population of Earth. If the CEOs refuse to assist, Herod will kill them. Indigo Eshun – Doom’s Minister of Signal – senses the unusual activity in Chicago. Doom notices a surge in sales of Captain America‘s biography. Sharp Blue discovers the corpse of Wire who has committed suicide in the name of his deceased love Xandra… 1st appearance: Chicago Reserve, Coalition of MegaCorps, John Herod |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #34 [1/2] SHIELD take Miguel O’Hara to Tyler Stone at the White House where Doom presides. Stone has become Doom’s corporate minister and offers Miguel the role of Alcemax CEO. Later, unaware who is under the mask, Doom gives Spider-Man 72 hours to consider the role of his Minister of SuperNormal Affairs. Gabri still finds himself trying to convince Kasey that he’s not Spider-Man. And Conchata O’Hara breaks into Tyler Stone’s apartment, knocks Dana D’Angelo out and ties her up before shooting Tyler in the chest… |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #35 Dana wakes up and escapes her bonds and discovers Tyler Stone has been shot. Black ooze emerges from the sewer and kills Bloodmace with its burning touch before taking humanoid form. Doom heads to Miguel’s apartment to ask him for an early decision on the Alchemax job, now that Tyler is hospitalised. Kasey finally breaks up with Gabri. The black ooze emerges in the hospital and, taking the form of a creature that calls itself Venom, tries to kill Tyler Stone and the visiting Miguel and Dana. Miguel slips into his Spider-Man costume to face Venom head on… 1st appearance: Venom Symbiote New identity: Kron Stone as Venom |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #36 Xina arrives back at Miguel’s apartment, but he’s busy elsewhere fighting for his life against Venom – who seems to recall fighting another Spider-Man in the past. But this Spider-Man barely survives the fight and he heads to Alchemax, while Venom continues to rip up the hospital. Miguel accepts the new job as CEO. He calls his mother, Conchata, to tell her. When he hangs up, Conchata puts a gun to her head and pulls the trigger. Xina goes to Alchemax to talk Miguel out of the job, but Venom arrives threatening to kill both her and Dana. Elsewhere, Vulture tracks down Kasey to help him find Spider-Man… New identity: Jennifer D’Angelo as the Goblin |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #37 A few years ago, Miguel O’Hara and Xina Kwan met Gabri O’Hara’s new girlfriend, Dana D’Angelo for the first time, only for Miguel and Dana to become instantly attracted to each other and soon began sleeping with each other. Xina found out, ending her relationship with Miguel. Gabri was initially heartbroken, but forgave them because he couldn’t stay mad at Dana. Now, Venom is forcing Miguel to choose between Xina and Dana. He uses his claws to cut off one of Venom’s arms, flees with them both and orders a Public Eye unit to give chase – off-handedly allowing them to shoot to kill. Miguel catches up with Venom as Spider-Man, but so do the Public Eye. They shoot Venom, but the bullets pass through and hit Dana who dies in Spider-Man’s arms. Elsewhere, Conchata O’Hara still lives, having shot at the ceiling rather than her own head… |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #38 [1/2] Gabri sees the televised coverage of Dana’s death with Spider-Man beside her body and becomes enraged. Miguel heads back to Alchemax and experiments on a piece of Symbiote to learn its weakness. Doom assigns Jake Gallows to investigate the attempt on Tyler Stone’s life and the subsequent murder of Dana D’Angelo, just as Tyler comes to. A spectral figure saves Kasey Nash from the Vulture. Spider-Man uses sound to disable Venom, but stops himself from delivering the killing blow when he realises there’s a man under the Symbiote costume, begging for his life. The Symbiote separates from the man and Spider-Man is shocked to see a familiar face… |
| ✔ | Hulk 2099 #9 With nowhere else to go, Marian Eisenhart turns to the hulking Adonai, leader of the Locusts, for help. But she quickly regrets it. Meanwhile, John Eisenhart in his Hulk guise tries to stop Doom from stealing the mind-altering gamma tech. Quirk allies with Kwame. Draco learns John Eisenhart is the Hulk and transforms one of the Golden One‘s Mutates into an Anti-Hulk. John Eisenhart ignores his sister Marian’s request for help when Adonai threatens her life, and instead insists that Doom grant him and Keisha Schutlz-Valdez full administrative control of Lotusland Studios… 1st appearance: Anti-Hulk |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #23 Doom and Morphine Somers rebuild Junkpile as an agent of SHIELD, hoping to use him to shut down the Red Market which has been using humans and mutants for organ harvesting, medical research and violent entertainment. Skullfire, La Lunatica and Cerebra break into the Theatre of Pain’s Bio-Resource Processing Centre to find Xi’an. As Controller X, the subverted Xi’an alerts the guards to their presence. The three X-Men make new allies – Quiver and Sham – but their mission takes a terrible turn. The arrival of Junkpile works in their favour, though Cerebra falls prey to Controller X. Junkpile comes face-to-face with Brimstone Love… |
| ✔ | Hulk 2099 #10 Draco sends the Anti-Hulk after both John Eisenhart and the Hulk. Adonai plants a bomb at the heart of the seismic fault under California and prepares to dictate terms. Quirk forces John to transform into the Hulk who takes the mind-influencing tech away from Doom. Hulk and Quirk leave Lotusland and oppose Adonai, but are face the unexpected rage of rage of the Anti-Hulk. Their fight triggers the explosive, causing an earthquake that rocks California to its core, setting off another gamma explosion and killing Draco, Adonai, Quirk and everyone else caught in its wake. A heavily-mutated Hulk who emerges from ground zero… but is it John Eisenhart? |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #24 Three hundred miles from the explosion in Lotusland, the Bio-Resource Processing Centre still feels the force of the explosion. Brimstone Love makes short work of Junkpile nd tosses him in the dump. Skullfire and La Lunatica escape their cell, but fall prey to Felicity and her fellow Norns. Controller X reveals to Cerebra that he’ll cause suffering to thousands with the Mindfire Machine, powered by the comatose Master Zhao. In Arizona, Rosa Vasquez and Metalhead‘s celebration of their peaceful life is dashed by the return of Glitterspike… and Rosa’s waters breaking! |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #32 (pp.21) Indigo Eshun comes to Doom with bad news from California… |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #33 (pp.1-9) Indigo Eshun report’s to Doom on the gamma explosion in California is interrupted by an all-channels news broadcast announcing the apparent return of Captain America. Doom sends Eshun into Cyberspace to block the report, but they’re locked out of the net… 1st appearance: Captain America |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #25 Doom has his eye on the X-Men as potential allies, but the team are in a bad spot in California. Beneath the slaughterhouse, Skullfire and Junkpile ally with each other to avoid being consumed by acid. Krystalin, Meantstreak and Bloodhawk burst into the slaughterhouse, saving Quiver and Sham from certain death. Brimstone Love activates the Mindfire Machine, but Meanstreak’s team defeat the Chosen and reverse the machine’s effects. Controller X turns against Brimstone Love who retreats, swearing revenge. La Lunatica frees Controller X from his dark side, restoring his Xi’an Chi Xan persona. When the dust settles, SHIELD show up with Morphine Somers and a hologram of Doom who offers the X-Men and all mutants their own city. In Oklahoma, Rosa’s unborn mutant child protects her and Metalhead from Glitterspike. The child is born soon after… |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #29 Jigsaw (formerly Multi-Fractor) kills the street gang who revive him and reunites with Fearmaster, informing him Doom now runs the country. The Punisher talks Matt Axel through the technology he uses to predict criminal intent, allowing him to arrest people before a crime can be committed. Axel turns down the Punisher’s offer to join his SHIELD team and sends Gold Heart out onto the streets wearing a skin that makes him look like Jake Gallows. Gold Heart takes down a gang and adopts a crocodile as a pet. 1st appearance: Officer Saffron |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #17 Zero Cochrane drops in on his father in full Ghost Rider mode, sporting his new SHIELD attire. They argue over the mental state of Zero’s mother and the feeling Zero has that the decision to join SHIELD wasn’t his own. GhostWorks listen in on the whole conversation. Zero is certain that he’s made the wrong decision. Elsewhere, Willis Adams turns his back on the new job Doom gave him. UnderNet member Kabal gathers a crew to help him steal 20th century technology from the Vault of Forbidden Science. A hacker accidentally releases the sentient computer programme L-Cypher into the holo theme park Thrillsville. 1st appearance: Killer Babes, L-Cypher, Thrillsville, Vault of Forbidden Science | |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #30 The Punisher and his squad pursue Matt Axel and Gold Heart through the streets of New York, with Doom secretly monitoring the Punisher’s increasingly erratic behaviour. Jake Galows makes a public announcement that the true enemy of the American people is the American people. Gold Heart emerges from the crowds and faces the Punisher. Elsewhere, the Cyber-Nostra devise headsets that will make them invisible to the Punisher’s scans. In space, Vendetta discovers a gigantic spaceship built by Alchemax… |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #18 Thrillsville is transformed by L-Cypher into a vision of Hell. No longer taking orders from SHIELD, Ghost Rider battles his way through numerous demonic solidograms until he faces five citizens that L-Cypher has transformed into his Archfiends. Elsewhere, Kabal enlists Neurodancer to help his squad break into the Vault of Forbidden Science, only for the Vault’s Keeper to become aware of their arrival. In Cyberspace, someone intercepts Doctor Neon’s message about the Ghost Rider’s true identity… | |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #31 The ‘Real Punisher’ (Gold Heart) shoots the Jake Gallows in the chest, but Gallows turns out to be a holographic projection. The real Gallows then leads the full force of SHIELD against Gold Heart, but he escapes. Monitoring the situation, Doom assigns Officer Saffron to discredit Gallows. A squad of Cyber-Nostra initiate a plan to kill Gallows, but end up running into Gold Heart. In space, Vendetta investigates the giant Alchemax ship which is actually a gun. She skilfully takes control of it… |
| Spider-Man 2099 #39 (tie-in) Separated from the Venom Symbiote, the man beneath the alien costume was Kron Stone – the psychotic son of Tyler Stone who was believed to have been killed by the Punisher. Kron made Miguel O’Hara’s life hell when they were kids. Miguel aims to keep the fact they’re half-brothers a secret. Kron reveals how he survived death at the Punisher’s hands when he found the Symbiote. Later, Father Jennifer visits Miguel and reveals she’s Dana D’Angelo’s sister. In Downtown, the Goblin asks for Kasey’s allegiance in return for saving her from the Vulture. She doesn’t realise the Goblin and the Vulture are secretly working together. Spider-Man heads Downtown when he’s summoned by Gabri, but he’s being followed by the Goblin… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #19 Ghost Rider fights hard against the Archfiends, learning Doom and the GhostWorks have been manipulating him in the process. Ultimately, Ghost Rider falls and is taken before L-Cypher. Coda, Ice 9 and Warp Angel obtain Adamantium resin for Kabal. The Keeper discovers a cryogenic storage chamber was broken in the scuffle, freeing something dangerous. Heartbreaker sneaks into the SHIELD holding facility to kill Max Synergy. Doctor Neon gets a visitor… | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #33 (pp.10-14) Three missiles hit the Libera Cielo. With its defences disabled, it explodes and crashes down on the White House. John Herod contacts Doom, explaining he’s the mastermind behind the attack. Doom’s EMPs start falling from the skies above America. Herod then sends his Wave Spiders on a mission… 1st appearance: Wave Spiders |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #32 Under Doom’s previous orders, Officer Saffron uses a holographic projection of Jake Gallows to make it look like he’s turned against Doom and taken her hostage. She leads a trail to the Punisher’s quarters where Gallows is sleeping. He escapes arrest by SHIELD and escapes with loyal agent Jillian Wong. At that point, EMPs start falling from the sky, raining death on New York. Gold Heart falls to his death, being blown apart by the bomb he’d intended using on the Punisher. Gallows – now back in his Punisher costume – and Wong commandeer Matt Axel’s means of escaping Earth. In space, Vendetta learns of the chaos on the planet below her… |
| Spider-Man 2099 #40 (tie-in) Tyler Stone comes out of his coma and finds out Dana is dead, causing him to actually shed a tear. Xina decides to leave town after Dana’s funeral. Net Prophet returns to Downtown in search of Father Jennifer. The Goblin uses Downtowns confused citizens to create the illusion that there’s an army of Goblins. Spider-Man fight back against the ‘Goblins’ until he learns the truth. With his reputation in ruins, Spider-Man heads Uptown where he witnesses EMPs falling from the sky. Back in Downtown, the Vulture plans to betray the Goblin… | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #33 (pp.15-22) Herod’s Wave Spiders arrive in Latveria where they slaughter the population with necro-toxins (so it was Herod who turned Makhelastan to sludge, too). Doom’s EMPs continue falling from the sky. Wave Spiders destroy what’s left of the White House, ending Doom’s presidency… |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #20 (tie-in) L-Cypher examines/tortures Ghost Rider trying to discern why he helps humans. He discovers both Doom and GhostWorks altered his programming. Ghost Rider breaks free and disrupts L-Cypher’s programming. L-Cypher used what he learned from Ghost Rider and transfers his consciousness to a human body. Meanwhile, Kabal and the Bone Mechanix use the adamantium resin to transform Colt Wagner – a cop killed by Ghost Rider – into another ‘Ghost Rider’, dubbing him ‘Vengeance’. Just as Willis Adams buys his fake ID from Anethesia Jones, he finds out Doom’s administration is over, anyway… 1st appearance: Vengeance/Colt Wagner | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #34 The Chicago Reserve take over SHIELD and mark the Black Cabinet for death. Indigo Eshun is killed attempting to escape into Cyberspace. Nkrumah claims diplomatic immunity. Sharp Blue’s team evade Herod’s Air Cavalry and escape. Herod orders all mutants to be executed on sight. He gives the Alchemax-created ‘Captain America’ a beating and makes him the new president. SHIELD find Doom’s gauntlet and take that to mean he’s dead… 1st appearance: Mirielle Radley |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #33 (pp.1-8) Civilians start evacuating New York, making the Punisher and Agent Wong’s escape that much more challenging. Matt Axel takes them to a spaceport where the Punisher is loaded on a cargo craft as a shipment of potentially explosive cargo… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #21 [1/2] (tie-in) Ghost Rider learns Doom has fallen, along with the technological systems he put in place across America. Realising he’d been manipulated by Doom and GhostWorks, Ghost Rider turns to Anesthesia Jones for help. Kabal arrives and unleashes Vengeance on him. Elsewhere, the consciousness of the psionically-powered heads that awakened in the Vault of Forbidden Science form a single being – the Psiclone – and escape… 1st appearance: Psiclone | |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #33 (pp.9-22) Days after leaving Earth, the Punisher awakens on a space station. The crew were paid to store cryogenically frozen humans, but intend jettisoning them off-world into space and keeping the money. The Punisher’s pod opens and he starts taking the crew down. The captain decides to jettison the cargo bay into space rather than face the Punisher. Jake finds himself floating outside the ship in a space suit when Vendetta blasts the rest of the space station apart with her gun-ship… |
| ✔ | The Punisher 2099 #34 The Punisher utilises a fragment of the station and gun to push himself through space towards Vendetta’s ship. Twenty minutes later and near the end of his oxygen, the Punisher attacks Vendetta as she carries out repairs on her ship’s exterior. But they soon agree to board the craft together and come to an accord. The Punisher will return to Earth, while Vendetta will focus on pursuing intergalactic criminals… |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #35 Weeks have passed since the fall of Doom. Gold Heart continues to act as the Punisher, though he finds himself on the run. Captain America is still recovering from the beating he took from John Herod. Pollution is rife again. Herod continues with his plan to milk the planet dry. The X-Men recover from their clash with the Theatre of Pain. The population of Latveria is now sludge. California has become Gammadion with the mutated, dying survivors of the gamma bomb living out their final days. The Wave Spiders begin mating. In Washington, a band of sadistic SHIELD agents pursue the mutant Static Annie through the streets, cornering her in a warehouse where they intend to unleash an unnecessary amount of ammo into her. Doom emerges, killing the brutal SHIELD agents and saving Annie’s life… 1st appearance: Static Annie/Annie Wagner |
| ✔ | 2099AD Apocalypse #1 The news station NyFax give a live broadcast covering the changes since the fall of Doom. Live reporter Mirielle Ridley witnesses a clash between the ‘Punisher’ being disintegrated live on air. Captain America announces that costumed ‘heroes’ will be killed on sight. Metalscream and Galahad are the next to fall. In Gammadion, the surviving ‘Hulk’ is blasted to death by SHIELD. For taking the bait and broadcasting SHIELD’s footage – and for their negative take on the new regime – SHIELD agents enter the NyFax studios and kill everyone. |
See how this story fits into the wider Marvel Multiverse with these reading orders:
- MARVEL 2099, 1992-1997: The Original World of Tomorrow
- DOOM 2099, 1992-1997: The Future is Doomed
- SPIDER-MAN 2099, 1992-1997: The Original Earth-928 Timeline
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Ghost Rider 2099 #22 (1996) SHIELD save Ghost Rider from Vengeance; despite that, Ghost Rider promises to bring down SHIELD along with any other corrupt law enforcement organisation; Kylie Gagarin saves Anaesthesia Jones from Kabal who makes his escape. | |
| X-Men 2099 Special #1 (1995) Halloween Jack returns, becoming the target of Orville Fink who wants to claim the bounty on his head set by the Greater Nevada Syndicate. | ||
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #41 (1996) Miguel O’Hara inspects the wreckage at the White House, possibly for signs that Doom still lives; Tyler Stone returns to Alchemax and orders his son, Kron Stone, to be killed; Miguel O’Hara refuses to allow Kron to be murdered; Tyler Stone announces his return and let’s Miguel know he can step down as CEO, but Miguel refuses. | |
| ✔ | X-Men #26-30 (1995-1996) The X-Men relocate to Halo City, the sanctuary for mutants and victims of the Theatre of Pain that’s been built by Doom; Morphine Somers becomes Governor of Halo City; Sham joins the X-Men, while Quiver becomes an administrator in Halo City; Xi’an Chi Xan sets himself up as a healer in Halo City in an effort to atone for his actions as Controller X. Doom 2099 #36-38 (1996) Static Annie and Doom help each other escape to Halo City; John Herod builds the Red House as his own replacement for the White House; Doom destroys the Red House, uses nanobots to eat away at Herod and kills ‘Captain America’; Doom accuses Morphine Somers of abusing his power in Halo City. | X-NATION |
| ✔ | Ghost Rider #23-25 (1996) Ghost Rider battles the Psiclone, but it’s ultimately brought down by the GhostWorks using the technology Doom implanted in Dyson Kellerman’s brain; Doctor Neon kidnaps Ghost Rider; Ghost Rider defeats Kabal and is reunited with his human body. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #39-42 (1996) In the hope of retroactively saving his people, Doom travels back in time to present day Earth-616 and begin building the Latverian population’s immunity to the necrotoxin. | RAGE AGAINST TIME |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #43 (1996) Doom returns to his own time to discover many of the surviving Latverians have mutated; Fortune and the Zefiro are revealed to have survived the attack on Latveria. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END RAGE AGAINST TIME |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #44 (1996) Tyler Stone confronts Conchata O’Hara over her attempt to kill him; Miguel O’Hara reveals he knows Tyler is his father and that Tyler knows he’s Spider-Man; Xina Kwan and Net Prophet leave town together; Father Jennifer is revealed to be the Goblin; Roman the Sub-Mariner merges with the Venom Symbiote. Fantastic Four 2099 #6 (1996) Strange returns and is directed towards her destiny by a time-travelling Stephen Strange from Earth-928’s past. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| Spider-Man 2099 #45 (1996) Spider-Man is led to believe that Gabriel O’Hara is under the Goblin mask. X-Men 2099 #34 (1996) Bloodsmith kidnaps Rosa Navarro’s baby Joachim Vasquez and rapidly ages him, transforming him Darkson. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #44 (1996) Doom makes one last desperate bid to restore Latveria by making a deal with the Collective. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| Spider-Man 2099 #46 (1996) Conchata O’Hara is killed by invading Atlanteans. Fantastic Four 2099 #8 (1996) Doom and the Fantastic Four relocate survivors to the Savage Land, following the Atlanteans‘ attack on New York City. 2099: World of Tomorrow #1 (1996) Morphine Somers is revealed to be among those who relocated to the Savage Land; Jade Ryuteki returns and joins the X-Peditioners alongside Bloodhawk. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END | |
| ✔ | 2099: World of Tomorrow #2-3 (1996) John Herod is infected by the Phalanx and becomes one of Doom’s test subjects; Halloween Jack is believed to have died; Miguel O’Hara and Xina Kwan are reunited. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| 2099: World of Tomorrow #6 (1997) Vulture is killed by the Phalanx. 2099: World of Tomorrow #7-8 (1997) Doom sacrifices himself to defeat the Phalanx; Doom posthumously selects the mutant Nostromo as his heir, making him the sovereign of Latveria. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END | |
| X-Force #92 (1999) Halloween Jack shows up alive having somehow made his way to present day Earth-616. | ||
| Spider-Man 2099 #9-10 (2015) The actions of the Inheritors and Tyler Stone’s time-travelling alters Earth-928’s timeline into a dystopia ruled by the Maestro, though Strange is one of the few unaffected by the shift due to her role as Sorcerer Supreme; Strange’s demon takes control of her and allies with the Maestro. | ||
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #10-12 (2016) In the 2099 timeline altered by the actions of Tyler Stone’s Fist organisation (Earth-TRN590), Spider-Man (Miguel O’Hara of Earth-928) faces Kron Stone of the new reality; Kron has been reunited with the Symbiote and become Venom again; Venom, Goblin and Vulture are members of the Sinister Six who have taken control of Alchemax. | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #14-16 (2016) Strange helps Spider-Man restore Earth-928’s timeline; Strange’s first name is revealed to be Jeannie. | CIVIL WAR II | |
| ✔ | One World Under Doom #1-9 (2025) On Earth-616, Doctor Doom – now Sorcerer Supreme – makes a bid to take over the world; the event’s title so far appears to be the only connection to the 2099 event. | ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| Doom 2099: The Complete Collection by Warren Ellis | 2099: World of Doom Special #1 Doom 2099 #24-39 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.4 | 2099 Unlimited #8 Spider-Man 2099 #23-33 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vs Venom 2099 | 2099 Unlimited #1-3, 8-10 [part] Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #34-38 Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man #1 Spider-Man 2099 Special (1995) #1 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Fantastic Four/Doom 2099 Omnibus | 2099: World of Doom Special #1 Doom 2099 #26-35 |
| Ghost Rider 2099 Omnibus | Ghost Rider 2099 #12-21 |
| Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus vol.1 | Spider-Man 2099 #32-40 |
| X-Men 2099 Omnibus | X-Men 2099 #20-25 |
Reading Order © Omniverse Comics Guide 2024
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