Comments on: The Reread Reviews — Marvel 2099: The Fall of the Hammer

By: Dan N

Dan N — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:11:15 +0000

Man, I’m so glad I found this review! I loved 2099 as a kid, I think I have both the #1′s of X-Men and Spider-Man 2099 from that time, and used to read the comics at the local grocery store when I was helping my dad stock Pepperidge Farm cookies. I had to be about 9 or so when these comics first hit the stands…man, bring me back to the 90s when a kid could actually afford a comic! Hard enough as an adult these days.

By: Sam Kess

Sam Kess — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:38:58 +0000

To Adam: I didn’t read the 2099 books back in the day, but I always assumed that Dr. Doom had just found a way to live that long. It Dr. Doom, man. Time is nothing to Doom! PAD’s decrepit old man Doom is pretty great, though, too.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:44:17 +0000

There is practically no science or genre fiction in comics. Just characters doing stuff. How is it there isn’t a mainstream cyberpunk book around.

I hate comics that are just characters doing stuff!

Pretty much any attempt at a straight sci-fi by Marvel or DC hasn’t done well.
Usually the can’t resist tying it into superheroes, and that doesn’t really work that well, but even attempts at straight up sci-fi lines, such as DC’s Helix tend to fail – out of a heap of launch titles, Transmetropolitan was the only thing that survived of it.

You’d think Warren Ellis or Peter David would be all over that.

I’m not sure if David’s done it, but Ellis has done several Cyber-punk books, from the straight up cyber punk Lazarus Churchyard to using it’s tropes for other sci-fi in stuff like Transmet, Mek and Avatar – not too mention all the other types of sci-fi he does.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:24:49 +0000

Chad: Oops, sorry if I came off a little strong there. Thanks for showing 2099 some love!

By: Lierson

Lierson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:24:48 +0000

Adam, I could not agree more. A “2099 Forever” book would be a lot of times better than Timestorm…

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:20:16 +0000

Adam — I know, I simply used that word because that was the case at this time in the book.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:39:45 +0000

There’s no “claims” about Doom 2099. They had some mystery surrounding it, but by issue #25, they established that he was THE Doom. Shame we never got a revelation about how he ended up in the future.

I’d still like Marvel to follow up on “X-Men Forever” and “The Clone Saga” by doing a “2099 Forever” which would continue the plots PAD and his crew had set up before the awful 2099 shakeup in 1996.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:11:56 +0000

I remember enjoying Spider-man 2099 and Doom 2009 out of the whole lot. (Until Warren Ellis took over the latter title – this was before he became THE Warren Ellis – the Doom 2009 didn’t last too long after Ellis took over).

Interesting to note, that the Fall of the Hammer had a character sub-plot that didn’t get resolved until years later in the pages of Captain Marvel, written by Peter David.

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:06:40 +0000

Spider-Man 2099, by PAD and Leonardi, was prob the best series of the bunch, and a good series overall.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:30:38 +0000

“but the X-Men did stand out as not fitting in exactly. ”

Is it possible that the crossover had initially been designed with the four core titles in mind and only belatedly forced to use the X-Men when the title launched?

Although, I believe that when Loki returns as a villain, he’s an X-Men 2099 villain (before becoming a modern day villain, Halloween Jack, in X-Force and something else).

By: Goh Mifune

Goh Mifune — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:51:15 +0000

Ghost Rider 2099 was a good book. Marvel didn’t take anything it learned from 2099 and use it. There is practically no science or genre fiction in comics. Just characters doing stuff. How is it there isn’t a mainstream cyberpunk book around. You’d think Warren Ellis or Peter David would be all over that.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:51:31 +0000

Man did I think 2099 was shiz nitz when I was 11/12.

When I was a little older they started Ghost Rider 2099, by Kaminiski and Bachelo, about a Cyber-punk Ghost Rider.
I think that first issue gave me my first joygasm.