Spider-Man 2099's Return is a Triumph (Review)
Warning — Spoilers for Spider-Man 2099: Exodus — Alpha #1 ahead!
Marvel triumphantly returns to the far-flung future of 2099 with the first issue of Spider-Man 2099: Exodus. From the very first page of this new miniseries, Miguel O'Hara's world sweeps the reader away with promises of danger, intrigue, and a Marvel Universe that's quite unlike anything that's come before it. With scarcely a dull moment to be found, Spider-Man 2099: Exodus continues the darker tone established by the world of 2099 while simultaneously setting up countless avenues for future stories.
Spider-Man 2099: Exodus — Alpha #1 by Steve Orlando, Paul Fry, and Neeraj Menon quickly brings the reader up to speed. In the year 2099, Neuva York is run by the Cabal, an organization that has taken over the world after utterly destroying the Avengers. Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man of the future, tries his best to temper the damage they do to his city and hopes to eventually bring the shadowy group down. When he steals a drive of encrypted files from a Cabal satellite, Spider-Man teams up with a now-digitized Ghost Rider to decipher the Cabal's plans, and together they discover that the Cabal has pulled a dead Celestial down to Earth for nefarious purposes. And just like that, the stakes are set: Spider-Man must get to the impact site and figure out what the Cabal is planning before their agents fulfill their sinister mission.
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Orlando, Fry, and Menon wastes no time in establishing the dark tone of the series. Unlike groups such as AIM, or Hydra's Secret Empire, the Cabal's takeover of society is so complete and so pervasive that they do not need to hide in the shadows. In only the second panel,
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