Spider-Man 2099 #2
SUMMARY
We begin with Miguel still recounting the tale of his origin as Spider-Man. About how he hadn’t yet understood of the changes that happened last issue as Aaron, the scientist who tried to kill Miguel, is backing off due to the horrible sight he had just seen. Aaron then pulls out a gun and tries to shoot Miguel, clearly thinking he just turned him into the same kind of monster as the volunteer from the last issue. Miguel is easily dodged the bullets and tries to take the gun away, but causes Aaron to shoot a canister that was clearly marked danger.
It explodes and Aaron nearly gets thrown out of the building, but Miguel catches him. Aaron proceeds to panic and claims Miguel is tearing his arm off. In the end, Miguel accidentally lets go of Aaron to his death and the former realizes that he now has talons which was causing the pain Aaron mentioned. As Miguel tries to comprehend what is happening to him, the Public Eye shows up and tries to arrest him.
Miguel quickly realizes that he must have been integrated with spider DNA. In a bout of hysteria, Miguel leaps out of the window wanting to die rather than live as a freak while the Public Eye shoots at him. Miguel then regains his senses and instinctively grabs the walls of Alcehmax with his talons keeping him attached to it. He also realizes that there are talons on his feet which allows him to crawl like a spider.
Miguel climbs to the roof and bemoans how Aaron left him a freak and that he doesn’t have the guts to end his life like how Aaron ended up. He also doesn’t know why he is trying to get away as it won’t take long for the Public Eye to find him when he spots a Thorite, a group who worships Thor, gliding around on a hang glider.
Miguel hitches a ride startling the Thorite who asks who Miguel is. Miguel snarks that he is Spider-Man, which causes the Thorite to believe him and to think that he is the harbinger of Thor. The two then collide onto a rooftop and Thor gives the remain of the cloth to Miguel since “The Spider-Man must be masked!” Miguel agrees since the Public Eye most likely didn’t catch what his face looks like yet and he needs anything to keep them from finding out who he is.
We cut back to Tyler Stone who is having a discussion with Tiger Wylde, more about him in Doom 2099, about the former possibly but denying sending an assassin against the latter. Tiger cuts off the call frustrating Tyler who asks where is Venture. Venture is currently moving through the bottom levels of the building to Tyler’s office where it is revealed that he is a cowboy cyborg. Tyler asks Venture if he has any idea who sabotage the building who then confirms that he has made a 3-D reconstruction of what went down and that he will track down the intruder with ease.
We cut back to Miguel at home who wakes up to find that last night was most definitely not a dream. He sees that his sheets are shredded but not his body and after a second of testing finds out that the talons are retractable. Unfortunately, Venture is closing in on his location. Meanwhile, Miguel gets a phone call from his brother Gabe who insists on coming over due to Dana telling him that Miguel was freaking out.
After Gabe hangs up, Miguel realizes that he will need to buy clothes made out of unstable molecules if he wishes to keep clothing that won’t easily rip apart. Like a Death’s Head costume that he bought for a Day of the Dead festival. Venture approaches even closer to Miguel’s home as Gabe bursts through the door who reveals that he knows that Miguel was strung out on Rapture notes that Miguel is mumbling, because he has fangs and doesn’t want Miguel to notice, and that the lights are very dim, because Miguel’s accelerated vision isn’t too tolerant to bright lights.
Miguel tells him to not worry as he got rid of the Rapture which Gabe believes is bullcrap since Rapture bonds to your DNA. Miguel feels his forearms are itching as he notices Venture walking nearby with his accelerated while Gabe rants about how Miguel should realizes that Alchemax are full of bad people by now. Miguel pushes Gabe out of his apartment as he realizes that Venture is gonna track him to his home. His only chance is to disguise himself and send him on a wild goose chase until he muddle the tracks just enough that Venture won’t realize where he lives.
Miguel proceeds to put on the Death’s Head costume and super glue the glider cape that he got earlier and puts it on. He then jumps out of the window hoping he newfound agility and updrafts combine with the cape will stop him from hitting the ground. He manages to then land on top of Venture who was caught unaware. He then tries to think of something to say that will continue to keep Venture off guard and mask his fear but could only muster out a simple “Hi.”
REVIEW
I love the look of Venture, this issue’s main villain. I wish they could have done more with the concept of Futuristic Cyborg Cowboy Bounty Hunter though, but he still looks cool enough. Miguel is also slowly heading to the role of Spider-Man and we also get more of an explanation of his costume, like the reason why he seems to have a skull at the chest area instead of spider is because that is suppose to be a skull, and get introduced to a recurring group throughout the entire 2099 universe, Thorites.
We also get more characterization from Gabe as we see how much he cares about his brother and how fed up he is with his attitude and seemingly blind loyalty to Alchemax. There is also beginnings of the 2099 universe seamlessly tying together without outright crossing over with each other. Namely the Tiger Wylde conversation which is reference in Doom 2099.
The only negative about this is the coloring. Which again is mainly because it seems so odd of a choice at points that it is distracting. But otherwise the art and there are fewer instances of it here.
I give Spider-Man 2099 #2 a score of 8.5 webs out of 10.
Come back tomorrow where we deviate from the Spider-Man origin and enter one of the least liked aspects of the 2099 universe. Ravage 2099 #1!
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