Miguel O'Hara: Spider-Man 2099 Appreciation 2021

[Spiderfang]

Miguel O'Hara; Spider-Man 2099 Appreciation 2021!






Wikipedia blurb;

"Spider-Man 2099 is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi in 1992 for Marvel's Marvel 2099 comic book line, and is a futuristic re-imagining of his namesake created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Miguel O'Hara, a brilliant geneticist living in New York (renamed Nueva York) in the year 2099 attempts to recreate the abilities of the original Spider-Man in other people and later suffers a related accident that causes half his DNA to be re-written with a spider's genetic code. The character is voiced by Oscar Isaac in a post-credits scene in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Miguel eventually becomes head of the genetics program of Alchemax, intended to create new corporation-controlled super-powered soldiers called "corporate raiders." Miguel is specifically inspired by surviving records concerning Spider-Man and hopes to one day create a similarly powered person. But after a human test subject dies during an early experiment, Miguel tells Tyler Stone he wishes to resign from Alchemax and discontinue his genetics research. Rather than let Miguel leave, Tyler Stone tricks him into taking Rapture, an addictive drug that genetically bonds to the user. Tyler reminds Miguel that only Alchemax is allowed to legally distribute this drug, so if O'Hara does not remain with the corporation then Tyler must assume he is getting the drug from the black market and will be forced to tell the police. Not wishing to be a blackmailed addict, Miguel recalls that he entered his own genetic code into his machine's databanks during initial experiments, using it as a human DNA test sample. Intending to use this older template of his pure genetic code to write over his current biology and free himself from the Rapture, Miguel sneaks into Alchemax and uses the gene alteration machines on himself.

After Miguel turns on the machine to rewrite his DNA, his jealous subordinate Aaron Delgado sabotages the machines, causing them to alter Miguel's genetic code to be "50% spider DNA." Miguel survives the process, but realizes he now has spider-abilities.

Realizing that there is now a person with abilities similar to Spider-Man, Tyler Stone sends agents to hunt this person. To conceal his identity while he fights his pursuers, Miguel dons a bodysuit with a mask that he once wore for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival. Miguel chooses this costume in particular because it is the only clothing he has that is made from "UMF" (Unstable Molecule Fabric), meaning it is the only clothing he owns that will not be torn or shred by the spider-talons that now occupy his hands and feet. After seeing him operate in public, a group of Thorites (worshippers of the Marvel hero Thor) come to believe that Miguel is the legendary Spider-Man back from the dead, and that he is the harbinger of Thor's eventual return."

Collected Editions

2099 Classic

* Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 1
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 2
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 3: The Fall of the Hammer
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 4
* Spider-Man 2099 vs Venom 2099
* 2099 World of Tomorrow (#1-8)

2000's Spider-Man 2099

* Captain Marvel "Future Tense" (#27 to 29)
* Exiles Ultimate Collection Book 5, Exiles Annual #1 (#75 to 89)
* Exiles Ultimate Collection Book 6 (Exiles #90-100, Days Of Then & Now; X-Men: Die By The Sword #1-5)
* Timestorm 2009/2099 (Timestorm 2009/2099 #1-4, Spider-Man One-Shot, And X-Men One-Shot)

The Return of Spider-Man 2099

* Superior Spider-Man (#17 to 19)
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 1: Out of Time
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 2: Spider-verse
* Secret Wars 2099
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 3: Smack to the Future
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 4: Gods & Women
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 5: Civil War II
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 6: Apocalypse Soon
* Spider-Man 2099 Vol 7: Back to the Future Shock!
* Marvel 2099 (2019)



Video Game Appearances

* Shattered Dimensions (2011)
* Edge of Time (2012)

Useful Links

* Marvel FANDOM entry
* Wikipedia Entry
* Marvel.com Biography
* Comicvine Biography

...and Miguel's teaser from the post-credit of "Into the Spider-Verse!"



Last Year's Thread (2020 Edition)

[Spiderfang]

Happy New Year for Miguel, and hopefully more Miguel-related stories!

[K7P5V]

Happy New Year for Miguel, and hopefully more Miguel-related stories!

Agreed. And without a doubt, Rick Leonardi is the best artist for Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099):

[Frontier]

Happy New Year to Miguel and all his fans .

[blackspidey2099]

Happy New Year everyone!

Agreed. And without a doubt, Rick Leonardi is the best artist for Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099):

Ooh, love Rick but I’d say I enjoyed Will Sliney’s work just as much tbh

[Huntsman Spider]

Looking forward to Miguel O'Hara in Into the Spider-Verse 2 next year, and with the resurgence of the cyberpunk genre recently in other media such as television and videogames (even if Cyberpunk 2077 seems to have been a huge bust, relatively speaking), now would be a great if not perfect time to dust off Spider-Man 2099. Just do it better, more coherently, and more thoughtfully than 2019's attempted 2099 relaunch (even if there were aspects of it I liked), and it should be golden.

[Batman Begins 2005]

Miguel O'Hara's original Spider-Man 2099 is one of the best Spider-Man costumes out there. Glad Slott started using Spider-Man 2099 again in The Superior Spider-Man.