2099 Alpha:
This isn't even included the upcoming omnibus, but it makes sense to read it as part of Nick Spencer's larger Spider-Man, because he wrote the main issues and it connects to the Spider-Man 2099 appearance in the main book. I figured it could provide some added context. That may have been unnecessary, as this prelude is hardly essential reading for anything going on in the Spider-Man comics.
It's mostly a series of vignettes, with some interesting moments (an interrogation by Doom 2099, poor Herbie looking for his mom, and an opening with a strange girl encountering Thor's hammer are highlights) and there is an effort to consider the problems the world may have in eighty years. Artist Viktor Bogdanovic reminds me a lot of Greg Capullo, so I could easily see him being a superstar at some point in the near future, since he's able to depict dynamic action sequences, impressive splash pages and quieter moments. He just needs a script where we spend enough time with the characters to care about hem.
C+
Spider-Man 2099 (2019):
Nick Spencer wrote the alpha and omega issues of the 2099 event, as well as this one-shot. The best scene has a very different take on Miguel O'Hara's origin than what we're used to from the Peter David/ Rick Leonardi run, which says something different about the human condition and shows that Marvel's going in a different direction while honoring the first version of the saga.
With all these changes it is a bit hard to get a read on the characters, or to understand them enough to care about what happens next. Artist Zé Carlos is fine, but this is a comic where the worldbuilding overshadows the protagonist.
C