This is the FUTURE . . .
The year is 2099, and the Marvel Universe has changed since the time of Spider-man, the X-men, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers. The governments of most countries are now controlled by the powerhouses of industry, giant corporations with their greedy fingers in all walks of life, now called "megacorps". This is a world where justice can be bought with a black card, a symbol of avarice and status. There are designer drugs, legally distributed to the addicted slaves of the middle class by those with the proper license, and illegally tested on the destitute and downtrodden masses barely surviving in the underbellies of the great cities. There are fantastic technological advances like holographic servants and cybernetic worlds of beauty and adventure, that are available only to the privileged few. There are hidden terrors of alien technologies capable of vast destruction in secret vaults guarded by madmen, and there are those who have immortalized the heroes of the past as icons of religious worship. There are orphans hiding in cities where only mutants are allowed, and gladiator arenas where the rich and the bloodthirsty plug into the worst kind of spectacle since the days of the Roman emperors. This is a world where the super heroes of the past were no more, until . . . |
