Speaking of which, I finally finished 2099. (Well, the original version, don't know if I'll get to the semi-reboot.) I actually think it goes off the rails when Warren Ellis was allowed to intentionally cross everything over in every other book. I really liked the initial way the universe was introducing stuff that would just be mentioned or be somewhat relevant and then like in another book that'd be the big plot point or the bad company or whatever. Ellis mashed them all together with Doom as the central book. When all the authors quit because the editor was fired this destroyed the entire 2099 universe. The new writers hack together an end of the world situation and then it just sorta stops. Ellis rushed the whole Doom plot too, which makes complete chaos of every other book. Amusingly, all the Wiki's are wrong. The Punisher 2099 doesn't necessarily die. He both does die and escapes into space depending on which book you're looking at. He's off Earth for two issues of his own book when he's killed in the streets of New York City (something he had fled to hide underground before leaving Earth) in another. 
Also the villain Ellis creates for Doom (and then just randomly kills before the plot goes anywhere, oh, SPOILERS I GUESS) of course has a big long speech declaring how he wants to take "capitalism" to its "perfect form" which is stripping Earth of everything down to its core within five years, deliberately killing 90% of the population and then fucking off to Mars.
This actually upset me more than being normal left-wank because even though there was some dumb stuff prior regarding the giant corporations in 2099, it was just nuanced enough in a plausible way because the corporations had used the states to gain monopoly control and then established their own borders with each other. Theoretically, Alchemax could go into something that was considered Stark-Fujikawa territory but they had to do it in secret, there was a risk of war, etc. Corporate takeovers involved literal battles and troops. There's a strong suggestion that the current corporate setup is just barely stable, Doom even notices a weak point in them underinvesting in nanotechnology. Ellis sweeps this all aside, has Doom act purely as a state and start nationalizing companies which leads to the villain who leads an unified corporate backlash even though all these companies were at each other's throats and some had allied with Doom five seconds prior. This just doesn't seem implausible in our world, it's implausible in the world that's presented before Ellis starts fucking with it. The entire Doom plotline he creates makes no sense at all, nobody acts in ways that make any sense (Doom declares himself President of the United States and everyone just... agrees? And does what he says even though it's been established that the government has been completely gutted of power by the corporations?) and it reduces all the books to just being them responding to whatever Doom's doing now.
Ghost Rider 2099 is the only book that actually gets an ending. Ravage 2099 is hilariously all over the place, his powers even change just issues after he first gets them which itself comes after a number of issues of him being a hero without powers. X-Men 2099 is a very strange book with no focus at all and I'm pretty sure the entire space of the series involves the characters going in a big circle around the Southwest.
But the best part of 2099, as I mentioned before back when I started it, is absolutely how everyone talks about MEGABYTES and uses floppy disks. Only in one of the very last issues does someone finally upgrade an amount of data to gigabytes. Entire GIGABYTES of the NET get erased FOREVER by the Phalanx. This is otherwise a world where nanotech can build an entire skyscraper in a matter of minutes from random garbage.
Also the villain Ellis creates for Doom (and then just randomly kills before the plot goes anywhere, oh, SPOILERS I GUESS) of course has a big long speech declaring how he wants to take "capitalism" to its "perfect form" which is stripping Earth of everything down to its core within five years, deliberately killing 90% of the population and then fucking off to Mars.
This actually upset me more than being normal left-wank because even though there was some dumb stuff prior regarding the giant corporations in 2099, it was just nuanced enough in a plausible way because the corporations had used the states to gain monopoly control and then established their own borders with each other. Theoretically, Alchemax could go into something that was considered Stark-Fujikawa territory but they had to do it in secret, there was a risk of war, etc. Corporate takeovers involved literal battles and troops. There's a strong suggestion that the current corporate setup is just barely stable, Doom even notices a weak point in them underinvesting in nanotechnology. Ellis sweeps this all aside, has Doom act purely as a state and start nationalizing companies which leads to the villain who leads an unified corporate backlash even though all these companies were at each other's throats and some had allied with Doom five seconds prior. This just doesn't seem implausible in our world, it's implausible in the world that's presented before Ellis starts fucking with it. The entire Doom plotline he creates makes no sense at all, nobody acts in ways that make any sense (Doom declares himself President of the United States and everyone just... agrees? And does what he says even though it's been established that the government has been completely gutted of power by the corporations?) and it reduces all the books to just being them responding to whatever Doom's doing now.
Ghost Rider 2099 is the only book that actually gets an ending. Ravage 2099 is hilariously all over the place, his powers even change just issues after he first gets them which itself comes after a number of issues of him being a hero without powers. X-Men 2099 is a very strange book with no focus at all and I'm pretty sure the entire space of the series involves the characters going in a big circle around the Southwest.
But the best part of 2099, as I mentioned before back when I started it, is absolutely how everyone talks about MEGABYTES and uses floppy disks. Only in one of the very last issues does someone finally upgrade an amount of data to gigabytes. Entire GIGABYTES of the NET get erased FOREVER by the Phalanx. This is otherwise a world where nanotech can build an entire skyscraper in a matter of minutes from random garbage.