Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5448995-20160103010513/@comment-61022-20160502195936

The other thing that sticks out in the recent run of 2099 stories is that (I think it was in Spider-Verse?) Miguel runs into Punisher 2099... Who died at the end of the original 2099 run... And is also now alive and well (apparently) in Contest of Champions. I haven't read all of the original Punisher 2099 run, but I got up to the President Doom storyline and his appearance and demeanor in these later appearances suggest that it was prior to the Punisher being made an agent of Doom's SHIELD organization and became a state sanctioned Punisher.

I tried asking Peter David about this on Twitter but he declined to comment. Which for someone who openly replies to fans very often suggests to me that perhaps explanations are forthcoming. They should make a point of doing so as things are becoming quite muddled.

With reference to Strange 2099 and Venom 2099 it does seem like perhaps the story does break off from the original run sometime before the flooding of Manhattan by the New Atlanteans.

Still if you go back to Spider-Man Meets Spider-Man 2099, when Miguel goes into the past and when he comes back the previously static date where the Age of Heroes ended (which led to the future Miguel was born into) became vague. He remembers there used to be a specific date, but at the end of that story it was lost due to changes in history.

Perhaps what happened is this: When Miguel went back in time to Earth-616 in that story it created a divergence. One universe went on to what the original Spider-Man 2099 universe ended on (Manifest Destiny) whereas the "true" Earth-928 moved forward in a similar fashion with some exceptions:

(1) Maybe Doom did not become president of the United States (2) Perhaps Tyler Stone was never shot or recovered significantly so he did not require the hover chair or life support systems (it is "the future" so such a medical breakthrough would not be surprising)

Things "go south" in terms of the timelines matching up the moment Doom became president. You can still have Miguel go to Mexico and meet Strange 2099 with this in mind and the Venom 2099 story is not dependant on Doom running the country.

A curious point: Doom 2099 appeared in the Planet X story in the first volume of Uncanny Avengers Volume 1, he was part of the Chronus Corps gathered by Kang... Presently this is ascribed to the Doom 2099 that appeared in the Exiles (which hasn't been confirmed anywhere I don't think).. But you could suppose that Kang plucked Doom 2099 out of the "true" Earth-928 which resulted in him never running for president on Miguel's world.

I'm going to have to dig through a few of the more recent handbooks and see if there is anything I can locate that can shed any light on any of this.