Peter David isn’t simply a writer known for digging in and crafting long, epic runs on a variety of titles. He’s also a writer with a habit of returning to a franchise he reinvigorated years after the fact. In the past decade we’ve seen him have a second go at Hulk, She-Hulk, and X-Factor, with the latter resulting in a sprawling run that dwarfs the original. Spider-Man 2099 is just the latest example of this trend. David is back writing the ongoing misadventures of Miguel O’Hara, and all is right with the world.

Of course, plenty has changed with this franchise since Marvel folded the 2099 line in the ’90s. Miguel O’Hara was dragged into the present-day Marvel Universe during the course of Dan Slott’s Superior Spider-Man saga. Now Miguel is working undercover as an assistant to Tiberius Stone, his own grandfather, and keeping a watchful eye on the company that will one day grow to become the scourge of 2099. That’s pretty much where David’s new series picks up. Miguel is adjusting to his new life, but further complications in Marvel’s already wacky timestream threaten to overturn everything.

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