They also employ strange, android-like agents who they grow in actual crops on a farm. In Nextwave, the Beyond Corporation uses increasingly bizarre and absurd attacks on the very reality of the Nextwave team, culminating in a 'reveal' that literal time-traveling T-Rex Devil Dinosaur (in actuality a clone created as part of the Beyond Corporation's games) is at the head of the organization. Introduced in Nextwave: Agents of HATE as a kind of absurd, metaphysical organization from outside the core Marvel Universe dedicated to mucking around in the Multiverse and timestream for their own amusement (a kind of totally opposite Time Variance Authority), the Beyond Corporation has been out-and-out villainous in all of its appearances in a way that Alchemax hasn't - which makes it a little tough to parse exactly how and why Ben Reilly may come to be associated with them. That brings us back to the Beyond Corporation. Though the scientists on the page don't specifically look like characters we know, from Alchemax or otherwise, the machine they're using to summon a version of Ben Reilly looks a heck of a lot like the machine Alchemax used in Superior Spider-Man to teleport Spider-Man 2099 through time and space - potentially indicating that the Ben Reilly they've got in their employ is a new agent from another time or place, just as they once had Spider-Man 2099 working for them. This story also solidifies the present-day Spider-Man's connections to Alchemax by showing that the company was created when Liz Allan, ex-wife of Harry Osborn, merged her corporation Allan Chemical with Osbcorp and Horizon Labs, one-time employers of Peter Parker. The futuristic villains of Alchemax also found their way to the contemporary Marvel Universe in the Superior Spider-Man era, when they manipulated events to send Spider-Man 2099 back to the present day as part of a plan to ensure the creation of their own corporation in the 21st century. Introduced as some of the prime antagonists of the Marvel 2099 Universe in the line's flagship Spider-Man 2099 title, Alchemax is a somewhat prototypical evil, dystopian corporation with a superhero twist, in that in the year 2099 they're particularly preoccupied with cloning 20th and 21st-century heroes and villains. That said, there are some indications in the art of a connection to a much more Earthly corporation from Marvel Comics lore: Alchemax.
It's not clear what threat Reilly is facing in the first panel, nor exactly who the scientists are, or even where or when they're pulling him from, but we can make some educated guesses.įirst, the elephant in the room: Marvel has confirmed the 'Spider-Man Beyond' era will tie into the villainous Beyond Corporation (who we'll dig into momentarily), but the scientists and equipment seen here don't resemble any of the wacky, metaphysical aspects of the Beyond Corporation that have previously been shown on the page. The imagery seems to show Ben Reilly, unmasked but in his Spider-Man costume, being plucked from a moment of danger by some scientists by way of a teleportation device. Right off the bat, there's an interesting bit of storytelling going on in one of artist Michael Dowling's interior pages (which Marvel confirms is a page from Amazing Spider-Man #79) that was released as part of a preview which seems to indicate that the title won't be strictly sticking to the mainstream Marvel Universe.
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