AVENGERS: TWILIGHT - New Marvel Comics Series Takes Us To A Future Where The Age Of Heroes Has Ended

@mountainman -
That's how our reality is going.

Licensing/Renting/Streaming replacing private ownership. Restrictions on all form of life with financial deterrents. Late stage capitalism destroying the middle classes. Communism rising in response. Authoritarian and Totalitarian methods of control continue to rise.

Sadly, every day is worse than the previous, a gradual decline of society so that nobody has really resisted any of the changes that have occurred.

We won't see a real resistance to this either as demonstrated during the pandemics when 'rules' (not laws) were used to get people to obey.

@Vigor - it's not really a cosmic wolverine story though. That's just where wolverine as our point of view character leaves the story. It's actually about wolverine exploring the peaceful world the heroes left, and him finding a place there. It's a story of optimism that all the fighting the avengers have been doing will lead to something good (as opposed to all the apocalyptic futures marvel keeps implying will happen), as well as a story of acceptance as wolverine simply can't function in a world like this.

However, since marvel also loves to dive into the multiverse with crossovers and the exiles, I suppose you could have his story continue on as a cosmic wolverine.

@Vigor - it's not an ongoing story. It's literally just one issue. Not everything needs an antagonist. In this case, inadequacy is the antagonist. Wolverine can't function in this world because it's moved past his kind (which I mean superhero, not mutant).

@CorndogBurglar - yeah that's out there. Honestly if I'd reference that it'd probably be that dr doom genuinely reformed post end of heroes and rules the world as a democratically elected leader.

@Vigor -

"planet was healing"

Nope, we still produced an unbalanced level of Carbon dioxide emissions resulting in an increase in temperature. We are still past the point where this can be rectified without extreme loss of life and that's without factoring in the increasing solar activity.

"the shift of power went to workers and not businesses"

Nope. Businesses realized they could hire at home workers from anywhere in the world. Unemployment increased, a lot of businesses never recovered. The highstreet has almost completely collapsed. Workers rights were diminished, pay inequality rose. Those deemed essential were more likely to be exposed to increased levels of stress, higher risk of contracting the virus and extreme levels of abuse.

"common cold and flu was less prominent"

While certain aspects were reduced, the at-home nature of people led to a rise in obesity, anxiety, stress-related problems, vitamin deficiencies and mental health issues. Collectively the issues created vastly dwarfed the amount of lives saved by the reduction of flu and the common cold.

"qr codes finally became a thing"

Primarily a response to China, who uses QR codes to track civilians actions. QR codes are more easily manipulated than barcodes, notably a lot of new crimes associated with QR codes have started happening such as people replacing them with QR codes that will download malware or force a transfer of currency.

"Arguably a society that cared more about taking these breaks to heal the planet with emissions and allowed workers freedom to work how they want to, is one I wouldn't mind living in."

In concept, sure.

In reality, what you are vouching for would be akin to sacrificing about 20-30 years of your life, health, jobs and finances for a temporary reduction in the temperature of the planet.

@Vigor -
I also have no idea why it randomly attached my reply to Ager's comment instead as I definitely replied to the other comment chain. Guess the site is derping again.