On February 4, 2046, an earthquake under the African continent dislodges the western coastline that had eroded into cliffs over 100 meters above sea level. The resulting wave would eventually become a 350 meter tidal wave that would wipe out half of South America and the United States. This would cause a chain reaction of natural disasters around the globe wiping out 91% of the worlds population.
Only two places remaining are capable of sustaining life(Geneva Switzerland and Alberta Canada). While Alberta focuses on rebuilding and creating a new civilization, the scientists in Geneva use their hydron collider to build a time machine with hopes of travelling into the past and trying to stop the disaster from ever happening
After years of failed experiments, they finally create a machine capable of sending non living organic matter through space and time. With only enough power for one shot at their last hope to save humanity from their fate, they write the date, event and result on the only artifact left from the 20th century, a daredevil comic.
On Monday January 16th, 1975, a young scientist in Geneva found a Daredevil comic with the number 2/4 written on the back. 2 miles away an old man found a page of what looked like a comic book. It had writing all over it, some nonsense about an earthquake and the date 2046. He quickly threw it out.
Unfortunately for us and those poor scientists stuck in 2050, a side effect of their time machine was a scrambling effect on reconstruction after time travel.
The moral of this story....never crack this book and look for page 7 Justin, it disappeared with the survival of the human race.