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4 unusual facts about Joe In The Future


Joe In The Future

After this, Weisfeld continued to develop more Joe in the Future material with Koch and, in the early 1990s, commissioned 3 pages of comic artwork from acclaimed Batman illustrator Trevor Von Eeden for what would become the first episode of Joe in the Future in Heavy Metal Magazine.

That scenario was eventually appropriated by artist Arthur Suydam, a mutual friend of both Weisfeld and Koch, for an episode of Suydam's Cholly and Flytrap series in Marvel Comics Epic Magazine.

Joe is a tough rogue and his yarns tend to feature Goodfellas-type petty street tension that boils to a violent climax, but through it all the title character tends to eschew anger, malevolence and disrespect.

2012 Inkpot Award winner Trevor Von Eeden has illustrated several Joe in the Future stories.



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