Joe In The Future
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Joe In The Future is an ongoing short story
comic strip
that appears in Heavy Metal
. The strip is co-written by Horatio Weisfeld
and Peter Koch.
The title character, Joe, spends most of his time seeking out cigarette
s (which are hard to acquire in the future) and often comes into difficulty with a variety of humans, robots, mutants, etc., who seek to disrupt Joe’s agenda to suit their own.
The Joe In The Future is narrated in a terse crime novel style but the stories tend to evolve from commonplace incident rather than good/bad guy type genre conventions. Joe is a tough rogue and his yarns tend feature Goodfellas
-type street tensions that boil to a violent climax, but through it all the title character tends to eschew anger, malevolence and disrespect. In this regard, the strip is unique.
Trevor Von Eeden
illustrated the first three stories in the Joe series. Painted color for Joe In The Future has been provided by the highly respected Canadian artist George Freeman and his wife, Laurie Smith.
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
that appears in Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
. The strip is co-written by Horatio Weisfeld
Horatio Weisfeld
Horatio Weisfeld is a writer/editor/publisher who co-founded mass-market comics magazines and developed other media properties. His creation of often irreverent commercial entertainment follows in the footsteps of his father, Irwin Weisfeld, a writer and manufacturer of ubiquitous mid-late 60s...
and Peter Koch.
The title character, Joe, spends most of his time seeking out cigarette
Cigarette
A cigarette is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well...
s (which are hard to acquire in the future) and often comes into difficulty with a variety of humans, robots, mutants, etc., who seek to disrupt Joe’s agenda to suit their own.
The Joe In The Future is narrated in a terse crime novel style but the stories tend to evolve from commonplace incident rather than good/bad guy type genre conventions. Joe is a tough rogue and his yarns tend feature Goodfellas
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese...
-type street tensions that boil to a violent climax, but through it all the title character tends to eschew anger, malevolence and disrespect. In this regard, the strip is unique.
Trevor Von Eeden
Trevor Von Eeden
Trevor Von Eeden is a comic book writer/artist who, known for his work on such DC Comics books as Black Lightning, Batman, and Green Arrow, as well as Marvel Comics books such as Power Man and Iron Fist, and the biographical series The Original Johnson.-Early life:According to Von Eeden, he...
illustrated the first three stories in the Joe series. Painted color for Joe In The Future has been provided by the highly respected Canadian artist George Freeman and his wife, Laurie Smith.