The nearly simultaneous appearance of Joe in the Future as both web-animation and print episodes makes the series an early example of web-initiated Transmedia storytelling.

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.

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 artwork featured in both first episode of Joe in the Future in Heavy Metal Magazine and a 3-minute animation that was made from scans of the comic page panels.

The plot line of Joe in the Future: The 4th Dimension (Heavy Metal Volume 27 Issue # 5 / 2003) involves phantasmagoric nano-virus introduced by skin contact with marketing flyer handed to unsuspecting passerby on city street corner.

The January 2007 Heavy Metal Magazine included Joe in the Future story (The Reminder Droid) involving corporate armored lawbots that track and seize property from humans and one another.