By Zack Quaintance — Join the Future #1 is a comic built on a lot of ideas I think about often. In the world of this story (which I believe is sometime in the future, not quite near but not quite distant either), the U.S. has proliferated into paradisiacal mega cities. The hinterlands have emptied out and gone almost feral, populated by worn traders and stubborn hold outs that don’t want to submit to a polished life driven (and likely controlled by technology).