Early Comics

This article records pre-Dragon Saga art.

The Mists
Let us travel into the Mists of Time (less than YJ4 [Year of Joe]). In the beginning, all was blank, until the Crayons began massive scribble projects that may have laid the foundation for later abstracts or even Nightchucks. After a dim period of randomized loopylines, the good ship Not Abstract Art sailed out of the mists. The first comics in Joestory were probably single-panel jokes with unreadable lettering. After a long time, a barely-remembered feature began: Nose, about a nose. No surviving examples of Nose literature exist, but one or two images thrive in the deepest depths of Joe's brain. It is thought that at least one Nose comic was colored in, but this is highly hypothetical. Nose began in YJ2 or YJ3. It probably didn't last long.

The Food Age
After a brief time without recurring characters, the first well-remembered characters appeared: Pork Cops (a misspelling of Chops) and the Hot Dog (later Pork and Hot Dog). In their first surviving feature, which is wordless, Pork wakes up a lazy Hot Dog to escape from a knife. Many original Pork/Dog features survive, probably due to the fact that they are in a thick drawing book, which is not easily recycled or thrown out.

Build-up
Farther on, records and Joe's brain clear up. In the Exploration era, hundreds of ships sailed out of the Mists of Time: Zinny's Aliens, Funny Fish, cats and mice, not to mention Pork and Dog's new friends, Pickle, Mr. Milk, Juice, Tomato, Whine Wine, Egg, and Cheese. In a grand finale, the characters join together many times. The Exploration era soon gave way to bigger things, and the Dragon Saga was well on its way to Joecomix domination.