EXCLUSIVE: Joseph P. Illidge’s Introduction to Trade Paperback of ‘ANCESTRAL RECALL’

Tomorrow, acclaimed Syracuse-based comic book publisher AHOY Comics will publish ANCESTRAL RECALL, a culturally rich, stunningly drawn graphic novel from two members of DC Entertainment’s Milestone Initiative: writer Jordan Clark (Aquaman, Star Wars Adventures) and artist Atagun İlhan (Poison Ivy, The Shadow Cabinet).  When painter Melvin Waring’s wife mysteriously disappears, he must call on the most important Black figures of all time to save her from the futuristic Modern Living Corporation. Black History: for Melvin, it’s an actual super power! If this sounds familiar, it should. We had the exclusive first look and we reviewed ANCESTRAL RECALL #1 so we are very excited to share the introduction from Joseph P. Illidge ahead of the trade’s full release. “A once-beloved comedian who fell from grace like the mythical Icarus from flying too close to the sun made a joke about time travel, Black people, and the future. He spoke with confidence and certainty of how Black people, out of revenge for over four hundred years of enslavement, subjugation, and massacres will punish their oppressors en masse in the future as payback. He viewed Black people through the limited prism of a colonialist’s mind, as does most of the fiction in our world which is why his schtick lacked true understanding of a people other than his own. The story of Ancestral Recall is wrapped in the descriptive cloths of different genres. Science fiction, Afrofuturism, thrille…