We are Yesterday

"We are Yesterday" is a 2025 American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics. Serving as the beginning of the DC All In initiative, the crossover was written by Mark Waid, with art by Dan Mora. The storyline ran between June to September, 2025. The crossover received critical acclaim who praised the complex multiversal story, art, and action.

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Prologue

While dealing with an enemy named Inferno who has been terrorizing the Green (Swamp Thing's avatar), Batman and Atom are trying to find out where Martian Manhunter's powers went following the events of Absolute Power. New Justice League member Air Wave helps free Gorilla Grodd and the rest of the prisoners out before escaping to meet up with the Legion of Doom (Joker, Lex Luthor, Bizarro, Sinestro, Captain Cold, Scarecrow, and Black Manta) from the past. Inferno is revealed to be an alternate name for the Legion of Doom.^[3]

Main Story

In the past, Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne are going to Gotham City on a jet alongside Hal Jordan when Hal's jet malfunctions and he is forced to crash due to Grodd. Superman, Batman, and Flash go to Gorilla City, where Grodd manages to possess Superman's mind by separating the heroes from each other. Solovar teams up with Batman, Flash, and Hal to apprehend Superman, but he threatens to kill him using a powerful ape named Titano. They manage to free Superman from Grodd. While imprisoned, the present Grodd travels to the past and possesses his past self.^[4]

Grodd frees himself and manipulates Air Wave to be on his side by giving him illusions of the Justice League being evil, while recruiting past versions of the Legion of Doom members to create time traveling devices. Grodd accesses Air Wave's memories to gain the Justice League's secrets before seemingly killing him. Wonder Woman, Hal Jordan, Black Lightning, Shazam, Carol Ferris, Green Arrow, Donna Troy and Stargirl arrive to confront them after tracing Air Wave's energy signature.^[5]

Grodd remembers how in the past, he convinced the villains to work for him after instructing Sinestro to look into his mind where the heroes are victorious. The villains split off into teams to steal tachyon energy, and Scarecrow hits Robin with a ray gun, transporting him to the present where Batman and Nightwing meet him. When the rest of the heroes arrive to confront Gorilla Grodd and the villains, Pythoness use the tachyon energy to send everyone to the present, leaving the heroes stranded in the past. ^[6]

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