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How did you come to this concept as the way to go for this story?
So I said, well, let’s make it special.
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Let’s do something where those four issues don’t feel like fill-ins in their big events.
It sprang from that, and then I realized, OK, I need a menace big enough.
Who can we get?
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Well, the Legion of Doom makes sense…
Except they’re not around in the current day.
So how do we fix that?
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Everything became a domino toppling over another domino.
And when it’s all said and done, we’ve got a story.
In the case of We Are Yesterday, the connection is even more direct between past and present.
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What led you to want to bring these two timelines together in such a tangible way?
It is not, you know, it is not out of continuity.
So that was my starting point.
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But then I started thinking about Grodd and his motivations and his goals.
You know, Grodd wants something big.
I mean, he’s got to take on the entire Justice League Unlimited.
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So to do that, he really wants to put the band back together, right?
But he can’t really.
Sinestro is off planet.
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I’m from the future, and not much happens in the next five years.
You know, you don’t make a whole lot of headway.
As a matter of fact, you lose a lot of ground.
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Obviously you have a long history with his arch-enemy the Flash.
Well, I mean, it made sense to me, in that I like Grodd’s motivation.
Grodd’s motivation is, humans keep screwing up the world.
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So why do we have them?
Let’s make it not just Gorilla City, but Gorilla Planet.
I’m also reflective of the fact that he was Flash’s first really big villain.
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People don’t remember that he appeared in three consecutive issues of Flash.
How has it been working in that kind of collaborative environment again?
It’s something you’re very used to in the DC universe.
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It requires an inordinate amount of coordination this time, because everything’s being done at once.
All the chapters are sort of being done by three different artists.
You got Clayton Henry, and you got Travis Moore, and you got Dan McDade, so yeah.
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Actually, we do have four artists because Dan Mora has joined the last chapter.
Everyone’s bringing their A-game, everyone’s stepping up.
Everyone is not complaining that there are 35 characters on every page.
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It’s just so much fun to work with people who are super talented and super committed.
And what do you kind of see as the status quo in 2025?
Boy, there’s a lot to unpack there.
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I think that you’re right.
I will say this though.
And we’ve got bigger developments along those lines coming up in the next few months.
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Time has a problem.
Like, why do the villains not remember what happened five years ago?
Why don’t the present day villains remember Grodd recruiting them in the past?
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You mentioned the Omega energy, and building to the next part of the story.
Obviously, that’s something that kind of started with the birth of the Absolute Universe.
How connected are you to what’s going on over there?
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We’re making this a coordinated effort.
Yes, sadly true and sad for Airwave.
I like that character.
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I hope it’s not the last we’ll ever see of him here.
That’s really a shame, isn’t it?
Grodd was pretty ruthless.
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At first it was, let’s throw the doors open to everybody, which was a good instinct.
But Superman trusts everybody.
You know you have to earn Superman’s mistrust, whereas Batman is the exact opposite.
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You have to earn Batman’s trust.
And Wonder Woman is somewhere in the middle.
I should write this down real quick.
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How is We Are Yesterday a key to that?
How do I answer this?
I mean, it’s absolutely key to this.
The events of We Are Yesterday are a complete story.
So there is a definite connection there.
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