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For some, you're only as good as who you are on your best day, and to Flash arch-nemesis Gorilla Grodd, that means that DC's top villains aren't really cutting it anymore. That's why he is going back in time to recruit a classic version of the DC super villain team the Legion of Doom - classic versions of Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Bizarro, Cheetah, the Joker, Black Manta, Captain Cold, Scarecrow, and Brianiac - as the big bads for the upcoming comic book 'We Are Yesterday crossover event. As event writer Mark Waid tells us, he (and Grodd) realized how badly the bad guys are doing these days, and got to thinkin'.

"Once we established that we needed the Legion of Doom, then we clearly couldn't have them in the present day, because Luthor's reformed and everybody's kind of busy, so when Grodd wants to put the band back together in the here and now, there's nobody. He's having a very difficult time putting together the current Legion of Doom," Waid tells Popverse's Pierce Lydon. "So he has no choice but to go back in time and recruit the Legion of Doom from about five years ago and tell them, 'I got bad news for you. Not much changes. In the next five years, you do not succeed. The Justice League is more powerful than ever. Luthor, you are a sniveling wimp. It's not going well for any of you. So why don't you come with me and we will take the future?'"

When asked if revisiting and reviving the classic, primordial versions of Lex Luthor and the like was fun, Mark Waid gave a resounding yes.

"Oh yeah. Here are the classic, evil, ‘take no prisoners' versions," says Waid. "It really is fun because they are truly a threat on a Justice League level as opposed to just any one of them could be snuffed out pretty quickly. But with all nine of them, you are in desperate trouble."

You can read Waid's full interview about Justice League Unlimited, 'We Are Yesterday,' and the upcoming New History of the DC Universe here. The 'We Are Yesterday' crossover event begins April 16 with Batman/Superman: World's Finest #38.

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