Mark Waid’s Justice League Unlimited/World’s Finest: We Are Yesterday crossover takes a minute to get started, but once it does, it is nicely time-tossed in ways that had me flipping back and forth to remember who was where and why. That’s not a negative; I appreciate a time-travel tale with a bit of shenanigans, something more complicated than the mainstream.

There are certain things I might pick on, but then we have to acknowledge We Are Yesterday is really only part of a story, “crossover” notwithstanding. My sense is that World’s Finest continues as if nothing happened, but the events of We Are Yesterday most certainly continue into Waid’s Justice League Unlimited (if not the DC Universe as a whole). In that way, as a comparison to Dawn of DC’s first big event — call it Lazarus Planet or Knight Terrors — Yesterday is smaller in scope and less self-contained. Probably going into it as “Justice League Unlimited Vol. 1.5” rather than an “event” might help temper expectations.