Monday, June 11, 2007

A matter of justice...

The new "Justice League of America" has a new headquarters. Well, actually, more than one. Part is in a satellite, where it's presumably secure against your garden-variety intruder. The other portion is located in Washington D.C., on the national mall.

To the right, by the way, is a photo of the new "Hall of Justice". Yep, that's a real building, though it's not actually located in DC.

When they revealed it in the JLA book, it was referred to as being on the site of the old "All-Star Squadron" and "Justice Society" headquarters. Interesting, since the All-Star Squadron was based in Queens (in New York City), at the site of the 1939 World's Fair. Their HQ was located in the Trylon and Perisphere, the central theme pavillion from the world's fair. The site, by rhe way, is now the location of the Unisphere from the 1964-65 World's Fair. The Justice Society's HQ, likewise, was in New York, in an upper-west-side brownstone. (Until recently. Now they're in a new headquarters in Battery Park.)

So... that's quite an error to make. How could the writer (Brad Meltzer) have been so careless? How could the editor (Eddie Berganza) let a howler like that one fly by?

Well, she's a bit slow, but eventually the solution comes to her. There's been a spate of "continuity errors" of late, most related in some way (presumably) to Countdown. My suspicion is that the whole "Hall of Justice" thing is part of this picture. This is going to be one of those 'bleed-through' things from a different one of the 52 universes.

Any bets?