tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post3747806039373475628..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: The Mystery That Wouldn't Die!Comicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-40989872488059752202017-01-13T18:58:51.750-05:002017-01-13T18:58:51.750-05:00C.F.: true, true! Though I was thinking of when Ne...C.F.: true, true! Though I was thinking of when Ned Leeds was written as the original Hobgoblin. Pre-Stern. Er, post... um, between the Stern bookends.<br /><br />M.P.: Blimey! <i>Goblins at the Gate</i> was the last time (okay, the <i>only</i> time) I'd seen him. I must've missed something.Warren JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743987856127631574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-79690104735191100462017-01-12T06:11:15.286-05:002017-01-12T06:11:15.286-05:00Warren, ordinarily I'd agree with you about ei...Warren, ordinarily I'd agree with you about either Osborn or Leeds being odd choices for suiting up as a goblin and terrorizing the city on a bat-glider; but the reason that Kingsley as the choice of the Hobgoblin's identity stands in such contrast to Osborn or Leeds is that, among the three, Kingsley is supposedly the one who took up the role with a sound mind. Leeds, of course, had no choice at all--while Osborn's accident with the so-called Goblin formula, salvaged from the notes of his business partner, unhinged his mind. Ironically, Kingsley found his own kind of madness in the role--but for him to choose to go down that path in the first place, to me, made about as much sense as if the CEO of Macy's were to have done the same thing.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-3709607760721085192017-01-11T17:25:15.633-05:002017-01-11T17:25:15.633-05:00Warren, not only did they bring him back but he DI...Warren, not only did they bring him back but he DID have a goatee. I'm not kidding! I googled him! <br />I don't recall a little dog...<br /><br />M.P.<br /><br />(Man, that's a little bit eerie, Warren)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-87315185458917379492017-01-11T13:49:42.635-05:002017-01-11T13:49:42.635-05:00Brilliant. Your review of the situation, that is. ...Brilliant. Your review of the situation, that is. The situation itself is more tangled than a... spider's web. (I'm sorry. I'm very sorry.)<br /><br />Agreed that a bit-part fashion mogul was a slightly odd choice to be the mastermind behind all this.* (Though I'm not sure I could describe how it's more realistic to have an industrialist or a newspaper reporter dress up like a goblin and fly around on a bat-shaped rocket) The points where Kingsley said he was disenchanted and bored with the criminal life seem to ring true with his in-universe position, as well as explaining away the patchwork history resulting from real-life office politics. Maybe more so. Indulgent rich guy plays at being a gangster: novelty wears off. Though I'd say it wasn't Roger Stern's intent to hint at Kingsley's unsuitability as <i>the</i> Hobgoblin, given the reason for this miniseries' existence.<br /><br />* Maybe, if they bring him back, he'd have a goatee. And a little dog. He's already got the brainwashing thing down pat.Warren JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743987856127631574noreply@blogger.com