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Don't know if this was posted or not,I am behind on my reading.In the letters section of Amz 589, a fan responds to Wacker's previous issues statement about the Hobgoblin being dead.That he must have meant Macendale since Kingsley is nice and safe on a island.Wacker writes back saying he did mean Macendale and says you only assume Kingsley is nice and safe on that island,the future may not be that kind.
Hopefully that does imply that there are plans to bring back the Kingsley Hobgoblin sometime in the future,or maybe its nothing at all,figured it was something interesting to pass along.
Don't know if this was posted or not,I am behind on my reading.In the letters section of Amz 589, a fan responds to Wacker's previous issues statement about the Hobgoblin being dead.That he must have meant Macendale since Kingsley is nice and safe on a island.Wacker writes back saying he did mean Macendale and says you only assume Kingsley is nice and safe on that island,the future may not be that kind.
Hopefully that does imply that there are plans to bring back the Kingsley Hobgoblin sometime in the future,or maybe its nothing at all,figured it was something interesting to pass along.
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First, it gave Betty an interesting dynamic as she came to terms with the fact her hubby was hobby, but it also just made more sense. The Roderick-has-a twin brother-Daniel-who-dresses-as-him thing was just hokey and it seemed shoehorned. Plus, unlike Leeds, there was NO emotional investment in Roderick. When it was revealed in 'Hobgoblin Lives' that Kingsley was Hobgoblin (a character who appeared like twice in the early 80's), my thoughts were along the lines of "um... okay. That was lame." Yes, I know Roger Stern wrote it and he's the one who started the Hobgoblin arc, but that doesn't mean 'Lives' needed to be told. It had been a decade since he was on Spidey, and the Hobgoblin arc had moved in a different direction than he had intended. It had become as much Defalco's baby as Stern's. The whole thing felt clobbered together and a bit of a vanity project for Stern. Macendale's robotic shtick was stupid granted, but they could have just reversed him into normal Hobby again (like they did after he merged with the Demogoblin). He was fine as an antagonist. Maybe he lacked the original Hobgoblin's cunning, but he made up for that in ruthlessness (and his ability to haunt Betty's memory). 
