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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Rewatched Goblin War, and that was some great Green Goblin grandiosity. It's a episode with Green Goblin vs Hobgoblin and Kingpin, what's not to love?
Oh yeah, and Spider-Man is there too.
You can tell the showrunners hate Hobgoblin because he is constantly clowned on by this episode, Gobby call him an imposter and that everything he's had came from Norman, Felicia dumps him, and he gets arrested for good in this episode, a rarity for Spider-Man villains.
On the romance subplot, honestly, I don't really care much for Felicia, but I genuinely felt for her this episode, and even the scene with MJ at the start was pretty sweet.
But this was def a Green Goblin episode, even if he's limited in this series, Norman will always remind Peter why he's the greatest Spider-Man villain.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"The Jason Macendale Hobgoblin was a chump.
The Kingsley Hobgoblin is still not the same kind of personal villain to Spider-Man that Norman can be. But that’s mostly because Kingsley knows when to fold em. He can’t be an obsessive nemesis because he’s too sensible.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI do like Kinglsey and I feel like he does make a good foil to Peter in some regards, but yeah, he can't really make things personal but that can work for Kinglsey TBH.
Not every villain can be on the scale of Green Goblin and the writers are smart enough to be conservative with how they use him, while with Hobgoblin you can fit him in a variety of stories that don't need high stakes.
Both the comic and cartoon versions.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Comicpop have a hearty moan about ASM being an IP caricature and bring up how Sgt. Slaughter must feel...
Here is the preview for Venom War#2
Edited by Zarius on Aug 30th 2024 at 1:55:29 AM
The world awakens to fresh knowledge of the Spider-Boy, and mother and son are reunited properly
Slott having fun with meta-titles "Massive Course Correction"
Short answer is yes, he's supposed to be. The idea is that he was cut from the web of life and destiny the way Jessica Drew and Peter were, and was forgotten about. When he came back, he was still forgotten, and in order to properly reintegrate him, Peter had to give up his memory of his 'other life' in 616 as a normal person...or something
At least they only limited Spider-Boy's integration to around 3 years, so besides being around in Superior Spider-Man, it looks like he didn’t really have much of an impact on continuity. It’s not like with the Sentry where he was basically Superman and apart of nearly everything. And I know Sentry was based on Superman, but that doesn’t make my point less valid.
Edited by GateStarX on Aug 31st 2024 at 11:32:34 AM
It's gonna be fun on the bun!The history section
of the second Clone Saga on Wikipedia is hilarious.
"Early development trouble > Change of heart > Creative stalemate > Resolution > Criticism"
The Protomen enhanced my life.One of the Spider-Man: Venom War writers put out a couple of interesting tweets saying that they regard the whole Peter/MJ/Paul situation as "napalm for fans" but were interested in milking it for drama and to help flesh out Peter and MJ's relationship further. They also are big fans of the marriage.
Edited by Zarius on Sep 1st 2024 at 10:58:48 AM
They could take a leaf out of DC's book. Have MJ fall in with a terrorist and condemn everything Spider-Man stands for, enough that Peter eventually writes her off more or less, and then a little while later Peter discovers he was never into women anyway.
(Bonus points if you can guess what Ship Sinking this is referring to)
The nuclear option I was thinking about was to "remove" her in 616.
Edited by chino514 on Sep 2nd 2024 at 11:09:43 AM
Honestly, if I had to come up with a stupid status quo for Spider-Man, just go with MJ becoming the new Green Goblin, because that is the dumbest thing I can come up with personally.
They already turned Norman into the new MJ.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"![]()
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And besides, Disney would rather avoid having the all-ages, family-friendly mascot character of their IP empire's crown jewel be associated with the usual suspects graduating from making/listening to/watching/parroting idiotic "anti-woke" online "criticism" of their comics into full-on Molotov-chucking terrorism against the company.
Edited by TrashJack on Sep 2nd 2024 at 1:58:08 PM
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryPeter Parker and Wanda Maximoff?
Where do I find this guy? That is interesting.
One Strip! One Strip!

Chasm: Curse of Kaine#1
Aracely does get a mention by Kaine, but things aren't cool between them and it's described that Kaine pushed her away
Ben doesn't do anything too henious, but he does demand money from the people he saves.
Edited by Zarius on Aug 28th 2024 at 4:27:47 AM