The story is that I just got my comp copies of that issue and it's taken
me about half an hour to calm down enough to write this response...and
the first three tries at it were too profanity-ridden to post.

I did not write that dialogue.  I repeat...I DID NOT WRITE THAT DIALOGUE.
Those are not, and never were, my words.  Gabriel was not, and never was,
the Goblin (I mean, how freakin' *obvious* would that have been?)
I always intended Father Jennifer to be the Goblin.  My scripting
simply read, "Go in peace, my son.  We were fortunate to escape
the deluge," etc."  The clumsily tossed in line of dialogue Peter
Bailey quotes was not mine.  It makes no sense.  Why in God's name
would Gabe shlep the thing to Father Jennifer and leave it with her?
That comes out of absolutely nowhere...whereas the notion of Father
Jennifer being the Goblin (right down to her having bruises after the
fight with Spider-Man) was carefully set up.  

I thought it was bad when they unilaterally rewrote a page from my last
issue of X-FACTOR where Rahne Sinclair--who's been having the hots for
Alex and unsure why--walks past a street where male dogs start howling
and she realizes she's in heat.  But this is worse.  This is infuriating.

I am so glad I resigned off the series when Joey left.  Issue #44, which
I wrote to finish off the storyline (so as not to gyp the fans) was the
single issue in which scripting was turned in that was edited by someone
other than Joey Cavalieri.  And look what happens.

I don't give a damn what that misbegotten word balloon says.  Gabe brought
no trunk, and Father Jennifer was the Goblin.  Period.  If anyone argues
otherwise, then that means they're accepting the word of a latecoming
pencil pusher over the word of the person who created every damned character
in that book.