"With such stature comes increased responsibilities": is there only a banal typo?

Solution 1:

While the sentence the journalist wrote would not actually be noticed by most English speakers as incorrect, you're technically right: the way it's written, the plural noun "responsibilities" is the subject of the verb "come", so its subject-verb case agreement fails. Any of these would be correct:

... with such stature come increased responsibilities.

... with such stature comes increased responsibility.

... such stature comes with increased responsibilities.

Note that the third is a semantically different sentence where "stature" is the subject of "come", not "responsibilities".

Solution 2:

What we have here is a clause containing an intransitive verb (come) and a prepositional phrase that has been fronted to give it emphasis. The subject and the verb have been inverted. Such a construction is not uncommon in formal or literary writing. Here are more random samples from Google:

• After the storm come tests of faith
• From the kitchen come trays laden with meat
• Around the corner come two lads on bicycles
• With increased responsibility come greater freedoms
• With increased stature come greater expectations for equality

It is clear from the above examples that the verb is still governed by the subject, even though the subject takes up an uncommon position. On this basis you are probably right in thinking that the journalist has made simple mistake. However, English is full of examples where syntax is overriden by semantic considerations. (A simple example would be: The committee have decided ..).

It could be in this case, therefore, that the writer overrides increased responsibilities as the subject in favour of the phrase with increased stature, using the singular verb form accordingly.