MC2 A Day

 All we have ever learned from Freebooter's background is that he is named Brandon Cross and was a protégé of Hawkeye before American Dream. All we have is his name "Cross" to try and figure out who his parents are. I have confined myself to suspects that were around in 1998 when Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz created Freebooter.  Let's round up the usual suspects:    Darren Cross : Darren Cross was the head of Cross Technologies whose clashed with and supposedly died on Scott Lang's first Ant-Man outing in Marvel Premiere #47-48. If Darren is Freebooter's father, this would give him a history with Ant-Man as well as Hawkeye.  Augustine Cross : Darren's son. He took over Cross Technologies after Darren supposedly died. He appeared in Iron Man #145 and was suspected for sending the Raiders sent against Iron Man, but was actually innocent.  William Cross aka Crossfire : Darren's cousin. This is who I consider to be the most likely candidate to be Freebooter...

Another dangler we got is that after seeing J2 pine over Talia Zamora and Stinger and being oblivious to Bluestreak's crush on him, he finally seemed to his affections requited.                                                         Thena, the daughter of Thor, came to Earth on a mission to find Kevin Masterson, although she was not forthcoming about her mission that led her into conflict with the Avengers. She got off to a bad start with J2 when she destroyed her hammer, a gift from her father, while striking J2 with it.  Although Katie Power was able to chasten Thena with her words and power, it only worked briefly before she was back to striking J2 with impatience and frustrated over how invulnerable he was. J2, for his part, seemed to take a fancy to Thena right away.  Thena's attitude...

 Since May is around 15/16 in the Spider-Girl continuity that she's featured in, it would make sense for someone her age to get a part time job. Lucky for her, a job feel into her lap and then disappeared... In Spider-Girl #4, a shadowy figure is shown to be the "chief", assuming the publisher or main editor of The Daily Bugle .  It's revealed in Spider-Girl #12 that the publisher of The Daily Bugle is still J. Jonah Jameson, who usually seems to be wearing a tracksuit unless some other occasion calls for more formal attire.  In Spider-Girl #22, when Jameson attends a dedication of a gym in his name at the high school dance that his grandson Jack and Jack's date, May Parker, are attending, a fight between Funny Face and Darkdevil spills over into the gym where dance is being held. Jameson's first thought is that a photographer should be getting pictures and thinks that Peter's daughter might be interested and initially broaches the topic with her. In t...