Here we are, Part 4 of the big A.I.M. base assault! See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here, if you like!
Domino’s had to put up with a lot of crap over the course of this comic, I think we can all agree on that. Not having her priorities taken seriously by leadership (to the point that she quits the job she only reluctantly took in the first place), having to do most of the emotional labor in her relationship with War Machine, a “best friend” who’s only around on her terms, almost certainly being accused of being a sellout (or worse) off-panel… It’s not been the easiest year for the woman with the good luck powers. So, she gets to unload all that frustration – and a heck of a lot of stun bullets – into Whirlwind!
I tried to live up to the standards I set for these sorts of big, climactic team battles in the movies and TV shows I like, and make sure to give every member of “the team” something significant to do. This is certainly a less ambitious tale than, say, Rogue One, where everybody has to be part of a desperate, carefully-timed operation, but by the end, I think all of our current and former Avengers have been featured in at least one neat panel (and usually more)…