So Marvel canceled Domino after 10 issues, then, as Marvel usually does, immediately released this five-issue mini-series. I guess they left an entire month between the two, which is more restraint than I'd normally give them credit for.
Something Celestial-related falls from the sky and everybody wants it. Domino's group gets hired by the Black Widow, Silver Fox, and Atlas Bear (the young Wakandan woman who told them Longshot was going to destroy the world) independently to find it. Domino isn't sure she can trust any of them, or count on any of them to follow her orders, regardless what they say.
There's a lot of running around, back-and-forth, attempted double-crosses. Tony Stark gets involved as a competing interest, even sends Deadpool after them. Deadpool then teams up with them, and Stark later decides to help them as well. It all turns into one of those "resist the godlike power" trials. It feels like Domino has to go through a crisis of confidence at least twice, maybe three times. Thinking about it, what I can figure for Simone's less confident version of Domino is that she trusts her power to protect her, so she's comfortable winging it solo. But she can't be certain that protection will extend to her friends and allies, which means she can't just wing it. She has to work against her natural impulses, and that's makes her uncertain. Best theory I've got.
Baldeon's artwork continues to be enjoyable. Not as many people looking psychotic as in the ongoing, but in the circumstances, characters are more likely to be desperate or confused that crazy. Charalampidis' coloring is bright without being overdone during the daylight scenes, and keeps the nighttime scenes from being murky or hard to follow.
All that said, the most enjoyment I got out of the series was theorizing everybody is fighting over essentially Celestial poop.
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