Iron Man #279

Operation: Galactic Storm Part 13 Iron Man and Hawkeye learn of the recent assassination of Ael-Dan and Dar-Benn by Deathbird and the Avengers are to be executed for their fabricated complicity. After another telling disparity in their reactions (Hawkeye claiming the Avengers are above murder; Iron Man preparing to make justice as they go along), the pair split up to tackle their two new objectives: Hawkeye searches for Deathbird to clear the Avengers' names, while Iron Man locates and rescues the Avengers. On his own again, Iron Man's diagnostics remind him he is still not fully recovered from his encounter with Shatterax in the previous issue. Despite his increasingly debilitated state, Iron