Captain America and the Mighty Avengers 8

This!  This, this, this.  As Jonathan Hickman’s specialty is not writing human beings, this Secret Wars tie-in issue, written by Al Ewing, is one of the only comics to make me feel like the world is actually coming to an end.  Grumpy Old Man Rogers brings the Mighty Avengers up to speed about the multiverse collapsing in on itself and how it’s basically too late for anyone to do anything about it.  He sums up Steve Rogers’ perspective on the situation beautifully:

Rogers: “Earth is the collision point — don’t you get it?  Remove an Earth — destroy an Earth — and there is no collision!  God… God!  You could see their minds work!  If I hadn’t been there — in that room — they’d have talked themselves into it inside of five minutes.  Into destroying worlds.”
White Tiger: “To save entire universes–”
Rogers: “There!  Just like that!  Seven billion lives, just like that!  Murdered!  Because you can’t think of a better option!”

Both intense and sympathetic… everything and everyone is telling Captain America there’s no other choice, that it’s their Earth or ours at stake, but he refuses to succumb to the cold logic of it.  But then, once the news starts to spread, then the comic circles around with the common man.  Mighty Avengers volunteer Ruby Neal simply adds the whole “death of the universe” to the list of things of worry about that become “so much less important when your kid’s sick and your car’s in the shop and you can’t make rent.”  As the days count down, White Tiger attempts to reunite with her estranged sister; another Avengers volunteer hesitantly confesses their role becoming increasingly devoted to suicide prevention; a news anchor from a thinly-veiled Fox News declares this alternate Earth on a “literal collision course with our families and freedoms” as a “terrorist planet”; and we even get a panel devoted to a crazy-pants conspiracy theorist with — get this — a “STAMFORD WAS AN INSIDE JOB” poster on his wall.  These details don’t just happen, you guys, and it’s those small yet crucial details that make Al Ewing’s writing stand out from the din.