Secret Invasion #6 is taking home this prize but it was a hard choice to make. Invincible, Captain America, Batman, and Infinite Crisis all featured single issues that were incredible taken apart from their larger story. However, in the end SI #6 featured just one iconic moment that pushed it above the others and was told in such a classy way by Brian Michael Bendis that it pulled ahead of the pack.
Leinil Yu did a tremendous job on the entire mini but on this issue he seemed to truly come alive, possibly even more so than he did in the two issues that preceded it. His handling of the various action sequences was skillfully done and the two page spreads at the end made me forget just what a time waster such a device usually is.
Bendis brilliantly started to pull all his loose threads together here and from a story telling perspective he handles it brilliantly. This is the moment in the story when things start to change from bad to worse to better and the volume is kicked up to eleven particularly in the final pages of the book. Sadly the rest of the series never reached the levels this single issue attained but that doesn't lessen it's impact.
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