Best Mini-Series of 2007
Doom DeLuise says: Trials of Shazam!
It may only come out once every few months, but it’s still really pretty awesome, and the art is beyond sweet. I have a lot of complaints about this mini-series, but I had more complaints about every other mini-series, so this is the one I chose as best, sort of as a default. It’s pretty good, but not super great or anything. Everything else is just straight-up worse.
Jim Doom says: Captain America: Fallen Son!
The best way to make a huge even seem insignificant is to let it happen without much fanfare. Captain America getting killed is a huge event, and planning a miniseries around the various stages of grief featuring Captain America’s closest friends and colleagues was a great editorial decision.
The stories weren’t always homeruns, and the series wasn’t without its flaws. I acknowledged at a few points in the series that the framework they’d built for themselves almost required that the series lose momentum. But for the most part, it was very well executed, and most importantly, it treated the death of Captain America as an event that affected the entire Marvel Universe.