You know what, screw it. In this case, pictures are worth more than a thousand words - triple that and you get close to the gut punch they carry.
In the Comics That Made Us Cry post I cited some of my own examples -- and wow, flist, you stepped up to the plate and cited examples that I either should have thought of or clearly need to read
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I too am hard-pressed to find a better moment than Jenny Sparks going out, although the moment when Anaykah gives Snow baby Jakita, as the Lost City of Opak-Re withdraws from the world is just heartbreaking. She can't leave her people, She loves him, but she's giving him the evidence of her infidelity with Blackstock. He has to forgive her, say goodbye, and accept godfatherhood all in one moment. And he does, because Elijah Snow is just that awesome.
And, I'm not sure I qualify as a Hal-hater, but I can deny your moment. As the man says: ...cops don't like me. So I don't like cops.
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http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ20/DisplayOQ20.html?page=34
Continued on the first line of panels here:
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ20/DisplayOQ20.html?page=35
Then here:
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ20/DisplayOQ20.html?page=37
And finally:
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ20/DisplayOQ20.html?page=39
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ20/DisplayOQ20.html?page=40
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There's a couple of Garth Ennis' War Story issues -- I'm thinking Nightingale and The Ballad of the D-Day Dodgers -- that are pretty damn moving, too.
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