[Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Robot 6 contributors discuss the best in comics from the last seven days — from news and announcements to a great comic that came out to something cool creators or fans have done.]

Note: This post contains spoilers for Avengers #34.

The last couple weeks have been, to put it mildly, kind of crappy. Not just on a macro level -- and there's certainly been enough on the macro level to designate the last two weeks as crappy, as you can see on this handy chart courtesy of the excellent The System webcomic. But also on a personal level. Ferguson. My cat dying. Robin Williams. Ebola. Crap at work. Ugh.

Comics can offer an escape from all that, at least for a little bit, and sometimes they can do more than that. Sometimes, a comic hits at just the right time and says the right thing, and for me this week, that comic was Avengers #34. To set the context, Captain America, thanks to some time-jumping shenanigans, was having a crappy millennia, driven by the fact that his supposed friend and work spouse Tony Stark (along with the rest of the Illuminati) erased his mind. Cap, of course, has old-fashioned values that run counter to blowing up other planets just to save your own, as we learned early in Jonathan Hickman's run on New Avengers. Cap wasn't willing to make the "tough call," so the Illuminati kicked him out of the club and removed any memories he had of them or their plans. That is, until Original Sin kicked off, the Watcher's eye blew up and secrets came pouring out. Including that one. Oops.

That all led to my personal comic moment of the week, as Cap took a stand and let a trio of Kangs know where exactly he stood on, well, everything:





It's a character-defining moment and inspirational speech -- not only in the context of the comic itself, but for anyone who might looking for a pick me up. Because that's what good comics can do -- not just offer an escape from a crappy week, but give you the push to jump right back in.