Lobo: Death and Taxes #4

The concluding chapter of this four-part 1997 DC miniseries arrives with a cover by Paolo Parente that says it all: a snarling, bound Lobo is dangled by the ankle like a caught fish, his red eyes blazing with fury while a smug suit-wearing figure hoists him overhead, scattered cash and a small masked character littering the ground below. It's a wonderfully absurd image that captures the series' sharp mix of ultraviolence and dark comedy perfectly. Writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, with interior art by Alex Horley, bring "Part Four: Tax Death of the Universe" home in a miniseries that gleefully mashes up the Main Man with the most dreaded forces in the universe — death and the IRS.