VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by MATTEO LOLLI
Cover by SALVADOR ESPIN
No matter how powerful you are, how heroic you are, or how beloved you are, you still have to pay taxes. And when the IRS comes knocking on the door to Avengers Tower, it causes all sorts of problems. Luckily, the Avengers can avoid the problematic filing of their real names by helping the IRS collect back taxes on a few deadbeats. Unfortunately,
those deadbeats include Bullseye, Man-Bull, the Absorbing Man, Whirlwind, and a certain highly-successful web-
designer named Oog---and these guys DON'T want to pay! Action! Adventure! Taxes?
Date Available: 01/21/2009
BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS
A new year, a new president takes office, and what better time to read a comic with a very odd array of Avengers (Spiderman? Wolverine?) knee-deep in everyone’s favorite necessary “evil”: Taxes. Yes, taxes…The IRS comes visiting, and they need their money, one way or another. It’s a civic duty, and some haven’t been keeping up with them (oddly, the Hulk has…he must put $0 in the columns, I guess). Yes, taxes are tiresome, they're commonplace, but Paul Tobin, the writer, makes it all fun. It's a breath of fresh air, giving a mundane (but essential) lesson to children about the responsibility of paying the taxman, without ever getting into a deep, political discourse or anger about it. An enjoyable read, quite logical, and highly recommended. It may be the only time that you get to see the Hulk encouraging Bullseye to pay his taxes…and, man, it was so nice seeing the Whirlwind again. I miss that guy.
