I fell fast and hard for Local, a graphic novel by Brian Wood with art by Ryan Kelly. From about the fourth page on I would read each panel and sigh dreamily, caressing every page before I turned it over to read the next.

I like to think I would have loved Local the same even if it didn’t have one chapter set in Minneapolis at Oarfolkjokeopus. The world will never know if that is true. I am sure people from Richmond, Portland, Halifax, Chicago, Tempe and Austin probably feel the same way.

Local is a big, beautiful graphic novel an anthology of the twelve comic books that follow Megan McKeenan as she travels throughout the US and Canada. The series started in Portland when Megan is a seventeen-year-old runaway and each chapter finds her in a new place and a year older.

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