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{{quote|''"Where am I from? All over, really. No place exciting."''|Megan McKeenan, "The Last Lonely Days at the Oxford Theatre"}}
|Megan McKeenan, "The Last Lonely Days at the Oxford Theatre"}}
 
A 12-part comic series published by Oni starting in 2005 and ending in 2008, '''''Local''''' covered twelve years in the life of Megan McKeenan. Each issue was a stand-alone [[Slice of Life]] story, sometimes with Megan as the main character, sometimes with her only in the background. Written by Brian Wood (''[[DMZ]]'', ''[[Northlanders]]'') and beautifully drawn by Ryan Kelly (''Giant Robot Warriors''), each issue took place in a different city in North America and featured Megan at a different place in her life.
 
The twelve parts were:
*# "Ten Thousand Thoughts Per Second" (Portland, Oregon)
*# "Polaroid Boyfriend" (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
*# "Theories and Defenses" (Richmond, Virginia)
*# "Two Brothers" (Missoula, Montana)
*# "The Last Lonely Days at the Oxford Theatre" ([[Canada, Eh?|Halifax, Nova Scotia]])
*# "Megan and Gloria, Apartment 5A" ([[Big Applesauce|Brooklyn, New York]])
*# "Hazardous Youth" (Tempe, Arizona)
*# "Food as Substitute" ([[The Windy City|Wicker Park, Chicago]])
*# "Wish You Were Here" (Norman, Oklahoma)
*# "Bar Crawl" ([[Everything Is Big in Texas|Austin, Texas]])
*# "The Younger Generation" ([[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]])
*# "The House That Megan Built" (Vermont)
 
Each issue also has an amount of back matter, notes from both Wood and Kelly, including their own soundtracks to each issue. It is a definite must read.
 
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'''This series contains the following tropes:'''
 
* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Megan's dad}} to an extent.
* [[Allergic to Love]]
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