Local Heroes

In the alternate UNIONSverse, Mystery-master breaks out the imprisoned Sire.

After Sire and his cohorts are brought to justice, a mysterious explosion occurs in the Alternate UNIONSverse. . . .

As Squire and his fellow heroes leave the evil "UINIONSverse," the alternate Grenadier takes Sire to jail.

Squire, Mystery-man, and the Quantum Mechanic say their goodbyes to the alternate Grenadier and his evil universe.

With a little help from the alternate Grenadier, Quantum Mechanic captures Sire's minions.

Thanks to Grenadier, the Quantum Mechanic regains control of her powerful Quantum Tool Belt.

Prematurely caught up in his "victory," Sire falls victim to a mysterious sleep grenade.

Events turn dire, indeed, as Sire and his villains re-capture Squire and his friends.

While escaping, Squire, Mystery-man, and Quantum Mechanic are ambushed by Sire and his villains.

The Quantum Mechanic leads Mystery-man and Squire to Sire's throne room . . . and an unexpected surprise.

While Squire and the Quantum Mechanic blame themselves for their shared predicament, Mystery-man offers a statement of hope.

The Quantum Mechanic shares an omniverse-shattering secret with Squire and Mystery-man.

Squire remembers seeing the Quantum Mechanic in unusual places.

Free of their jail cell, Squire, Mystery-man, and Quantum Mechanic have renewed hope.

Quantum Mechanic and Squire begin to unravel, fearing they are trapped forever in their prison cell.

Grenadier grumbles all the way back to the prison holding Squire and Mystery-man.

Sire savors the "rewards" one has by being the ruler of an entire world.

The Quantum Mechanic explains to Mystery-man and Squire in detail as to how they are all doomed.

Quantum Mechanic laments the heroes' current predicament while Mystery-man keeps hopeful.

Sire relishes in his complete and total takeover of the evil universe.

One day, Sire saw an opportunity to change his lot in life and took it.

Sire felt he wasn't good enough, powerful enough . . .but he trained for a day when he could take charge.

Sire reflects upon his humble beginnings in a world full of super-villains.

While trying to wrap their heads around their current predicament, Squire and Mystery-man are interrupted by a third person in their jail cell.

An evil version of Grenadier refuses to let Squire and Mystery-man out of their jail cell.

Squire and Mystery-man find themselves captive in a mysterious jail cell.

After an angry confrontation with our heroes, Sire springs a quantum technology trap on Mystery-man and Squire.

In the middle of a super-brawl, Mystery-man accidentally insults the newest villain on the block, the sadistic Sire!

Deep in the heart of the city, a super-legend battles his evil counterpart.

Microbot's scheme to shrink Squire has failed, and his final fate is revealed!

As Microbot gives up on his latest revenge scheme, Plethora prepares to confront him!

After finding his lost shrink ray gun, Microbot returns to the matter at hand—revenge!

Disgusted with his current surroundings, the malevolent Microbot is determined to move past his current problems and exact his revenge!

Microbot has lost is shrink ray, but his troubles appear to have only just begun.

Things go from bad to worse for Microbot when he loses his shrink ray within the UNIONS Hall.

Distracted by his monologue, Microbot realizes Squire has walked past him. Can Microbot catch up to his nemesis before Squire exist the UNIONS Hall?

Microbot plans to use his new shrink ray against Squire.

Before dawn, evil lurks within the UNIONS Hall, headquarters for the Local 37 super-team.

After successfully incarcerating the vampires from Clayton, Silent Knight and Squire watch Rumble Bee as she flies away.

While the vampires of Clayton are incarcerated by Commander Roadhorse and the FREE Association, Rumble Bee praises Squire.

The vampires from Clayton run outside the bloodbank after the UNIONS super-blood . . . and into some new "friends."

Rumble Bee comes up with a questionable plan to thwart the blood-stealing vampires.

Can Squire and Rumble Bee come up with a plan to thwart the vampires from Clayton?

Rumble Bee formally introduces herself to Squire, while simultaneously fighting the vampires.

Rumble Bee leaps with gusto into the fray against the vampires.

Squire's reluctant attempt to save the blood bank from vampires may have just been thwarted by the sudden appearance of a brand new costumed adventurer”Rumble Bee!

The vampires robbing the blood bank are finicky as to where their next meal comes from.

Squire is about to drop off a super-blood delivery to the blood bank, when disaster strikes!

Silent Knight is seemingly off to the market while he probably sends Squire off to the blood bank. (Often, Squire has to make his best guess as to his mute mentor's instructions.)

Squire and Silent Knight take care of some errands downtown, unaware of the dangers that await them just around the corner.

Squire is surprised to stumble into something other than another super-villain takeover of Herobase.

Squire prepares to storm into the next room and confront whoever—or whatever—is hiding inside.

Squire prepares to confront whoever is skulking around Herobase.

Squire races through Herobase looking for allies, but instead seems to stumble upon villains.

Squire enters Herobase and recollects why his grandfather sent him away to train with UNIONS . . . but is he alone in the "empty" headquarters?

Squire reflects on his original training—and repeated kidnappings—while living at Herobase with Heroes Incorporated®

Squire reflects upon the level of safety in his childhood home, Herobase.

Squire returns to home, but no one is there to meet him.

Squire returns to the present just in time to warn Silent Knight and Commander Roadhorse of Timesmith's villainy.

Squire prepares to use the time pool to return to the present.

The young Dr. Tomori begins to wonder if there is a way to send Squire back to the future.

The young Dr. Tomori offers a technical explanation for the disappearance of the duplicate Timesmiths.

Squire and the Silver Age heroes wonder why Timesmith's mysterious duplicates have suddenly disappeared.

The young Dr. Tomori stumbles into Timesmith, knocking him into the time pool.

Teen Spirit takes out her anger on Squire to disastrous effect.

Squire and Teen Spirit argue about the source of their predicament.

Timesmith and his parallel selves begin to overwhelm Squire and the Silver Age heroes.

A mysterious figure watches from a dark corner as Squire and the Silver Age heroes begin battling Timesmith.

The future Dr. Tomori freezes Mystery-man and reveals his new villainous identity.

Squire is confused as the elder Dr. Tomori acknowledges he has traveled back into time to succeed with a mysterious personal agenda.

The time-lost Dr. Tomori seems to have a good reason for not wanting to return to the future with Squire.

The Silver Age heroes break into the abandoned warehouse looking for Dr. Tomori.

Dr. Tomori and his younger self are in an abandoned warehouse and building something mysterious.

Squire attempts to enlist the help of Mystery-man in finding the missing Dr. Tomori.

Squire and the Silver Age heroes make their way to the Mystery-mansion, home to Mystery-man and the rest of the Mystery-family.

The burdens and confusions of time travel begin to stress Squire.

Squire has another revelation—this one about FREE Agent Holiday (who apparently originally appeared in Local Heroes Strip #47!).

Squire has a startling revelation about FREE Agent Coraje.

Squire begins to worry about adversely affecting his future by interacting with the heroes of the past.

American Spirit's mentor is a young Teen Spirit, her mentor is someone Squire's never heard of, and the Groovy Ghost is not actually a ghost—Squire begins to wonder if he has somehow traveled into the past.

Squire comes face-to-face with a very different American Spirit, and her teenage sidekick, Teen Spirit.

Suddenly, Squire finds himself somewhere completely different and falling from a great height!

Commander Roadhorse admits that the disappearance of Dr. Tomori continues to confound him.

Commander Roadhorse of the FREE Association briefs Silent Knight and Squire on the disappearance of Dr. Tomori.

High above the Earth, Eternity Station receives two special visitors.

Plethora was hungry the whole time!

Plethora leaps onto Legion's shipping bag and begins digging.

Squire is afraid to tell Legion about Plethora's mischief throughout the UNIONS Hall.

Legion has returned from his errands.

Plethora runs into the kitchen and gives Squire the slip!

Plethora tries to escape from Squire by running into the kitchen.

Squire is determined to capture the elusive Plethora!

Plethora accidentally knocks over the bookcases in Mystery-man's library.

Plethora accidentally tips over Mystery-man's bookcases.

Plethora the monkey sneaks into Mystery-man's private library.

Mystery-man has learned many mystical abilities over the years.

Plethora leaps away from Squire, escaping once again.

Plethora is underfoot — literally — causing Silent Knight to trips and drop his equipment.

Silent Knight doesn't realize that Plethora is underfoot.

Silent Knight carries a heavy burden.

Plethora runs into Silent Knight while he is working on Nightmare, his mechanical steed.

Plethora ducks into a workroom to escape Squire.

Squire races through the hallways of the UNIONS Hall in pursuit of Plethora.

Squire stumbles into the ground as he fails to catch Plethora.

American Spirit suffers a nasty fall.

American Spirit is on a crash course for Plethora!

Plethora the monkey sneaks into American Spirit's training session.

American Spirit flies through hoops to help with her training.

Squire searches the headquarters for Plethora.

Plethora is missing!

Squire tries to find a toy for Plethora.

Legion rockets off to run important errands.

Plethora somehow seems familiar to Squire.

Legion has a pet spider monkey.

Legion can become five people at once.

Legion can fly and is super-strong.

Legion is the Founder of the UNIONS super-team.

Squire wishes he had super-powers like his teammates.

Squire's mind wanders to his training with Silent Knight.

The Sensational Squire takes a jaunty stroll through Local 37's UNIONS Hall.

Squire is depressed, believing he had only a minimal role in capturing the Groovy Ghost, and Mystery-man sets him straight.

Thanks to the miraculous nature of the rasa artifact, the Groovy Ghost is thwarted and turned over to the FREE Association law enforcement group.

Squire passes the magical rasa statue to Mystery-man, hoping that his mystical know-how can thwart the schemes of the Groovy Ghost.

Squire falls through the museum floor while trying to escape the Groovy Ghost, dropping him into the same room as Mystery-man!

As the Groovy Ghost and his hordes of ferocious exhibits close in, Squire does the only thing he can—fall through the museum floor!

Cornered by the Groovy Ghost and his historic minions, Squire desperately tries to activate the mystical rasa statue.

Mystery-man comes up with a plan while the Groovy Ghost brings historical artifacts and precious works of art to do his bidding.

The mysterious menace of the museum is revealed--The Groovy Ghost!

Squire stands his ground and confronts the mysterious menace of the museum!

While exploring the local museum, Mystery-man instructs Squire on the nature of magic.

Still running from an unknown enemy in the museum, Squire may have found what he has been searching for.

Squire asks Mystery-man if he can fix all the world's problems.

While Squire runs from a mysterious new foe, we flashback to a conversation Squire had with Mystery-man earlier in the day.

Squire is on his own as he searches at breakneck speed through a museum…and away from a mysterious new foe!

A tranquil day at the local museum goes very wrong for Squire and Mystery-man.

His monitor duties responsibilities concluded for the day, an excited Squire leaves the UNIONS hall for some after-hours fun.

After a brief conversation with Min Dae-soo, UNIONS' Chapter Local 37's administrator and support specialist, Squire returns to his important work on monitor duty.

Squire enjoys a cordial conversation with Min Dae-soo, Local 37's administrator and support specialist.

Squire continues to keep busy while spending the day on monitor duty.

Squire chats with Rubberneck as they meander through the UNIONS Hall for Local Chapter 37.

Squire's relaxing monitor duty session is interrupted by the ever-elastic, always sarcastic Rubberneck.

The sensational Squire continues his ultimate acts of derring-do as he thwarts WASP troops and defeats Overkill. Could anything stop our spectacular sidekick?

Bam! Pow! Kick! It's sheer, unadulterated heroism as the sensational Squire takes on Timesmith, soldiers of WASP, and the Silver Skull!

A new storyline begins with a bang as we catch up with Squire...sleeping while on "Monitor Duty"!?

The day is saved! Squire and friends bring the Animal King to justice, his victims to safety, and American Spirit back to normal.

American Spirit remains a rampaging energy beast—can Squire and her friends return her to normal?

With Animal King's transforming device destroyed, all its victims return to normal save one—American Spirit.

American Spirit has been transformed into a rampaging energy beast, threatening the safety of even her closest friends!

After being zapped with the Animal King's transmorphing ray, something horrific has happened to American Spirit!

It's chaos in the cave as the Animal King turns his attention from Squire to American Spirit…and zaps her with his transmorphing ray!

After Squire is transformed turned into a squirrel, American Spirit attacks the Animal King…with her sarcastic wit.

Can American Spirit and Squire evade the nefarious Animal King's transmorphing ray?

The Animal King springs on our heroes, but American Spirit retaliates in her unique fashion.

Hotstreak and Graviteer explain how they came to be transformed into animals and imprisoned by the Animal King.

After escaping from a pack of wild animals, Squire and American Spirit stumble upon the missing members of the Infiniteam.

Squire and American Spirit evade their animal pursuers by hiding in a mysterious cave.

Squire takes an inopportune moment to exposition about American Spirit's friends-in-heroism, the Infiniteam.

While wandering through woodlands, Squire and American Spirit encounter several hostile "natives."

Squire chats with American Spirit on the nature of her mutant abilities as they make their way through woodlands.

Quetzalcoatl and his WASP agents lie in defeat! Squire enthusiastically begins planning a follow-up operation, but why is Silent Knight moodier than normal?

Quetzalcoatl gains the upper hand in his battle against Silent Knight. Will Squire arrive in time to save his mentor?

Silent Knight and Quetzalcoatl fight on the docks! Squire notices something curious while climbing down from his nearby perch!

Silent Knight battles Quetzalcoatl in a confrontation so huge, it's twice the size!

Silent Knight battles his archenemy Quetzalcoatl, agent of WASP, at the scene of a crime on the city docks!

While patrolling the docks, Silent Knight and Squire discover a gang of thugs up to no good.

Squire patrols the docks with Silent Knight when things get a bit uncomfortable.

A new storyline begins for Local Heroes! Guest writer and penciller Gil Dowling shows us what happens when Squire joins Silent Knight for his first neighborhood patrol in a tale called "Anger is as a Stone Cast into a Wasp's Nest."

While Squire and the heroes of UNIONS Local Chapter 37 cheer their victory, the malevolent Microbot watches from a hidden location.

Emerging victorious from their confrontation with Microbot and his minions, the Local 37 team cheers Squire's recovery of the Summit DVD-ROM.

It's the sensational Squire versus the malevelant Microbot in a fantastic final confrontation! Don't miss it, faithful ones!

Face-to-face with his greatest enemy, Squire confronts Microbot with his strongest characteristic: bewildered confusion.

Squire confronts the malevolent Microbot for the first time—with disastrous results!

Squire drops into the secret sanctum of the mischievous Microbot!

Squire is prompted by his mentor, Silent Knight, into venturing alone toward the heart of Microbot's secret inner sanctum!

Squire hesitates when ordered by Silent Knight to venture into the heart of Microbot's secret lair.

Silent Knight leaps into the fray to defend Squire and himself from the onslaught of one of Microbot's gargantuan hench-bots.

Silent Knight and Squire approach the entrance to the mischievous Microbot's inner sanctum, but do they have what it takes to enter?

Silent Knight leads Squire deeper into the Electronics Superstore that the maleficent Microbot has appropriated for his lair of villainy.

American Spirit tackles a macrobot on her own while Squire and Silent Knight head deeper into the electronics-superstore-turned-lair-of-evil.

Separated from Mystery-man, American Spirit and the rest of Local 37 run into more trouble on the trail of the malevolent Microbot.

Mystery-man battles against a marauding macrobot while Squire, American Spirit, and Silent Knight enter Microbot's secret lair!

Crunch! Fwzzzt! Kapow! The miraculous Mystery-man melees with a macrobot minion of Microbot!

In this episode: two times more art, one hundred times more action! Squire and the UNIONS Local 37 team are attacked by one of Microbot's malevolant macrobots!

Mystery-man's plan for sneaking into the mischievous Microbot's secret lair runs into a snag.

The UNIONS Local 37 superteam arrives at Microbot's hideout—an electronics superstore named the Electrical Outlet.

Squire and the rest of the UNIONS Local 37 superteam race to retrieve the Summit DVD-ROM from the mysterious Microbot.

Squire is awed as the UNIONS Local 37 team prepares to pursue the mischievous Microbot.

There's no time to lose! The heroes of UNIONS Local 37 set out to retrieve the missing Summit DVD-ROM.

The villainous Microbot has acquired a top secret DVD-ROM and the Local 37 supergroup begins to formulate a plan to get it back.

American Spirit explains to Local 37 why Microbot possessing the Summit DVD-ROM is dangerous.

Hoffa and American Spirit brief Squire on the importance of the mysterious DVD-ROM.

As Squire contemplates the existence of Microbot, American Spirit discovers that the miniature menace has stolen something important.

The Local 37 superteam enlists the aid of Hoffa, UNIONS' sentient supercomputer personality, to search for the miscreant known as Microbot.

Something terrible has happened and only Hoffa can help UNIONS Local 37.

American Spirit corrects the befuddled Mystery-man regarding Microbot.

Upon being questioned by Squire, Mystery-man has difficulties remembering which heroes are part of UNIONS Local 37.

Squire bares his soul, revealing his concerns to Min Dae-soo, Local 37's designated support staffer.

American Spirit reveals to Squire that his mentor, Silent Knight, is mute.

Mystery-man proudly introduces Squire to his new mentor, the mute Silent Knight.

Squire informs American Spirit and Mystery-man about the details of his special abilities.

Squire reflects upon the abilities of his previous mentor, Grenadier of Heroes Incorporated.

Squire meets Mystery-man and American Spirit, two fellow members of UNIONS Local 37.

Legion officially introduces Squire at a UNIONS press conference.

Meet Squire, Legion, and Min Dae-soo, members of UNIONS Local 37.

The supergroup franchise known as UNIONS is having a press conference in UNIONS Hall 1, their world headquarters.

Squire finishes reflecting upon his past.

In this episode, Squire continues reflecting on his life as a super-adventurer sidekick.

The very first episode of Local Heroes, an online comic strip about the misadventures of the super-powered heroes of UNIONS Local 37!