A superhero novel by Tony Frazier serialized on the web at herogohome.com. Digger is a retired superhero recruited to Phoenix Phront, a new Super Team in Phoenix, Arizona. This Dream Team is supposed to short-circuit the Vicious Cycle of Escalating Threats of the Supervillains looking for an easy target and the Superheroes that sometimes knock down buildings trying to stop them. Unfortunately things don't go as planned, when a mysterious stranger shows up to confront Digger about someone from his past.
Characters include:
- Digger: a Knight in Sour Armor who has been To Hell and Back, who uses his Driller Beam Generators that create focused explosions, essentially a Megaton Punch, to tunnel underground
- Valkyrie Princess - Lady of War
- Doctor Jolt - Gadgeteer Genius who powers his own devices
- Rev - Unskilled but Strong rookie and local hero who Does Not Know His Own Strength
- Whiz: Speedster from Chicago
- Angar: a Dwarf straight out of Norse Mythology
- X-Tron 12
- Curtis B. Rusk
- Marissa Fleming
- Peeping Tom/ Couch Potato/ Talent Scout/ Innocent Bystander - a Mysterious Watcher
- David Lopez
- Psicho: a Nightmare Fetishist with Psychic Powers
- Dominatrix
- Deathdealer
- Flexo Thompson the Rubber Man
Tropes used in Hero Go Home include:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Phoenix Phront
- Fight Magnet
- Local Hangout: Digger's favorite bar, the Traveler's Tavern
- Punch Clock Hero: Phoenix Phront