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Heart of the City is a comic strip that has been running in newspapers since 1998. Created by Mark Tatulli, it focuses on Heart Lamarr, a high energy elementary schoolgirl in Philadelphia; her proudly geeky best friend Dean, and her frequently overwhelmed single mother.The comic, complete with archives since 1999, can be found at GoComics. (Beware of blocker-bypassing popups.)In strips beginning with the run date of April 27, 2020, Tatulli passed Heart of the City to cartoonist Christina "Steenz" Stewart, resulting in a very noticeable change in visual style. |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: One arc had Dean becoming a popular jerk; another had him becoming "mature." In both cases, he nearly lost Heart's friendship. |
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Give Geeks a Chance |
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Give Geeks a Chance: Heart may complain about Dean's nerdy interests, but as the examples from "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome above shows, she wouldn't want him any other way. |
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Comic-Book Time |
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Comic-Book Time: The characters don't age, but the pop-culture references remain current. |
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The Ghost |
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The Ghost: Dean's father was this until he finally appeared in 2020. |
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Aborted Arc |
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Aborted Arc: Several story arcs often end suddenly with no actual conclusion. |
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Disappeared Dad |
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Disappeared Dad: Heart's father left right after she was born to pursue a career in acting. A storyline in November 1999 revolved around this. Heart's dad finally appeared in a December 2020 storyline, under the new artist Steenz. |
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Bland-Name Product |
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Bland-Name Product: Heart is often seen playing with Karlie and Ben dolls. |
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Traumatic Haircut |
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Traumatic Haircut: In one installment, the "Ben" doll character is a hairdresser wrecking his clients' hair in a fantasy sequence. Then Heart's mother tells her that she won't replace her dolls as it's not her fault Heart cut their hair off. Heart blames it on Ben. |
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Black and Nerdy |
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Black and Nerdy: Charlotte. |
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Epunymous Title |
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Epunymous Title: A girl named Heart who lives in The City. |
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Dead TV Remote Gag |
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Dead TV Remote Gag: At least it landed on something she wanted to watch. |
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Early-Installment Weirdness |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: In a 1999 sequence, Dean is absolutely shocked to learn that Heart didn't like The Phantom Menace, and then tries to argue why it's good. While this lines up with fan opinion at the time, it reads oddly in retrospect, since Dean has spent the 00's complaining about the prequel movies note And about Han not shooting first. Did we mention that he hates the idea of Han not shooting first? as much as any other disappointed Star Wars fanboy since then. |
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Little Miss Snarker |
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Little Miss Snarker: Heart. |
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Time Skip |
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Time Skip: In September 2019, Heart, Dean and Kat started junior high. |
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Fairy Godmother |
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Fairy Godmother: One series of strips revolves around Heart being helped by her "fairy bird-mother" to attend a Jonas Brothers concert. |
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Continuity Nod |
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Continuity Nod: When Heart finally reunites with her father after Steenz took over the strip, Heart brought up her attempt to meet him in New York during a story arc drawn during Mark Tatulli's tenure. |
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The Un-Smile |
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The Unsmile: Heart's "innocent smile". |
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Halfway Plot Switch |
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Halfway Plot Switch: Subverted for the most part: While the longer arcs do tend to drift a little, they almost always come back around by the end. A straight example: A 2006 story arc that starts here begins with Dean creating his own Star Wars movie, then eventually changes to Heart dreaming she has to go to summer school. |
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It's All About Me |
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It's All About Me: Heart. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: To Salad Fingers, of all things. Multiple times during Mark Tatulli's run, it would be mentioned that Heart enjoys watching SpongeBob SquarePants. Though it's not namedropped, this strip is about Dean getting clobbered in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. When Charlotte is writing a list on how to start grilling food and is told the family uses charcoal and not propane, she writes on the list "NO Propane (or its accessories)". |
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Mad at a Dream |
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Mad at a Dream: |
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Fell Asleep Standing Up |
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Fell Asleep Standing Up: Dean does this at the bus stop in this September strip after staying up all night before the first day of school. He is also implied to be doing this along with sleeping with his eyes open in this May strip as his method of coping with the last month of school. |
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Animesque |
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Animesque: Steenz has added more anime style elements in the way eyes and facial expressions are depicted. |
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All Just a Dream |
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All Just a Dream: Several arcs end this way. For instance, the arc where Heart travels to the world of Dr. Seuss is naturally a dream. |
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Adaptational Self-Defense |
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Adaptational Self-Defense: Played with. Dean, a devout Star Wars fan, is obsessed with making "Han shot first" canon again. So much that he causes George Lucas to have a nervous breakdown in a dream sequence. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: Dean would like to remind you that Han shot first. |
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Sleeps with Both Eyes Open |
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He is also implied to be doing this along with sleeping with his eyes open in this May strip as his method of coping with the last month of school. |
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