Heart of the City by Steenz for May 10, 2020

Let’s see you dress up like Darth Vader next, Dean.

Being a nerd is NEVER a waste of time, Dean.

I mean, it ain’t exactly a chick mangnet, either, but still…

If you’re going to social distance why can’t you look good and nerd out as well.

Thanks Mark!

Open the pod bay door, HAL.

prefer you to do the strip Mark. the girl doesn’t get it.

A good movie, but not realistic. In the real world, HAL would refuse to open the pod bay doors not out of malice, but because you hadn’t installed the latest HAL system update, or because you hadn’t disabled Adblock.

I can’t believe how people have polarized on this strip. Read it, don’t read it. I don’t care.

I think Steenz is capturing Middle School and all the basic characters very well so far. This DOES appear to be two totally different takes on the strip. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I like BOTH drawing styles even though they are very different. For those who really love the Tatulli art style (which is crisp and kind of weird, imaginative storylines) you can always read Lio. He still feels strongly about that character and is continuing to draw that strip. While I love his drawing style, too, Lio is an interesting strip but not to my taste. I loved what he did with Heart for many years but clearly he wanted to move on! I’m glad he placed it in good hands rather than turning it into Lio 2.0, which is the direction it was headed had he just chosen to stick with it. I was not a fan of all the “dream sequences”, stories it turned out Heart herself was writing or reading and events taking place in Heart’s imagination etc. To me that felt like Lio Revisited and not Heart of the City. So going forward we weren’t going to get our beloved strip either way. But for those who miss that artwork style there’s always Lio!

Dean, your mind is going.

(anticipates seeing what might be the final Sunday installment for this “Heart of the City” by whom I had believed to have had been its original creator and what might be its first Sunday installment from whom I had believed to had been the successor of the creator in spite of having had lost interest in seeing installments by whom I had believed to have had been the successor for calendar days other than Sunday; wishes wellness upon whom I had believed to have had been the successor).

I enjoy Marks strips much better. I am probably going to delete it from my favorites when the transition is in complete.

Gawd just look at that background Just look at it It looks like something Dean would create as either CGI or on a computer with characters placed over it.

I mean I understand social distancing but really Dean? Fake backgrounds you drummed up so you and Heart can get together?

Whats next? Computer models? Cute computer models?

BTW did Steenz provide the background?

And I did this as satire nothing more.

Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

I know Steenz is doing her best but one thing that would really help to bridge her artwork to Tatulli’s is to get the hair right. Look at their hair in this cartoon. Both of them have straight hair. Dean’s is messy. Yet Steenz draws them with curly hair. It doesn’t look right.

The look is developing…

This is the ‘Heart’ we know and love, thank you.

I recognize those two.

It really shouldn’t surprise met that Dean built this suit, probably complete with medically filtered oxygen recyclers, and he actually looks good in it. He might be a trendsetter.

If that’s a real respirator, good on Dean. I once had a guy in a robot suit faint on me at a con because of heat exhaustion. A Cyberman if you know DOCTOR WHO.

Ok Listen I’m a fan of both iterations of the strip. For those fans loyal only to Mark’s style Enjoy the strips that are left in peace And stop dogging Christina’s New approach Because chances are none of us couldn’t even come close to creating a comic strip Close to the level of Heart. We are all here to enjoy the comics we love If you choose to leave just go in peace

I must say this finally: unless you have young girls Heart’s age in your house, or they are your granddaughters visiting, you don’t know how they look or how they communicate, becasue I do. One graddaughter just turned nine and the other one is eleven; and Steenz has got that talk, those hand gestures, that wardrobe, etc., down to a T…. Plus our neighbor has three grandsons of similar ages, and they are just like Dean in the same way… So when they all get together they might as well be in this comic strip right now.

I’m glad Steenz is here.

is dean shorter in this strip?

I like it.

Hey, our old Heart is back! Yeah!

Alright, that’s a good costume Dean.