Heart of the City by Steenz for February 19, 2017

I think Dean versed the winter wonderland just fine.

I guess Dean is the only one with imagination.

She can’t keep him down for long. In a moment, he’ll be fighting his way across Hoth to alert the rebel base.

Has Dean been reading the current storyline in “Breaking Cat News”?

Then get a narrative that doesn’t suck, loser.

Sometimes I feel like Dean is the real main character of this strip in the later elementary school years (about 2011-18, at least) before they got aged up into middle school. You get to see Dean’s POV, and we’re supposed to sympathize with him a lot of the times like here. He gets nearly all of the emotional moments, but Heart pretty much remains a comedic/plot device at all times. This strip is a good example. I mean look at it. Dean’s doing most of the talking, and Heart’s pretty much just there to bring him down. This wasn’t always the case during these years. The math camp arc in July 2017 definitely put Heart front and center, but then think about the other arcs that happened this year. Most of them were focused on Dean. Let’s see, we have Dean pretending to be a vampire, Dean pretending to be Heart so she can go to a party (yet we see things from his POV), Dean pretending to be Spider-Man, Dean getting into a fight, Dean making up a Star Wars story. And what’s Heart got? She’s got the math camp arc, the robot dance musical arc with Dean, the Rogue One dream arc, and some smaller arcs like her little outing with Mrs. Angelini and her incident with old jellybeans. You see how Dean is the focus of most of these longer arcs? It just feels like a lot of times in these later years, Heart’s more there for jokes and Dean’s the one that actually gets interesting things happening to him