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* Aborted Arc / Left Hanging: Several story arcs often end suddenly with no actual conclusion.
* All Just a Dream: Several arcs end this way.
* Bland-Name Product: Heart is often seen playing with Karlie and Ben dolls.
* The City: Center City Philadelphia, to be exact.
* Comic Book Time: The characters don't age, but the pop-culture references remain current.
* Dead TV Remote Gag: At least it landed on something she wanted to watch.
* Deadpan Snarker: Heart to Dean; Heart's mom to Heart.
* Disappeared Dad: Heart's father left right after she was born to pursue a career in acting.
* Epunymous Title: a girl named Heart who lives in The City.
* 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.
* Fur and Loathing: One of the comic's recurring themes.
* Interestingly, Fur and Loathing pops up in Tatulli's other comic from time to time, albeit very differently.
* Getting Crap Past the Radar: Dean's comment about the less-than-courageous gang he's formed.
* 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.
* 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.
* Little Miss Snarker: Heart.
* Mood Whiplash: The Kristallnacht arc.
* Not a Morning Person: Heart.
* Parental Abandonment: Heart's father is absent from her life, pursuing a career as an actor. This accounts for her showbiz fixation and provides some Tear Jerker moments.
* The Ghost: Dean's father is referred to several times, but is never seen.
* Shout-Out: To Salad Fingers, of all things.
* The Un-Smile: Heart's "innocent smile".
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