The Heart Commandos

**Volumes** | 37 (currently)

**The Heart Commandos** is a 2021 fancomic series written and illustrated by Italian artist John Di Micco, who goes by his username, Collaterale1. The series is heavily inspired by PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi in terms of crossover aspects and original characters, though this one goes even further by including more obscure stuff no one ever heard of, as well as recent ones that came out of 2010s and 2020s. The story centers around the apply named group led by Talia from LoliRock, Melony and Tari from SMG4, Tecna from Winx Club, Confiance and Pulcinella from Totò Sapore and Loona from Helluva Boss, as they go on multiple adventures, rescuing and protecting ancient artifacts, uncover mysteries and stop crime from villains.

## Plot

The series takes place in Middle of Nowhere, a fictional town located in Texas, United States, and was the main setting of Cartoon Network's Courage the Corwardly Dog, as well as John Di Micco's earlier work, 2011's The John Show. Although the events of the latter did happen in this series, the creator declares it as its own universe seperate from his earlier work. In the former, it is known for weird happenings that surrounds the town, especially the Bagge family, the most constant victim of it.

The story itself starts with our protagonist, Talia, a humanoid alien originated from the planet Ephedia and a former member of the popular idol group, LoliRock. She is now attending the Texas University, where she meets fellow students. The first was Melony, a sleepy, melon-inspired girl with a terrifying Fierce Deity form, the second was Tari, who is Melony's close friend and cyborg girl with a tragic past, the third is Tecna, a humanoid fairy from the Zenith realm and previous member of the Winx Club, now a teacher at the university, and the fourth is Confiance, the only daughter of a popular French chef. Two other people that joined the group after its founding were Pulcinella, Confiance's friend and former theatre actor (who becomes their official mascot), and Loona, a hellhound former receptionist at I.M.P. Season 2 introduces Rebecca, a short cyberpunk girl who was once a member of Ebenezer De Rosa's Agents of the Rose. She fights using both a combination of weapon arsenal and a pair of red and blue colored cyberarms. She permanently joins the group following the end of the season.

* NESTS of America Arc
* Ebenezer De Rosa Arc
* Sheridan Arc

After her first encounter and fight with Magma Dragoon, Talia sparks an idea and forms a group of adventurers called The Heart Commandos. Using their knowledge, teamwork and superabilities, The Heart Commandos dedicate their lives on fighting crime, saving people they love and combat Ruina's forces to stop her plans, all while dealing with serious topics on either themselves or other people around Nowhere.

NESTS of America, the US division of the defuct original NESTS, wants to strike fear around the town by sending agents created by their leader, Ruina Impulsum (one of these is her daughter, Sula), to either eliminate the group or steal an artifact for her mysterious project. Some other evil forces also want to fear the town for various motives and reasons, like D-L-T and Lord Pelko.

With the destruction of NESTS of America one year later, the girls attends the second year of the University, meeting with new friends, teachers, and of course, new obstacles to face with.

The Arc follows the mysterious past surrounding a man named Ebenezer De Rosa and his goal of finding the most perfect artifact to enhance his already terrifying-strength and become a god. The girls not only must stop him, but also uncover his crimes he committed prior to the start of the series, all while dealing with his agents that wanted to protect his privacy and plans. With Tecna temporarily leaving the group, the girls have to find a replacement while she was gone, and while they have her pixie Digit on their side, it wasn't the same.....until they find one after they saw how strong she is.

On the outside of Nowhere meanwhile, Sula went on a long journey of self-discovery alongside Red after her mother's death and find her true porpouse in life as she matures.

The final Arc of the Neo NESTS Saga. In this arc, Dr. James Sheridan, feeling that his work has reached a dead end, quit NESTS of China for good and decided to move in Nowhere and found SHER Corp., with the sole intent of finding the whereabouts of "M" after NESTS of America interrupted the search abrutply. He is then joined in by N. Trophy, a mysterious time-obssessed scientist who knows where she currently is.

After they both found "M", Dr. Sheridan wastes no time in kidnapping Tari and use her virtual traveling ability to advance his technology even further and upgrade "M" into her strongest form, but instead, he kidnapped Talia. Due to his mistake, he at first thinks on killing the leader of the Heart Commandos by implanting a virus he was working on, but then decided to robotizice her into a killing machine after dusting off one of Eggman's old roboticizers.

With Talia gone missing, the rest of the group (now rejoined with Tecna) have desperately tried to search her anywhere around Nowhere, but clues and pieces on were Sheridan is do come together later on. While Tari temporarily becomes the leader, Cosmo, who is John's adopted daughter and the last Seedrian alive, joined in as a temporarily replacement as she is starting to develop new powers around this time. In order to return Talia to her normal state, Tari needed the help of 7 people who are deeply connected with flora and concetrate together to create a power previously used by both Hedgehogs during their final battle against the Metarex.
## Issues

The comic has a manga-style design with 3 issues (or episodes as there called here) per volume. Currently, there are 30 volumes produced monthly. Three special volumes were also produced in tandem with the main ones.

### Main Series

* NESTS of America Arc
* Ebenezer De Rosa Arc
* Sheridan Arc

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## Trivia

* The earliest origin of The Heart Commandos can be traced back to early-to-mid 2013, and it was originally meant to feature a different cast that was set to appear in a scrapped The John Show episode. The only remnant of its original concept was Pulcinella, who was already established in "Race with the Green Biker Dude" before. While a number of members remain the same, the cast were:
	+ Doug from the apply-named Nickelodeon and Disney show.
	+ Homer Simpson
	+ Ricardo from Adventure Time
	+ The Tyrogue boss from Pokebob1's Stupid Pokémons, who already appeared in "Race with the Green Biker Dude" alongide his lackies.
	+ Slenderman
	+ and Princess Peach, who was meant to be the leader, and she is ironically, the only female member of the group.