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An award-winning [[Newspaper Comic|newspaper comic strip]], and later [[Comic Book]], created by [[Frank Cho]]
The strip concerns both the human and animal denizens of Liberty Meadows, an animal sanctuary/rehabilitation clinic. Said denizens include Brandy Carter, a beautiful animal psychiatrist; Frank Mellish, a nerdy veterinarian with a huge crush on Brandy; Al, the often-injured handyman; Julius, the beleaguered owner; Ralph, a mad-scientist/former circus bear; Dean, a lecherous sexist pig (literally, a pig); Leslie, a hypochondriac frog; Truman, a cute and naive duckling; and Oscar, a mischievous dachshund (and one of the few animals not to talk). Other characters include Jen, Brandy's rocket-scientist roommate with a fondness for toying with men; Roger, Brandy's ex-fiance who constantly schemes to win Brandy back in that [[Romantic False Lead]] kind of way; and Frank Cho, the author who [[Author Avatar|appears as a monkey]].
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* [[A Boy and His X|A Duckling And His X]]: Truman and Oscar.▼
* [[The Aesthetics of Technology]]: Leslie activates Ralph's time machine because it looks just like the coffee maker
* [[Author Appeal]]: Though I suppose a predilection for busty, intelligent chicks who look like [[Bettie Page]] has to be a more common thing than most other [[Author Appeal]] examples.
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* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Leslie and Ralph at the hands of the Cow}}, complete with ball gags in a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Pulp Fiction]]. {{spoiler|Evil Brandy also does this, to Brandy and then to Frank.}}
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Dean.
* [[The Catfish]]: Khan.▼
* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]: Dave Colombo, "a huge fan from the Midwest" who pays Monkeyboy Cho a shoebox full of twenties for a 30 second appearance.
* [[Cheek Copy]]: Dean tries this with mixed results
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* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Al the bartender
* [[Crossover]] with [[Player Versus Player]] while many other characters sneak in now and then
▲* [[A Boy and His X|A Duckling And His X]]: Truman and Oscar.
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]
* [[Rule of Cool|
* [[Evil Twin]]: Evil Brandy
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Frank Cho has since spoken of how often his editors wanted to make the strip "[[Lowest Common Denominator|Five-Year-Old Accessible]]" which lead him to switch from syndication to Image Comics. He did however note they made the positive suggestion of turning Leslie into a bullfrog rather than as a living lima bean as he'd originally envisioned.
** Happens in-universe a number of times. Notably, {{spoiler|Evil Brandy's Evil Pikachu monster is conveniently deleted from existence at the urging of his editor.}}
* [[Experienced Protagonist]]: Dr. Frank Melisch may not be good with women, or socializing, but he is a competent veterinarian. A constant running gag is how he's one of the two sanest people on the preserve, reassuring Leslie about hypochondria bouts and tending to Ralph's various wounds. Likewise, Dr. Brandy Carter is so well-versed in a veterinary study that she even has failsafes designed for when Dean the pig falls back to cigarette usage.
* [[Fan Service]]: Brandy and Jen were walking fanservice while wearing ''clothing'', much less the skimpy outfits and underwear Cho sometimes drew them in. Censorship got to most of it, but let's just say that this is Frank Cho's most notable artistic quality to comic fans for a reason.
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]
* [[Funny Animal]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award in the field. Of course, 90% of the time his editors or censors caught the "I tore my sac", "Nice Beaver, Brandy!" or Jen's ridiculously-skimpy bikinis, and made Frank re-do the strips. He pretty much intentionally created things to get rejected.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Invoked. In one comic, Brandy falls out of her own comic strip into [[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]] and lands in a bathtub with Dagwood Bumstead. Franks' author avatar then reconsiders, and redraws the strip so she lands in the bathtub with Blondie.
* [[Homemade Inventions]]: Ralph
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Jen is a rocket scientist
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: At one point, our heroes are trapped and among the foodstuffs they have is [[Soylent Green]].
* [[Jeopardy Thinking Music]]: The Words "Jeopardy Music" literally appear over Leslie's head when Frank tells him "That's not an ''oral'' thermometer."
* [[Male Gaze]]: Remember, This is Frank Cho.
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Jen's (obviously successful) [https://web.archive.org/web/20101125143126/http://libertymeadows.com/uncengal/pages/217.htm tactic] for [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!|persuading Frank to accompany her to Tom's art show]], among other occasions. Notably of the "soft and gentle" variety, as opposed to the "forceful, suffocating" type.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Newspaper Comics]]
▲[[Category:Liberty Meadows]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1990s]]
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