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An award-winning [[Newspaper Comic|newspaper comic strip]], and later [[Comic Book
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]].
The strip is notable for how Cho freely mixes visual styles in the strip, drawing the majority of the cast like [[Pogo (
Though it started its life on the comics page, after four years, Cho pulled it from newspapers claiming to be tired of dealing with newspaper censors. Most of the censorship concerned the large amounts of [[Looney Tunes]]-esque violence, as well as Brandy and Jen, who were drawn in a style notably sexier than just about anything else on the comics page (with tons of [[Male Gaze]] to boot) and who were written as clearly aware of their sexuality in ways few other newspaper comics character have been. Another constant concern was Dean who, well, acted realistically lecherous and not just "newspaper comic" lecherous, if that makes any sense. Truthfully, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015095718/http://www.libertymeadows.com/uncengal/index.htm censored strips] aren't that bad... they just toe the PG-13 line in ways newspaper editors were not comfortable with. Let's just say they didn't have these problems with ''[[The Born Loser]]''.
After leaving the syndicated, Cho self-published the comic book until issue #27, with [[Image Comics]] taking over printing and distribution. The comic book went on a hiatus in early 2004 after issue #36 until June 2006 when issue #37 came out, the last issue published so far. Cho has said that he hopes to start the book up again soon.
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The strip began as "University-Squared" in ''The Diamondback'' newspaper at Cho's alma mater, the University of Maryland. It was essentially a beta version for Liberty Meadows, and featuring Brandy, Dean, Leslie, Ralph and others (and Frank was an anthropomorphic duck).
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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
* [[Classically-Trained Extra]]: Al holds a PhD, but still just tends the tavern
* [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting]]: Brandy is very clearly based on Lynda Carter of ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'' fame. In the same vein, her father John Carter was originally supposed to be a dead ringer for [[Superman]], which can be seen in a panel from {{spoiler|Brandy's wedding}} that must be gold to all Superman/Wonder Woman shippers (he eventually ends up looking an awful lot like [[Tom Selleck]]).
** Brandy's resemblance to Wonder Woman is parodied in the strip itself several times. One instance is when Liberty Meadows {{spoiler|catches on fire}} and the cartoonist fantasizes about Brandy saving the day by turning into Wonder Woman (this is scrapped when he decides it's too ludicrous). Another time is at the comic convention, when geeky fanboys continue to insist that Brandy is Lynda Carter and ask how many times she spun around to turn into Wonder Woman. When she finally convinces them that she is ''not'' Carter, they immediately start insisting that she is the actress who played [[Xena]].
* [[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
* [[
▲* [[Rule of Cool|Everything's Better With Dinosaurs Fighting Giant Monkeys]]
* [[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) [
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Brandy and Jen.
** [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]], in Brandy's case. She's certainly bright enough to understand why males react so enthusiastically to her; however, she's idealistic and professional enough to not intentionally flaunt it (unlike Jen). Indeed, one of the classic gags is Jen asking for Brandy's opinion on an outfit, being told it's trashy or too revealing, and then liking the outfit even more because of the disapproval.
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* [[No Animals Were Harmed]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Averted. Al the Bartender refuses to serve Jenna Bush.
* [[Relax-O-Vision]]: the "graphic and nonpolitical correct" panels have been replaced by a picture of a bunny, who says, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20101206080940/http://www.libertymeadows.com/uncengal/pages/238.htm Gosh, I'm so cute and nonthreatening.]"
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Brandy's ex-fiance, Roger.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Brandy.
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** Characters in Liberty Meadows would occasionally be seen reading [[Actor Allusion|University Squared]]
* [[Slow-Loading Internet Image]]
* [[Take That]]: Many a [[Newspaper Comic]] such as ''[[
** Which lead to some of the [[Executive Meddling|censoring]], such as one making fun of ''[[BC
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]
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