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Once parodied by RobertCrumb in "Wichita the Rat Dancer".
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* BrokenBird: ''Literally''. Jo has some personal issues.
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** There is, or supposed to be, an attempt to finish off the series with Worley's husband writing from her notes as of 2012...
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** What's sad is that Omaha is essentially our world, with Furry characters.
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* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: All the characters have totally humanoid feet.
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* CutShort: The series ground to halt after Waller and Worley broke up, and now never will be finished due to Worley's death.
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* DyeOrDie: Omaha dyes her hair blond when she argues with Chuck and leaves Mipple City, only to change it back to red when she reconciles with Chuck and returns.
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* AFriendInNeed: Omaha, frustrated at seeing Chuck doped up in the mental hospital and wonders she is bothering to visit him. At that, Huddle asks her a simple question, "Are you his lover, or are you his ''friend''?" At that, she chooses to go to the hospital as the latter.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's revealed that [[spoiler:both Charles Sr. and Chuck suffer from manic depressive mood swings.]] When Chuck finds out [[spoiler:what Bonner did to his mother, he snaps and begins acting as manic as his father. When we see Chuck again, he's on a mental institution and is SO stuffed of drugs that he doesn't even knows what is going on anymore. Fortunately, he gets better.]]
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's revealed that [[spoiler:both Charles Sr. and Chuck suffer from manic depressive mood swings.]] When Chuck finds out [[spoiler:what Bonner did to his mother, he snaps and begins acting as manic as his father.father until he had to be forcibly sedated when they find him raving in his father's home. When we see Chuck again, he's on a mental institution and is SO stuffed of drugs that he doesn't even knows what is going on anymore. Fortunately, he gets better.]]
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* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: [[spoiler:This trope is the blackmail Bonner tries to hold on Omaha. She tries to thwart it by confessing to Chuck herself, but he freaks out at this. Eventually, Omaha's husband contacts her and they arrange an amicable divorce.]]
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The titular character is a CatFolk girl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the wealthies and most powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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The titular character is a CatFolk girl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the wealthies wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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The titular character is a CatFolk girl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the wealthies and most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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A PettingZooPeople sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view. The series started in 1978. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
The titular character is a CatGirl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
The titular character is a CatGirl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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A PettingZooPeople sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' feminist point of view. The series started in 1978. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
The titular character is aCatGirl CatFolk girl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Other than Jo and Rob, who the readers know were in another room, [[spoiler:who shot Bonner?]]
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A FunnyAnimal sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view. The series started in 1978. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
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A FunnyAnimal PettingZooPeople sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view. The series started in 1978. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
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* FunnyAnimal: Not really. There's very little funny about the comic.
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** "Everybody was busy that week... [[GamitPileUp mostly plotting]]. None of us knew that something was about to happen that would make all plans pointless... Well, maybe one of us knew..."
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** "Everybody was busy that week... [[GamitPileUp [[GambitPileUp mostly plotting]]. None of us knew that something was about to happen that would make all plans pointless... Well, maybe one of us knew..."
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everyone plottingn is this trope. that pothole encouraged misuse.
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** "Everybody was busy that week... [[XanatosGambit [[GamitPileUp mostly plotting]]. None of us knew that something was about to happen that would make all plans pointless... Well, maybe one of us knew..."
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* DyeOrDie: Omaha dyes her hair blond at one point.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kisses Omaha hinting that Jo's plot [[spoiler: to trap Bonner on camera committing his sex crimes]] is more for Omaha's sake than for Chuck.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kisses Omaha hinting that Jo's plot [[spoiler: to trap Bonner on camera committing his sex crimes]] is more for Omaha's sake than for Chuck.
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* DyeOrDie: Omaha dyes her hair blond at one point.
when she argues with Chuck and leaves Mipple City, only to change it back to red when she reconciles with Chuck and returns.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kissesOmaha Omaha, hinting that Jo's plot [[spoiler: to trap Bonner on camera committing his sex crimes]] is more for Omaha's sake than for Chuck.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kisses
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* DyeOrDie: Omaha dyes her hair blond at one point.
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* BarefootFunnyAnimals: The entire cast, most of the time. Interestingly, the characters' feet have an atypically human appearance for this trope.
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* BarefootFunnyAnimals: BarefootCartoonAnimals: The entire cast, most of the time. Interestingly, the characters' feet have an atypically human appearance for this trope.
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* CrossOver: The short-lived "Images of Omaha" featured pin-ups and artwork pairing Omaha with P'Gell from WillEisner's TheSpirit, BobBurden's FlamingCarrot, DaveSim's {{Cerebus}}, and the inhabitants of LarryMarder's {{Beanworld}}.
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* CrossOver: The short-lived "Images of Omaha" benefit series to pay for Reed Waller's medical bills featured pin-ups and artwork pairing Omaha with P'Gell from WillEisner's TheSpirit, BobBurden's FlamingCarrot, DaveSim's {{Cerebus}}, and the inhabitants of LarryMarder's {{Beanworld}}.
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A FunnyAnimal sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
The titular character is a CatGirl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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!!''OmahaTheCatDancer'' provides examples of:
* AuthorExistenceFailure: The series stopped production at various points due to a car accident (Worley), colon cancer (Waller), and lung cancer (Worley) that claimed the writer in 2004. Worley's husband James Vance worked with her notes to write out the final chapters beginning in 2006.
* BarefootFunnyAnimals: The entire cast, most of the time. Interestingly, the characters' feet have an atypically human appearance for this trope.
* BigBad: Originally was media magnate Andre [=DeRoc=]. Later it was Senator Bonner.
* BiTheWay: Some of the supporting cast, especially Omaha's best friend Shelley and Chuck's ex-girlfriend Jo, are bisexual.
** Omaha herself can be Bi-Curious from time on time.
* {{Blackmail}}: Senator Bonner threatens Omaha by mentioning [[OopsIForgotIWasMarried "David"]].
* CatGirl: also Dog Girl, Rabbit Girl, Bird Girl, Fox Girl...
* {{Chessmaster}}: Charles Sr. is seen in the beginning [[LampshadeHanging playing with a chess board]]. He basically manipulates a lot of other characters - including his own son - like chess pieces.
* CrossOver: The short-lived "Images of Omaha" featured pin-ups and artwork pairing Omaha with P'Gell from WillEisner's TheSpirit, BobBurden's FlamingCarrot, DaveSim's {{Cerebus}}, and the inhabitants of LarryMarder's {{Beanworld}}.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Multiple times.
** [[spoiler:Didn't expect Charles Sr. at the peak of his plans to commit suicide.]]
** Bonner, thinking he had just secured a humiliating victory over his enemy Chuck, [[spoiler:Didn't expect his hired "whore" Jo pull out a gun and ''humiliate him'' with her own plan to protect Chuck and Omaha.]]
*** [[spoiler:Which is topped by ''another'' unexpected surprise when someone shoots Bonner from outside the hotel room, catching Jo and Rob off-guard with a dead body and the police en route.]]
* DisneyDeath
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Charles Sr.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kisses Omaha hinting that Jo's plot [[spoiler: to trap Bonner on camera committing his sex crimes]] is more for Omaha's sake than for Chuck.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Yes AND No. One issue would be couples hooking up, the next issue would focus on moving the plot forward with almost no sex at all.
** Most of the major protagonists have had sex with one another at some point (except for the hetero guys, and with Rob who's gay). [[spoiler:Jerry had sex with Omaha during the early storyline, although they remain friends and Jerry is fully loyal to Chuck.]]
* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: She's ''the main character''. Duh.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Shelley gets shot in the first issue, but by issue 3 it's revealed she barely survived. Most of her storyline involves her - a dancer - coping with being wheelchair-bound for possibly the rest of her life.]]
** [[spoiler:Chuck's mom Maria. She was forced by Bonner to abandon Charles Sr. and baby Chuck when he threatened to expose her brother as gay. Chuck was told that she had died.]]
* FootFocus: For some reason, everyone walks barefoot.
* FourFingeredHands: The entire cast has them.
* FunnyAnimal: Not really. There's very little funny about the comic.
* FurryComic
* FurryFandom: Debuted in a FunnyAnimal Fanzine in the 1970s.
* GambitPileup: During the week that [[spoiler:Bonner gets killed and Chuck and Omaha break up.]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Omaha and Jo, early on.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Mostly. Good people ''at least try'' to have good sex, but the emotional consequences flare up in some unexpected ways. Played straight with the villains, especially Bonner, who prefer using sex simply to achieve their personal ambitions.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's revealed that [[spoiler:both Charles Sr. and Chuck suffer from manic depressive mood swings.]] When Chuck finds out [[spoiler:what Bonner did to his mother, he snaps and begins acting as manic as his father. When we see Chuck again, he's on a mental institution and is SO stuffed of drugs that he doesn't even knows what is going on anymore. Fortunately, he gets better.]]
* HideYourGays: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Rob, the major gay character, gets his fair share of sex just like the heteros. The main characters have friendly and open relations with the gay/lesbian community and are viewed as equals.
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Maria, who surrenders to Bonner's blackmail in order to protect her gay brother from public exposure.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jo.
* [[ItsNotPornItsArt It's Not Porn, It's Art]]: While very sexually explicit, critics who favorably reviewed the comic noted the high degree of storytelling and specified that ''Omaha'' is ''not'' a pornographic comic.
** Some chapters [[PornWithPlot have no sex]].
* TheLancer: Jerry, Chuck's friend and Charles' most competent underling.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Charles Sr. and Chuck. They even look alike... ''naked''.
** They also share some unhealthy traits, like manic depression.
** TurnOutLikeHisFather: What Chuck is terrified of doing [[spoiler:Especially after his father dies and Chuck is left in control of Charles' empire... and schemes.]]
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Chuck is well aware of Omaha's job as a stripper: it's how they met. He does think they are in a sexually monogamous relationship, except for when [[OneTrueThreesome Jo offered a threesome]]. [[spoiler:He doesn't know that Omaha was once married, and she never got a divorce. When Omaha tells him to defuse Bonner's threat, Chuck freaks and they break up.]]
** Speaking of Jo, she and Chuck were dating before they broke up and Chuck met Omaha. [[spoiler:They briefly rekindle their relationship while Omaha is out of the picture, but then Chuck walks in on Jo as she's servicing a John. Chuck quickly realizes Jo had been [[MyGirlIsASlut doing that back when they dated]]...]]
* PettingZooPeople: The characters are just humans drawn with animal heads and tails. Their hands ''and feet'' are human, albeit with fewer digits.
* PlotWithPorn
* [[PornNames Porn Name]]: Does she look like a "Susan" to you?
* PrideBeforeAFall: How Bonner thinks he can beat Chuck like he earlier defeated Charles Sr.: "His pride." [[spoiler:It almost works.]]
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:At one point Chuck forcibly has sex with Omaha when she's clearly not in the mood and she ends up in tears. She later calls him on it, and he realizes he did something VERY wrong, so he makes up for it (by getting kinkier for her sake and organizing a threesome!)]].
** What [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Bonner does to women is evil]]. Even the hookers in town are terrified of him, and warn Jo not to mess with him. Jo, however, [[ASimplePlan has a plan]]...
* ShoutOut: the comic began as a sexy animal parody of CharliesAngels (with Omaha, Jo and Shelly as the Angels). The parody aspect was quickly dropped for a SoapOpera storyline.
* SliceOfLife
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Hoo boy, it would take a team of sociologists to measure this. The society in Omaha's world looks down on sex, and has men in powerful offices abusing women as sex toys. On the other hand, Omaha and her friends are open about their sexual choices, pursue relationships with nice guys like Chuck and Jerry who treat women with equal respect, and are willing to stand up publicly to defend themselves and their life choices.
** When Omaha [[spoiler:flees Chuck during their break-up]], she travels to a small town, dyes her hair and tries to find "respectable" work as an office secretary. She quickly discovers the pay is lousy compared to her job as a stripper, that the women are forced to do all the work, and that the men who "run" the office are sexist bastards. She quits before the day is even over and heads straight for the nearest strip club to get more honest work there.
** What's sad is that Omaha is essentially our world, with Furry characters.
* ThreeWaySex: both girl/boy/girl and boy/girl/boy.
** [[spoiler:Omaha and Chuck are involved both times. First with Jo in the [-GBG-], when Jo was hired by Charles Sr. to babysit them. Then during the [-BGB-] with the guy Omaha dated during her break-up with Chuck.]]
* UndergroundComics
* WhamEpisode: It's a SoapOpera, there's one about every three episodes.
** "Everybody was busy that week... [[XanatosGambit mostly plotting]]. None of us knew that something was about to happen that would make all plans pointless... Well, maybe one of us knew..."
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals
A FunnyAnimal sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view. The artist throughout the series has been Reed Waller, with the writing handled for the most part by Kate Worley until her death in 2004.
The titular character is a CatGirl in her early 20s working as an ecdysiast... a nightclub dancer, in the fictional town of Mipple City. Her boyfriend Chuck works as an artist and nominally supports her dancing career. After posing for a men's magazine centerfold, Omaha gets invited to a shady dance performance that turns out to be [[spoiler: a drug-fueled orgy for various corrupt businessmen and government officials]] and [[spoiler: while fleeing the scene with her boyfriend, Omaha's best friend Shelley is shot while leading them to safety.]] From there, Omaha and Chuck get dragged into a byzantine plot between various power brokers that includes Chuck's father Charles Tabey Sr. - one of the most wealthy and powerful men in the state. While dealing with the external political plots, the whole cast of characters also have to cope with complex emotional issues that can shatter their lives.
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!!''OmahaTheCatDancer'' provides examples of:
* AuthorExistenceFailure: The series stopped production at various points due to a car accident (Worley), colon cancer (Waller), and lung cancer (Worley) that claimed the writer in 2004. Worley's husband James Vance worked with her notes to write out the final chapters beginning in 2006.
* BarefootFunnyAnimals: The entire cast, most of the time. Interestingly, the characters' feet have an atypically human appearance for this trope.
* BigBad: Originally was media magnate Andre [=DeRoc=]. Later it was Senator Bonner.
* BiTheWay: Some of the supporting cast, especially Omaha's best friend Shelley and Chuck's ex-girlfriend Jo, are bisexual.
** Omaha herself can be Bi-Curious from time on time.
* {{Blackmail}}: Senator Bonner threatens Omaha by mentioning [[OopsIForgotIWasMarried "David"]].
* CatGirl: also Dog Girl, Rabbit Girl, Bird Girl, Fox Girl...
* {{Chessmaster}}: Charles Sr. is seen in the beginning [[LampshadeHanging playing with a chess board]]. He basically manipulates a lot of other characters - including his own son - like chess pieces.
* CrossOver: The short-lived "Images of Omaha" featured pin-ups and artwork pairing Omaha with P'Gell from WillEisner's TheSpirit, BobBurden's FlamingCarrot, DaveSim's {{Cerebus}}, and the inhabitants of LarryMarder's {{Beanworld}}.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Multiple times.
** [[spoiler:Didn't expect Charles Sr. at the peak of his plans to commit suicide.]]
** Bonner, thinking he had just secured a humiliating victory over his enemy Chuck, [[spoiler:Didn't expect his hired "whore" Jo pull out a gun and ''humiliate him'' with her own plan to protect Chuck and Omaha.]]
*** [[spoiler:Which is topped by ''another'' unexpected surprise when someone shoots Bonner from outside the hotel room, catching Jo and Rob off-guard with a dead body and the police en route.]]
* DisneyDeath
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Charles Sr.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Omaha. Flashbacks suggest Shelley and Omaha were more than friends. During the Bonner storyline, Jo kisses Omaha hinting that Jo's plot [[spoiler: to trap Bonner on camera committing his sex crimes]] is more for Omaha's sake than for Chuck.
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Yes AND No. One issue would be couples hooking up, the next issue would focus on moving the plot forward with almost no sex at all.
** Most of the major protagonists have had sex with one another at some point (except for the hetero guys, and with Rob who's gay). [[spoiler:Jerry had sex with Omaha during the early storyline, although they remain friends and Jerry is fully loyal to Chuck.]]
* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: She's ''the main character''. Duh.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Shelley gets shot in the first issue, but by issue 3 it's revealed she barely survived. Most of her storyline involves her - a dancer - coping with being wheelchair-bound for possibly the rest of her life.]]
** [[spoiler:Chuck's mom Maria. She was forced by Bonner to abandon Charles Sr. and baby Chuck when he threatened to expose her brother as gay. Chuck was told that she had died.]]
* FootFocus: For some reason, everyone walks barefoot.
* FourFingeredHands: The entire cast has them.
* FunnyAnimal: Not really. There's very little funny about the comic.
* FurryComic
* FurryFandom: Debuted in a FunnyAnimal Fanzine in the 1970s.
* GambitPileup: During the week that [[spoiler:Bonner gets killed and Chuck and Omaha break up.]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Omaha and Jo, early on.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Mostly. Good people ''at least try'' to have good sex, but the emotional consequences flare up in some unexpected ways. Played straight with the villains, especially Bonner, who prefer using sex simply to achieve their personal ambitions.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's revealed that [[spoiler:both Charles Sr. and Chuck suffer from manic depressive mood swings.]] When Chuck finds out [[spoiler:what Bonner did to his mother, he snaps and begins acting as manic as his father. When we see Chuck again, he's on a mental institution and is SO stuffed of drugs that he doesn't even knows what is going on anymore. Fortunately, he gets better.]]
* HideYourGays: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Rob, the major gay character, gets his fair share of sex just like the heteros. The main characters have friendly and open relations with the gay/lesbian community and are viewed as equals.
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Maria, who surrenders to Bonner's blackmail in order to protect her gay brother from public exposure.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jo.
* [[ItsNotPornItsArt It's Not Porn, It's Art]]: While very sexually explicit, critics who favorably reviewed the comic noted the high degree of storytelling and specified that ''Omaha'' is ''not'' a pornographic comic.
** Some chapters [[PornWithPlot have no sex]].
* TheLancer: Jerry, Chuck's friend and Charles' most competent underling.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Charles Sr. and Chuck. They even look alike... ''naked''.
** They also share some unhealthy traits, like manic depression.
** TurnOutLikeHisFather: What Chuck is terrified of doing [[spoiler:Especially after his father dies and Chuck is left in control of Charles' empire... and schemes.]]
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Chuck is well aware of Omaha's job as a stripper: it's how they met. He does think they are in a sexually monogamous relationship, except for when [[OneTrueThreesome Jo offered a threesome]]. [[spoiler:He doesn't know that Omaha was once married, and she never got a divorce. When Omaha tells him to defuse Bonner's threat, Chuck freaks and they break up.]]
** Speaking of Jo, she and Chuck were dating before they broke up and Chuck met Omaha. [[spoiler:They briefly rekindle their relationship while Omaha is out of the picture, but then Chuck walks in on Jo as she's servicing a John. Chuck quickly realizes Jo had been [[MyGirlIsASlut doing that back when they dated]]...]]
* PettingZooPeople: The characters are just humans drawn with animal heads and tails. Their hands ''and feet'' are human, albeit with fewer digits.
* PlotWithPorn
* [[PornNames Porn Name]]: Does she look like a "Susan" to you?
* PrideBeforeAFall: How Bonner thinks he can beat Chuck like he earlier defeated Charles Sr.: "His pride." [[spoiler:It almost works.]]
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:At one point Chuck forcibly has sex with Omaha when she's clearly not in the mood and she ends up in tears. She later calls him on it, and he realizes he did something VERY wrong, so he makes up for it (by getting kinkier for her sake and organizing a threesome!)]].
** What [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Bonner does to women is evil]]. Even the hookers in town are terrified of him, and warn Jo not to mess with him. Jo, however, [[ASimplePlan has a plan]]...
* ShoutOut: the comic began as a sexy animal parody of CharliesAngels (with Omaha, Jo and Shelly as the Angels). The parody aspect was quickly dropped for a SoapOpera storyline.
* SliceOfLife
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Hoo boy, it would take a team of sociologists to measure this. The society in Omaha's world looks down on sex, and has men in powerful offices abusing women as sex toys. On the other hand, Omaha and her friends are open about their sexual choices, pursue relationships with nice guys like Chuck and Jerry who treat women with equal respect, and are willing to stand up publicly to defend themselves and their life choices.
** When Omaha [[spoiler:flees Chuck during their break-up]], she travels to a small town, dyes her hair and tries to find "respectable" work as an office secretary. She quickly discovers the pay is lousy compared to her job as a stripper, that the women are forced to do all the work, and that the men who "run" the office are sexist bastards. She quits before the day is even over and heads straight for the nearest strip club to get more honest work there.
** What's sad is that Omaha is essentially our world, with Furry characters.
* ThreeWaySex: both girl/boy/girl and boy/girl/boy.
** [[spoiler:Omaha and Chuck are involved both times. First with Jo in the [-GBG-], when Jo was hired by Charles Sr. to babysit them. Then during the [-BGB-] with the guy Omaha dated during her break-up with Chuck.]]
* UndergroundComics
* WhamEpisode: It's a SoapOpera, there's one about every three episodes.
** "Everybody was busy that week... [[XanatosGambit mostly plotting]]. None of us knew that something was about to happen that would make all plans pointless... Well, maybe one of us knew..."
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals
