History Manga / LiesOfTheSheriffEvansDeadOrLove

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Chapter 128 sees Evans and Abby have a drink with the mayor as they try to convince him to let a trade road be shut down to help them catch some outlaws. Abby has initial misgivings, but drinks anyway out of fear of looking picky...and then clearly enjoys drinking far too much. [[InVinoVeritas She proceeds to cry a bit about how worried she always is about being self-conscious]], defend the mayor from a kidnapper by holding the attacker by his legs and spinning him around her until she lets him go, and pester the mayor until he agrees to give his permission.

Along for the ride are his rival[=/=]love interest, the BountyHunter Phoebe Oakley[[note]]Named for Annie Oakley, who was born Phoebe Ann Mosey[[/note]], who is just as bad as Evans when it comes to romance and his deputy Ted Hall, who pretty much worships Evans (and has no idea how much of the Evans he knows is an act). Other characters includes Kurt, Evans' father and source of his life philosophy, Matthew James, an ex-vigilante that's Evans' polar opposite (and way more successful with girls) and Melissa Rain, a newspaper reporter who always seems to get the facts wrong when dealing with Evans.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Matthew James' fans are as in love for him as obnoxiously protective, to the point they'll bad mouth Evans at first sight or insult Oakley to defend Matt (who's visibly annoyed by their attitude, take note).
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Chapter 128 sees Evans and Abby have a drink with the mayor as they try to convince him to let a trade road be shut down to help them catch some outlaws. Abby has initial misgivings, but drinks anyway out of fear of looking picky...and then clearly enjoys drinking far too much. [[InVinoVeritas She proceeds to cry a bit about how worried she always is about being self-conscious]], defend the mayor from kidnapper by holding the attacker by his legs and spinning him around her until she let him go, and pestered the mayor until he agreed to give his permission.

* BetweenMyLegs: [[https://i1.wp.com/jaiminisbox.com/reader/content/comics/lies-of-the-sheriff-evans-dead-or-love_5cafb2dd82f02/78-0-a-sheriff-only-believes-what-he-sees_5cd9ca5786189/01.jpg?quality=100&strip=all Used once for Chapter 78's cover]]. Evans' gun-drawn approach toward the camera makes the scene resemble a duel with the woman, though it's actually implying the chapter's plot, which is Evans trying to look under the woman's skirt due to suspecting she could be stashing a stolen ring under there...and [[ChivalrousPervert because it's a convenient excuse for him wanting to look under her skirt]].

* Catch22Dilemma: The volume omake shows that Evans slept in and was late for his duel in Chapter 109 because...he stayed up all night trying to think of a good plan to make his victory magnificent and show off to Oakley. This tardiness ends up causing Oakley to doubt him the entire time as much as he tries to pass off arriving late as intentional.

* ChivalrousPervert: Elmore Evans ''literally'' became a gunslinging sheriff in the expectation it would make him popular with women. Unfortunately, that has not come to pass as he presents himself off so chivalrously that even if he does have a chance with one, he blows it by acting disinterested in the topic [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption if he's just not terribly unlucky otherwise]]. He makes due with occasionally desperately trying to steal a glance at a pretty lady whenever he can.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Matthew James is goddamn '''''covered''''' in women, with at least twenty standing outside when he asks to speak with Evans in his abode but Evans requests some privacy. He still fails to realize a love potion might not actually work just because a bunch of women in a crowd are raising their hands to express an interest in him. We can only assume he thinks all of those women just sympathizes with his unjust exile from his town and his determination to take down his corrupt former vigilante corps.
* CoolOldGuy: Kurt Evans taught his son everything he knows and lives by, and clearly an appropriate man to base the image that Evans' cultivates off of...but he ''actually'' can score with ladies, and got married.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Not everyone per se, but on several occasions others have pointed out how obvious Oakley's feelings for Evans are or even that they look like a couple. Even criminals that they've just caught in [[UpToEleven including the two's first appearance together]], who aren't even necessarily trying to distract them to escape!

* EyepatchOfPower: {{Subverted|Trope}} with Reuben Wayne, the sheriff with who Evans was a deputy for. He's as much of a self-important braggard that sadly tries to shine some of Evans' fame off onto him as a man who can still DualWield QuickDraw can be. The narration calls him [[AntiAdvice Evans' anti-teacher]].

* LovePotion: Happens twice, both are nothing but bunk. The first time in Chapter 69 has Evans prove it's nothing but snake oil while hoping it actually worked and Oakley secretly wasted her money on it. The second time has them both take it and Oakley convinces herself it works while Evans figures he can still manipulate his situation with Oakley to his advantage even if the things don't work, and later on tries to keep a hold of some of these useless {{Love Potion}}s.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face which makes him hard to read and [[SlaveToPR an unwillingness to risk his cool reputation by asking twice]]. Oakley herself isn't better at being honest, though she's not quite as talented at being stony-faced. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.

* NoLongerWithUs: Due to a combination of Evans' [[PoorCommunicationKills normal methods of communication]] and not being properly introduced to him when she did see him, Oakley gets mistaken that Kurt Evans has passed away when his son was just getting him flowers to give for his anniversary [[ForgottenAnniversary which he'd better not forget again]].

* ObliviouslyBeautiful: Abby being a PerpetualFrowner has made her very self-conscious (she'll immediately worry she's dirty or smelly if someone doesn't return a social greeting, and even bothers to explain one of a rickety rope bridge's steps breaking under her foot being totally not because of her weight), but she's plenty pretty enough for the Evans' men to be attracted to her no problem.

* OncePerEpisode: Evans' father, Kurt, appearing in Evans' head as he recounts some sage wisdom from his father is virtually a guarantee for each chapter. The advice varies from being just what he needs to make it through the chapter's events or [[DidntSeeThatComing turning out to unluckily mess up his chances with a woman]].

* ReallyGetsAround: Celia Izzo. An omake has her arrive to answer summons from a man who cheated with her, and with three men in the midst of them, she has to ask which one of them could it ever be, claiming to forget men's names and looks pretty quickly. Her initial appearance has her meeting with Evans and assuming he was another sheriff she slept with before when he has never saw her before in his life.

* TruthInTelevision: Evans claimed to have been intentionally late to a duel in Chapter 109 to mess with the opponent's concentration, "a tried technique from a far eastern island nation". This doubtlessly refers to a trademark strategy of {{UsefulNotes/Miyamoto Musashi}}.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Evans and Oakley clearly have a thing for each other, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt which is clear to people with working eyes]], but Evans' constant stoic sheriff facade and Oakley's ostensible rivalry with him [[CannotSpitItOut prevent either from being honest about it]]. They make due by [[[[StalkerWithACrush making some excuse to stick around each other as much as they can get and maybe the odd sorta-stalking the other for pictures]].

* AmusingInjuries: {{Averted|Trope}} in Chapter 111 which sees Quaid and Evans having been hurt...from hitting their faces into a bridge trying to stare under a woman's dress while their horses were passing under the bridge she was standing on. Amusingness aside, it wasn't something to
just brush off and they were already getting checked out by a doctor before the injuring was shown within the chapter.

* AmusingInjuries: {{Averted|Trope}} in Chapter 111 which sees Quaid and Evans having been hurt...from hitting their faces into a bridge trying to stare under a woman's dress while their horses were passing under the bridge she was standing on. Amusingness aside, they were already getting checked out by a doctor before the injuring was shown within the chapter.
* AnachronismStew: Pornography might be nearly as old as human art itself, but some of the covers of Evans' porn display the title of ''{{Magazine/Playboy}}'' or depict a PlayboyBunny on it, neither of which date before 1953 while ''Lies of the Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love'''s setting wild west setting can't be absolutely any later than 1924 at the most.

* BetweenMyLegs: [[https://i1.wp.com/jaiminisbox.com/reader/content/comics/lies-of-the-sheriff-evans-dead-or-love_5cafb2dd82f02/78-0-a-sheriff-only-believes-what-he-sees_5cd9ca5786189/01.jpg?quality=100&strip=all Used once for Chapter 78's cover]]. Evans' gun-drawn approach toward the camera makes the scene resemble a duel, though it's actually just implying the chapter's plot - Evans trying to look under the woman's skirt due to suspecting she could be stashing a stolen ring under there...and [[ChivalrousPervert because it's a convenient excuse for wanting to look under her skirt]].

* FawltyTowersPlot: A man wants to duel Evans, but is also hoping to be able to charge spectators for it. It turns out no one would because everyone just expects [[InvincibleHero Evans]] to win. So then Evans decides to tell some tripe to Oakley that he's actually lost to this man before, who arrives to corroborate and add his own spin on the background for why they dueled. This gets more and more convoluted until somehow Evans decides the way to MaintainTheLie required claiming their last "duel" was a chess match, which no one really ends up wanting to watch anyway (and they both are no good at chess). At least Oakley offers to actually teach him how to play chess sometime as a silver lining to Evans.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: {{Parodied|Trope}}, Evans injuries his pinky on his right hand in Chapter 107. A gang hears he's not around because of this and gathers to burn down his office. He hopes to {{Exploit|edTrope}} it to surprise and amaze by claiming to everyone that he's actually left-handed (while he's skilled at shooting enough to shoot ambidextrously)...but [[TheDreaded him just showing up causes the gang to flee without ever drawing his gun despite having an arm in a sling]].

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face which makes him hard to read and an unwillingness to risk his cool reputation by asking twice. Oakley herself isn't better at being honest, though she's not quite as talented at being stony-faced. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.

* ObliviouslyBeautiful: Abby being a PerpetualFrowner has made her very self-conscious (she'll immediately worry she's dirty or smelly if someone doesn't return a social greeting, and even bother to explain one of a rickety rope bridge's steps breaking under her foot being totally not because of her weight), but she's plenty pretty enough for the Evans' men to be attracted to her no problem.

* NobodyCanDie: Despite some criminals having committed murder, the reoccurring bounty hunter Ed Williams being famous for preferring to turn his bounties in dead, and of course actual [[TheWestern western]] gunfights happening, no one ever dies in the series. Evans has managed at times to get people to turn themselves in peacefully, and otherwise our protagonists prefer just BlastingItOutOfTheirHands, or more rarely will disarm them with shots to the arm that leave enemies clearly bleeding and clutching, but always alive to be apprehended. The closest is chapter 41, which ''[[https://s5.mkklcdnv5.com/mangakakalot/h2/hoankan_evans_no_uso/chapter_41/6.jpg maybe]]'' sees a U.S. Army Cavalryman shoot a bandit off a horse with possibly blood coming off of him as he falls off, while almost entirely obscuring the falling bandit aside from his leg.

* OncePerEpisode: Evans' father, Kurt, appearing in Evans' head as he recounts some sage wisdom from his father is virtually a guarantee for each chapter. The advice varies from being just what he needs to make it through the chapter's events or turning out to unluckily mess up his chances with a woman.

* ReallyGetsAround: Celia Izzo. An omake has her arrive to answer summons from a man who cheated with her, and with three men in the midst of them, she has to ask which one of them could it ever be, claiming to forget men's names and looks pretty quickly. Her initial appearance has her meeting with Evans and assuming he was another sheriff she slept with before when he never saw her before in his life.

* BetweenMyLegs: [[https://i1.wp.com/jaiminisbox.com/reader/content/comics/lies-of-the-sheriff-evans-dead-or-love_5cafb2dd82f02/78-0-a-sheriff-only-believes-what-he-sees_5cd9ca5786189/01.jpg?quality=100&strip=all Used once with Evans between Oakley's]]. Evans' gun-drawn approach toward the camera makes the scene resemble a duel.

* AmusingInjuries: Chapter 111 sees Quaid and Evans get hurt...hitting their faces into a bridge trying to stare under a woman's dress while their horses were passing under the bridge she was standing on.

** Chapter 110 has a similar result, with Evans being dismayed with a man flourishing his gun spinning it around on his hand garnering a lot of attention around a shooting competition. Evans trains to do so as well, but drops his gun trying to spin the same on the actual duel and manages to pass it off as an intentional handicap that intimidates his opponent to surrender...only Oakley was really more interested in watching an actual duel and didn't care for the other guy's spinning.
* TheCavalry: The US Cavalry show up to save the day during [[spoiler: the train arc]]. The reason why they showed up also ends up being important: [[spoiler: Mathy's father called for them to help, and personally accompanied them, boarding the train and facing off against Evans (who he thought was a kidnapper, and vice versa), proving that he really does care about Mathy]].

* CluelessChickMagnet: Matthew James is goddamn '''''covered''''' in women, with at least twenty standing outside when he asks to speak with Evans in his abode but Evans requests some privacy. He still fails to realize a love potion might not actually work just because a bunch of women in a crowd are raising their hands to express an interest in him. We can only assume he thinks all of those women just sympathizes with his unjust exile from his town and determination to take down his corrupt former vigilante corps.
* CoolOldGuy: Kurt Evans taught his son everything he knows and lives by, and clearly an appropriate man to base the image that Evans' cultivates...but he ''actually'' can score with ladies and got married.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Not everyone per se, but on several occasions others have pointed out how obvious Oakley's feelings for Evans are or even that they look like a couple. Even criminals that they've just caught, who aren't even necessarily trying to distract them to escape!

** Evans and Ted help escort a woman home late at night (which is, naturally, totally just because Evans is hoping to get in her good graces). She's initially worried that they're just imposter lawmen, and after they tell her who they are, she remains in disbelief that the Evans before her

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Every woman who Evans has a chance will be either rebuffed by his stoic demeanor, turn out to be a criminal, or otherwise turn out to be unavailable to him for whatever. And his porn will always end up destroyed.
* FawltyTowersPlot: A man wants to duel Evans, but is also hoping to be able to charge spectators for it. It turns out no one would because everyone just expects Evans to win. So then Evans decides to tell some tripe to Oakley that he's actually lost to this man before, who arrives to corroborate and add his own spin on the background for why they dueled. This gets more and more convoluted until somehow Evans decides the way to MaintainTheLie required claiming their last "duel" was a chess match, which no one really ends up wanting to watch anyway (and they both are no good at chess). At least Oakley offers to actually teach him how to play chess sometime as a silver lining to Evans.

** A woman who's TheMatchmaker in town tries to find Evans a lady. He decides to reluctantly accept with the stringent criteria describing a woman that pretty clearly is Phoebe Oakley. And yes, then TheMatchmaker woman manages to find another woman that also fulfills that criteria anyway.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face, what makes him hard to read. Oakley herself isn't better at being honest, though she's not quite as talented at being stony-faced. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.

* NobodyCanDie: Despite some criminals having committed murder, the reoccurring bounty hunter Ed Williams being famous for preferring to turn his bounties in dead, and of course actual [[TheWestern western]] gunfights happening, no one ever dies in the series. Evans has managed at times to get people to turn themselves in peacefully, and otherwise our protagonists prefer just BlastingItOutOfTheirHands, or more rarely will disarm them with shots to the arm that leave enemies clearly bleeding and clutching, but always alive to be apprehended.

* ObliviousToLove: Evans and Oakley are equally incapable of realizing the other's feelings for them.

* PlaceboEffect: Evans and Oakley both test out a love potion by drinking it. Needless to say, they think it actually works because they already can barely conceal their interest in each other.

* ActionGirl: Phoebe Oakley being AlwaysSecondBest to Elmore Evans at shooting means she's miles better than a very long list of other gunslinging men of the West.
* AlwaysSecondBest: Oakley's always just a bit behind Evans in shooting ability and collars, which is why they're rivals. Well, [[RivalryAsCourtship rivals-ish]].

* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite not being Evans' girlfriend, Oakley will pretty much immediately feel threatened and try to do something about any sort of woman associating with Evans that Oakley can't rule having a romantic relationship with him.

* CoolLoser: Phoebe Oakley is a bit like Evans in this regard, though there's occasions which shows she does at least have a few more friends than him while remaining as destitute with regards to the opposite sex.

* {{Dandere}}: Nona is never actually see talking - at most, she appeared to be cheering among a crowd surprising Evans for his birthday - but she frequently whispers to Ted for him to say what she said.

* TheGunslinger: Many, but Evans and Oakley are two of the best, with Evans having trained with his father since he was a boy, and Oakley having already won various shooting contests when she was only ''10''.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: {{Parodied|Trope}}, Evans injuries his pinky on his right hand in Chapter 107. A gang hears he's not around because of this and gathers to burn down his office. He hopes to surprise and amaze by claiming to everyone that he's actually left-handed (while he's skilled at shooting enough to shoot ambidextrously)...but [[TheDreaded him just showing up causes the gang to flee without ever drawing his gun]].

** A woman who's TheMatchmaker in town tries to find Evans a lady. He decides to reluctantly accept with the stringent criteria describing a woman that is Phoebe Oakley. And yes, then TheMatchmaker woman manages to find another woman that also fulfills that criteria anyway.
* ImagineSpot: Realizing an InvincibleHero's a bit boring in Chapter 113, Evans tries to play up an upcoming duel opponent as someone he lost to before to Oakley. Hearing her affirmative response to this statement has a panel with him literally imagining himself pulling her out of water by a fishing rod with the line in her mouth and her limbs sticking close toward her as if she were a fish.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Due to [[PoorCommunicationKills the usual communication issues]] in Chapter 105, Oakley dolls herself up thinking Evans invited her to a party while he actually thought she got word that the mayor ordered and attack on a gang's hideout. The volume's omake shows she just went along with it and still shot up the place in her gloves and dress, passing it off as like a party anyway.

* NobodyCanDie: Despite some criminals having committed murder, the reoccurring bounty hunter Ed Williams being famous for preferring to turn his bounties dead, and of course actual western gunfights happening, no one ever dies in the series. Evans has managed at times to get people to turn themselves in peacefully, and otherwise our protagonists prefer just BlastingItOutOfTheirHands, or more rarely will disarm them with shots to the arm that leave enemies clearly bleeding and clutching, but always alive to be apprehended.

* ObliviouslyBeautiful: Abby being a PerpetualFrowner has made her very self-conscious (she'll even bother to explain one of a rickety rope bridge's steps breaking under her foot being totally not because of her weight), but she's plenty pretty enough for the Evans' men to be attracted to her no problem.

* QuickDraw: Evans can shoot first while other people are currently drawing a bead on him. Oakley, Kurt and even Wayne are pretty good at this too.
* ReallyGetsAround: Celia Izzo. An omake has her arrive to answer summons from a man who cheated with her, and with three men in the midst of them, she has to ask which one of them could it ever be, claiming to forget men's names and looks pretty quickly.
* TheRival: Oakley considers herself to be Evans' rival, ever since he handed her her first defeat in a shooting competition when they were younger. She takes it so seriously that she'll bypass several other closer towns with sheriffs just to drag a bounty to Evans, for the sole purpose of showing off and claiming she's better than him. [[RivalryAsCourtship Until it's clearly just an excuse to see him as much as possible for its own sake]].

* StalkerShrine: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, Oakley's never outright seen to have one of these for Evans, but she ''did'' weirdly collect as many different wanted posters of him as she could...
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Oakley might be one of the best {{Bounty Hunter}}s ever, second only ({{Always|SecondBest}}) to Evans in collars, and usually puts up a strong front to others but she's got a few girly interests that she keeps under wraps (like keeping a {{Meido}} outfit that she never wears in public, but she looks in the mirror with it on in private).

* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Evans has never lost his virginity, but he's ambiguous whenever answering about the matter that some people have managed to think he even sleeps around and Oakley is frequently worried some ex of his is about. He's even willing to subtly encourage it in the hopes that it might get some looser women headed to his direction.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Evans and Oakley clearly have a thing for each other, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt which is clear to people with working eyes]], but Evans' constant stoic sheriff facade and Oakley's ostensible rivalry with him [[CannotSpitItOut prevent either from being honest about it]]. They make due by making some excuse to stick around each other as much as they can get and maybe the odd sorta-stalking the other for pictures.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Despite being shooters that make {{UsefulNotes/Simo Hayha}} look like he had the shakes, Evans and Oakley are both quite scared of spooky situations making them think of ghosts.

* BlessedWithSuck: Even if he became a stoic lawman just to be popular with women, Evans is legitimately a good sheriff and a terrific gunslinger. Sadly, his inability to get a date comes from both the way he interprets his old man's teachings about girls and from how highly people think of him. Even if he doesn't notice/doesn't have time to act, Evans ''is'' popular with women, but some circumstance always gets in his way (she's too young, too vain, a criminal etc). Being popular ''in general'' mean he must always keep up his stoic facade, so he sometimes has problems doing even the most simple of tasks (like buying porn), as he's afraid of being caught.

* CasualKink: Chapter 89 ends with Oakley brandishing a gun on a bounty target after bursting open the doors of a dresser while standing on Evans' back while his hands and knees, because there wasn't a lot of space in the dresser. Despite Oakley's apologies about how it made him look ridiculous, he was secretly kind of OK with it. Chapter 99 has him find he enjoys the sight of Oakley in a {{Meido}} uniform so much that he buys it for her (the reason neither find propriety's failed in the situation was Oakley's excuse that she was trying it on wondering if she could use it to infiltrate a mansion for a bounty target) and was trying to take a picture of her in it.

* ConsummateLiar: It's called Lies of the Sheriff Evans for a reason. Evans rarely ever talks in a straightforward manner unless he thinks his reputation calls for it (such as honestly telling caught criminals what's going to happen to them) - at best, he's probably ambiguous and vague to best portray his stoic, always-vigilant persona. Even if people start suspecting his lies, [[UnluckilyLucky circumstance will probably seem to exonerate him (while still never getting him a date)]]. That being said, he doesn't fool [[LivingLieDetector Nona]], which leaves her mocking him behind his back.
* CoolLoser: Elmore Evans. Known far and wide for his ability as a sheriff for his humbleness, dedication, vigilance, unflappability, and of course ImprobableAimingSkills. Brings in more criminals on the frontier than anyone else. ''Literally tamed a bear once to impress a lady''. Barely has any friends and never lost his virginity. His freakin' 12-year-old deputy has a girlfriend while he doesn't!
** Phoebe Oakley isn't too different from him in this regard, though there's occasions which shows she does at least have a few more friends than him while remaining as destitute with regards to the opposite sex.

* FakeUltimateHero: {{Downplayed|Trope}} - while Evans really is quite the amazing gunslinger and a great sheriff, he's knowingly inflated his own mystique through his actions and statements. He's definitely not ''that'' observant, unflappable, all-knowing, etc. Fortunately, no one manages to see through it (aside from Nona, who doesn't seem to be interested in revealing this to everyone and just mocks him behind his back) through a combination of a cool head and outrageous luck. He's basically a sexless sheriff version of {{Literature/Ciaphas Cain}}.

* MarriedToTheJob: Evans does well to give off this impression. However, as he would quite like to '''actually''' get married, this reputation is quite self-defeating for him.

* PornStash: Evans has one, though he frequently finds himself having to dispose of it to keep Oakley and others from finding out.
** He stored some in a combination safe in the office once, and then immediately covered it in chains with a keylock as well when it turned out that Ted knew how to safecrack, as trustworthy as Ted is.

* SlaveToPR: Evans never fails to uphold his reputation as unflappable, prepared, and observant...even if dropping that demeanor for a second might actually give him a chance to get a date.

* TheStoic: Evans' demeanor. [[BeneathTheMask He actually isn't]], but he quite successfully acts like he is. Too well, actually, considering how many women he seemed to have a chance with [[SlaveToPR before his manner stops them from pressing on with him]].

* UnluckilyLucky: Evans might never find himself a lady, but his stoic, skilled and vigilant reputation have been challenged enough by his circumstances that it's still highly surprising that all of those things known about him never turn out to get deflated in the end.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Almost every time Evans has a chance to get with a woman, his legitimate desire to do right gets in the way, be it that the woman turns out to be a criminal, or he is too busy trying to catch a criminal to go on a date.

* TheStoic: Evans' demeanor. [[BeneathTheMask He actually isn't]], but he quite successfully acts like he is. Too well, actually, considering how many women he seemed to have a chance with [[SlaveToPR before his manner stops them from pressing on hi]]m.

It follows Elmore Evans, sheriff of Markwest during the days of the Wild West. An excellent gunslinger, a dedicated lawman, and one of the most stoic men in the West, Evans seems like the perfect sheriff.

* AlwaysSecondBest: Oakley's always just a bit behind Evans in shooting ability and collars, which is why they're rivals. [[RivalryAsCourtship Rivals-ish]].
* AmusingInjuries: Chapter 111 sees Quaid and Evans get hurt...trying to stare under a woman's dress while their horses were passing under a bridge she was standing on.

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: The staple method for gunfights ending in the series.

* Catch22Dilemma: The volume omake shows that Evans slept in and was late for his duel in Chapter 109 because...he stayed up all night trying to think of a good plan to make his victory magnificent and show off to Oakley. This tardiness ends up causing Oakley to doubt him the entire time as much as he tries to pass off being late as intentional.
** Chapter 110 has a similar result, with Evans being dismayed with a man flourishing his gun spinning it around on his hand garnering a lot of attention around a shooting competition. Evans trains to do so as well, but drops his gun trying to spin the same on the actual duel and manages to pass it off as an intentional handicap that intimidates his opponent to surrender...only Oakley really more interested in watching an actual duel and didn't care for the other guy's spinning.
* CasualKink: Chapter 89 ends with Oakley brandishing a gun on a bounty target after bursting open the doors of a dresser while standing on Evans' back while his hands and knees, because there wasn't a lot of space in the dresser. Despite Oakley's apologies about how it made him look ridiculous, he was secretly kind of OK with it. Chapter 99 has him find he enjoys the sight of Oakley in a maid uniform so much that he buys it for her (the reason neither find propriety's failed in the situation was Oakley's excuse that she was trying it on wondering if she could use it to infiltrate a mansion for a bounty target) and was trying to take a picture of her in it.

* ChivalrousPervert: Elmore Evans ''literally'' became a gunslinging sheriff in the expectation it would make him popular with women. Unfortunately, that has not come to pass as he passes himself off so chivalrously that even if he does have a chance with one, he blows it by acting disinterested in the topic if he's just not terribly unlucky otherwise. He makes due with occasionally desperately trying to steal a glance at a pretty lady whenever he can.
** His father Kurt, raised him in his image. Though he actually succeeds in being rewarded for his chivalry, managed to get married, and had a date with Abby.

* ConsummateLiar: It's called Lies of the Sheriff Evans for a reason. Evans rarely ever talks in a straightforward manner unless he thinks his reputation calls for it (such as honestly telling caught criminals what's going to happen) - at best, he's probably ambiguous and vague to best portray his stoic, always-vigilant persona. Even if people start suspecting his lies, [[UnluckilyLucky circumstance will probably seem to exonerate him (while never getting him a date)]]. That being said, he doesn't fool [[LivingLieDetector Nona]], which leaves her mocking him behind his back.

** Phoebe Oakley isn't too different from him in this regard, though there's occasions which shows she does have a few more friends than him.
* CoolOldGuy: Kurt Evans taught his son everything he knows and lives by, and is an amazing shot like his son...but he ''actually'' can score with ladies.

* ImagineSpot: Realizing an InvincibleHero's a bit boring in Chapter 113, Evans tries to play up an upcoming duel opponent as someone he lost to before to Oakley. Hearing her affirmative response to this statement has a panel with him literally imagining himself pulling her out of water by a fishing rod with the line in her mouth and her limbs sticking close toward her as if she were a fish.

* LivingLieDetector: Nona claims to be very good at sniffing out lies. That basically makes her a HilarityEnsues button around Evans' [[SlaveToPR virtually compulsive lying to present himself]] and Oakley's barely concealed feelings for Evans.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face, what makes him hard to read. Oakley herself isn't better. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Evans and Oakley take shelter in an abandoned house with rather scary decor and rather scary noises and occurrences. Turns out the occurrences were just from a crook hiding out then and trying to escape through a window when he realized they were there. But his presence doesn't explain why he asked them about maniacal laughter through the night prior...

** He stored some in a combination safe in the office once, and then immediately covered it in chains with a keylock as well when it turned out that Ted knew how to safecrack.

* TheRival: Oakley considers herself to be Evans' rival, ever since he handed her her first defeat in a shooting competition when they were younger. She takes it so seriously that she'll bypass several other closer towns with sheriffs just to drag a bounty to Evans, for the sole purpose of showing off and claiming she's better than him.
* RivalryAsCourtship: Evans and Oakley have been rivals since they were young, with Evans ecking out a win over her at a shooting competition. She continued to be [[AlwaysSecondBest just behind him later in life]] with regards to arrests as a bounty hunter against his sheriff occupation...until they later considered the possibility that the other might have feelings for them which they'd be OK with. [[CannotSpitItOut Not that they'll say so]] and drop their facade of a rivalry from it.

* SmokingIsCool: Evans' father, Kurt, is never seen without a smoking pipe for his scenes in the present day.

* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Evans has never lost his virginity, but he's ambiguous whenever answering about the matter that some people have managed to think he even sleeps around. He's willing to subtly encourage it in the hopes that it might get some looser women headed to his direction.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Evans and Oakley clearly have a thing for each other, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt which is clear to people with working eyes]], but Evans' constant stoic sheriff facade and Oakley's ostensible rivalry with him [[CannotSpitItOut prevent either from being honest about it]].

* CoolLoser: Elmore Evans. Known far and wide for his ability as a sheriff for his humbleness, dedication, vigilance, unflappability, and of course ImprobableAimingSkills. Brings in more criminals on the frontier than anyone else. Barely has any friends and never lost his virginity.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Matthew James' fans are as in love for him as obnouxiously protective, to the point they'll bad mouth Evans at first sight or insult Oakley to defend Matt (who's visibly annoyed by their attitude, take note).

* NoNameGiven: Parodied. Kurt Evans, Elmore's father, left when Evans grew up, saying he was planning to become a wandering, nameless gunslinger in order to impress women. [[spoiler: When they next meet, he is going by "Kurt the Nameless". Oakley notes that Kurt ''is'' a name]].

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face, what makes him hard to read. Oakley herself isn't better. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Not everyone per se, but on several occasions others have pointed out how obvious Oakley's feelings for Evans are or even that they look like a couple.

* LastNameBasis: Very few people refer to Evans or Oakley by their first names

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Almost every time Evans has a chance to get with a woman, his legitimate desire to do right gets in the way, be it that the woman turns out to be a criminal, or he is too busy trying to catch a criminal to go on a date.

* MasterOfMixedMessage: With shades of {{Poor Communication Kills}}. ''This whole manga in a nutshell''. Evans' problems in general are pretty much caused by his terrible communication and comprehension abilities, aggravated by his almost perfect poker-face, what makes him hard to read. Oakley herself isn't better. Luckily, depending of the situation, Evans can pulls out a win, as improbable as it could be.

Along for the ride are his rival[=/=]love interest, the BountyHunter Phoebe Oakley[[note]]Named for Annie Oakley, who was born Phoebe Ann Mosey[[/note]], who is just as bad as Evans when it comes to romance and his deputy Ted Hall, who pretty much worships Evans (and has no idea how much of the Evans he knows is an act). Other characters includes Kurt, Evans' father and source of his life philosophy, Matthew James, an ex-vigilante that's Evans' polar opposite (and more successful with girl) and Melissa Rain, a newspaper reporter who always seems to get the facts wrong when dealing with Evans.

Along for the ride are his rival[=/=]love interest, the BountyHunter Phoebe Oakley[[note]]Named for Annie Oakley, who was born Phoebe Ann Mosey[[/note]], who is just as bad as Evans when it comes to romance, his deputy Ted Hall, who pretty much worships Evans (and has no idea how much of the Evans he knows is an act), and Melissa Rain, a newspaper reporter who always seems to get the facts wrong when dealing with Evans.

* BirdsOfAFeather: What Evans and Oakley actually are, even if both can't act properly about that. While is always looking for a pretty date, Evans will always stop to help Oakley in some way, even if it's by a total fluke (and generally is). By her part, Oakley takes any chance to show she's his "rival", but ends up helping Evans in a way or other. None of them have the guts to call the other to a date.

* BlessedWithSuck: Even if he became a stoic lawman to be popular with women, Evans is legitimately a good sheriff and a terrific gunslinger. Sadly, his incapacity to get a date comes from both the way he interprets his old man's teachings about girls and from how high people around him sells his skills. Even if he doesn't notice/doesn't have time to act, Evans ''is'' popular with women, but some circunstance always get on his way (she's too young, too vain, a criminal etc). Be popular ''in general'' does mean he must always to keep his serious facade, so he have problems to do even the most simple tasks.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Not everyone per si, but more than one time some characters pointed how obvious are Oakley's feelings for Evans or that they look like a real couple.

* BirdsOfAFeather: What Evans and Oakley actually are, even if both can act properly about that. While is always looking for a pretty date, Evans will always stop to help Oakley in some way, even if it's by a total fluke (and generally is). By her part, Oakley takes any chance to show she's his "rival", but ends up helping Evans in a way or other. None of them have the guts to call the other to a date.

* UndercoverAsLovers: Evans and Oakley pretend to be husband and wife during the train arc, in order to [[spoiler: smuggle Mathy Bridges, the kidnapped daughter of a banker, past the kidnappers checking every passenger getting on the train, by pretending she's their daughter]].

In reality, he became a gunslinger and a sheriff for the purpose of becoming popular with women. With the help of his legitimately amazing gunslinging, excellent poker-face, and his near-perfect memory of his father's advice on women, he has, for the most part, completely failed.

The series details his life, from his bad luck with women, to various outlaws he's had to deal with, to

* TheRival: Oakley considers herself to be Evans' rival, ever since he handed her her first defeat in a shooting competition when they were younger. She takes it so seriously that she'll bypass several other closer towns with sheriffs just to drag a bounty to Evans, for the sole purpose of showing off and claiming she's better than him.