Taking place in 1895, the story follows the blossoming romance between two people living in a small town: Cati Abbott, a free-spirited woman who grew up living in an Amazonian tribe, and Andreas Marino, the town's local doctor.
You can read the first 17 chapters of the story for free here
at Webtoon, with the rest requiring daily passes to unlock on the mobile app.
Miss Abbott and the Doctor features examples of:
- Bouquet Toss: Happens at the wedding of Kira Aquila-Salazar and Sebastian Nero, though Andreas catches it before any of the bridesmaids can.
- Butch Lesbian: Myrthala Wong, who dresses in masculine clothing and eventually falls in love with Rebeca.
- Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: Cati doesn't know her birth date or much else about her origin, so she claims the day she met Kira as her birthday and goes on a solo trip on that day every year.
- Fake Relationship: Cati and Andreas pretended to be a couple the first time they met a year before the strip's events, so Cati could avoid the farm lady she stole a goat from.
- Gender Flip: Within the series are 10 chapters of Mister Abbott and the Doctor, with the genders of the main couple reversed.
- Mighty Lumberjack: Andreas tries to act and dress this when he runs off to become a hermit after thinking Cati rekindled her love with Kuarahy, her first boyfriend. But his middle-class upbringing means he's not that outdoors-y, unable to fully chop wood with an axe.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Andreas sees Cati kissing Kuarahy, her old boyfriend from her time living in the Amazon. He runs off, unaware that Cati intended it as a goodbye kiss.
- Never Learned to Read: With her background, Cati Abbott was never taught to read or write, and learns to do both throughout the series.
- Opposites Attract: No one in town expects the straight-laced Andreas to fall in love with the loving and excited Cati, but the chemistry between the two is undeniable.
- Raised by Natives: Cati Abbott was raised in an Amazonian tribe since she was orphaned at four, and even after moving to civilization she still knows a lot of the customs, skills, and practises they taught her.
- Setting Update: The penultimate strip of the run features a one-off version of Abbott and Andreas, which is set in the modern day.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Andreas is often dressed in the most impeccable suits of his era.
- Shout-Out:
- A drawing of Andreas dressed as a lumberjack is captioned "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day!", quoting the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus Lumberjack sketch.
- Elizabeth DeWitt is named after the Bioshock Infinite character of the same name. Though the author had never played the game, instead being named by a Patreon member who had played it.
- A drawing of Andreas dressed as a lumberjack is captioned "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day!", quoting the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus Lumberjack sketch
- Sorry, I'm Gay: The desperate-for-love Mateo tries to form a relationship with Rebeca, but she gently lets him down by telling him that she's into girls.
- Spontaneous Mustache: Whenever Andreas Marino is stressed out, his facial hair can grow very quickly within a day or two, something no one (not even himself) can explain.
- Stag Party:
- In a chapter appropriately titled "Wild Days", Cati Abbott's party has every woman there bowling, burlap sack racing, ball kicking, horse riding, jumping, pole climbing, rope tugging, kite flying, roller-skating, dart throwing, ziplining, face painting... basically every physical activity you can imagine.
- Andreas Marino's party has the men trying to imitate Cati's with the same kinds of physical activity, but Andreas' less wild lifestyle makes it not as fun for him.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Andreas Marino is all of this, and it seems to run in the family as even his grandfather has these same traits.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The final strip sees Cati, 10 years in the future, writing to Rebeca and telling her about all things that have changed since we last saw them.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Exactly which country this story takes place in is never made clear, other than people speaking and writing in English.
