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'''''TRU-Life Adventures''''' is a long-running webcomic set primarily at a toy store. The characters regularly deal with all the hazards that come from working retail: bad customers, worse management, an epic time-travel war that threatens to destroy reality. So yeah, things can get a little strange.

Oh, and you can find it [http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com here].  As of May 2020, it's still active.

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* [[Art Evolution]]
* [[The Atoner]]:  {{spoiler|Jack}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:Jack
* [[Crossover]]: Two, to be precise. One with [[The Tao of Geek]], and another, much earlier, with [[A Better Life Than This]]
* [[Everything's Better with Bob]]
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: Star*Squad takes the place of most [[Star Trek]] or [[Star Wars]] references. 
** Ditto Hyperforce and the [[Superhero]] universe of your choice.
** Toymania=Toys R Us.
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Averted. Darby is the third female to appear in the strip, after Stephanie and Kendall.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]:The good guy time travelers are the Time Line Authority. The bad guy time travelers are the Chronal Hierarchy: Advanced Operations Syndicate.
** CARD unit--Controlled Applications of Reality Distortion
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Jack spends a week claiming to see the audience.  {{spoiler|He never actually looks directly as us, however.}}
* [[MacGuffin]]: the Bleak Diamond.
* [[Meta Origin]]: Anyone exposed to the timestream gets superpowers.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Everyone gets moments like this, with Bert, Stephanie, and Kendall having the most legitimate claims. 
* [[Schedule Slip]]:The cartoonist used to have trouble maintaining a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. Then he signed on for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111225019/http://www.crowncommission.com/dailygrind/ Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge], and hasn't missed a Monday-thru-Friday update since 2005.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Several webcomic characters have popped up as customers. Others have appeared as toys.
* [[Take That]]: Derek, the [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]], doesn't think much of Twilight.

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