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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 here. As of May 2020, it's still active.

Tropes used in TRU-Life Adventures include:

Art Evolution
The Atoner: 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. 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 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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 '''''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].
+Oh, and you can find it [http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com here].  As of May 2020, it's still active.
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-=== '''Tropes featured''': ===
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 * [[Art Evolution]]
 * [[The Atoner]]:  {{spoiler|Jack}}
 * [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:Jack
-* [[Crossover]]: Two, to be precise. One with [[Tao Of Geek]], and another, much earlier, with [[A Better Life Than This]]
+* [[Crossover]]: Two, to be precise. One with [[The Tao of Geek]], and another, much earlier, with [[A Better Life Than This]]
-* [[Everythings Better With Bob]]
+* [[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.
+* [[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.}}
+* [[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 [http://www.crowncommission.com/dailygrind/ Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge], and hasn't missed a Monday-thru-Friday update since 2005.
+* [[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.
+* [[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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 [[Category:Embellished Webcomics]]
 [[Category:Sci Fi Webcomics]]
-[[Category:Tru Life Adventures]]
+[[Category:TRU-Life Adventures]]
-[[Category:Webcomic]]
+[[Category:Web Comics]]