TRU-Life Adventures

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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.

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Tropes featured:

• Art Evolution
• The Atoner: Jack
• Cloudcuckoolander:Jack
• Crossover: Two, to be precise. One with 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.