TRU-Life Adventures

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.


 * Art Evolution
 * The Atoner:
 * 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.
 * 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.