Mike: Bookseller

Mike: Bookseller is a gag-a-day webcomic written and drawn by Mike Lugaresi about working in retail. In this comic, Mike and his friends must survive stupid management, annoying co-workers, and of course, angry and unintelligent customers. Recurring characters include Mike's brother, Jason, Benevolent Boss Fab, the incredibly annoying Carol, and Pointy-Haired Boss Lark. Can be found at krrobar.com


 * Accidental Pun: Invoked with the nük e-reader and the sheet e-reader.
 * And now there's the light nük e-reader, which according to the add, is "amazing in bed".
 * Anime Hair: Mike, as well as several customers
 * Apologizes a Lot: Carol
 * Art Evolution: Lugaresi's art has improved since he started the comic. Compare the first comic with comic 573.
 * Author Avatar: Mike
 * Benevolent Boss: Fab is smart, reasonable, and well-liked by his employees.
 * Berserk Button: Mike has many, especially the Christmas muzak blared throughout the store all holiday season long.
 * Bland-Name Product: Booksellers for Barns & Noble, and the nük for the nook.
 * Catch Phrase: What's in the boooox?
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Carol
 * Completely Missing the Point: "So hee hee hee you don't know hee hee where it goes either?"
 * Deadpan Snarker: Mike, as well as many of the other Booksellers employees.
 * Dirty Old Man: Many of the customers, much to the staff's displeasure.
 * Gag Per Day Webcomic
 * Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Jason's incredibly loud Hawaiian shirts.
 * I Thought It Meant: How Tiger Does It
 * Kitsch Collection: Mike collects stuffed giraffes.
 * Mouthful of Pi: "Lark to cash/wrap 3.141592653589."
 * Never My Fault: "Lark, that's a cardboard display of Henry Winkler".
 * Number of the Beast: Causes a customer to freak out here.
 * Oh Crap: Done by Jason here.
 * One of Us: Lugaresi has, at the very least, seen this page.
 * Now referenced in comic.
 * Only Sane Man: The employees at Booksellers tend to cycle through this.
 * Overdrawn At the Blood Bank: Happens to Mike, from a nose bleed.
 * Pointy-Haired Boss: Fab, on so many levels.
 * Pat takes this Up to Eleven.
 * Racist Grandma: While not a grandma (or at least not shown to be one in the comic) Ginger most certainly fits this trope.
 * Refuge in Audacity: Mikes story about Timmy the Turkey.
 * Rule 34: Invoked here. (safe for work)
 * Running Gag: see Accidental Pun
 * Serious Business: Tape
 * Shout-Out: Many to The Princess Bride and other movies.
 * Taken for Granite: Happens to a customer here when Mike smiles.
 * Take That: many towards Twilight and e-readers.
 * The Load: Lark, Carol, and Pat.
 * Time Travel: Used to change the future in order to make the Star Wars prequels watchable.
 * Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: Referenced here
 * Ultimate Job Security: No one is quite sure how Carol still works at Booksellers.
 * Verbal Tic: Carol -hee hee- tends to do this -hee hee- whenever she -hee hee- talks.
 * We Want Our Jerk Back: Everyone was so happy to learn that Lark would be out for four months. Until, that is, they met his replacement, Pat.