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
Tropes used in Mike: Bookseller include:
- 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.