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->'''Mal:''' Sim? Want to get a beer after work?\\
'''Sim:''' That would interrupt my prayers for death.
-->-- ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201108174638/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/the-beginning-of-the-end/ Cthulhu Slippers: The beginning of the end]]''

''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200519155820/http://cthulhuslippers.com/ Cthulhu Slippers]]'' is an [[WorkCom office comedy]] webcomic set after the return of Creator/HPLovecraft's Great Old Ones. Written by Andrew Jack and drawn by Natalie Metzger it chronicles the misadventures of Mal, Sim and Zoe, three humans stuck working for [[MegaCorp Cthulhu Corp]] after the end of the world.

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!! This comic provides examples of:
* AmnesiacDissonance: After Zoe resets reality to deal with a squid problem, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201108130815/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/a-little-problem/ Cthulhu briefly reverts to his pre-Cthulhu Corp ways]].
* AndIMustScream: Mal becomes trapped in a strange void where death does not exist. Apparently being digested is possible but perhaps is not fatal.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Lord Wuzzy, head of Marketing, is shaped somewhat like a kitten with a disproportionately large head, tiny ears, and a distended smiling mouth that ''spirals'' at the corners.
* ApocalypseHow: The comic exists somewhere between Class 1 and Class 2.
* AuthorAvatar: Writer Andrew Jack has made it fairly clear that Mal, the dim witted protagonist, is supposed to be him.
* BlackMagic:
** Sim makes liberal use of this to send a case of 'Can O' Shoggoth' to a difficult customer.
** Virtually the entire computer system runs on this.
** Averted in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025853/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/summon-cthulhu/ this strip]] as it turns out you can summon Cthulhu with beer and chips.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Despite their immense destructive power, the abominations that run Cthulhu Corp aren’t evil so much as selfish, alien and [[IdiotBall criminally stupid.]]
* CatsAreMean: Lord Wuzzy, head of marketing appears to be a very large kitten. A very large, very mean, very dangerous talking kitten.
* ComedicSociopathy: Sim has no problems killing other people, or even field testing his only friend's body armour while said friend is ''still wearing it.'' Not that Mal has any problems with the latter, either.
* CosmicHorror: All of the Great Old Ones are this to some degree, but Hastur in particular fits this trope. Even his... toilet business has tentacles and spikes.
* CrapSackWorld: It's played for laughs, but the world has gone through being [[ApocalypseHow doomed]] and come out the other side.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Mal straps the Necronomicon to his chest thinking an indestructible book makes a good bulletproof vest. He's mostly right, although the book hates him for it.
* CuteIsEvil: The failed Cthulhu Corp product 'My First Necronomicon' is both adorable and in many ways far worse than the real Necronomicon, especially if you haven't [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024833/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/my-first-necronomicon/ deleted your browser history.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Mal and the ceiling squid. The squid even comes to Mal's defence against a knife wielding cultist.
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Cthulhu himself is surprisingly nice.
* EldritchAbomination:
** Most of characters who aren't in the main cast are this to some degree.
** The personification of internet hate is a more literal example, but it's still played for laughs.
* HumanResources: Nyarlathotep takes his job as Human Resources manager very literally.
* ImprovisedArmour: In the page image Mal has strapped the Necronomicon to his chest as protection against...pretty much everything.
* InconvenientSummons: Mal gets out of being sacrificed to Hastur by summoning him himself, before he's had his coffee, and blaming it on the coworker who was about to kill him.
* InhumanResources: Nyarlathotep is not what you'd hope for in a HumanResources manager. Still his depredations are better than working in the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201111151242/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/even-after-the-apocalypse-working-in-a-call-centre-still-sucks/ call centre.]]
* KillerRabbit: "No one had warned [[FishPeople Lord Dagon]] about the seagulls, which were also hungry. He will be missed."
* LovecraftLite:
** The Old Ones rise. People die. The few humans that remain are subject to the whims of all powerful monsters with no morals. It’s played for laughs.
** Again, Dagon got killed offscreen by seagulls.
** Reprinting the Necronomicon makes the knockoffs LighterAndSofter to the point that they're finally recalled for being ''[[PokeThePoodle truly annoying]]'' rather than dangerous. And also, they replaced [[MustHaveCaffeine Hastur's]] coffee [[ThisMeansWar with decaf]].
* MayContainEvil: ‘Can O’ Shoggoth’. 100% fatal, 100% of the time. It’s insanely popular.
* MuggingTheMonster At Cthulhu Corp [[http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/hastur-hastur-hastur/ don't bother Hastur until he's had coffee.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: Hastur demands his coffee.
-->'''Hastur''': WHO DARES DISTURB HASTUR BEFORE COFFEE HAS BEEN INGESTED?
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Mal strips down a lot, and one time when he's trapped in the dreamworld he goes streaking through Nyarlathotep's dreams.
* NoodleIncident: We never do learn why [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112041457/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/squid-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/ Sim is sending Mal all those squid]].
* ObviouslyEvil: Nyarlathotep is clearly evil, even if he is still a little goofy looking.
* OnlySaneMan: Usually Zoe, occasionally [[{{Irony}} Hastur]].
* PlayedForLaughs Every horrible thing that happens is this.
* SigilSpam: Magic glyphs are everywhere. Buildings still standing outside of Cthulhu Corp must bear a Cthulhu Approves! sticker.
* SealedEvilInACan: The personification of all internet hate was sealed on page 2 of the Google results of Zoe's search. No one had ever checked it before.
* ShoutOut: So many. To HPL himself almost constantly, not to mention a shout out to the Franchise/EvilDead series in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201111193814/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/the-necronomicon/ this comic]].
** The main character's names are a shoutout to ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Cthulhu looks quite a bit like an Eldritch octopoid [[DoctorWhoRevivalSeriesDoctors Eleventh Doctor.]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201111211350/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/a-truly-crazy-cruise/ This strip]] is a shout out to Music/{{Jonathan Coulton}} and [[https://jococruise.com/ his annual JoCo Cruise]].
** The book 'My First Necronomicon" is a shoutout to the [[http://littlestlovecraft.com/ Littlest Lovecraft]] children's book.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112012359/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/boldly-go-captain-kirk/ This strip]] is a shout out to Franchise/{{Star Trek}} combined with a TakeThat.
** Nyarlathotep calls Mal (after he runs naked through Nyarlathotep's dreams - it's a long story) the "[[NakedPeopleAreFunny King in Nothing]]", a reference to Hastur being called Literature/{{the King In Yellow}}.
** The Hex Box, aside from being an obvious TakeThat at the Platform/XboxOne, could also be a veiled Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} reference, as a similarly named console (this one based more on the Platform/Xbox360) can be seen getting cut in half in Issue #8.
* StealthPun: When Zoe's internet search releases a manifestation of internet hatred, she summons Lord Wuzzy from Marketing, a kitten-shaped AnimalisticAbomination. Instead of a cat macro, it's a ''macro cat''!
* SummonBiggerFish: How do you deal with the embodiment of internet hate? [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190923131808/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/the-internets-greatest-weapon/ Summon a giant cat]].
* ThisLoserIsYou: Mal, although to be fair it could also be said that this loser is the comic's writer too.
* ToiletHumour: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020629/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/give-it-a-minute/ This strip]] has a fairly clean example.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon. Mal has a copy in his desk. It has the email addresses of all of the Elder Gods inside and a penchant for installing undeletable search bars on people’s web browsers.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Hastur [[MustHaveCaffeine will murder for coffee]], Cthulhu enjoys beer and chips, and Nyarlathotep favors the blood and organs of the innocent.
* WorkCom with a side of Lovecraftian horror (-comedy).
* XDaysSince: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200225190110/http://cthulhuslippers.com/comic/workplace-hazards/ "It has been XX days since an employee was eaten by a nameless horror."]]
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Mal becomes Human Resources manager after he kills Nyarlathotep (again, it's a long story).
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