Loading Artist is a weekly gag-a-day Webcomic by Gregor Czaykowski and can be found at loadingartist.com
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While the majority of the comics are in the style of gag-a-day comics, there is a subtle overall storyline. The comics that do not feature the recurring characters, are actually comics created by the main recurring protagonist. The main recurring protagonist is an artist who draws the comics, and wants to get better at art (thus Loading Artist as he is still in the process of loading).
Recurring characters (no official names yet):
- The Guy with the Hat aka Hat Guy aka Loading Artist aka Gregor
- The Girl aka The Girlfriend aka Jes
- The Friend
- The Cat aka Cat
- The Bird
- The Grim Reaper aka Grim aka Death
- The Boss aka Gamework Boss
- The Colleague aka Gamework Employee
Loading Artist provides examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: His latest invention "Cake-Bot" wants to kill all humans which doesn't keep the board of Corrupt Corporate Executives from putting the product on the market.
- Always Someone Better: Gregor expresses his dismay at this, but someone assures him that he'll always be the best at being himself. Then along comes a shining version of himself with a star on his chest.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A 50-Foot Heart Monster? That's a first.
- Bait-and-Switch: Quite frequently.
- Like in this strip where the heroes are thought dead but then it's revealed the dead bodies were someone else's.
- Like in this strip
- When oogling his money bags that turn out to be dummies.
- When a life support system is confused with a laptop.
- When oogling his money bags
- Become a Real Boy: A robot's wish to become human is not getting fulfilled.
- Big Anime Eyes: Gregor apparently contracts these from staying in Japan.
- Black Comedy Cannibalism: When fried eggs are served to a chicken.
- Cute Kitten: Even astronauts are being sidetracked by cute cat videos on youtube.
- Felony Misdemeanor: A kid gets himself into police custody when opening his Christmas present too early.
- Killer Rabbit: An innocent pet rock turns ugly on a mocking onlooker.
- Minion with an F in Evil: The hero fails the bad boy gang initiation because of too much politeness.
- Not Hyperbole: It really was the map to his heart.
- Pity the Kidnapper: Happens with this bratty kid that nags its kidnapper with Are We There Yet? to the point where the man loses his patience and lets the kid go.
- Puddle-Covering Chivalry: Subverted in this strip where the man places his jacket over a puddle but it turns out he was using it to do laundry rather than helping his date across the puddle.
- Keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe while your rubber raft loses air.
- Trying to backup your files while the computer is on fire.
- Keep playing
- Stock Money Bag: Parodies in this strip where the hero's business plan consists of two steps: (1) buying stock money bags and (2) actually filling them up with money.
- 30 Minutes, or It's Free!: A variation. They promise not to charge if the pizza is cold on arrival. Cue the Loophole Abuse involving ice cubes.
- Umpteenth Customer: The One-Millionth Criminal gets a free trip to Hawaii.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: The hero waking up on the moon after a night of heavy drinking.
