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: Even at being yourself.
- April Fools' Day: Here and here.
- Are We There Yet?: Extreme situations call for extreme measures.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Is being asked here.
- Art Shift: In this self portrait.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A 50-Foot Heart Monster? That's a first.
- Bad Date: Can be inferred here.
- 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.
- Or when You Must Be This Tall to Ride causes the hero to resort to unexpected measures.
- When commenting on the advancements in technology.
- When oogling his money bags that turn out to be dummies.
- When a life support system is confused with a laptop.
- Like in this strip
- Beat Panel: In “Programming”.
- Black Comedy Cannibalism: When fried eggs are served to a chicken.
- Comically Missing the Point: Subverted when "this" is being explained.
- Cupid's Arrow: Played for laughs with a drunk cupid.
- Cute Kitten:
- Invoked due to an emergency.
- Even astronauts are being sidetracked by cute cat videos on youtube.
- Invoked due to an emergency
- Daydream Surprise: In “Candy Craving”.
- Deconstruction: In “Hell”.
- Do Wrong, Right: Giving a thief a hand.
- Electromagnetic Ghosts: Here.
- Exact Words: What did you think anti-aging cream is good for.
- False Start: Here.
- "Far Side" Island: The setting of "Island".
- Felony Misdemeanor: Opening your Christmas present too early.
- Fourth-Wall Portrait: Here.
- Freudian Couch: The donut in this strip is put onto one.
- Fright Beside Them: In Purrtergeist.
- Genie in a Bottle: In Wishful Thinking.
- Grammar Nazi: Who would sell his grandmother for a correctly spelled greeting card.
- Great White Hunter: Subverted in Trophy Hunting.
- Hit Stop: Depicted in last panel of this strip.
- Hollywood Mirage: Subverted. This happens when being Wrong Genre Savvy.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- When a character mocks Let's Play as a waste of time.
- When a character complains about mobile phones needing a recharge every night.
- When a character mocks Let's Play as a waste of time
- I Ate WHAT?!: In “Roast Chicken”
- Interrupted Suicide: In Lifted Spirits.
- ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: In Dead Inside.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: Who takes a ghost serious in a banana dress?
- Just Friends: Ascandles.
- Kidnapped by an Ally: Well, at least that's what the father wants his son to believe about the kidnapping of this rat.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: A ballon while doing a Dying Declaration of Love.
- Killer Rabbit: An innocent pet rock turns ugly on a mocking onlooker.
- Killer Robot: Hug-Bot.
- Loony Fan: The fan who wouldn't let go.
- Magic Misfire: Causing Your Head A-Splode here.
- Message in a Bottle: In Message in a Bottle.
- Minion with an F in Evil: The hero fails the bad boy gang initiation because of too much politeness.
- New Year's Resolution: In No Years Resolution.
- Nothing Is Scarier: I Want Nothing. Just what was in the box?
- Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: The barkeeper in this strip.
- Old-School Chivalry: Please let this moment never end.
- One-Person Birthday Party: In Happy Birthday to Me.
- Parental Abandonment: Topic of this strip.
- The Perfectionist: In Standards.
- Pinocchio Syndrome: A robot's wish to become human is not getting fulfilled.
- Pity the Kidnapper: Happens with this bratty kid.
- Reality Ensues: An Aesop wants to be told about a Butterfly of Transformation but then reality gets in the way.
- Reveal Shot: Lots of them.
- In Message in a Bottle.
- When the character gets lost ... playing a video game.
- When a classroom test turns into an Alien Abduction scenario.
- When fishing for success.
- When making a life-turning decision at the diner.
- In Message in a Bottle
- Room Full of Crazy: Played for laughs here.
- Sell-Out: In Social Marketing.
- Skewed Priorities:
- In Emergency Service and Internet Time.
- Keep playing Tic Tac Toe while your rubber raft looses air.
- Trying to backup your files while the computer is on fire.
- Have police pay dearly for their money change.
- In Emergency Service
- Skyward Scream: In Spray and Slay, along with a Big "NO!".
- 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.
- String Theory: This detective may be after a Red Herring.
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines: The hero in this strip is using Innocent Innuendos for picking up girls which apparently doesn't get him anywhere. In another strip he resorts to If I Can't Have You... after delivering another pathetic pick-up line.
- 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.
- Turbine Blender: In Mama.
- Umpteenth Customer: The One Millionth Criminal gets a free trip to Hawaii.
- Villain Protagonist: Comes as a Reveal Shot in this strip.
- Wowing Cthulhu: With a bracelet.
- Writer's Block Montage: The hero in this strip.
- X-Ray Sparks: In Silver Lining.
- You Must Be This Tall to Ride: In "Vomitron".
