Just another day on the job.
Work Sucks
is a Furry Webcomic focusing on the lives of the characters Gayle and Terra in a bizarre world where animal-kin live among monsters, living day-to-day trying to avoid becoming lunch for the larger beasts. Ironically, their jobs happen to be inside the belly of a giant space whale and home to their boss, Kaz the Jester.
Work Sucks contains examples of:
- Animals Not to Scale: Pretty much every animal character is around the same general size.
- Art Evolution: The first comics were in black and white and sometimes lacked backgrounds. Over time, they've gained more detail, colour, and more intricate background designs.
- Artistic License – Physics: Lampshaded with Gayle pointing out Kaz's ridiculous explanations about gravity and space distortion.
- Bag of Holding: The cast has used several over the course of their careers so far. They range from a backpack with a membrane entrance to weapons to Socks' fanny pack.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Shoes don't exist in this universe.note
- Bigger on the Inside: Fairly common for most monsters. Hoo'va for example has a massive space covered in very powerful monster lungs that create tornadoes whenever he breathes hard.
- Censor Box: Early in the comic Kaz censors Gayle’s potty mouth by painting over his curse words. (When Kaz is preoccupied or just not around though, Gayle’s cursing has gone uncensored.)
- Chekhov's Gun: Nothing in Kaz’s monster care kits goes to waste, nor have devices shown for apparent gags.
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Save for the characters all being normal size, this is pretty much the plot of any given work day for our heroes. Though Terra and Kaz were shrunken by a matter-recombobulator a one point
- Man-Eating Plant: One just outside of Zeppy’s hovering spot has been menacing Gayle. It eventually steals his cell phone and has been shown ordering pizza and eating the delivery boy.
- Protection in Mouth: While shrunken down and trying to save Gayle from Kaz' jilted ex-coworker, Terra liberates a vomit-inducing pill from his pocket to save him from said coworker's sentient tail. Upon being freed, Gayle reveals that he had quickly popped her into his mouth to carry her out with him. Neither comment on this, likely already used to being eaten from workplace experience.
- Rubber Man: Kaz is a rubber lion. He’s been shown to squeak when slapping or being slapped, with his footsteps, and when squeezed al-la a stress toy.
- Swallowed Whole: Kaz is a collector of monsters, many of which like to eat their prey whole and alive, so this happens fairly often. He’s invented several methods to get out of those situations,one of which being a pill called "Pukitol”
- Shrink Ray: A matter-recombobulator Gayle attempts to fix has had several effects, one of which has been shrinking Kaz and Terra.
- Vacuum Mouth: All of the monsters sure are lazy, and seemingly have infinite lung capacity.
- Weapons That Suck:
- Gayle and Kaz use a pair of gunk-shooting guns in a friendly duel, but Gayle's (after some modifications) sucks Kaz into a vortex and traps him in a hammerspace ball.
- While not a weapon, a printing machine was designed to suck in prisoners and print them as paper for transport. Its effects were found to not last long enough
