diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2758da..940b8bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ features we wanted in this app is that we had a nice way to:
 
 1. Clear notebook cells 
 2. Be able to confirm that the notebook can run without errors.
-3. Be able to deal with solutions via `%load` magic.  
+3. Be able to deal with solutions via `%load` magic.
+    - Including cells starting with `%load`, and commented-out versions `# %load` and `#%load`.
 
 # Quick-Start 
 
diff --git a/asekuro/common.py b/asekuro/common.py
index 41d112c..cfd17e1 100644
--- a/asekuro/common.py
+++ b/asekuro/common.py
@@ -108,10 +108,16 @@ def make_testable_notebook(nbpath, remove_meta=True):
         if cell['cell_type'] == 'code':
             if '%load ' in cell['source']:
                 logger.info(f'found %load-magic in cell with id={cell["execution_count"]}')
-                logger.info(cell['source'])
-                py_path = cell['source'].replace('%load ', '')
+                logger.info(f'original cell content: {cell["source"]}')
+                py_path = (
+                    cell['source']
+                    .replace('# %load ', '')
+                    .replace('#%load ', '')
+                    .replace('%load ', '')
+                )
                 with open(py_path, 'r') as f:
                     cell['source'] = f.read()
+                logger.info(f'after loading cell content: {cell["source"]}')
     nbformat.write(notebook, open(_testfile(nbpath=nbpath), mode='w'))
     logger.info(f"wrote notebook ready for testing over at {_testfile(nbpath=nbpath)}")
 
diff --git a/tests/notebooks/commented-load.ipynb b/tests/notebooks/commented-load.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43bd444
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/notebooks/commented-load.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "6a355e27-c054-45f8-b779-b3c804ec6dee",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# %load nbcontent.py"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "9e4dd49f-abf1-4f0a-96d8-06c60d5ab24c",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "test_value == 42"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "ee9c81cb-e1b4-40ed-9c98-32973ad4c3ea",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "#%load nbcontent-2.py"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "0131b124-1e5d-4d14-a9ab-79e4968460ca",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "another_test_value == 42"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.11.3"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/tests/notebooks/nbcontent-2.py b/tests/notebooks/nbcontent-2.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84fd19b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/notebooks/nbcontent-2.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+another_test_value = 42
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_commandline.py b/tests/test_commandline.py
index 3b24271..c3112eb 100644
--- a/tests/test_commandline.py
+++ b/tests/test_commandline.py
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ def test_data_nb(self):
         status = subprocess.call(['asekuro', 'test', 'data-nb.ipynb'])
         assert status == 0
 
+    def test_commented_load(self):
+        status = subprocess.call(['asekuro', 'test', 'commented-load.ipynb'])
+        assert status == 0
+
     def test_bad_bn(self):
         status = subprocess.call(['asekuro', 'test', 'bad-nb.ipynb'])
         assert status == 2