History Webcomic / SabrinaOnline

* [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html In "A Meeting of Moms"]] an old dog is seen during the cutaway of [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Carlie and Spike]] having rough DestructoNookie their first time (which Carli wanted), asking if the news has said anything about earthquakes since they're being heard RightThroughTheWall. When Carlie later mentions that she knows how to bother Spike enough to turn him on, the old dog is now seen wearing sound mufflers.

* ResistanceIsFutile: Played for laughs [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline98.GIF here.]]

* {{Troll}}:
** A two-part discussion. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline553.GIF Posters online insult and mock Zig Zag]] in the first, and [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline554.GIF she discusses it with Sabrina]]. [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]] is brought up almost by name in the second half.
** The "anonymity" part has been [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline563.GIF subverted]] in that Zig Zag found out. Zig Zag then got her revenge by going to the trolls houses and: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF coming on to one and then walking away]]; [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline565.GIF sleeping with the mom of a second]]; and [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF and beating up a third]].
** Zig Zag eventually learns to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline580.GIF use their own weapons against them]] online.

* DestructoNookie: Spike and Carli have this often, both because [[HugeGuyTinyGirl he's much bigger than her]] and because she ''likes it.'' Their first time, Spike bruised her badly enough she had to go to the hospital, and the doctor lectured Spike about taking advantage of her until Carli spoke up and said it was her idea. [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2023-01.html "Adventures in Hordesitting"]] shows they broke the hotel bed during their night out (and booked under fake IDs knowing they would).

* DelayedReaction:

* TheStoner: Tom Woolfe's new job at a head shop in the later strips depicts his bosses as regularly being too high to nearly function, and Tom as the one sober man in the building other than his son. [[spoiler: As the flashforward shows this ends up granting him great job stability and he's still working at the head shop running the place while the shop owner is blazed out in the backroom.]]
* ThoughtBubble: While baby, most of Timmy's dialogue is shown in one. He even has these before he was born.

* TokenWholesome: Sabrina in her workplace, a porn studio.

Schwartz brought the series proper to an end on the 15th of September 2016, twenty years to the day of the first strip's publication. His announcement said the final strip won't be ''the'' last, but subsequent stories will be on a "when the mood strikes" basis, rather than monthly updates to the comic. Of course, contributing to the strip's [[https://www.patreon.com/SabrinaOnline Patreon]] account can encourage the mood to strike him more often.

The comic's story revolves around the SliceOfLife tales of Sabrina, a quiet skunk who works as a web designer. Unable to find another job after being replaced by a clip-art library, Sabrina finds work as the webmaster for ZZ Studios, a porn studio run by its star and namesake, Zig Zag. The tone is gently restrained, with an uncomfortable heroine growing used to her new job--and an eventual love interest--while her friends around her (including her living ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' figures!) have their own personal adventures in life and love.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Zig Zag refuses to blame any of her behavior [[Freudian Excuse on her tragic past]], and hates it when anyone tries.

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The first after-series comics deal with Sabrina's pregnancy and birth of her daughter Danielle, with later comics showing the lives of her, her family (immediate and extended) and friends as the years pass. Previews of new comics can be seen on Schwartz's Patreon.

The first after-series comics deal with Sabrina's pregnancy and birth of her daughter Danielle.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tabitha to [[FunetikAksent Sabeena]].

** Averted first 20 years, art style or quality have not changed from [[http://sabrina-online.com/1996-01.html 1996]] to [[http://sabrina-online.com/2016-03.html 2016]]. (With the exception of holiday strips and the final strip.) Starting from 2017 the strips have higher resolution, colour and different panel layout (2x6 instead of 3x1, 4x1 or 5x1). As of [[http://sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html 2021]] the author's been gradually changing characters' clothes and hairstyles and aging them up. He also redrew several scenes from the old comic -- like Amy meeting Tom -- in the new style.
** Sadly, in the story arc [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html "A Meeting of Moms"]] the art is less detailed as if done in a rush.

** Every 100 strips, the comic was in color, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline200.JPG such as this one.]] As of the end of the main strip and the strips now being as the author feels, they're all in color.
** Sabrina's webcomic that is an {{expy}} of herself drawn in a grittier style. Lampshaded to no end, of course!

** R.C.'s parents are open and accepting parents who are very concerned to find out whether his sex life with Sabrina is as fulfilling as it should be, mortifying the shy man beyond belief. His father pushes it even further by asking "what it's like with a skunk girl" because he'd always fantasized about it.
** For example, the first time Sabrina met R.C.'s parents, they slipped into his apartment (they have a key) while they were sleeping naked after a night of sex.
** Apparently R.C.'s dad ''grabbed Zig Zag's ass'' at their wedding. Not that she minded, just that she never expected Sabrina's parents-in-law to be so open. He did it again when they were gathering for the birth of Sabrina's child. Richard's mother, Rainy, apparently has ''no'' problem with it, claiming they have a deal where he's allowed to grab Zig Zag's ass once for each ass of a James Bond she's grabbed (they're even now apparently).

Not to be confused with Franchise/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch, or the 1954 film ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Is related to ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD, a comic written from 1993 to 1994 and--while having some of the same characters--is [[SchrodingersCanon not exactly canon]] to ''Sabrina Online''.

Not to be confused with Franchise/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch, or the 1954 film ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''.

''[[http://sabrina-online.com/ Sabrina Online]]'' was a UsefulNotes/{{Furry|Fandom}} Webcomic created by Eric W. Schwartz, who consistently managed to release the comic's monthly batches of strips on time for twenty years (1996 to 2016).

** The strip ends with [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline815.JPG #815]], and a direct call back to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline14.GIF Strip #14]].[[note]]Implying the conception of Danielle, their daughter from the FlashForward strips[[/note]] It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

* FlashForward: The strips for October 2015 through February 2016 [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] this trope; they're set in NextSundayAD, but they're written as if the characters had aged in RealTime since the story began (while the rest of the strip uses WebcomicTime) and set between a mental space out of [[spoiler:R.C. asking Sabrina to marry him and her saying yes]]. Things that have changed in the past fifteen years are that Sabrina and RC [[spoiler:have a 14-year-old child named Danielle who's a tech genius]], Amy and Thomas [[spoiler:have a second child]], Endora [[spoiler:has dementia]], and Tabitha has a job as Zig Zag's errand girl while also still lusting over Timmy. [[note]]Zig Zag said outright she'd never employ Tabitha herself in porn, as she sees her as a little sister.[[/note]]. Notably, [[spoiler:Danielle has been a tech addict since birth]].

** Every 100 strips, the comic is in color, [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline200.JPG such as this one.]]

** Averted first 20 years, art style or quality have not changed from [[http://sabrina-online.com/1996-01.html 1996]] to [[http://sabrina-online.com/2016-03.html 2016]]. (With the exception of holiday strips and the final strip.) Starting from 2017 the strips have higher resolution, colour and different panel layout (2x6 instead of 3x1, 4x1 or 5x1). As of [[http://sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html 2021]] the authour's been gradually changing characters' clothes and hairstyles and aging them up. He also redrew several scenes from the old comic -- like Amy meeting Tom -- in the new style.

* FlashForward:
** The strips for October 2015 through February 2016 [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] this trope; they're set in NextSundayAD, but they're written as if the characters had aged in RealTime since the story began (while the rest of the strip uses WebcomicTime) and set between a mental space out of [[spoiler:R.C. asking Sabrina to marry him and her saying yes]]. Things that have changed in the past fifteen years are that Sabrina and RC [[spoiler:have a 14-year-old child named Danielle who's a tech genius]], Amy and Thomas [[spoiler:have a second child]], Endora [[spoiler:has dementia]], and Tabitha has a job as Zig Zag's errand girl while also still lusting over Timmy. [[note]]Zig Zag said outright she'd never employ Tabitha herself in porn, as she sees her as a little sister.[[/note]]. Notably, [[spoiler:Danielle has been a tech addict since birth]].

** The strips for October 2015 through February 2016 [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] this trope; they're set in NextSundayAD, but they're written as if the characters had aged in RealTime since the story began (while the rest of the strip uses WebcomicTime).
** In the FlashForward, [[spoiler:Sabrina and RC have a 14-year-old child, Amy and Thomas have a second child, Endora has dementia, and Tabitha has a job as Zig Zag's errand girl]][[note]]Zig Zag said outright she'd never employ Tabitha herself in porn, as she sees her as a little sister[[/note]][[spoiler:while also lusting over Timmy.]]

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: R.C.'s parents are open and accepting parents who are very concerned to find out whether his sex life with Sabrina is as fulfilling as it should be, mortifying the shy man beyond belief. His father pushes it even further by asking "what it's like with a skunk girl" because he'd always fantasized about it.

* ArtEvolution: Averted first 20 years, art style or quality have not changed from [[http://sabrina-online.com/1996-01.html 1996]] to [[http://sabrina-online.com/2016-03.html 2016]]. (With the exception of holiday strips and the final strip.) Starting from 2017 the strips have higher resolution, colour and different panel layout (2x6 instead of 3x1, 4x1 or 5x1). As of [[http://sabrina-online.com/2021-01.html 2021]] the authour's been gradually changing characters' clothes and hairstyles and aging them up. He also redrew several scenes from the old comic -- like Amy meeting Tom -- in the new style.

* ArtisticLicenceGeography: Although the comic is explicitly set in the real-life location of Columbus, Ohio, and adheres to real-life geography on a broader scale (correct interstate numbers and travel times between cities for example), in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline80.GIF this strip]] the given address of Double Z Studios - 632 Industrial Pkwy, Worthington - is fictional, as there is no street with that name in that particular suburb. The closest road with that name is a rural highway well to the west.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Special strips for holidays - most especially April Fools - will be completely and utterly medium-aware. The main storyline has [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline306.GIF some]] [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline477.GIF moments]] of this as well.

* CallBack: The strip ends with [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline815.JPG #815]], and a direct call back to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline14.GIF Strip #14]].[[note]]Implying the conception of Danielle, their daughter from the FlashForward strips[[/note]] It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]].

* CatharsisFactor: Part of why Zig-Zag having sex with the mother of one of her cyber bullies just so she can say "I fucked your mom" and mean it CrossesTheLineTwice the way it does. Who of us hasn't wanted to live out such a hilariously sadistic revenge fantasy?

--> '''[[GetOut GET OUT!!]]'''

* CheerfulChild: Tabitha.

* CoolShades: Tina Lynx is always seen with these.
* CovertPervert: Sabrina, as shown [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline55.GIF here.]]

* DisasterDominoes: A pretty humorous example in "Skunk's Day Out" during the amusement park visit. First its small incidents, Sabrina finds herself getting sick on the roller coasters, Zig Zag is stunned by Tabitha asking her about her job as a porn star, people getting over-charged for various food items, etc. [[spoiler: By the end of it all some of Zig's employees had managed to drag almost all of the amusement park's security guards into an orgy in the bushes, Endora has to be physically pried off a roller coaster, and Sheila causes the whole group to be chased out by an angry mob after she is accused of practicing ''Skunkface.'']]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[{{Troll}} Say mean things on the internet]] about Zig Zag and she'll hunt you down to administer [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF beatings]] and\or [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF psychological]] [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline565.GIF torture]].

* EyeScream: Zig Zag gets a scare (cue AtomicFBomb) when she wakes up and finds she has a subconjunctival hemorrhage of the eye, but her doctor says that it's essentially just a bruise.
** She then decides to make the temporary protective eyepatch work for her by filming some pirate-themed porn.
* FantasticRacism: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline381.GIF Zig Zag, as a mixed-breed (her grandfather was a Siberian Tiger and her closer ancestry were skunks), was deemed "too exotic" for mainstream TV or movies, so she went into porn instead]]. She got bullied in school, too.

* TheFaceless: Both Carli's husband and Thomas' father are wolves who, possibly as a species trait, are much taller than anyone else, thus they are only "shot" from the neck down for long periods to avoid awkward scene angles.
** Though Spike, Carli's husband, has had his face shown on his first (at the time unnamed) appearance, and several times more since (he was sitting, so his head was level with Carli's).
* FlashForward: The strips for October 2015 through February 2016 [[PlayingWithATrope play with]] this trope; they're set in NextSundayAD, but they're written as if the characters had aged in RealTime since the story began (while the rest of the strip uses ComicBookTime).
** In the FlashForward, [[spoiler:Sabrina and RC have a 14-year-old child, Amy and Thomas have a second child, Endora has dementia, and Tabitha has a job as Zig Zag's errand girl[[note]]Zig Zag said outright she'd never employ Tabitha herself in porn, as she sees her as a little sister[[/note]] while also lusting over Timmy.]]

* FreudianExcuse (Averted)[=/=]DontYouDarePityMe: Zig Zag refuses to blame any of her behavior on her tragic past, and hates it when anyone tries.

* GenderBender: not in the main strip itself but in an associated animated short titled [[https://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/anims/eric_w_schwartz/RemotePossibilities2.anim.html Remote Possibilities]] where a magic remote turns Sabrina into an Franchise/IndianaJones like character... and Sabrina promptly panics once looking down ''"his"'' pants.
* GenkiGirl: Carli.

* GoodBadGirl: Tina Lynx.

* HarmfulToMinors: Upon learning that Sabrina is stuck babysitting her sister Tabitha and her friends son Timothy, Zig Zag invites them all to the studio for some company. Despite Sabrina's worries about the obvious, Zig has everyone baby proof the studio and move their recordings to the back so neither child would find them, thus defying this trope. Tabitha almost opens a "toy room" while there.

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline559.GIF Here's an example.]]
** Or, for a slightly earlier one:
--> [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline556.GIF "I'd pay you fifty bucks to watch you do something suggestive with a banana."]]
--> [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline323.GIF "How did all this porn get on my system?"]]
* HerCodenameWasMarySue: Sabrina's webcomic.

* TheHedonist: Zig Zag. So much.

* HeelRealization: In [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline752.GIF this]] July 2015 strip, Zig Zag's counseling about her past makes her realize her past antics (like hunting down to attack the people who insulted her online, physically attacking the mugger who almost murdered Sabrina and her sexual harassment of Sabrina to the brink of raping her) is behavior ''exactly'' like her abusive father.

* HulkSpeak: Grimlock, one of the Transformers figures who was running for president, delivers a [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline480.gif speech using this]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: The comic had a series of strips [[http://sabrina-online.com/2010-04.html in December 2010]] which has Zig Zag go on a tirade ala ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' (the two heroes in that film go on the road and beat up everyone who ever criticized them on the Internet). Zig Zag gets offended by comments received online about her, and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF Comic 566]] involves her beating up a guy who said mean things about her because he thinks [[InternetJerk he can say anything on the Internet without consequences.]] The Hypocrisy stems from the fact that Zig Zag is the owner and star of her own porno company, an industry that has historically relied on First Amendment rights to stay in business, the actors of which were constantly under belittlement and lawsuits pertaining for their rights to work in adult films, and sometimes assaulted for doing so. What Zig Zag just did was commit real-world, premeditated, first-degree assault against a random guy who, while they were certainly unpleasant, did not deserve physical violence. [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline569.GIF Comic 569]] has Zig Zag mention that, yes, lots of people '''did''' press changes against her, and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline681.GIF we eventually learn]] that Zig Zag was convicted and paid a fine.

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline194.GIF Zig Zag to Richard]]... in '''''SCARY''''' detail.

* InterspeciesRomance: Discussed in strip 68 - the first of [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/1999-01.html Janurary 1999]]
* InTheStyleOf: 1990s era Creator/WarnerBros cartoons, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. In fact, some of the character roster might have actually influenced them, such as Amy, who was first drawn in 1988.

* JerkAss: Darke Katt. A perpetual grouch who would put even [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar]] to shame, she refuses to socialize with the others in the studio, let alone be in their films. [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline198.GIF She can't stand her job as the janitor and the only reason she hasn't left is that she has nowhere else to go and that the others are polite to her, giving her money and shelter for her work]].
** [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline513.gif Sabrina's Optimus Prime toy, which went on a rampage]] beating up the Decepticon figurines until [[EnfantTerrible Timothy]] [[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline517.gif stepped in and intervened]]!
--->'''Timothy:''' You really need to calm down.
*** To be precise, it's a [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Movie Optimus]] toy, which explains his [[AxCrazy Ax-craziness]]. Also:

* KarmaHoudini: Zig Zag is basically able to do whatever she wants whenever she wants to whoever she wants with little to no consequence, up to and including stalking, sexual harassment, and physical assault.
** Actually, averted. Sure that having a talented lawyer takes care of the remaining lawsuits, but she [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SO_sm569.GIF still has to pay a lot of money for it]], and it's also implied that [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline624.GIF she was banned from Finland as a result of her revenge]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The dude who mugged, and later nearly killed, Sabrina got this in ''spades''. Zig Zag beating the shit out of him proved to be the beginning of a very long --- and, arguably, well-deserved --- HumiliationConga.

* LongestPregnancyEver: Amy was pregnant with Timothy from Feb. 1997 to Jan. 2000.

* LongRunner: Believe it or not, a subversion; in the traditional sense, yes, the webcomic has been up for twenty years uninterrupted. But it isn't a long runner in the sense of number of strips, as it only got to 815 strips.
** As Website/TFWikiDotNet puts it: [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Eric_Schwartz "Sabrina Online has been regularly updated for 26 years, an eternity in the sad, hellish wasteland that is the webcomic world, where hundreds of strips mercifully die every day."]]
* LysistrataGambit: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline401.GIF Inverted]] and later [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline406.GIF subverted]]

* MistakenForPedophile: Nearly averted, but Zig Zag helps Tabitha and poses with her in a "safe for children" photoshoot dressed as Greco-Roman styled goddesses. Zig Zag is so proud of the photos she wants to put them on her ''website'' before Sabrina rushes in and explains why having a famous porn star posing with a child even in an innocent way posted on an X-rated website would ''raise a lot of issues.''
** Zig Zag is absolutely mortified at the implication, and also that for once Sabrina was ''more'' StreetSmart than her.

* MrFanservice: Spike the muscular wolf was obviously made to appeal to female viewers.

* MyBelovedSmother: Endora, Sabrina's ultra-conservative mom.

* NoFullNameGiven: After two decades, we still don't know Sabrina's last (now maiden) name. (Accepted {{Fanon}} says it's simply [[SpeciesSurname "Skunk"]])
** Lampshaded in [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline809.GIF Comic #809]]:

---> Someone offscreen: Oh so THAT'S her last name!
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After learning the same badger that has harrassed her Z.Z colleagues had almost killed Sabrina, she tracks him down and beats him within an inch of his life. While he was still convicted for that and previous crimes, Zig herself was arrested for assault, but the context allowed her to serve a brief jail sentence and paid a fine, though she needed to attend anger management.

** Zig Zag in [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline752.GIF this strip's final panel]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Zig Zag only uses her real name for legal purposes. Sabrina only knows her name because she saw it on tax records. The audience only knows her last name ([[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline88.GIF "Zumbrowski"]]). Now-defunct old website of Max Black Rabbit called her Zinaida, but that may no longer be canon.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Sabrina says that being considered the best live-action ''Transformers'' movie "is kind of like being called the best square dance caller in Hong Kong", mainly for the Autobots' excessive brutality and becoming the DesignatedHero.

* {{Otaku}}: Sabrina and R.C. ''both'' with her love of Transformers and his love of anime and Star Trek. [[spoiler: Their honeymoon (as seen in the post-series strips) is a trip to Japan.]]

* POVCam: The first panel of [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline606.GIF this]] comic.

* PrisonRape: The [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline676.GIF 676]]th strip implies that Sabrina's attacker is about to get acquainted with his cellmate a ''lot'' more than he'd wish. Complete with OhCrap face, of course.

* {{Troll}}: A [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline553.GIF two]]-[[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline554.GIF part]] discussion.
** [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]]:Brought up almost by name in the second half.
*** The "anonymity" part has been [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline563.GIF subverted]] and Zig [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline564.GIF got]] [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline565.GIF her]] [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline566.GIF revenge]]
*** Zig Zag eventually learns to [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline580.GIF use their own weapons against them.]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Timmy.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In 2008, the ''Transformers'' figures held an election with Grimlock defending his presidency against Blackarachnia. The outcome of the election was tied to the result of the 2008 U.S. election, with Grimlock representing [=McCain=] and Blackarachnia representing [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]]; Obama won, so Blackarachnia takes over.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Zig Zag goes on one against the chat room people who made fun of her movies and performances. She takes her porn [[SeriousBusiness very seriously.]]

*** And then the trope was parodied in the January 2013 strips. First, Zig Zag beat the crap out of the mugger. Then Amy found him and gave him a kick just because she wanted to. Then Richard found him... [[SubvertedTrope but he doesn't do any attacking.]]
* [[ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime Robots Walk In at the Worst Time]] Sabrina's Transformers toys decide to reveal they are actually alive [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline176.GIF only to walk in on Sabrina and R.C. in the act.]] The toys just assume Sabrina and R.C. are engaged in some sort of ''"network interfacing."''

** Strips [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline602.GIF 602]] and [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline603.GIF 603]] show Sabrina explaining her ideas for a comic project of hers (including a schedule and an art style mirroring those of ''Sabrina Online'' itself), only to have Amy criticize her choices as ridiculous.
---> '''Amy:''' ([[BreakingTheFourthWall looks straight at the reader]]) So, '''you''' buying any of this?
*** The "Lena" strips were by Schwartz's own admission his way of trying to work through a writer's block with some "painfully meta" humor. The decision to prepare to end the strip on its 20th anniversary was made shortly after the end of the Lena arc, and Schwartz used [[spoiler:the mugger who came back to stab Sabrina]] as the catalyst of change to get the ball rolling for the planned finale.
** "A Meeting of Moms" has all the characters pointing out they don't wear wedding rings, and then commenting that its because it saves the artist time while drawing.

* ShapedLikeItself: Sabrina wears skunk-print pants.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Tabitha during the 15-year time skip seems to have grown quite a slender figure, which the pear-shaped Sabrina is envious about.

** ArtShift: Used when showing panels from ''Lena's''.
* SilentSnarker: Timmy does all his snarking with a thought bubble and AsideGlance.

* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: It slides an awful lot.
* SlidingTimeScale: Though only a couple of years have passed in-comic, since Sept. 1996, the in-comic world has kept pace with real-world events and tech. Which makes early comic gags like Sabrina being impressed that Amy knew how to email files seem odd.
* SmellySkunk: Not all the time, but Sabrina [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF can make it happen should the need arise.]]

* SourPrudes: Zig-Zag sometimes (jokingly, one should hope) [[InvokedTrope calls]] Sabrina a prude because she refuses to become a porn star and because she can sometimes get embarrassed.

* SpitTake: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline168.GIF "Are you a virgin?"]]

* SunglassesAtNight: [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-TS2-34.jpg Tina Lynx, for Purpose 1 of the trope]].

* ThemeNaming: [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]], [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Tabitha and Endora]] are all named after famous fictional witches.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted - Zig Zag had court-ordered therapy, which she continued to attend after her legal obligation had been satisfied. [[spoiler:At least until [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline792.GIF she slept with him]].]]
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Intentionally set up by Zig Zag -- who gets clobbered for it.
* TheStoner: Tom Woolfe's new job at a head shop in the later strips depicts his bosses as regularly being too high to nearly function, and Tom as the one sober man in the building. [[spoiler: As the flashforward shows this ends up granting him great job stability and he's still working at the head shop running the place while the shop owner is blazed out in the backroom.]]
* ThoughtBubble: Being a baby, most of Timmy's dialogue is shown in one. He even has these before he was born.

* TokenWholesome: Sabrina in her workplace.
* TomatoSkunkStinkCure: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline205.GIF R.C. has one after getting caught in the crossfire when Sabrina sprays a mugger.]]
* TwoGamersOnACouch: [[https://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline498.GIF the trope name]] is referenced in the April Fools 2009 strip's title, which depicts R.C. and Thomas playing games on couch and discussing the popularity of gamer webcomics at the time.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Well, technically she's [[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete just a girl who's a friend]], but when [[spoiler: Sabrina is stabbed by a mugger]] Zig Zag tracks him down and beats him senseless, followed up by Amy, who gives him a good kick to the ribs.
** [[RuleOfThree Then R.C. stops by...]]

* WebcomicsLongRunners: Along with ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' and ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', the longest of the long. However, since Eric only posted 3-5 strips per month, the main series ended at 815 strips, so there's not as much ArchivePanic as the others listed here.
* WebcomicPrintCollection: There are currently four volumes collecting the series, two "A Decade in Black & White" and "The Tail of Two Decades" covering the initial 20 year run, and the other two "Baby Steps" and "Homecoming & Skunks Day Out" covering post-series strips. [[spoiler: In addition another volume has some of Schwartz's adult material under the Fur After Dark branding, set within the same universe including the expanded encounter between Zig-Zag and Helen Dish.]]

** Yet Schwartz keeps mentioning real-life products in the comic... So basically, no more than two years have passed in-universe between Windows 95 being the most recent version of Windows, and Sabrina's toys complaining about the new ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''-based Optimus Prime figure.
*** To reference the figure above, if one were to figure every strip wound up averaging one day of time InUniverse, time for the main cast is somehow being distorted into running at ''one-tenth'' the speed of normal time.
*** Subverted several times; Sabrina apparently went to college, and explained that she did this "in the free time between strips" when Amy questions this; another occasion, when Amy wakes up to find her pregnancy greatly developed, and asks "How long was I out?" to which Timmy replies "I don't know. How long is it between strips?"
*** Played Straight, Averted, and Lampshaded simultaneously during the Flash Forward arc.
*** The post-series strips ''really'' spoof this, by pointing out somehow Zig-Zag who was older than Sabrina when she hired her is now ''29'' by the time Sabrina celebrates her ''30th birthday''. Zig-Zag casually quips about her being younger than Sabrina by responding with [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/pages/SO-BD-18.jpg "Don't look at me like that. You're the one who decided to age!"]][[note]]Sabrina's 30th birthday celebration is a nod to her debut as a character in a college newspaper.[[/note]]

*** Danielle born in 2016, is finally a toddler by 2023.

* WhamEpisode: The last 2/3 of the strips released at the end of September 2012 have [[spoiler:Sabrina stabbed by the mugger she sprayed [[ComicBookTime 11 years ago]], though she does make a full recovery]].

* WhereDidWeGoWrong: Richard's parents. They are ultra-liberal flower-child hippies, and extremely open-minded - and he rebelled by becoming a perfectly straight-laced IT graduate, working tech-support for Microsoft.
** His dad is convinced it's because they named him after UsefulNotes/RichardNixon as a gag. It's implied [[https://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline469.GIF he was conceived when they were celebrating Nixon's resignation.]]

* YouBastard: While they don't explicitly say it, this is probably what Sabrina and Tina think of the [[http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline477.GIF viewers]] who want them to [[SickAndWrong joke about]] Zig Zag's past.

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline198.GIF At a Corporate Party]] Darke Katt the Janitor of ZZ Studio's, with Richard being slightly confused as to why when she talks about her job, she hates it so much, and quotes the trope in response to him.