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The comic revolves around the [[Slice of Life]] tales of Sabrina, a quiet skunk who works as a web designer. Unable to find another job after she was replaced at work by a clip-art library, she finds work as webmaster for a porn studio, run by the flirtatious Zig Zag. However, the tone is gently restrained, with an uncomfortable heroine only now growing used to this bizarre job, while her friends (including her living ''[[Transformers]]'' toys!) around her have their own antics. Updates once a month.

 

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* [[Adorkable]]: Sabrina.

* [[Aside Glance]]: Often enough to smash the fourth wall.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Sabrina's Amiga advocacy, the talking ''[[Transformers]]'' toys, and, by [[Word of God|Schwartz's own admission]], the inclusion of Zig Zag.

** [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: [[Subverted]]; Sabrina's pants are actually skunk-print.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Bringing up Zig Zag's past as anything other than a set of facts (and even that chafes).

* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: Zig Zag has, unsurprisingly, a sixth sense about this sort of thing.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: [[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].

* [[Eye Scream]]: Zig Zag gets a scare 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.

* [[The Faceless]]: 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.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: [http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline570.GIF Some people watching the studio's webcam show certainly think so.]

* [[Glasses Girl]]: Sabrina.

* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Tina Lynx.

* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: Richard's hippie parents.

'''Zig Zag:''' *in cheerful tone* Why? Am I supposed to be taken seriously? }}

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Subverted and lampshaded; [http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline57.GIF during Amy's pregnancy, she borrows a pair of Sabrina's pants, which gives her skunk colored legs]. Sabrina [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to accuse the readers of thinking she was walking around half naked the entire time. (Of course, since she's drawn before, during, and after that as being essentially pants-less, well...)

* [[In the Style Of]]: 1990's era [[Warner Brothers]] cartoons, such as ''[[Animaniacs]]''. In fact, some of the character roster might have actually influenced them, such as Amy, who was first drawn in 1988.

** Arguably, Tabitha looks and acts as a Dot expy.

* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Zig Zag is three quarters skunk, one quarter white tiger.

** Timothy is a quarter fox, a quarter wolf and half squirrel.

'''Amy:''' Well, that's why we have [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|comic strips]]. }}

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Zig Zag, obviously. Sheila and Amy also qualify.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Endora, Sabrina's ultra-conservative mom.

** Happens again [http://www.sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnline580.GIF here], albeit unintentionally on Schwartz's part. See also She Who Fights Monsters above.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Invoked: Zig Zag deliberately makes a lunchtime invitation to Richard look like a proposition for sex, much to his bewilderment.

** [[Art Shift]]: Used when showing panels from ''Lena's''.

* [[Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness]]: It slides an awful lot.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: The "Funny Bunny Man", as Tabitha called him (actually Max Blackrabbit, the fursona of Malcolm Earle, Zig Zag's creator).

* [[Surprise Pregnancy]]: [[Dramatic Irony|Only a surprise to the characters]]...[http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline14.gif since Eric was so kind as to show the audience Timmy's conception].

* [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]: Implied to have happened before Sabrina got her first job.

*** To reference the figure above, if one were to figure every strip wound up averaging one day of time [[In-Universe]], time for the main cast is somehow being distorted into running at ''one tenth'' the speed of normal time.

*** Subverted several times; Sabrina apparently <s>goes</s> went to college, and explains that she does 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 between strips, anyway?"

* [[Wish Fulfillment]]: In one arc, Zig Zag steals papers detailing information on a group of trolls (courtesy of a well-meaning Sabrina) and abuses them psychologically and, in one case, physically.

* [[Write Who You Know]]: Sabrina starts drawing her own web comic, which is based on events that happened previously in the comic.

* [[You Bastard]]: While the 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 [[Sick and Wrong|joke about]] Zig Zag's past.

** Or the author for even [[Dude, Not Funny|bringing it up in the first place]].

 

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[[Category:The Nineties]]

[[Category:Slice of Life Webcomics]]

[[Category:Web Comics]]