Sabrina Online 'Baby Steps' Collection Paperback – Illustrated, November 30, 2018

Sabrina Online: Baby Steps is a charming and hilarious continuation of the beloved webcomic, following Sabrina's journey into motherhood with witty dialogue, heartwarming moments, and sharp observational humor. The artwork is crisp and expressive, the print quality is excellent, and every page is packed with delightful comic timing that makes it a joy to read!

Like the title of this review says, This was my first book. It was actually cheaper than first two because I didnt had enough for the other 2. But this was a quick read and I became a fan. cant wait for Homecoming though. Also, R.IP. Silverbolt, Sabrina's favorite Beast Wars Transfomers action figure. Also reading this I went to the official site and read 20 years of comics within a week, from the first strip where she was searching for an Internet provider for her Amiga 1200 to the final strip on her Honeymoon with RC and Baby Danielle is conceived. I became a fan so much that I bought a Sabrina plush for my Laptop. I suggest this to any Furry, comic reader, or anyone that wants to read something nice.

Sabrina and friends are at it again this time Sabrina and her husband are having a kid and the crazy adventures continue.Thank you for a funny read.

I like the comic because It's my very first Sabrina Online comic book ever

I have been reading SO for ever it seems. When I saw this book after reading what was posted online I knew I had to get it.

My friend recommended the Comic book to my and he was right it is a good comic

EWS does Sabrina and RC’s start to their adventures in parenthood right! Cross species be damned! Funny and classic Sabrina Online antics.

How do you restart a series after a finale? It is a question Futurama has had to ask many times, and apparently only a year after Sabrina Online finished in 2016; Eric Schwartz was back at it with his long running webcomic. Cancellation didn’t last long for our favorite cult classic webcomic series about a skunk who works graphic design for an adult film studio, and Volume 3 has one story to tell from start to finish, Sabrina’s pregnancy and the birth of her daughter Danielle.The format of the comic and the books has changed here. Gone are the hardcover black and white books we got with Volume 1 & 2, in are softcovers printed in full color. The bonus material is also heavily trimmed back here, with only a brief breakdown of the panel work in one strip at the end included and a tribute list to Schwartz’s Patreons. If Volume 1 and 2 are relics of the early internet, this is very modern with its bright colors brought in with thinner content in the pages.There is also an art shift going into color fully. We lose the newspaper comic style four-panel strips from Volume 1 & 2, and instead get full color six panel pages like a graphic novel. This is very much a rebooted series even if it picks right where the last book left off, and its clear that even if Sabrina’s story is continuing that Schwartz is still treating his finale from the last book as a finale to everything that came before and this story is something new. Unfortunately, while the new full color work is a fun addition, Schwartz’s coloring is often a bit flat and lacks the depth his black & white pieces seemed to have (it becomes especially apparent in some of his later works such as “A Meeting of Moms” which I imagine will be printed in a future Volume 5 if we ever get that), and everything looks a bit to clean and cartoony to carry the same gravitas the newspaper style stuff carried.Which is what makes it hard to critique this book, it is simultaneously a reboot and a continuation. An art shift while also carrying something old with it. But the story material, the history of Sabrina’s pregnancy with Danielle the “prophesied” child from the flash-forward in Volume 2 is essential to Schwartz’s continuing story. Even if the results feel anti-climactic this is a must-read book to transition from what came before to what is coming now, and it is clear that the youthful falling in love rom-com tone of the early books have been switched for a story about the struggle of new parents and forming a family. Yes, that was present with Amy, Thomas and Timmy in Volume 1 & 2, but with Sabrina and Richard now taking that role it has become the series’ main drive.But there are happy endings and character growth going on which prove Schwartz hasn’t lost his writing skills he honed in the last books. Particularly the surprise friendship between Zig Zag and Sabrina’s mother Endora. The promiscuous adult film star fresh out of therapy and the conservative traditionalist end up making a shockingly great friendship which stands out instantly as one of the best series’ post-finale reveals. Endora’s hesitation about a mixed species child slowly erodes away as her friendship with Zig Zag builds, and the moment Endora holds her granddaughter Danielle happily in her arms is a well-earned resolution to that character arc. Zig Zag meanwhile responds well to Endora's religious beliefs even if she doesn't fully understand them, and it is a positive moment of friendship and reconciliation between a strongly bisexual character and a deeply religious one which pays off even more in the following book. It is great to see that Schwartz earnestly believes in his characters growing, improving and changing; and it is very rewarding.Also, there is a lot of slapstick going on here, and Richard ends up receiving the brunt of it. For a series which became very involved in grounded drama in the last volume, it is great to see that manic Tiny Toons/Animaniacs influenced energy return in such an obvious way as fate seems destined to make sure Richard experiences nearly as much pain as Sabrina is during her pregnancy. You can almost imagine Chuck Jones or Tex Avery getting a chuckle as Richard ends up leaving the hospital as both a new father AND with broken ribs. Schwartz only was missing an anvil falling on Richard's head to really sell the Looney Tunes inspiration behind it all. Richard has grown a lot in this series, and his transition into a full-time stay at home dad is a great development for the nascent Conrad family.Of course, Sabrina herself always remains a stellar character, and her move into motherhood is a fun journey to read with all the emotions and physical distress that comes with it. But the character’s signature Amiga computers and Transformers toys “stay on the shelf” so to speak for this story, and her geekiness is outplayed by the emotional journey of parenthood. That is a plot point which will get fleshed out more in Volume 4 (and hopefully a future Volume 5 if it gets printed) but for now Sabrina has begun to drift away from some of the character attributes which have defined her since the early 1990s. How this plays out in the long run is still yet-unseen as this extended epilogue series is at the time of this review a work in progress from Schwartz. But it does mean that in a way Sabrina is a bit more of a blank slate than she had been in the first twenty years of the series, and it still remains to be seen in the long run if Schwartz will fully pay off the character’s role as a new mother while also balancing everything that came before.With that said the overall story itself really lacks any twists or turns. This is very much a generic paint-by-numbers pregnancy story like we have all seen in sitcoms a million times over. The adventure to Sabrina and Richard’s honeymoon in Japan is a nice diversion and the gags of them trying to read foreign pregnancy tests while in Japan is great. But the rest sort of plays out as any pregnancy plot has done before, with a dramatic rush to the hospital and outlandish complications once there, and gushing family and friends rushing in to see the cute baby and celebrate afterwards. I do think it would have been nice if the “Homecoming” arc from Volume 4 had been pushed into Volume 3 instead to provide some of the much-needed closure to this story once Sabrina, Richard and Danielle make it home; but that is not in this book and is waiting for the next.Overall, this book is essential for people wanting to get into the post-finale stories, but it doesn’t make a strong argument as to why Sabrina Online had to continue in the first place. Fortunately, the stories in the following Volume 4 will make that argument much better, but for now Volume 3 is kind of stuck as a “liminal space” story, a transition from where the last book ended which sets up the stage for where this extended epilogue story is taking us. Yes, essential for those wanting to read onwards; but not really the strongest foot to start off on.