More Talking Animals

June 3rd, 2006

Filed under: Comics

So last week we talked about comic book characters who were talking animals. But what about when the main character of a book becomes a talking animal? I’m not talking about Peter Parker turning into some bizarre spider-like beast (and lycanthropes don’t count either), but instead when heroes actually become talking animals for a time.

The classic example has to be Walter Simonson’s Frog Thor storyline, but my personal favorite is when Doctor Strange ends up in the body of a rat for the first two issues of Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme.

For your edification, here’s the cover of Thor #366 (April 1986) and the rat Dr. Strange handling the Wings of Needless Sorrow in anticipation of a battle with Dormammu (from Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #2).

cover, Thor #366Dr Strange (as a rat) handling the Wings of Needless Sorrow

Wonder Woman being turned into a pig in the JLU episode “This Little Piggy” is almost another example, but I’m not counting it as it wasn’t a comic book, and she wasn’t a talking pig.

4 Responses to “ More Talking Animals ”

  1. MacQuarrie
    June 4th, 2006 at 12:16 am

    The Phantom Proofreader strikes again!

    “Thor #366 (April 1896)”

    Missed it by 90 years….

  2. Marionette
    June 4th, 2006 at 9:13 am

    It was a very good pig, though.

  3. Bardiac
    June 5th, 2006 at 12:01 am

    What, no Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

    They not only talked, but had GREAT names!

  4. SanctumSanctorumComix
    November 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Does it count if Doctor Strange wasn’t ACTUALLY “talking” but instead “thinking” or doing “animal speak” which was translated for we readers?

    The near entirety of his “dialoge” is in thought balloons.
    Except for the instance where he is communicating with the same frogs that THOR ruled (when HE was a frog). But even then, Strange spoke in the FROG’s tongue and they understood him only then.

    The empathic TOPAZ was able to read his thoughts, however.
    Dormammu, of course, understood him, because such is the way of dark magic.

    At least that’s what they told me at the orientation meeting.
    ;-)

    ~P~
    PTOR

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