Polite Dissent

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).

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.