Web comics

The web comics listed on this page all feature transformation themes, or have had plots in their runs with significant transformation content.

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Transformation plotlines

Absurd Notions

http://www.absurdnotions.org/page50.html

This is sort of a second-order storyline - the characters of Absurd Notions are playing a sword-and-sorcery roleplaying game, and in it one of their characters has just tampered with a magical artifact and turned herself into a squirrel. She remains a squirrel for the remainder of the adventure, with many implications explored.

Bullfinch

http://bullfinchcomic.com/2008/11/05/2008-11-05-bf/

A relatively new (mid-2008) modern-fantasy comic about an office populated by various fantasy characters from myth though modern fiction. In a short arc, K.C. Rankin is transformed into a squirrel for the weekend as punishment for calling his unicorn office-mate a "mutant horse". The comic is fairly new, but given the theme and setting, it seems future transformation is likely.

Dandy & Company

http://www.dandyandcompany.com/2007/01/22/ - By Derrick Fish

A boy and his dog swap roles. In fact, every boy and dog in the world swap roles, though only Dandy and Bernard are aware of it.

After going though the archives back to 2001, the comic actually has a number of other, smaller transformation themed plots scattered through the series. These include a couple of "fourth wall" fights with the cartoonist, a past Halloween arc where a human character became a werewolf (or rather, a heckhound), evil doppelgangers that invent a transformation device, and a demon character that can apparently change shape and grant twisted wishes.

Gunnerkrigg Court

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=230

This chapter features a romantic interlude with a transformational twist.

It's Walky!

http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030825.html

This chapter is nigh-incomprehensible without having read the rest of the comic. The Walkyverse isn't friendly to casual browsing. This particular chapter features the villains and two main characters being genderswapped, one of them that rarity of rarities, female-to-male. It brings us the questions "What's it[being a guy] like?" "What's it[being a girl] like?" and the classic answers, "Like keeping a little dog around that barks at everything" and "Like all the voices in my head are gone 'cept for one. ...And that voice wants matching shoes." At the end of the chapter, reality's integrity starts to collapse, making things very weird.

Order of the Stick

http://giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=175

Order of the Stick is a webcomic poking fun at the foibles of the [wiki:WikiPedia:D20_System d20 game system] used by Dungeons and Dragons. In this storyline our intrepid adventurers encounter an Annis (or possibly a Green Hag) who hexes the gender-ambiguous elf mage Varsuvius with a baleful polymorph spell, turning him into a lizard. He remains a lizard for a while.

http://giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=9

Ah, the famous [wiki:WikiPedia:Dungeons_&_Dragons Dungeons & Dragons] magic item, the [wiki:WikiPedia:Girdle_of_Femininity/Masculinity Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity]. Order of the Stick is a webcomic that features a band of adventurers who know full well that they're operating by the d20 ruleset of 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons, and in many cases exploit the foibles thereof. In this strip they find such a girdle after a battle with ogres, and one of the characters secretly takes it along with him. It finally came into play over two hundred strips later:

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=233

PvP

http://www.pvponline.com/2005/11/18/fri-nov-18/

Last Halloween a bout of lycanthropy made the rounds of the characters. Turns out one of them liked it.

Sacred Pie

A long-running story about three friends who have been sucked into an interstellar sci-fi adventure battling the forces of Satan himself.

http://sacredpie.com/moon1.html - Chapter 19, "By the Light of the Moon"

In this chapter, the trio are trapped on a prison world run by a "vampire" named Var. Having won Var's respect in a previous chapter, he now assigns them to collect a bounty on a Lupine - a species with shapeshifting abilities similar to werewolves. One of our heros is bitten and gains the ability himself.

Sluggy Freelance

Another long-running and complex story, starring Torg, Riff, Zoe and Gwynn.

http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000421

Gwynn has been secretly learning magic and in a previous storyline attempted to use a love potion on Riff. Things went embarassingly awry and Torg found out. Now Gwynn wants to keep him from revealing this information, so she casts a spell that will "make an ass of him" whenever he tries to say anything important. This causes trouble as Torg takes Zoe out for a date and then encounters Oasis, an insane ninja assassin who is in love with him and will kill anyone she thinks might be a rival for Torg's affections.

http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001225

It's Christmas and Torg gives Zoe a necklace he picked up in an Egyptian pyramid he was trapped in with Riff some time back. Naturally, the necklace is cursed - Zoe immediately turns into a camel.

Tantalizing hints

Two Kinds

http://twokinds.keenspace.com/d/20040308.html

This webcomic appears to have a setting similar to that of Black Tapestries, a fantasy world in which there are humans and several races of furries who are at war with each other. The humans have powerful magic users called "Templars". There isn't any sustained TF content yet, but two days' strips (the first day is linked above) contained a TF in a flashback scene that holds the potential to have implications later.

Lost webcomics

These webcomics have been taken offline or have unknown URLs.

The Sinner Dragon

http://www.sinnerdragon.com/ (last known) by Gilda Laura Rimessi. Livejournal: http://sinner-dragon.livejournal.com/

A sword-and-sorcery fantasy with both werewolf and weredragon main characters.

Others

Slow Wave

http://www.slowwave.com/index.php

A weekly comic that serves as a sort of collective dream diary in the form of comic strips, the same kind as found in a daily newspaper. It's a Dada Comic without any overarching plot; these are the strips that involve TF in one way or another.

2004-04-03 2004-10-23 2004-10-30 2005-02-19 2005-03-12 2005-04-16 2005-04-30 2005-06-25 2005-07-23 2005-11-05 2005-11-26 2006-01-14 2006-02-04 2006-03-25 2006-10-07 2007-04-07 2007-04-14 2007-12-22 2008-02-02 2008-03-01 2008-03-08 2008-03-29 2008-04-05 2008-09-13 2008-10-11 2009-02-07

Weesh

About a rabbit which could grant wishes. In one episode, a girl wishes all to be furry, then to be kitty. One-shot TF. 2009-03-13