Monday, September 16, 2024

Animorphs: The Predator (Alien, Lobster, Scorpion, Ant, Tiger, Gorilla Transformations)

Volume 5 of the Animorphs Graphic Novel series directly follows volume 4 (posted elsewhere in this update, scroll up), which introduced the alien Ax, who can morph into a human. On the cover we see him morphing back into an alien:

That's a preview of things to come. Beforehand we see Ax morphing to jis human form.



Our heroes head to the mall, where Ax draws attention to himself and gets chased by the mall cops. The stress makes him turn back into an alien:

To hide from the authorities, our heroes turn into lobsters:


They get purchased and taken to someone's home. Just as they're about to be boiled alive they revert:

Afterward, Marco has a nightmare where he and Jake partially transform into scorpions:




Later on they turn into ants but find themselves under attack and turn back into humans:

And in the finale, Marco and Jake turn into a gorilla and tiger:




 

Note: I've occasionally reordered and recombined panels, so blame confusing pages on me rather than the artist. I wanted to focus on the transformation scenes and minimize the amount of pages posted.

Blood Hunters & Shudder (Werewolf Transformations)

 Marvel's other famous werewolf, Man-Wolf, appears in Blood Hunters #1:



 

And as a bonus, here's a page from Shudder #2, involving another lycanthrope:

Zenki and Togekichi (Tiger Transformation)

"Zenki and Togekichi: The Tale of Climbing Dragon Hill" was a one-shot manga published in Jump GIGA (Winter 2021).

Synopsis: "Childhood friends Zenki and Togekichi take on the mystery of a mysterious slope that never goes downhill. Several former human beastmen appear on the mysterious slope, and the protagonist, Zenki, also transforms into a tiger-like beastman as he climbs the slope."












There's also a reproduction of the comic on YouTube with a voice cast, but it's all in Japanese.

Violence Jack (Werewolf Transformations)

My thanks to Imitater on our Discord channel for finding this scene from Violence Jack (vol. 5, chapter 1, "Evil Town Part 2"). It involves murder, rape, and nudity, and is thus NSFW!

The horror starts when a group of thugs turn into werewolves while forcing themselves on a several women:









 

One of them reverts after getting scared:


 

Then Violence Jack barges in and proceeds to murder the werewolves, who either revert before running away or after getting killed:






This chapter was faithfully adapted into anime, except the werewolves! Apparently rape and slicing people in half was okay but nobody wanted to draw transformation scenes. 

The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror (Monster Transformation)

 In issue #21 Homer drinks from a Slurpee machine that Apu had dumped some monsters in:



Boy & Dragon (Muscle Growth/Monster Transformation)

Here's the tagline for "Full Moon-icorn," the ninth episode from the third season of Boy & Dragon: "When Girl drops off Unicorn at Boy and Dragon's, her precious pony transforms into a ferocious Were-Unicorn."

I'm not entirely sure if the unicorn is male but the buff monster it turns into definitely looks it!

Lycan: Solomon's Odyssey (Werewolf Transformation)

This graphic novel is set in 8,000 BC and tells "the story of Solomon, the world’s first werewolf." You can buy it directly from the creator as a softcover or digital download.

Solomon makes a deal with a demon:

And of course it backfires: