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The DC Universe has doggy fever, and that’s just fine with me. Last summer audiences around the world fell in love with Krypto thanks to James Gunn’s Superman. But if Superman’s mutt left you wanting more, there is plenty of dog action in the pages of Tom King’s Wonder Woman. The Trinity backup stories have featured tons of cute doggies, including a memorable storyline where Jon Kent and Damian Wayne are transformed into corgis.

According to penciler Belen Ortega, the Bat-Corgi and Super-Corgi storyline happened because King asked her what she wanted to draw and she said corgis.

“For me, coming from manga, which is where you focus a lot on the character emotion and faces, [Trinity] was the perfect miniseries to do with this kind of character because you can focus on the emotion, the tender, the humanity, and plus, drawing dogs, my dogs,” Belen Ortega says during a panel at MegaCon 2026.

“This started as a joke with Tom King asking me, ‘What do you want to draw?’ And then I tell him corgis, because the breed of my dogs is corgis. They are so fun, short legs, very silly, and so loud. And for me it was like a joke, but then he took it so seriously that we did a miniseries based on it. For me it’s the perfect thing to do because we live in a very difficult world and doing something with this heart and tenderness and emotion for me was like putting a piece of heart and love in the world. Tom did a great job in the script because of that. Plus, my dogs will be forever in the comics. So, for me, it’s like a perfect thing.”

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