CM Punk To Pen Thor Story For Marvel Comics Next Year
From the archive: published Nov 10, 2014, 11 years ago. Details may have changed since.
The worlds of comics and wrestling will collide this February, kind of, as former WWE superstar CM Punk will pen an issue of Marvel’s Thor comic focusing on the Thunder God’s younger years.
The news came on Monday via a Marvel Comics news item that interviewed the wrestling great about the project.
“I can’t remember,” CM Punk told the interviewer when asked how he came to write a Thor comic, “and I knew you were gonna ask me that. I’ve been thinking for the past two hours like, ‘How did this all come about?’ I mean, you know I’ve been pestering people at Marvel. I think it might’ve been…well, I think I met you at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, something like that?”
CM Punk will be writing Thor Annual #1, a special edition comic that will not feature in regular Marvel continuity. That issue of Thor will be CM Punk’s first comic-style script, and the wrestler says that he needed a bit of guidance to get into the comic writing groove for his stint on Thor.
“[Thor Annual eitor Jon Moisan] forwarded me a bunch of scripts that I can look at,” CM Punk explained, “like specifically he’s sending me Thor books, and he sent me scripts for them so I can see how scripts can be broken down into the actual comic book form.”
Just what will CM Punk’s Thor story be about? The interview doesn’t go into too much detail, but CM Punk does say that his story will focus on Thor’s younger years.
“So the idea was,” he said, “let’s do a story about young Thor as a kind of brash, bratty teenager who’s like, ‘I’m totally worthy of this hammer. My dad’s full of [expletive]. I don’t know why I’m not “worthy” of the hammer. Look at all this cool stuff I did.'”
That means, of course, that CM Punk’s Thor story won’t be using the modern, female Thor that debuted in the Marvel comics just a few weeks ago. When asked how writing a comic story relates to creating a character for the WWE, CM Punk said that his lifelong love of comics had more of an impact.
“You know,” he continued, “I think I’m more suited for it just because I’ve been reading comic books my entire life. Wearing tights in front of thousands of people and kind of, almost play-acting, I think down the road, it might give me some sort of insight depending on what kind of characters I’m writing and what the story is, but I’m not really sure it prepared me so much for being able to script a comic book.”