Earlier this year, wrestler (and life-long comic book fan) CM Punk walked out of the WWE. Next year, he’s entering the Marvel Universe.
Marvel.com has announced that Punk aka Phil Brooks will be writing a short story in Thor Annual # 1, which will be his first comic book script. Joining Punk on the story will be Rob Guillory, the artist of Chew from Image Comics.
While speaking with Marvel, Punk said that his story was a reaction to the current Thor status quo, in which the original Thor has been deemed “unworthy” of the hammer and an unknown woman is the new Thor.
“The idea was, let’s do a story about young Thor as kind of a 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,’” explained Punk. “And it’s more or less like a drinking story. He’s gonna be sitting around with a few choice characters from the Marvel Universe, and they’re all gonna be drinking, and Thor’s gonna basically be complaining about essentially why his dad won’t give him the keys to the car.”
Punk acknowledged that he is inexperienced with writing comic scripts, but added that he is “definitely prepared to fall flat on my face, I think. If anything, [wrestling] got me used to understanding that failure is part of a process, and the only real failure is if you don’t try. Like I could be nervous and bite my fingernails, worried that I think my book is gonna be a piece of crap, but I could be not doing it, and that would be the true failure.”
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During the interview, Punk also revealed the Marvel character that he most wants to write.
“I think, my original pitch to Axel Alonso in 2011 was, ‘Let me write Punisher.’ In my mind, for some odd reason, I’ve just got this Punisher story in my head, and I think it’s super, super awesome. I can read Jason Aaron’s Punisher and everybody else’s [take on the] character and it’s good, but I think that my Punisher story is pretty badass. So everything I do for Marvel is going to be leading up to, ‘Please just let me write my Punisher story.’ So until they let me do that, you’re gonna get all kinds of other stories about all kinds of other characters until they satisfy this need I have to write Frank Castle.”
Thor Annual # 1 will be released in February 2015. According to Marvel, other first time Marvel creators will also be contributing stories to the issue.
Photo Credit: CJ Wilson/Marvel.com
