Marvel Comics has announced that a new creator has joined the House of Ideas, with former WWE star CM Punk set to pen February’s Thor Annual #1, which will be drawn by Eisner Award-winning artist Rob Guillory (Chew).
“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,'” Punk tells the official Marvel site. “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.”
Asked if there are any other characters that he’d like to turn his hand to, Punk responded: “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.”
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Originally published November 11, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
