With the announcement that CM Punk will be writing for the “Thor” comic books, I was kind of confused. It’s one of those, “I guess it can work, but I don’t know why it should moment.”
The Second City Saint has only wrestled. We are all aware of his fandom for comic books, but had he ever done anything to indicate that he aspired to write for them. The WWE’s documentary “CM Punk: Best in the World” focused on his love for punk rock. “ROH Straight Shootin’ Series: CM Punk and Colt Cabana,” made no mention of his literary (Time Magazine listed “Watchmen” in the top 100 of important literature since the magazine’s inception) intentions. Of course Cabana’s not a comic book guy, so maybe they were mentioned in the shoot interview with Samoa Joe. At least I’ll have something to write about next week.
Name Dropping:
My experience with Punk was during the one week he had left with the WWE Championship in 2011 at an AAW show he would eventually make a cameo at, which WWE prevented from being released on DVD. We didn’t talk about comics. I was just the guy who he asked about who the guys were that were wrestling as we watched on a small TV in the back, and whom he gave a nasty look when I called a shoulder breaker “vintage Scott Norton.” In my defense, I had withdrawn from WWE for their treatment of women, ironically through Michael Cole, and I forgotten that vintage is as valid a term as “what a maneuver.”
To pile on the typical nerd stereotype, how were we to know he practiced writing original stuff? If he doesn’t have his own characters, why does a nerd get to write for the God of Thunder. The typical nerd just complains…or writes crappy, scarcely shared fanfiction. And who cares about the typical nerds who aren’t focused on only getting into the comic book business? I suggest no one since I doubt Kevin Smith was asked to write for DC and Marvel until after his success on the big screen. Smith may had to have also proved that his comics about his characters could sell.
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