CM Punk recently spoke with Marvel.com about writing the new Drax series. Here are the highlights.
So why Drax?
Simply put it was offered to me. I’d been kind of angling to anybody I could to let me write Punisher, and they came back with this. It’s pretty cool; Guardians of the Galaxy is a huge property for [Marvel], obviously, and almost every other character has had a solo book
I was interested because I really have no connection to the character—not like with Punisher. I was more familiar with the Jim Starlin Drax; Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Watch, Infinity War. I wasn’t too up on what [writer Brian] Bendis had done with the character [recently], so I did my homework. But I knew that I could sort of do what I wanted with him.
Do you feel any pressure living up to the popularity of the movie? Has Marvel given you any rules to keep in line with the film character?
The only restriction I had was on characters I could and couldn’t use. Originally I wanted to use Mole Man, but they said that wouldn’t work, but out of that came something better. I came up with a more ridiculous, obscure villain. But as far as the movie stuff goes, nobody’s said a single time “You can’t do this because of that.” It’s been pretty great.
You can read the entire interview here.
