 COMICS |  | Q&A: JEFF PARKER | | Wizard talked with the Marvel scribe to get the skinny on this week's 'Incredible Hulk: Raging Thunder' and some upcoming plans for 'X-Men: First Class!' | | | By Steve Sunu | | Posted 6/10/2008 | |  | | | WIZARD: So, I wanted to talk to you about Raging Thunder and what your big plans are for it if you could give us a little bit of a teaser as to what's going to go on. | |  PARKER: Well, it's a return of Thundra to the Marvel Universe—she hasn't been around for a while. If you remember her, she was this extremely powerful warrior woman from the future where men and women hated each other instead of pretending to not hate each other like they do now, and she's come back on a very special mission. Although [the mission] is not obvious until the book's end and essentially, like you'd expect, she gets into a big fight with the Hulk.
Yeah, I figured that. [Laughs] Do you have any big plans for her for the future in any of the other books you might be doing?
PARKER: I want to see if people are happy about her and remember who she was first, but yeah, I found out at the Marvel offices there are a lot of closet Thundra fans. So, you never know.
That would be really cool if she were able to get back into the mainstream again.
PARKER: Yeah, Marvel's got so many good characters laying around waiting to be dusted off, y'know? It's kind of fun when you get a chance to.
I completely agree, and I'm looking forward to reading it! Also, you said in an interview a while ago that you're going to be working on a big book with Marvel. Do you have any comment on that?
PARKER: I really—I have a lot, but I can't give them to you yet until they officially say what it is. I'm sorry, I hate that because I'd love nothing more than to talk about that, because it's something that I've been looking forward to. Hopefully they're going to be ready to announce them at one of the shows this summer.
That would be great, because I'm really looking forward to see what else you're going to do. Also, X-Men First Class seems to be going really well. Do you have any big plans in the future for that?
PARKER: Actually, we're talking about something that'll really shake that book up, but I don't know when that's going to be announced either. There actually is something happening with that. In the meantime, they run into Machine Man and Medusa's going to come back through, an idea I worked out with Karl Kesel who's actually drawing the issue. Patrick Scherberger is drawing a really fun single issue where Iceman goes into New York and decides that he and the Human Torch would be the most awesome team in the history of superheroes. Yeah, it's going to be kind of like Flight of the Conchords meets the X-Men.
Nice, do you watch a lot of "Conchords?"
PARKER: Oh yeah, it's great. Yeah, [Iceman and the Human Torch] pretty much just talk about how great they are as this fighting team and they don't really do much [Laughs]. They just really kind of groove on the idea of themselves being a duo.
[Laughs] Oh man, everybody loves when opposites attract, it's a fun time.
PARKER: Yeah, but at the same time, they're very similar because they're both kind of irresponsible young guys with a way ton-load of power that they probably shouldn't have.
Is there anything else in terms of comics that you're looking forward to?
PARKER: Just in general, later this year, I'm going to get to flex my muscles with more mature stuff, which I'm looking forward to. I love the all-ages stuff, but at the same time, if you do the same thing all the time you'll get stale—and it looks like I will still be involved in the Marvel Adventures: Avengers. | | | | | | | | |
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