Oh snap.

He’s back.

“My last big writing project was Green Lantern: Sleepers Book Three for iBooks/Simon & Schuster. It kind of ruined me for comics because it was immensely freeing. It was so much fun, and so much work (for so little pay), but it allowed me to discover things about myself and my writing, and to fall in love with writing again. So, I hadn’t been that anxious to write comics again. But there, in all of that email, was an offer to write more prose—the Gunplay dime novels. That was the first thing that caught my attention.”

Christopher Priest

He also talks about his most recent comics work and the frustrations he went through in getting them out. By his admission, he’s not that eager to get back into comics (his Gunplay story is prose), and if so, that would be a shame, because he was one of our leading lights in this business for a long time. One would like to think the climate at Marvel has improved enough that Priest could come back there, but maybe this is for the best. He should go where he’s wanted, and if the Big Two doesn’t value his talents like they should (as evidenced by Marvel’s treatment of The Crew), screw ‘em.