I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the ’90s. Christopher Priest Read Quote
I’m abrasive. I am so sure that I’m right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me. Christopher Priest Read Quote
I don’t think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I’ve been lucky enough to work with, I’ve said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on. Christopher Priest Read Quote
Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff. Christopher Priest Read Quote
In ‘Black Panther,’ I tried to preserve virtually all versions and interpretations of ‘Black Panther’ – including the Jack Kirby one, which was really tough to do – and make it work within current continuity. Christopher Priest Read Quote
In my opinion, I feel like all versions of ‘Deathstroke’ are valid. Just like with ‘Black Panther,’ I felt like it wasn’t good for a writer to say another writer’s work was invalid or never happened. Christopher Priest Read Quote
At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Green Lantern,’ whatever was lying around. ‘Thor,’ ‘Hulk,’ whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it’s almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity. Christopher Priest Read Quote
Lots of things that go on in mainstream superhero comics are just stupid. They just show up on the page, and no one makes any mention of it. Christopher Priest Read Quote
I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves. Christopher Priest Read Quote
