Christopher Yost

Christopher Yost
Born	February 21, 1973 St. Louis, MO
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	New X-Men X-Force
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Christopher Yost is a comic book and animation writer best known as the co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series New X-Men and X-Force.

Biography

Yost began his career in 2002 as an intern in Marvel Comics' west coast office. His spec film scripts got attention from Marvel executives who hired Yost to write episodes of the TV series X-Men: Evolution. In 2003, Yost and Kyle co-wrote the episodes that introduced mutant character X-23, female clone of the popular X-Men character Wolverine. Marvel executives were impressed with X-23’s reception on TV, and asked Yost and Kyle to adapt the character into comics, first by writing a six-issue mini-series titled X-23: Innocence Lost, and then by taking over writing chores (as of issue #20) on the New X-Men title, bringing X-23 in as a regular character. Yost and Kyle also co-wrote a second X-23 six-issue miniseries, titled X-23: Target X.

Currently, Yost co-writes the latest incarnation of X-Force with Craig Kyle since the New X-Men title was canceled as of issue #46. Yost also recently wrote a five-issue mini-series titled Emperor Vulcan, a spin-off mini from the Uncanny X-Men story arc "The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire", featuring the third Summers brother, Gabriel (alias Vulcan), in his quest to bring stability to the struggling Shi'ar Empire after his successful coup d'etat against previous empress Lilandra.^[1][2] He is following this up with the Kingbreaker mini-series,^[3] which sets the scene for the War of Kings storyline^[4] Yost is also the writer of Ender's Game: Battle School, the first in a series of adaptations of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game by Marvel.^[5]

Yost has also written for such animated shows as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Batman and was the story editor, head writer and show runner on the Fantastic Four animated series that aired on Cartoon Network in 2006. He will write the Young Avengers / Runaways crossover Secret Invasion story. He has also been selected as the show runner for the upcoming Iron Man: Armored Adventures animated series, that will be airing in 2008.

Yost was featured as the “Male Rising Star” in the Spring 2006 issue of Now Playing magazine.

Yost will be the writer for DC Comics' Red Robin that starts June 2009.^[6]

Bibliography

Comics

• Marvel Comics
  • X-23: Innocence Lost #1-6 (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Billy Tan, 2005)
  • Spider-Man Unlimited Vol. 3 #9 (first story only, with pencils by Drew Johnson, 2005)
  • X-Men Unlimited Vol. 2 #11 (first story only, with pencils by Billy Dallas Patton, 2005)
  • Captain Universe/X-23 #1 (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Francis Portela, 2005)
  • New X-Men #20-46 (with co-writer Craig Kyle, 2006-2008)
  • X-23: Target X (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Mike Choi, 2007)
  • X-Men: Emperor Vulcan #1-5 (with pencils by Paco Diaz and Vincente Cifuentes, 2008)
  • X-Force #1 - present (with co-writer Craig Kyle, Marvel Comics, 2008 - present)
  • Wolverine: Killing Made Simple (first story only, with pencils by Koi Turnbull, 2008)
  • X-Men Origins: Colossus #1 (with penciles by Trevor Hairsine, 2008)
  • Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers #1-3 (art by Takeshi Miyazawa, 2008)
  • X-Men: Divided We Stand #1 (Gentle and Hellion stories only, 2008)
  • X-Men: Worlds Apart #1-4 (art by Diogene Neves, Marvel Comics, 2008-2009)
  • X-Men: Kingbreaker #1-4 (with Dustin Weaver, Marvel Comics, 2008-2009)
  • X-Force/Cable: Messiah War #1 (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Mike Choi, 2009)
  • Runaways Vol. 3 #10 (with co-writer James Asmus and art by Sara Pichelli & Emma Rios, Marvel Comics, 2009)
  • Marvel Assistant-Sized Spectacular #2 (writer of the Elsa Bloodstone story, Marvel Comics, 2009)
  • Dark X-Men: The Confession #1 (with co-writer Craig Kyle and art by Yanick Paquette, 2009)
  • Enders Game: Command School #1-5 (art by Pasqual Ferry, 2009-2010)
  • Psylocke #1-4 (art by Harvey Tolibao, 2009-2010)

• DC Comics
  • Batman: Battle for the Cowl - The Underground #1 (with art by Pablo Raimondi, 2009)
  • Red Robin #1 - present (with art by Ramon Bachs, 2009 - present)
  • Titans #16 (with art by Angel Unzueta, 2009)
  • Batman: Streets of Gotham #5-6 (main feature, with art by Dustin Nguyen, 2009)

• Image Comics
  • Killer of Demons #1-3 (Art by Scott Wegener 2009)

Film & Television

• X-Men: Evolution TV Series (writer)
  • 3.11 - X23 (story by Craig Kyle, co-written with Craig Kyle), 2003
  • 3.12 - Dark Horizon Part 1 (co-written with Craig Kyle), 2003
  • 3.13 - Dark Horizon Part 2 (co-written with Craig Kyle), 2003
  • 4.03 - Target X (co-written with Craig Kyle), 2003
• The Batman TV Series (writer)
  • 1.07 - The Big Heat (co-written with J.D Murray), 2004.
  • 2.02 - Riddled (co-written with J.D Murray), 2005
  • 2.06 - The Pets (co-written with J.D Murray), 2005
  • 3.04 - RPM, 2005
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (writer)
  • 3.25 - Exodus Part 1, 2005
  • 4.01 - Cousin Sid, 2005
  • 4.13 - Samurai Tourist, 2005
  • 5.01 - Lap of the Gods, 2008
  • 5.13 - Enter the Dragons Part 2, 2008
• Legend of the Dragon (writer)
  • 1.16 - Shell Game, 2006
• Alien Racers (writer)
  • 1.18 - Skrash and Burn, 2006
• Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (head writer, story editor, show runner)
  • 1.03 - Doomsday (story by Craig Kyle), 2006
  • 1.12 - Annihilation (story by Craig Kyle), 2007
  • 1.18 - The Cure (story by Craig Kyle & Dan Slott), 2007
• Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (writer), 2008
• Wolverine and the X-Men (writer)
  • 1.07 - Wolverine vs. Hulk, 2008 (story by Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost)
  • 1.09 - Future X, 2008 (story by Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
  • 1.10 - Greetings From Genosha, 2008 (story by Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
  • 1.12 - Excessive Force, 2008 (story by Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost)
  • 1.13 - Battle Lines, 2009 (story by Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost)
  • 1.14 - Stolen Lives, 2009 (story only, with Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
  • 1.15 - Hunting Grounds, 2009 (story only, with Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
  • 1.16 - Badlands, 2009 (story only, with Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
  • 1.18 - Backlash, 2009 (story by Greg Johnson, Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost)
  • 1.19 - Guardian Angel, 2009 (story only, with Greg Johnson & Craig Kyle)
• Hulk Vs (co-written with Craig Kyle), 2009
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures (head writer, story editor, show runner)
  • 1.01 - Iron Forged in Fire Part 1, 2009
  • 1.02 - Iron Forged in Fire Part 2, 2009
  • 1.11 - Seeing Red, 2009

Notes

References

External links

• Christopher Yost at MySpace
• Chris Yost at the Internet Movie Database
• ComicCon Interview with Chris Yost
• X-POSITION: Christopher Yost, Comic Book Resources, September 30, 2008