Our favorite comic book writer, Brian K. Vaughan, has just announced that he’s joining the writing crew of Lost. And we couldn’t be more excited.

Admittedly, I haven’t seen the show since the first season, due to a schedule that keeps me away from the television on most Wednesday nights, so now I’m going to be forced to rent the entire second season to catch up, and fire up the ol’ VCR to record the new episodes.

Here’s what the man himself has to say:

But, yes, inexplicably, I’ve been hired as an Executive Story Editor by the fantastic television show LOST. As I’m neither an executive nor an editor, this is really just a fancy Hollywood way of saying that I’ve joined the writing staff.

I can’t talk about much more than that, so I implore you to please stop asking me what the island is, who the Others are, how Matthew Fox smells, etc. Still, I will say that I’m insanely honored to join such an amazing group of writers (some of their new scripts I’ve been lucky enough to read are destined to become the best episodes of the series), and I’m very grateful to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for having so much faith in me. … Mostly, I just don’t want to screw up a show that I love.

In the same post, BKV reveals that he’s also going to be writing four issues of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer “8th season” series for Portland’s own Dark Horse Comics.

The Mercury’s resident geek, Erik Henriksen, says he’s “stoked out of my fucking mind. … I don’t care much about Lost anymore (it got lame and boring) but I’ll start watching again for Vaughan, and the idea of him working in the Buffy-verse gets me excited in all sorts of unsavory and inappropriate ways.”

I can’t believe I’m friends with someone who nonchalantly uses the term “Buffy-verse.”

At any rate! It’s good news for the winner of our holiday auction’s “Comic Geek” item, which featured signed copies of BKV’s Pride of Baghdad, Ex Machina, and Y: The Last Man, who now has signatures from a real life TV writer.