In that most cancel-stricken, cancel-ridden year of 2020, Wagner’s then-publisher, Counterpoint Books, effectively killed as “problematic” (their word) a novel manuscript he’d submitted, The Marvel Universe: Origin Stories. One of the characters is an obese influencer who calls herself The Fat Joan on Instagram in tribute to the real-life comedian who styled himself The Fat Jew; according to Wagner, his editor told him that not even a character could call herself “fat.” After receiving these and other complaints about the novel’s language, Wagner refused to alter the text for the sake of ideology. He pulled the manuscript and released the novel into the public domain as a pdf on his website.