In Aftermath, he made headlines by introducing a gay character, something that certain sectors of fandom didn’t cotton to. The two traits have a tendency of combining when he goes after right-wing critics, of which he has many.

“My vulgarity and my politics were bringing too much negativity to the book and they had to pull me off of it.”Īnyone who has even a vague acquaintance with Wendig’s Twitter account can tell you that, yes, he’s quite vulgar and quite political. “I was too vulgar, too political, and I was bringing too much …” he trails off. Wendig says Paniccia was “very clear about the reason, actually”: Wendig’s Twitter presence. “When it’s something that can’t be discussed over email, it’s either something bad or they’re gonna offer you a job.” The pair hopped on the phone and, as Wendig recalls it, Paniccia told him he was being pulled not just from Shadow of Vader, but from another planned Star Wars project that hadn’t been announced yet. “He sent me an email to ask for a call,” Wendig tells Vulture. It was from Star Wars comics editor Mark Paniccia. Then, in Wendig’s telling, a curious email appeared in his inbox. This week started out as one of triumph for the author, with an announcement at last weekend’s New York Comic Con that he’d be writing a new Star Wars series for Marvel called Shadow of Vader. But in recent years, he’s built a sideline as a comics scribe, doing a number of issues for Marvel Entertainment, including the official adaptation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Marvel and Lucasfilm are both owned by Disney, and Marvel publishes a line of Star Wars comics as a result ) and a superhero book called Hyperion. He’s perhaps best known for writing the official Star Wars novel Aftermath, published in 2015. is primarily known as a prose novelist, having penned nearly two dozen books over the course of his career. “So, here’s a thing that has happened,” writer Chuck Wendig tweeted at 2:54 p.m. The news hit Comics Twitter like a proton torpedo.

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