In September 2009 Image launched a five-issue series written by Wagner, called The Sky Pirates of Neo Terra, based on the Nintendo Wii and DS game of the same name.

His personal style began to take shape in the early 2000s with short works published in surrealist journals such as The Cafe Irreal.

His first novel, The Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe published in 2004 by BAM Publications, led directly to the development of Fiction Clemens.

Wagner recently collaborated with artist Theo Ellsworth on a short illustrated book called Mystery Mark.

His one-act contemporary western, Bleach Bone, was accepted into the 2012 New Rocky Mountain Voices competition and was produced at the Historic Jones Theater in Westcliffe, Colorado during the summer of 2012.

Mystery Mark, a theatrical installation, launched in 2014 along with his book of the same name co-created and illustrated by artist Theo Ellsworth.