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TBH, I think it was more about backlash than self-awareness. I could be wrong, but that does seem to be the root of it, as well as why it was discontinued/cancelled; too much controversy. Not to mention they're used to making long series, so they can't afford to let this controversy affect their future longform works.
I was kinda surprised this received so much backlash considering plenty of other poorly depicted historical based comics that otherwise continued without issue. But then the guy at the end dropped the slave master line and I was just like “Oh………” LOL ..
I respect the author for acknowledging the issue—and based on that fact, I also think they would have been otherwise able to write a good story with this premise and some tweaks. They have the ability to see the problematic aspects of their own writing—which honestly I feel like is quite rare, something many authors don’t have.
It’s a shame it was cancelled rather than re-written, but instead of being full of hate for either the problematic parts or the fact it was cancelled rather than, I have faith that their next work will be another hit!