@K1ngcat - The biggest problem is that he’s disorganized with his portrayals. Along with Kid Patrol, they seem to try to take after exaggerated, caricature-based comedy like the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and the Little Rascals, but those usually displayed caricature-based characters all across the board, including the white people being considerably funny and dumb. And because Gustavson made the black character very caricatured, but leaving Quicksilver as relatively normal-looking, it will inevitably draw accusations that Gustavson is being selective and mocking black people as if he has some racist-based grudge against them. That’s not to excuse any of this, but goes to show how differently the world has gone about presenting characters in caricature-based comedy media in more recent times, like with the Simpsons.
Link to the book:
National Comics 30