More Words, Deeper Hole

I would have to go digging through boxes and boxes of old comics to verify, but I believe the offensive nature of the name was brought up by a reader of colour in an earlier issue's comments page and this then prompted a back and forth discussion with Gruenwald over the next few issues.

Gruenwald was quite shocked and ashamed that he had inadvertently used an offensive term and did his best within the story and letters column to both correct the mistake and also bring it to the attention of people who were also ignorant of the name's history.

I really did get the impression at the time that Gruenwald really did want to put things right. Setting aside the fact that he couldn't go back in time and redo things, I think the way he tried to correct his mistake was both clever and classy.

Of course, I was also about eight years old, so my memory might be betraying me here.