Hasbro is not having their shit though. The author writing their GI Joe books had his latest one cancelled before it even came out because he stirred shit for a long time and some tweets about 9/11 was the straw that broke the camel's back for that fandom. Hasbro decided they like to keep the audience that actually buys their stuff happy and told IDW to cut that shit out.
ETA: They also hate what they did with this character the most. It's bad.
IDW's probably on rather thin ice and is going to wind up with Hasbro either breathing down their necks about editorial control, or ditching them entirely in favour of someone who'll be more willing to bend over backwards to keep the big customer happy. Problem is IDW has enough deals to hand that if they
did get canned by Hasbro they won't die off.
And once more, SJW art is proven to be shallow, valueless and incompetent. This is why they constantly yell at companies to do things for them, because no one wants what they are peddling. Normal people don't care about virtue signaling. They are too concerned with going about their everyday lives. I don't know when companies are going to get this through their thick fucking skulls that 90% of the people consuming this shit don't want it.
Around the same time these companies stop
hiring these trendy morons to begin with.
The problem is most companies are still operating on the presumption of "if 10 people complain 1,000 were actually mad at it and just couldn't be bothered to write in to tell us."
This method and thinking is
hideously outdated as it's entirely likely these days, thanks to being able to give feedback instantaneously, that those who whinge about x, y, z on social media are the total sum of people who actually do give a crap. This means that sensible companies will turn back towards good old fashioned sales figures as opposed to Mrs Trellis From North Wales has bothered to say in her letter to your complaints department.
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't. Kill it.