A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.