Okay, I think I'm seeing our philosophical disconnect here. Look, racism is a powerful, insidious force, but it's a definition of a type of wrong, not a scale of wrong. Even if every other page of this comic turns out to be morally kosher, that doesn't somehow make what we see here not racism. (Now, of course it's possible that parts of a work that we initially think are racist/sexist/etc. turn out to be subverted elsewhere in the work ... but I really don't see how that could happen, here.)
As for whether good work can still be racist, everyone grapples with that for themselves. I don't think Jeff Parker and H.P. Lovecraft are remotely comparable, frankly, because the attitudes shown in Lovecraft's writing were completely unremarkable to his contemporaries. The attitudes shown in Jeff Parker's writing are also completely unremarkable to Lovecraft's contemporaries. No, I'm not kidding; there are some really uncomfortable colonialist undertones in the first Agents of Atlas miniseries - I was disappointed but unsurprised when Kali identified the culprit in this post.
As for meeting Jeff Parker - well, I'm not going to tell you what to do. If I met him I would probably tell him that I use to love his work but that, while I have no reason to think that he personally is a racist, I've noticed an increasing tendency towards racist elements in his comics which disturb me very much, like the way he tends to write dialogue for physically strong, black male characters, the African colonialist undertones of Agents of Atlas, and this issue. Then I would ask him what he thought. Someone can produce racist work without consciously holding racist beliefs - it's not an excuse, but it is something to work with.