Enquiries on my rights
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I'm a new PR and a foreign outlandish looking rebel.
I have made and possibly might want to publish a comic book about my view of life in Singapore. It is a political satirrical piece revolving around the theme of the never ending battle between the PAP and the OPPOSITION.
PAP: THe guardians of the *cough* matrix we call Singapore.
Opposition: The poor and pitiful few who have been unplugged from the matrix *cough* we call singapore, they live in sewers and occasionally come to the surface, where they wear black leather and sun glasses and get chased around by ministers in White with super human abilities.
I am gonna have sensitive (to you) stuff like...
"I never believed it for the longest time... until i saw the schools myself... ont he surface.. our people are no longer raised.... they are MOULDED...there are schools... endless schools... to engineer the Singaporean... into a battery"
-Morpheus/Rajnaradnam
"I hate this place.. this... Box... this prison.. this administration whatever you wanna call it... its the kway Teow!! if there is such a thing.. its GREASY... its OILY and repellent... I must get free, once the OPPOSITION is destroyed there is no need for me to be here, DUN U UNDERSTAND!"
-Agent Lee
So you can basically imagine a new publication of a cross between Singapore and the creation of the wachowski brothers.
For you copycats out there, this idea has been copyrighted by moi, so dont steal this, (not that you'd be able to develop it anyway.)
So anywayz... my question is this:
I will most probably get sued right? COs i doubt Mr Lee Hsien Loong likes the idea of me drawing like 50 of him fighting 1 Opposition "neo"-like dude in the matrix we call *cough* Singapore.
Or i may suddenly "dissapear." lol
So can someone fill me in? am i asking for a death wish by working on a provocative comic book? Or is Singapore not totally stalinistic?
Cos i see talkingcock.com is still in business. -
Just do it!
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Sounds like a cool comic! Try adding some elements like Katong neighbours quarreling over red / blue pills distribution, Hello Kitty queues, book slapping incidents etc.
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My opinion is that most book shops will not carry your comic out of fear of offending the government. Suggest you put it on the net as a comic strip and see the responses.
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Sorry your "idea" is kinda old... I did a matrix spoof just like yours a while back here as well, and dare say, I felt mine was better written.
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Sorry your "idea" is kinda old... I did a matrix spoof just like yours a while back here as well, and dare say, I felt mine was better written.
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U did an actual full length comic strip incorporating all 3 matrix movies into a satire of Singapore? DId u get sued?
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Originally posted by men_@_arms:U did an actual full length comic strip incorporating all 3 matrix movies into a satire of Singapore? DId u get sued?
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to cover ur ass, maybe u can rename the singapore to singopure, PAP to P@P etc..?
would be the 1st to suppt you if it ever makes it to the shelves!
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That won't help much. It is still easy to prove defamation in Singapore, especially if you are using simple substitution of the names...Originally posted by marlboro:to cover ur ass, maybe u can rename the singapore to singopure, PAP to P@P etc..?
would be the 1st to suppt you if it ever makes it to the shelves!
But if you used call-signs like they do in the military...
Dragon Prince, Seat Warmer, etc.... it could even pass off as a fictional story.
However, if you are exploring to enter as a political satire, you might have to face some political bashing by the people involved.