Ridiculous comic ban

[Drugsmugglingcartoonist]

Came across this yesterday in the U.K's No.1 Sun Newspaper:

The attention is great but it's a COMIC BOOK for crying out loud!

[CaptainClaude]

So do you have a scrapbook?

Cos you should now.

[Pimpette]

Wow. Just... wow.

That is sort of awesome in a bizarre kind of way though.

[KWill]

At least he's only calling for a ban in prison. Still, seems rather ridiculous to me. Might as well ban any form of criminal investigation shows because they might give the criminals tips.

[CaptainClaude]

This IS the sun we're talking about. 11/12 things in there are ridiculous.

[KWill]

I was going to mention that, but somehow it seems that they're not the ones being silly. This may very well be the 12th article.

[Joel Fagin]

Don't care.

The whole point of prison is that people's rights and comforts get taken away. Ban anything you like. A bit of paranoia over a comic like that won't do any harm in this case, and may well do some good.

Outside of prison, though... Different story altogether.

- Joel Fagin

[K-Dawg]

Superb publicity.

[Warofwinds]

"Bad" publicity is the best publicity, eh? :3

[Td501]

Certainly makes me want to read it!

[McDuffies]

Hm. I would assume that people in that prison are reading the book because it's connected to someone they know personally - not to learn how to smuggle drugs. I figure that people in prisons have multiple ways to learn how to get into drugs business, more reliable than a comic book.

I agree with Joel. As far as living conditions go, it's up to prison management to decide what's allowed in said prison. Prisoners can't exactly expect to have all the same rights as free people. That would beat the whole purpose of the prison.

However, being read the comic, I don't think that there are any concrete tips about drug smuggling in it. All the things from it I could have well guessed myself. It also has the same girl passing ten times in front of the same police officers in ten different wigs. To try that, you'd have to be quite challenged.

It's a comic, a very caricatural humouristic comic, it does not contain any actual 'tips'. If management is concearned about prisoners projecting onto criminals instead of reading something with more positive role models, that's one issue, but there's nothing to be "appauled" about.

[Killbert-Robby]

*facepalm*
These people LIVE with people, day in day out, who do this stuff PROFESSIONALLY, and they're worried that they're going to learn about how to commit crimes by reading a comic?

[Metruis]

Certainly makes me want to read it!

Definately, I'd want to see what all the fuss was about after reading that article. XD

[Ataraxia]

Congratulations! The rest of us can only aspire to causing a moral panic in the Sun.

[Drugsmugglingcartoonist]

Certainly makes me want to read it!

Definately, I'd want to see what all the fuss was about after reading that article.

Copies are there to be grabbed from the site for the moment. Feedback yesterday was the prison has put it on the banned list whilst they review the situation which conjures up images of the prison governer and the prison board crowded around a comic book trying to see what the fuss is about.

[Bustertheclown]

Holy shit, you're not just famous now, you're INFAMOUS!

[Industrialpowersart]

Given that people often come out more educated in these matters than they went in, I'd say the prison board needs to spend less time worrying about a funny book and more time wondering what they're doing wrong. I'd think one of the reasons that comic would be enjoyable to the inmates would be scenes like the woman with the wig. Sheeplishly realising that you've pulled crap like that yourself would make it funnier.

[Td501]

Reading it now. I can see where they might think this comic has 'tips' - popular smuggling routes, communication techniques, preferred methods of transport - but you could probably learn a lot more from TV and movies. Nothing I've seen so far will help someone become an overnight crime boss. The protaganists fumble their way through all the critical points - much of the humor coming from the fact they succeed.

[Fishies]

Certainly makes me want to read it!

Definately, I'd want to see what all the fuss was about after reading that article.

Yeah, the article makes it sound really interesting. I think this will cause more readers rather than less

[Rkolter]

*applause*

I love it. I hope they do ban it in prison. It'll turn your comic book into a cult followed book. Twenty years from now new-age hippies will toke up while reading ragged, dog-eared copies of your book.