Remember the post about the Birds of Prey comic that featured Singapore and liberal use of Singlish? I got an email from Anthony Yeoh (aka YoGo) who helped provide the Singapore info that writer Gail Simone needed for an authentic Singapore setting (he also ends up as a character in the issue, how cool is that!).
After hearing Anthony's complaints of Singapore being commonly depicted as indistinguishable from Hong Kong, the lovely Gail listened to his opinions, took the effort to research, and used Singapore as a functional setting for the story arc.
Anthony alerted her to my post on this and the comments given, and she's quite happy to see the response.
Excerpt from the Comic Book Resources forum:
I was disappointed that a couple Singlish changes (and one other change) slipped through editorial. It's a drag to try so hard to get it right and have that happen (it happens ALL THE TIME in comics, by the way!). When you do multiple multiple revisions, sometimes one bit doesn't get to the letterer and argh.
But! Thanks again to YoGo for all his help!
Gail
