Rockwood: The Rockwood Mailbag.

The Rockwood Mailbag

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Have you always wanted to let Team Rockwood know just what you were thinking? Do you wonder why the panels of the strip are laid out horizontally instead of vertically? Or do you have sensitive documents that will bring down the government? In any case, we want to know! Just fill out your name and e-mail address, then let 'er rip! No question or comment is too bizarre for Team Rockwood to take a stab at, and if we can get enough mail coming in, this page will be updated weekly! (Unlike the old mailbag page, which got updated about four times in two years.)

So consider this an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!

Updated on July 31, 2001
		July 17, 2001 I think that if you have space cows, you should have space cats. Think about all the great material you could get if you put a cat on the space station. There could be everyone's recation to the creature, and considering some characters, this could get really interesting. KHAN could change his name to KHANCAN (Kill Humans All Now and Cats All Now). And there could be some trouble- KHAN is programmed not to hurt humans, but felines may be fair game. There might be the problems of the cat's shedding messing up the station's ventilation system, not to mention the bootylicious litterbox humour. So please, consider my request, and don't just toss it into the "mail from crazies" pile! --Leisha
		We here at Team Rockwood strive continuously for originality, and thanks to Leisha, we now will have something no other web site has. No, not cat killing. And no, not fur in the ventilation system. No, what we refer to is the one and only use ever of the phrase "bootylicious litterbox humour." If you search Google for that in a couple of weeks, only our site that will come up. As for the "mail from crazies" file, we didn't have one before, but maybe it's time we started. Hmmm...
		July 23, 2001 G'day from downunder (although I guess the whole of the earth is downunder to a space station!) Yes, like so many others, I found you when Bill Amend bought the station next door. Like all the others, I'm hooked. I would love to see an expanded archive (or that complete collection cd). Do you only do three strips a week, or is it a matter of trying to entice people to find one of the (presumedly) few print items featuring the strip daily, for which you may receive a pitifully small amount of money? Keep up the fantastic work! --Goodgreaf
		Sorry, Goodgreaf, right now it's just the three strips per week. Way back when we used to get a pitifully small amount of money it used to be daily, but three days a week is plenty when you're doing it for nothing. Now we just do it for the letters! Thanks for writing!
		July 23, 2001 I think what Tyger was asking in the July 19 mailbag was how you guys get money to pay for stuff such as food, rent, not to mention the money needed to purchase the computer you use to make the Rockwood site! So, how do you guys pay the bills? (And I dont mean how you guys write the check and put it in the mail.) --Myra
		Sigh...no one appreciates a good smart-aleck response anymore. Well Myra, if you must know, Brian makes his living in video production at a medical school. The rest of Team Rockwood has now shed their previous shadowy pasts to lead Rockwood on the path to world domination! It was either that or Amway. The choice was obvious.
		July 25, 2001 I've always loved the strips were you do the Family Circus style of having Billy draw the strip for you. Especially the books that he reads in the first box. My favorite is when he was reading American Psycho, which just happens to be on the Rockwood calendar for July. How about that? :-) --Matt Wolfe
		Never let it be said that Rockwood isn't ready to sell out to Hollywood at any moment. In fact, in honor of Hollywood, we're recycling ideas as fast as we can! We, too, have the 2001 Rockwood calendar up on our walls, and as soon as our vacation hit, we let Billy write again. And boy was he hard to get! After all of the garbage that Hollywood has put out this summer, it's obvious that writers as good as Billy are hard to find on the left coast. It took a whole team of six-year-olds to write "Planet of the Apes."
		July 25, 2001 Cool strip! I love it! Keep making fun of Musicnet! I'm curious, how's the internet stock Skip Sterling invested in doing now? --Jonas
		Skip declined to answer. He has plenty of money now, and since his stock-playing days are over, he doesn't want to influence the market. The rest of Team Rockwood has no such hang-ups. However, we also have no knack for picking winners. Our attempts at day-trading wealth (we bought in at $10) have been less than successful. We're sticking to cartooning.
		July 25, 2001 Well, believe it or not, I got to this page by a recommendation from a friend. So, word is spreading. Then again, that friend of mine doesn't really do much with his spare time... Anyway, I poked around your site, and it looks great. I just thought I'd help the updates along by sending this in... but since you really want a question, what do you folks here at www.rockwoodcomic.com know about black holes? Since your comic is about a space station and all... --Jenkins
		Well, we know enough about black holes to not steer a space station into them! Honestly, Jenkins, black holes are just one of the many things in space we can't explain, like how big is the universe, or is there life on other planets, or how does Kirk keep bedding all of those green, alien women? Some things just can't be explained.
		July 26, 2001 Since I thought Rockwood was such a cool strip, I decided to let my family know about it. When I emailed one cousin about it, they didn't reply with anything like "Yeah, you're right, this thing is the best," or "Thanks" or anything. Just to make sure they received it, I emailed them a small note with the URL and asked them if they'd visited this site yet. After about three weeks, they finally wrote back: "Stop nagging me!" I told them I wasn't nagging, I was just trying to give them a cool comic to read. Well, as usual in family, the whole thing got blown out of proportion. My cousin told my aunt, who told my parents, and now many of my relatives are saying that Rockwood isn't such a big deal, that there are better ones out there (one rudely commented on the fact that this strip isn't the newspapers). Luckily, I managed to get a few family members on my side. Unfortunately, now my family is divided into two fractions: the pro- and anti-Rockwood. Since you're the root cause of all this, have any suggestions for resolving it? (especially any that will let back in my rich uncle's will). --Eric
		Resolve it? We think you should fuel it! In these politically correct times it's hard to get a good family feud started anymore. And believe us, there's nothing in your rich uncle's will that will top the feeling of you and your pro-Rockwood family members tarring and feathering the anti-Rockwood camp! You'll have memories you can cherish for decades to come. Who says we need a "mail from crazies" file?
		July 26, 2001 Does the Jeanine Salla thing have to do with the marks on the front of the computer in frame three of strip one? --Matt
		Yes. Oh, you thought we were going to give you the answer, didn't you? Ha! No such luck! If you want it, you'll have to work out the answer just like everyone else! But, we'll tell you this much...you're getting close!
		July 27, 2001 I just discovered your page and am in hysterics; is that what you intended?? Am I supposed to stay in this state while you go away and play? Oh fine!! So I will go into stasis (whatever that is ) and wait for the hiatus to be over. Have a great vacation. Mine is over so I say that with real sincerity! Sure!!! --Marge Sullivan
		Well, Marge, hopefully by "hysterics" you meant that you were laughing hysterically, and not that you were hysterical and getting ready to track us down and kill us. If it's the former, we're happy we entertaining you. If it's the latter... uh... we're still not back from vacation, and we're going to be gone a lonnnnnnnng time.
		July 29, 2001 Your Dysfunctional Family Circus strip from Friday July 7th, 2000 featured the Grandfather saying, "I used the Force, I picked up a box, I lifted some Rocks, while I stood on my head." Are you a Weird Al fan because these are lyrics from the song Yoda. --Mark Trenton
		We do indeed consider ourselves Close Personal Friends of Al since all the way back in the "In 3-D" days. And although we've never tried to contact him about it, we like to think he'd find it slightly humorous that he was used as a pop reference. On the other hand, maybe he'd just be upset about it like Coolio was about "Amish Paradise." But we're pretty sure Al is cooler than that.
		July 29, 2001 What a great comic! I'd be lying if I said that I didn't get here from Fox Trot's link. My question is... will your characters ever get some video games to play instead of watching TV? --Bob
		While it's possible that at some point Mitch and Al might play the occasional video game, we think our friends over at Penny Arcade have video-game-related comics covered far better than we ever could. Besides, playing video games takes a lot of energy, and we're far too relaxed for game playing. Except for Quake. Sometimes you just need to get that blood pumping!
		July 30, 2001 i also found this site via Bill Amend's site and now am a dedicated reader. The strip is hilarious with just the right touch of class. I've put a link in a weekly newsletter that i send out. Just one question: how did you convince those guys to stay up there with only one girl? --Elly
		Good question, Elly! The answer is that there are really more women aboard the space station, you just don't see them all. For instance, you don't think that Captain Stubing and six other people could run the entire Pacific Princess, do you? Just because you don't see some people doesn't mean they're not there.
		Wow! Big response this week! At this rate, soon we'll have to start editing letters out! So keep those letters coming and we'll see you next week!

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