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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 October 29, 2001
		October 4, 2001 Hi there... Luv the comics! --Jake
		October 15, 2001 Why is there hidden text (at the bottom of) the TV watching page? I smell another game. --Matt
		Sorry, Matt, but we've only done one game similar to the giant web project used to promote A.I. In fact, Jake here is only the third person to get the answer, and for that he was letter number one this week. The real reason for the mystery text you're looking at is pretty boring and simple... search engines can't read GIFs, so we have to type out all of the Rockwood strips so they can find us.
		October 15, 2001 I just found out about your comics strip and I just wanted to say, cool. It's one of the few strips thats constantly funny. Keep up the good work. --Kurt Duncan
		October 15, 2001 Dude, one day and I'm hooked. Your link on AtAT was an awesome idea. I love your comic and I have already read the entire archive. Thanks! --Jake
		October 16, 2001 Hey! So you guys like Buffy, too. That is the best show on TV! Do you ever watch Angel? --Rina
		October 16, 2001 Hey great comic, I trolled on over from AtAT Monday and I ended up reading all the archived comics on the main page, I really wish Rockwood would boot one of the lame comics from the newspaper (Crock, Hagar, ect.) and replace it. Anywho, thanks for the great comic. --Hikaru Motenai
		October 17, 2001 I'm a regular AtAT viewer and followed the link here yesterday. I just spent the past hour going through the archive. Funny stuff. You just won a spot on my bookmark list. Keep up the good work. --Amy O
		October 17, 2001 I spend almost all my internet time at AtAT. When I read about the comic version, I came to check it out. While I was here I checked out archived comics. This is some funny stuff. I'll be coming back a lot more in the future. --Mikey
		October 18, 2001 struggling Comics...too funny....must read all... Nice work. --Peter
		October 18, 2001 I didn't know you existed until AppleTurns pointed you out. I checked out your archives, and now I'm hooked! Curse you for the hours I've blown reading through all your past comics! How do you expect me to get any work done around here? I thought I was saved from time-wasting once AppleTurns went to archive-mode, but noooooooo....Jack had to introduce a new waste of time! Cool comic. I'll be hanging around. --MacFly
		October 18, 2001 Great job on the AtAT comics - hillarious! --Pete
		Hmmmm... we're guessing we got just a little bit of traffic from our crossover scheme with As the Apple Turns. However, just because Team Rockwood took over for a week doesn't mean we're AtAT clones. The "Buffy" reference was more in homage to Jack than our actual viewing schedule. While we do catch the occasional episode of "Buffy," we've never seen an episode of "Angel" all the way through. We prefer Sarah to David..
		October 15, 200 The Apple Store @ Willow Bend in Plano? That's, like, right across the tollway from where my wife works! Small world. Anyway, what were you doing at the veritable snobfest that is the Willow Bend mall? I mean, first, Dallas had the Galleria (the snobbiest mall in the area at the time), and then Plano exploded into what must be the snobbiest suburban sprawl on the planet (or at least in the DFW area). And at some point someone decided to create a kind of upper-class harmonic convergence by building a particularly snobby mall with particularly snobby stores (the Apple store excepted) in this particularly snobby suburb (and right across the street from one of the snobbiest churches in the midwest). The place is ready to explode, man! --Damon P.S.: Many of the people who actually go to that church are decent people; it's just some of the people in charge who think they're better than everyone else. P.P.S.: I also discovered you from the Foxtrot link. :-)
		October 17, 2001 Great work. Just got done reading the entire archive. Kudos to AtAT's for the heads up about your site. It just got added to my regular viewing. And, best of all, a fellow DFW'er, and Mac user. Laughing in Mansfield, --Lee
		Actually, the Team Rockwood base is located further north than the wasteland of Plano. We usually only travel to Texas for two reasons: To stop by snooty shopping malls and laugh at people who would pay $700 for an Armani sweater, and to watch our team win. In all likelihood, we'll be back down there in December. Get ready, Huskers!
		October 15, 2001 Why not have an option to email people the latest comic? Since the comic is not daily, I keep forgetting to get the latest one. Thanks --Richie
		October 18, 2001 I think your comic strip is very funny. I drifted over here being a faithful viewer of As the Apple Turns. What would be cool is if you could email new strips to us viewers. (But I suppose that would defeat the purpose of your advertising income.) You could do it with every new strip, or once a week. Just a thought. Keep up the good work. --Andy Lee
		E-mailing Rockwood has come up in the past, but due to our national crisis, it is now impossible. Unfortunately, the e-mail version of Rockwood only comes in a powdered form that looks suspiciously like the latest disease of the week. And since we don't want to cause a panic, we think it's best that you just adjust your browsers accordingly.
		October 18, 2001 Hey, found your site through ATAT. One of you comics mentioned needing for find some rumors. Well if you want totally fabricated rumors just go to Low End Mac. --Peter
		October 19, 2001 Mac Addict subscriber are ya? --Aaron
		Many moons ago, Rockwood was actually based on the servers of another Mac rumor site, which shall remain nameless, and ever since that partnership faltered, we really haven't aligned with anyone, figuring the best way to go was our own way. Consequently, we've had two years of nearly uninterrupted service. We like it that way. As for magazines we subscribe to, we're filling up our shelves the old-fashioned way.
		October 15, 2001 I need pictures!!! Reading takes too much time for someone old like me. Rockwood gets his point across in three quick pictures so I do not have to labor in text. Thanks anyway for sending me to another site. --Alyce
		October 17, 2001 So, you're replacing Jack Miller now? -- Niklas Hjelm Smith
		Goodness, no! Jack was just on his honeymoon. He's back now, and so is his site. Besides, if we had to replace someone on the web, we could easily find more worthy candidates.
		October 16, 2001 I like the part in the 20 million a pop strips where Al takes a screwdriver to one of those Rubik's cubes. --Jazzi
		October 16, 2001 Hey, I followed the link on As the Apple Turns, and I've got to say you've got a damn funny strip here, I just spent the last hour reading the 2001 Archive. Now, I notice that there's a 2000 archive too, and in the vintage section I see older stuff from back in 98 or so, but I don't see an archive for that? Am I just missing it or what? Thanks. --Zach
		October 17, 2001 I'm a new reader, from the AtAT crowd, so pardon me if my question has been covered before (I didn't find it, but that's not unusual). While reading the archives, I found the 2 Feb 2000 link going nowhere. Tell me, oh tell me that this is an oversight, so to speak! --eetee
		October 20, 2001 I think a spoof on Star Trek would be pretty cool. --Joe Cool
		That February 2000 link was broken, but thanks to the sharp eye of eetee, we've fixed it. As for other older links, we can only do so much online, people. Someday in the far future, the ever-mythical Rockwood CD-ROM will come out with every Rockwood strip ever written. But someday in the near future, there just might be a Rockwood calendar with some pre-archive material. Keep watching for it. It may come sooner than you think (like in, say, a couple of weeks...)
		October 16, 2001 Hey! I was just wondering what your favorite game is? Are you a RPG junkie (like me sadly enough) or a sports fan? Perhaps an action, shoot-em up game is what you prefer? --Joe Daily
		There is only one video game. Everything else is just pretending.
		October 18, 2001 Now that u are pushing Mike Dell does this mean u will be turning away from Apple Computers? --Matt
		October 20, 2001 Your AtAT crossover is a form of selling out? Ohmigod! With the terrifying air assaults having begun (no, not on Afghanistan, I'm talking about the Windows XP ads) does this mean you'll have daily, no twice, or even thrice-a-day strips extolling the virtues of XP? Now that would be selling out! Thanks. --spaceball P.S. With feedback like this you're probably regretting selling out. Welcome to the Mac cult! How do we compare to the Star Trek and Star Wars groupies?
		October 20, 2001 I like WinXP. Why is it so terrible for there to exist one standard OS? --Matthew
		Ohhhh no! We're not getting sucked into the Mac vs. PC wars that easily! We're perfectly happy using our copy of OS X. If you want to use XP, go ahead, that's your business. But the reason it's so terrible for there to exist one standard OS is that 90 percent of computer users are pushing the wrong one. And before you get some idea in your head to start sending us your own version of "Macs suck"/"PCs suck" e-mail, know these two things... 1. Your argument won't convince us. 2. It's going straight into the trash anyway. If you want to bicker endlessly about how your computer copies a file, go to Slashdot, 'cause we don't care, here.
		October 20, 2001 You rock! I mean, Apples, Star Trek, Bill Amend, black berets: it's like a tossed salad of the best things in life! Here's for Haiku Thursdays: Rockwood is salad Tossed to the height of humor Let me get my fork. --Julie
		Excellent work, Julie! Now, while one haiku isn't really enough to get Team Rockwood to put in an extra day of work, it is at least enough to make us consider the possibility. So, for those of you who think we should give up watching Enterprise so we can edit your bad poetry every Wednesday, here's your chance. Get writing!
		October 17, 2001 Actually, your link on Bill Amend's page is still only about halfway down the page. I too have become addicted to Rockwood, and I only found out about it two days ago, through Bill Amend's page, naturally! The captain fellow looks like Tintin with that spike of hair in front. You ever hear of Tintin? My favorite graphic novel (before there were graphic novels, there were Tintin and Asterix) when I was growing up. Sincerely, --James
		October 18, 2001 Hey, so with all the Rockwood 'n Christmas stuff, I think you guys have been accepted by some sydndicate. Your first strip will appear in papers on Christmas Day. You've signed all these licensing deals, so that there will be more Rockwood products than a calendar. Your strip will become bigger than Dilbert or Garfield, but through great writing, maintain its integrity. --Juno
		One letter comparing us to something Belgian, and another that makes no sense. No, James, we'd never heard of Tintin before, but we do kind of see a similarity. Not enough to get sued over, thankfully, but a they're a little alike. Juno, we don't know what you're talking about, but just the fact the you already have us making more cash than Dilbert or Garfield has made you a winner in our book. We're not sure about this integrity thing, though. It's our goal to sell out as soon as we have the chance.
		October 20, 2001 You guys should do five, or more, strips every week! --Isaac
		We would, we really would, but we've gotten kind of hooked on this "sleep" thing, and five strips a week is realllllly going to cut into that pretty bad.
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