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Updated on May 21, 2002
		May 16, 2002 Great Comic Strip! Are you in any papers or are you only online? Also, you had a response to the 9/11 attack up and ready on 9/12, which was really fast! Most strips took a couple weeks to react. Did you whip it out really quick or did you have that strip ready in advance in case a tragedy arose? --John Merklinghaus
		Well, John, we're only online for now, but watch this summer for your chance to help put Rockwood in your local newspaper. As for 9/11, since Team Rockwood is based in Oklahoma City, the tragedy was actually something we had unfortunate experience dealing with. That strip, like almost every other one, was done that day. Since we're not dealing with any syndicate issues, we pretty much just put out strips the day we draw them. There's not a lot of point in holding them back.
		May 17, 2002 So, you thought AOTC was better than the C+ that Entertainment Weekly gave it, but then you gave it a 70%? Your engineering school must have had curves like mine does... --Greg "Passed Calc 4 with a 50%" Brand
		May 20, 2002 Ummm...you said that AOTC waas better than a C+, but you gave it a 7 out of 10. That's a C Average. Just wondering. --WonderWoman
		Okay, kids, this isn't a classroom, it's a movie review. Using a standard grade scale like yours would mean that anything less than a six is an F. Now, not that we intend to do a lot of movie reviews (heaven knows there are enough places on the web doing that), but just in case, here's how we break things down: 10 - A great movie with some kind of "home run" scene (like the bridge sequence in "True Lies") 9 - A great movie, but no home run ("Shrek"). 8 - Very good, but with a few minor problems ("Panic Room"). 7 - A few big problems, but enough good parts to be worth seeing for full price ("AOTC"). 6 - (Our C+) Just enough good things to allow us to overlook the bad things ("The Mummy Returns") 5 - Why does this stupid dialogue keep interrupting our action scenes ("Blade 2")? 4 - Why won't someone stop Michael Bay ("Pearl Harbor")? 3 - Who told Liv Tyler she could act ("Armageddon")? 2 - That's two hours of my life I won't get back ("Highlander 2") 1 - My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me ("Battlefield Earth")? 0 - So bad it's good again ("Showgirls").
		May 17, 2002 What was your favorite scene in AotC? Mine was...oh, wait, I probably shouldn't say anything...well, it was where Yoda took action. He was kicking some serious butt. --Chris
		May 17, 2002 Star Wars 2 was, in fact, pretty good. Especially the last fight scene, which I won't spell out because if this ends up in the mailbag, I'd hate to spoil anything. All that needs to be said is: go watch it now. I'd have paid the price of admission just to see the last twenty minutes of the movie. Wow. But, and this is mainly why I'm writing in, what the hell was up with C-3PO spouting that string of horrible one-liners. It was so unfunny, and worse, just stupid, that it brought the whole movie down by half a star (at least in my mind). I mean, what was Mr. Lucas thinking when he wrote the C-3PO sequences? - Z a c h
		Minor spoilers to follow (you've been warned): This just goes to show what an impossible task Lucas has with the prequel trilogy. We actually liked the C-3PO scenes and thought they brought much needed comic relief to the movie. As for Yoda, we'd be more worried about ruining the surprise if it wasn't the only thing anyone ever talks about when commenting on the movie. Our favorite scene was actually very subtle. We thought the whole clone factory sequence was appropriately creepy.
		May 19, 2002 ...Worst...X-Files...Ever --Dr. Zira
		Ever? That's quite a statement. While we were hoping for a bigger bang at the end, we didn't think the episode was a complete loss. And in competition for the worst ever, you'd have to factor in a lot of the last two seasons. And amazingly, some people who have been tearing apart the whole season actually liked the last show. We give it a C+.
		May 20, 2002 I too am in geek overdose (I love being a geek!) so this is all I can manage.... "something today!" --Mikki
		May 20, 2002 Heyyyyyyyyy!!! There were one or two things you could've added to the list in your Monday comic. Men in Black II, the Farscape finale, and the re-release of Fellowship of the Ring with the added trailer. Just to let you know in case you'd forgotten. Love the strip. Keep up the good work. -- Joe
		Believe us, we could have added a lot more to that list, but a comic strip only affords you so much space. And of course, the geek overdose will continue through next year, too. But you're right, we didn't really try hard enough to list any more. We give our effort a C+.
		May 20, 2002 I can't remember how I found you people, but thank goodness I did. Most of the time I don't realize what I'm thinking until I read about it here. "Geek overdose" and why "The West Wing" is so popular...wow, yeah! My question, and I do have one, do you ever have comics that are too funny to print? You write some wittily brilliant joke and then keep it to yourselves? You bastards! Quit holding back on us! :o) --Aarika
		Not really, Aarika, we pretty much put out everything we can think of. Sometimes we get funny ideas that don't really work in a comic strip format, but we can usually rework those if we mull them over long enough. Ultimately, since we're our own publishers, why would we hold back?
		May 20, 2002 You know... when your homepage refers to the "Rockwood 2002 Olympic Watch"... somehow, I have in mind a timepiece (like the kind you wear on a wrist) emblazoned with five golden rings ... no wait... that's the 12 days of Christmas... ahem... emblazoned with the Olypmic rings and Rockwood characters with binoculars... Is that true, that you're planning to sell these "Olympic watches?" --James
		No way, James, that's the kind of legal trouble we don't need. We're walking a thin line by using the words Olympic Watch to begin with. Adding our own line of timepieces to that brouhaha is just tempting fate.
		May 20, 2002 Laundry list: 1) Daily strip (yeah, I know time / money / effort / etc...) 2) Submit link to Yahoo and MSNBC (I'm being naive here - don't know how they pick their links) 3) Forums! we need a board!:) --Spike
		1. You already know the answer! Although, mainly it's time more than money or effort. 2. I don't know how Yahoo and MSNBC pick their links either. But believe us, we've submitted links plenty of places. That's part of the reason we got a link from The Force.net last week that resulted in a doubling of our traffic. 3. While we'd consider a forum, here at Team Rockwood we hardly think the web is lacking in available forums for almost any topic. And we wonder if we really want to be the basis for some kind of internet flame war. We give this idea a C+. Heh.
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