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From the review you linked: "Rockwood seems like something done for the student newspaper at a technical university somewhere. The strips are geek strips. Not special interest geekiness like Penny Arcade, but a general pop-culture geekiness. It's like the-guy-who-can-quote-a-lot-of-movies-at-you, sort of geekiness. Great to discuss your favorite show with, but lacking in any depth."

This is exactly why I read Colledge, er, Rockwood, and have read it ever since it actually *was* something done for the student newspaper at a technical university. (If you can call OU "technical" - though the strip is clearly written for the amusement of the college of engineering students.)

Rockwood is a small bit of my college life that has kept itself alive on the web all these years.

Don't ever change. :-)

And don't give up trying to get syndicated, the strip is funnier than 95% of what is in the paper these days.

While William G is a compelling story-teller as evidenced by "It's About Girls", I found the final grade for Rockwood unfair.

He did make note that Rockwood is more of a one-punchline-per-strip type of comic and thus a different genre. However, when looking at the way that he fairly trashed No Frailty, it is hard to imagine how Rockwood could be only a half-grade better.

For me, Rockwood is the only comic (web-based or otherwise)that I read on a regular basis. I appreciate Dilbert, but only read it it two-week blocks. Unlike, Rockwood which I read every Mon-Wed-Fri like clockwork.

I loved 4/20! Very funny. BC is my favorite comic (sorry Rockwood). How old is BC? How old is Rockwood?

A toast...

Here's to a great comic, and to a great 2005 season for the Sooners.

Monday: Roll my sorry butt into work, not looking forward to another week. But fire up Rockwood and have a good laugh to get the week started right.

Wednesday: Middle of the work week, grinding along, no end in sight...but wait!! What's that??? It's ROCKWOOD! Good enough to carry me until...

Friday: Eagerly anticipating another great weekend, sneak a look at Rockwood to put myself in an even better mood. (In football season, this feeling combines with anticipation of the Sooners' next victory.)

Thanks for a great comic...maybe in 30 years some other comic strip artist will be mocking YOUR strip. (I sure hope so.) :-D

That aside, let's talk about the Sooners. Specifically, let's talk about Jason White. Perhaps some of you in the NFL have heard of him? You know, Heisman trophy winner in 2003 and third-place in 2004? And how did he do in the 2005 NFL draft? Undrafted!

Undrafted?! Okay, we'll grant that he's had two ACL reconstructions (remember, we have the same surgeon), but still, it's not like every quarterback in the NFL is a superstar.

For instance, let's pick on the Baltimore Ravens. Their starting quarterback last year was Kyle Boller, who they tried to replace mid-season. Might they be able to use a Heisman-trophy-winning quarterback? And the Ravens first pick in the draft was Oklahoma receiver Mark Clayton. Just who was throwing the passes that allowed Clayton to run up such impressive statistics in college?

But that's okay, because Baltimore used their sixth-round pick to grab quarterback Derek Anderson over the still-available White. Anderson had 17 interceptions last season. White had 19 interceptions--total--in his last two seasons. Oh, and did we mention that he won the Heisman in one of those years? But at least Anderson's QB-Rating was 125.1, a mere 34.3 points behind White's 159.4 rating.

AAAAHHHHHH! Star Wars CIII rocked!!!! I got to see George Lucas on Saturday and I didn't have to stand in line all night in the wind and rain to do so. A friend of mine was lined up at midnight to get into the first session at 8:45, while the rest of us showed up at 6am at got into the same session!

I got Warwick Davis' autograph and sat in on his interview on Jay Laga'aia's stage. Both funny guys. My friends and I saw the Rick McCallum Spectacular where he showed us a bunch of exclusive footage from RotS shown nowhere else! David Prowse and Kenny Baker did a shared hour-long interview with Warwick Davis on his stage. Baker was hilarious. Prowse was a merchandising fiend at his autograph table where he signed my friend's Darth Vader lightsaber.

We also saw the Knoll Vision presentation, which was very interesting. We got to see how little of the sets were actually made and how much was digitally created (A LOT). He showed us some animatic simulation bloopers (mostly problems getting capes to behave), and some before and after shots from the real-life filming to the final product.

Knoll also showed a couple of scenes that were already deleted from the movie. McCallum informed us that every deleted scene will be on the DVD. It's amazing how all these folks showed us all this behind the scene footage and still left so many blanks for the movie to fill in.

There's lots more to tell, but that'll have to be later. My time's running out here at the library and I'm exhausted. I'm getting a massage and going to bed to sleep for days.

--Mikki