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I like the doors. It's become a signature FocusShift theme.

In fact, when I see a comic with a door, I get to laugh twice. Just thinking of all the upcoming complaints in the comments gives me a chuckle even before I read the actual comic. ;^)

I don't know, at least he's starting to get a sense of humor. The doors are starting to look like doors too.

./(I am a Maaaac!!) ./(and I am a PCeeee!!!)
See? If you draw people from far enough they look like dots, no need to use complicated devices that overload your GPU such as sticks and circles.

Thom has addressed this specific criticism before, but I'll put in my own piece. The doors are a sort of signature style of his. Eventually you'll see a comic of a behind-closed-office-doors conversation, and you'll invariably think "Focus Shift". Just as seeing a stick-figure brings up memories of xkcd.com, or bug-eyed round faces reminds one of Garfield, so too Thom has his own style that is consistent and getting better with each comic.

I don't find his work the best or funniest on the net by far, but it's a great effort and he's doing it for the fun of it. I think it's just fine.

That is kind of the idea, yeah. Whether you're staring at the same stick (Xkcd) or blob (C&H) figures, or at a door with a different logo each time - more or less the same to me. I guess what bothers some is not the doors in and of itself, but the simple fact that I haven't yet shown anything even remotely resembling a human or an animal. I guess that unnerves people or something.



Hah, I don't have any illusions on this front myself. I wouldn't even want to put Focus Shift in the same sentence as xkcd, C&H, or UserFriendly (wait, I just did), let alone compare myself to them. I do think that for someone who drew his first ever comic just 2.5 months ago, I'm doing relatively fine.

Thanks, though .

Edited 2008-03-11 15:16 UTC