Apr 14, 2014

How the Producers of "Green Lantern" Learned That Animation Focus Groups Are Nonsense

A mini-comic about Giancarlo Volpe, showrunner of the Green Lantern animated series, and his first experience participating in a focus group for his own series. His story comes to a happy ending after receiving hard-won wisdom from Bruce Timm.

Volpe details the focus group process on his Twitter account:

Related: John Kricfalusi's description of the focus group testing in "Ren & Stimpy" parallels Volpe's experience Kricfalusi's description of focus group testing in Ren & Stimpy is similar to Volpe's experience. He talks about it starting at the 13 minute mark of the video.