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How The Producer of ‘Green Lantern’ Learned That Animation Focus Groups Are Nonsense
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series showrunner Giancarlo Volpe drew a mini-comic about his first experience attending a focus group for his series. His story has a happy ending after he receives some hard-won wisdom from Bruce Timm.
Volpe elaborated on the focus grouping process on his Twitter account:
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RELATED: John Kricfalusi’s description of the focus group testing for Ren & Stimpy has similarities to Volpe’s experience. He talks about it beginning at the 13-minute mark of the video.