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Finally I am finishing up with this; busy week at school with finals coming up on Thursday.

With Dr. Horrible I wanted to wait until I had seen all three episodes before I said anything about the series – I imagine most people have already seen this, but if you have not do it now!

There’s also a primer comic introducing you to Captain Hammer on myspace of all places, written by Joss’ brother Zack and put out by Dark Horse. Read that as well.

Short review because I’m tired:

Let me just say that this is possibly the funniest, and saddest, musicals I have ever seen – the first two acts are extremely funny (I would say the bulk of the fun songs are in the second act) and the third has the darker sense of humor I relate to the 7th season of Buffy. Neil Patrick Harris is absolutely amazing as a super-villain and Felicia Day is amazingly expressive. Nathan Fillion also plays a awesome stupid/stuck-on-himself superhero.

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How great this mini-series was makes it more difficult to have to decide between it and the Ghostbusters panel on Friday at Comic-Con, sadly I think I’m going to have to go to the Ghostbusters panel – it’s the main reason I got everything set up for SDCC in the first place.

Hopefully there is a Dr. Horrible or Mutant Enemy booth and I will be able to get a copy of the DVD (signed by the main cast?) while at the con.

-Tyler

Just wanted to make a post pointing out that a teaser trailer for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog! is out now! Okay, enough exclamation points! No, seriously, that’s enough.

Dr. Horrible’s is a web series being developed by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) and starring Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D., Starship Troopers, How I Met Your Mother), Nathan Fillion (Buffy, Firefly, Slither), and Felicia Day (Buffy, The Guild, Hotel Erotica Cabo… sorry, Felicia, just kidding! She really needs to have that removed) in a musical style, sing-along… blog.

The music and singing, none of which is displayed in the trailer, is undoubtedly great. Why? Oh, I have to support my statements now? Crap, alright, does everyone remember the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Joss Whedon is no slouch when it comes to music, and he tends to surround himself with people who can sing and are great at it – except Alyson Hannigan, apparently, but no worries, she’s still awesome all the same. I can only imagine Joss getting some of the best vocalists he could think of working with on a project that’s touting itself as a “sing-along blog”… so yeah, that good enough for you?

-Tyler

[From Teaser on Vimeo]