It has started — the Internerds have uploaded tonight’s Emmy ep of Dr. Horrible (background here) and it is begun metastasizing across cyberspace, from Mashable to Mag.ma to Newsweek’s Tumblr to an, er, Neil Patrick Harris appreciation blog to Dr. Horrible Himself. Did we love it? Yes, along with New York‘s Emily Nussbaum and Time‘s [...]

The “Horrible Emmys” puns will be beaten to death before the night is through, but even before the broadcast begins tonight on CBS it’s a pretty good bet what the high point of this weekend’s obligatory awards show will be.  Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello breathlessly reported on EW.com that “Sources confirm…exclusively that host Neil [...]

Like vampire or zombie bites, geekdom is infectious. But this year it really seems like something has changed. Everyone seems to be talking about Comic-Con. With an entertainment industry that is interested in sequels, franchises and the already-proven value of any new investment in an entertainment property, Comic-Con has become the center of both the entertainment-industrial complex as well as the countless fan-universes that each franchise has created.