During the writer’s strike last year, Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) occupied himself by creating a story that he later developed as a musical webisode. News of this story first came out around the start of the summer season. Joss Whedon and his team sought the help of the networking abilities of blogs to spread the word about a musical fiction he and his team produced: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Filion and Felicia Day, Dr. Horrible is the story of a guy in love with a girl and will do anything to get her to notice him. Neil Patrick Harris plays Billy, the guy in love with the girl from the Laundromat, Penny, played by Felicia Day. To get him to notice her, Billy re-creates himself as a villain, Dr. Horrible. But with every villain comes a nemesis: the superhero.

Yes, the girl fell for the superhero.

Dr. Horrible could not believe what had happened. His supposedly fool-proof plan had gone haywire and took a turn in the wrong direction. He needed to come up with a way to eliminate his nemesis, Captain Hammer.

It’s a simple story that became doubly interesting when Whedon turned it into a musical and split it into three acts to be shown on different days and made people wait in anticipation for it. That was a good move on Whedon’s part because it gave people something to look forward to. If you weren’t able to catch its limited release, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is available on iTunes and MSN.

Were you able to catch the limited release of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog? What did you think about it?