Joseph Hill Whedon (/ˈwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, composer, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions, co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), the space Western Firefly (2002), the musical miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), the science...