Geek fiction serious

http://community.livejournal.com/hp_essays. Has some essays that go into quite alot of almost academic depth about Harry Potter etc,

There seems less antagonism toward popular fiction and "geeking out" in public, and "prevailing cultural trend of the assumption of the all emcopassing cultural influence cache that serious literary fiction in the public realm porports to exert" doent seem to go anywhere...

Arguably there is more depth and subject matter in many of these works that can be explored due to there being more periodical and less closed narratives than some of the more literary end of things.
All the great novels were published weekly.

Angel and Buffy (yeah), have probably hads the odd academic paper written about them. Some of the more recent popular geek fiction has pretentions toward being "politically resonant" and "spirtual" though you'd think seeing as this ..stuff would have such an impact on culture that they'd be studied, maybe not taken serious but studied.