Darick Robertson (artist)
Image Comics
Meet Nick Sax, a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema, and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas - by a tiny blue horse called Happy! Collects issues #1-4 of the mini-series.
Now this was a strange one to be reading knowing it has Morrison's name on the header; for the most part it felt far more like a Garth Ennis one.
'Happy!' is the story of an ex cop hitman, Nick Sax, having a terrible night of it getting chased by the mob and the cops whilst he tries his best to ignore a tiny, blue, flying, horse that wants him to rescue a little girl.Sax is having none of it though. He just wants to get out of town and avoid any more bullets being inserted into his body.
The finale of the story comes along rapidly and both unpleasantly and kinda silly and again has large shades of Ennis to both the events and the scenario.
Here we have Morrison going down a path he doesn't travel too often and for the most part pulling it off alongside the artist responsible for the visuals of two of my favourite comic series doing what he does in fine form.
In all a fun but slightly confusing read.
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