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Happy by grant morrison7/3/2023 A representation perhaps of the smallest spark in all of us, carried over from even the most miserable of childhoods, often ignored but never quite stamped out if we just turn around and look. A small force of eternal optimism, found even in the darkest of places, determined to never give up. While Nick is blasted by guns, fists and knives, Happy flutters about, yelling encouragement and really believing that the sad git in front of him will rally himself and save the day. It’s no secret that Morrison tires of a world where the enthusiastic and creative are put down, mocked or torn apart, greeted with a collective “meh” for their troubles, and yet even when painting a world that is the worst version of our own, where everything bad that can happen does, and everyone that can be hurt is, the writer can’t resist spinning it around and pushing this beyond a knowing satire of the darkness that some creators revel in.Īnd so, this Christmas tale of redemption and hope in a particularly grotesque gutter of human life is wrenched from the familiar by the appearance of one Happy the Horse, a bright blue flying cartoon creation who bursts from the grim pages in an explosion of colour and puppy dog eyes.
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