Please do not put the fucking word fuck back in this comic, and you’re only on page 3 and there’s twenty four pages. “It gets to like, you’re just thinking, I cannot read the word fuck again. “It’s the most offensively sweary book I think I’ve ever written,” Morrison grins. The first page of issue one alone, dripping with swear words, is a shock to the system for any recent Morrison fan, immediately transporting you to Ennis-world with that very Scottish (and the similar Irish) manner of turning the air blue.
It’s no wonder that this was picked up as a film before the second issue had even hit the shelves, yet it’s slightly amusing that Morrison announced this upcoming movie development after the first issue of his grim and gritty creator owned comic – a step most removed from his usual style, and not at all deliberately echoing another writer there I’m sure. We have then a classic buddy cop set up: the croaky old bastard and the enthusiastic young innocent. 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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