What then is going on with Happy? I mean, did you read those solicits? About a hitman and a flying, talking blue horse? What is going on with him now? Fans know when they're reading Morrison comics around the time his father died, as well as they know what he's on about when Sir Miles is torturing King Mob. Grant may be a ghost of a presence on the internet, in the first person, but he's never been super secretive about the driving forces behind his stories.
Happy is in fact something new and different for Morrison and it's not that now HE'S the one using a Millar script. Surely he's got to be getting stale eventually! Again you hypothetical doubting Thomas, you are incorrect with your emotions and presumptions. Surely he can't make every single different project a beautiful, bizarre and rare thing. Morrison is at a stage in his career where decades of mind warping, reality shaping, chaotic insanity in his comics could make a casual reader believe that surely, he must be running out of stories to tell. But don't worry because this isn't that comic. He's never been one for macho posturing, so when you start reading Happyand suddenly "cunt" is being tossed around by tough guy, mafia cliches you might get nervous.
Grant has always worked hard to keep himself at arm"s length from pointless, ultra-violent tough guy comics, even saying in an interview with The Mindless Ones,"As you know I always prefer to do stuff that's symbolic rather than gritty and realistic." and speaking out against a culture where men writing the characters prove a striking contrast in health, temperament, lifestyle, etc. But when you realize that Happy is penned by Grant Morrison you might think exactly the same thing, "unreal". Not that Morrison's work has ever been considered realism. Not that Morrison has ever had a problem choosing his words. That's the first word of the long awaited Grant Morrison/Darick Robertson Image collaboration Happy out September 26 and as far as word choice goes, it's apt.
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