'I started channeling my inner Chuck Jones and bringing in my Looney Tunes days. 'He was a creative bolt of lightning,' Robertson says of the extremely chipper character.

His initial concept drawing looked a little too much like a My Little Pony ripoff, so they decided upon an uglier, goofier route to make Happy more endearing. 'Pegasus, unicorn, donkey but pixie - he threw that in,' the artist says. Robertson's 10-year-old son came up with the perfect name for the tiny beast: a unipixisus. 'We've all got that little voice in our head who says, ‘Hey, come on, cheer up! The sun's shining!' And sometimes you just want to shoot it,' says the Scottish writer. The story concept was inspired by Brit pop group The Hollies' 1967 tune Pegasus - 'one of the most sickening, saccharine songs you'll ever hear in your life,' Morrison says - and Happy himself is an amalgam of every super-positive cartoon character he's ever seen.

Morrison and artist Darick Robertson's new four-issue Image Comics miniseries Happy! (making its debut Wednesday) blends elements of A Wonderful Life, The Bad Lieutenant and The Care Bears Movie for an oddball Christmas tale that's definitely not for kids.Ĭhronic misanthrope Nick Sax is a former cop turned hitman, and after getting shot during an assignment, he's visited by a little blue winged horse named Happy, a girl's imaginary friend that becomes very real in his life. Grant Morrison may have everybody beat using a tiny creature that looks like it just stepped off the set of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Those who've been trying to create the most offbeat buddy team-up ever can stop now.

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