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Podcast: The Source Material Comics Podcast
Episode: Source Material #413 - Happy (2012, Image)
Description: In this episode of Source Material, Jesse and Mark dive headfirst into the surreal, violent, and surprisingly heartfelt world of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Happy—a four-issue comic that combines noir grit, Christmas horror, and the unlikely guidance of a cheerful blue cartoon horse.What starts as a hitman’s bloody downward spiral becomes a darkly redemptive journey. Nick Sax is a drug-addicted ex-cop with zero interest in saving anyone—until “Happy,” an imaginary flying horse, begs him to save a kidnapped girl. What follows is a twisted Christmas tale full of mob hits, creepy Santas, and a surpri...