Smiley

Smiley is a button-faced psychotic sidekick to Evil Ernie — a small, grinning emblem brought to murderous life who serves as the villain's wisecracking, bloodthirsty companion throughout their carnage-filled adventures.

Few characters carry a name as deceptively cheerful as Smiley, who first grinned their way into the Modern Age in 2005's Hack/Slash: The Final Revenge of Evil Ernie, brought to life by Tim Seeley and Aadi Salman under the Dynamite Entertainment banner. With a catalog footprint stretching all the way to 2022 and a dedicated spotlight in Chaos!: Smiley the Psychotic Button, this is a character who clearly left an impression well beyond a single appearance. The company Smiley keeps is genuinely wild — sharing pages with icons like Evil Ernie, Purgatori, Chastity, and even Red Sonja across titles like Red Sonja: Age of Chaos and Evil Ernie in Santa Fe, placing them squarely at the intersection of horror, chaos, and sword-and-sorcery mayhem. If you're drawn to the darker, weirder corners of Dynamite's catalog, Smiley is exactly the kind of cult figure worth tracking down.