Happy! #1

The opening chapter of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's four-part Image series arrives with a cover that perfectly captures its darkly absurdist tone: a battered, hollow-eyed man in a long coat stands holding a pistol in each hand, a cigarette smoldering in his bruised face, while vivid blue feathers drift and swirl around him like something surreal cutting through the grim. Robertson's linework grounds the figure in a convincing weariness that makes those bright, almost whimsical feathers feel genuinely strange against him. It's a striking opening image from a creative team clearly relishing the collision of noir brutality and something altogether weirder.