If you enjoy the absurd and extreme edge of comics, SyFy’s Happy may be for you

This trailer does a good job capturing the over-the-top nature of Happy.

The beauty of comics may be the infinite range of stories they can tell. Unlike film and television-with the accompanying restraints of those media due to production costs, broadcast standards, ratings potential, etc.-comics can simply get as crazy and imaginative as a writer wants.

Happy, SyFy's new series drawing upon the Grant Morrison comic of the same name, is the kind of comic-inspired adaptation that may not have existed a few years back. The violence can be extreme, the concept itself (a twisted buddy-cop caper involving a disgraced hitman and an imaginary unicorn) is absurd, and the humor and situations definitely exist in the high-end of the TV-MA range. But as the array of content-hungry providers has diversified and comics as varied as The Walking Dead, Legion, and Preacher paved the way, a show like Happy can finally exist on television, too.

We've collectively come a long, long way from Adam West's Batman or even the more recent Dean Cain in Lois & Clark. And for a certain type of fan, that's a very welcome development.

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