Happy! image courtesy Image Comics.

Smile. Deadline reports Syfy has ordered a Happy! TV show pilot based on the Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson graphic novel of the same name.

Morrison and Brian Taylor are writing and will executive produce with Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty, and Toby Jaffe of Original Film. Taylor will direct the pilot.

Here’s the Image Comics description of Happy!

Meet Nick Sax: a corrupt, intoxicated ex-cop turned hit-man, adrift in a stinking twilight world of casual murder, soulless sex, eczema, and betrayal. With a hit gone wrong, a bullet in his side, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick and his world will be changed forever this Christmas by a tiny blue horse called Happy… Re-presented as an oversized hardcover just in time for the holidays, this deluxe edition of HAPPY! includes an all-new 10-page story by creators GRANT MORRISON and DARICK ROBERTSON.

What do you think? Have you read the Happy! graphic novel? Do you think it will work well as a TV series?