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Detective
608-609
Batman moved in on a rock singer making a drug deal. The
singer got away while Batman took on the men he was meeting.
Outside the club, he was taken down by a strange figure
clad in red. Batman and the police found him unconscious
with a letter to the editor left by his attacker.
The new vigilante's next attack was on a chemical conglomerate
which was poisoning Gotham City's water. After zapping the
owner, he left a videotape for the news media. Calling himself
Anarky, he showed why he took out his victim. Bruce saw
the broadcast and realized Anarky was picking his targets
from the letters to the editor column.
The
city sold a piece of land - long home to the homeless -
to a bank. At its unveiling, the plaque was spray-painted
with the anarchist A symbol. Gordon spoke with Batman about
two possible targets that night. Anarky skipped them both
and went after the bank again. He led the homeless, who
would soon be even more homeless, in destroying much of
the equipment at the site. Batman got there, but was hit
by his taser. He caught the boy hiding at his father's office.
The father realized the night before that his son, Lonnie
Michum, was Anarky. He tried to take the fall, but Batman
realized the person he hit was a kid. Batman reported to
Gordon, then swung away with a spray-painted A on his cape.
Chronicles
1
Lonnie Machin snuck out of juvenile hall and attacked
the ad campaign of a multimillionaire who was running
for office. Instead of his slogan, his new billboards
read "Power corrupts. Don't vote." Lonnie got
back in before the night guard realized he was missing.
Shadow
of the Bat 40-41
Lonnie Machin, home on probation from juvenile hall, slipped
away from home and donned his Anarky costume again. Batman
and Robin began investigating Malochia, the prophet of
doom. Robin tracked his funding back to Anarky, who'd
made huge cash selling ideas on the internet. Anarky was
captured by Malochia's men when he found out the "prophet"
was running guns. Batman was also captured after being
hit with a concussion grenade.
Batman and Anarky were tied to a blimp as Malochia spoke
of impending doom to his TV audience. Lonnie's parents
found a note addressed to them from their son - not a
suicide note, but one where he didn't intend to be alive
when they read it. Robin discovered where Batman had been
and began following the blimp he saw overhead. With Batman
still out, Anarky was able to redirect the blimp toward
the harbor. Robin cut Batman loose from below as the blimp
exploded. Anarky's body was not found.
Anarky
1-4
Anarky happened upon Etrigan fighting a demon from hell.
Etrigan told the youth to get lost after his holy water
stopped the other demon. Anarky asked him about "evil."
He called Etrigan a puppet without free will, and was
tossed from a building. Anarky recalled Jason Blood and
swung them to safety. He returned to his home - a building
he was renovating - to find the demon he'd conjured (so
he would encounter Etrigan). Still being its master, he
but the ant-creature to work.
Anarky had found a way to fuse the two hemispheres of
his brain. He also found a way into Apokolips to face
true evil - Darkseid. The tyrant was intrigued by the
boy's ambition and guile. He decided to send him home
after showing him a few things.
Back on Earth, Anarky reveled in stealing some of Darkseid's
power with his crystal.
Batman zeroed in on Anarky's location and confronted him.
The kid was able to use holographic technology to confuse
Batman; he got him in cuffs. His crystal absorbed good
from Batman. Anarky told him he was about to broadcast
to the common people with the power of madness (Etrigan),
evil (Darkseid), and good (Batman). Batman got out of
the cuffs and went after his machinery. Anarky was able
to topple some of it on to him and begin his broadcast.
Anarky saw the world as he'd hoped it to be, only for
it to fall into decay again. Batman shook him back into
consciousness - the machine had focused on him, not the
outside world. He thanked Batman for showing him his error
and escaped.
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