A difficult book for me to rate. There's a lot of good ideas. And Anarky is a unique character in the world of super heroes. But more than once, I felt like the writing was shallow. And then there were times were it just seemed mediocre.Perhaps I'll revisit this collection someday to see if how time changes my opinion of it. For now, *shrugs*

Very interesting and deep stories.

Societal vigilante Anarky gets the spotlight in this collection from DC comics. Introduced in the opening arc, Anarky is shown as a freedom fighter seeking to assist the downtrodden common man in taking back power. Despite his good intentions, Anarky uses methods of fear and violence to make his point - bringing him into contention with the Batman. Young Lonnie Machin is eventually revealed as the manifesto-spewing antihero, whose machinations end up sending him to juvenile hall. The second stor...

I was given some Anarky recommended reads which included this collection. Could be a bit better, but a solid read.

Mes de Batman 18/23 My bad:Olvidaba que esta saga era malita. No es su culpa: Anarky es un personaje interesante (en teoría) pero cae en demasiados clichés político-sociales que terminan por hundir la historia.A la mitad me arrepentí. Leeré The Killing Joke para compensar.

Anarky debe ser la creación favorita de Alan Grant, se nota la dedicacion en las historias y en la pasión de los discursos de este antagonista de Batman. El TPB incluye el debut del personaje en Detective Comics 608-609, y varias historias que no conocia. Fue agradable leer algo fresco ilustrado por Breyfogle. Creo que faltan otras apariciones del perosonaje en la etapa Grant-Breyfogle, asi que solo por eso no le pongo un 4.

A perfect compilation of some of the best Alan Grant stories starring his character Anarky who is actually a much more interesting person than Batman. The Anarky mini-series is probably the boldest superhero comic I have ever read. Grant is not afraid to express his opinions about the nature of evil, class struggle, wars and lots of other social issues. And he does it by properly utilizing imaginary characters that are actually best at representing ideas. Forget about your Bendises, Johnses, and...

Good intro to an intriguing Batman antihero. Very philosophical character.

And well done to Goodreads' recommendations for deducing from my adding Fight Club 2 that I might be interested in this, which I did indeed read about 15 years ago and had never remembered enough to add in the interim. From my faint recollections, it wasn't as good as it could have been, though unusually Batman didn't come across as a bigger idiot than the other hero with whom he had methodological disagreements.

This was all kinds of ordinary.Supervillain who thinks they are better than everyone else and is going to fix the world. Oh, and of course, they are pretty much better than everyone because of their extensive training, brain enhancements, and other techno-babble. If that sounds like a less selfish Ayn Rand hero, that's because this is a mix of anarchism and objectivism. And if you weren't sure, then just flick to one of the many double-page rants the character has.The more you think about this o...

This book pretty much chronicles the creation, development and fall (well as much as any comic character can truly fall) of the character Anarky who I will admit knew very little of until I read this. The introduction actually is fascinating in its own right in that the writers wanted to paint him as a distorted version of Batman in that they were fighting for the same people but using different approaches and through different ideologies. The book consists really of 3 different stories which no...

I like the comparison of the sense of justice between both heroes. Unfortunately It seems farfetch for a 15 year old kid to go through all that. Reading about a crime vs experiencing one is totally different on every level. Only the intro of Anarky was worthwhile.

Anarky's origin story is the best part of this trade, with the rest of the material falling in two categories: the awful junk with the demons Etrigan and Blasfemy and the story that closes out the trade, the conceptually interesting but tediously written dialogue of Anarky as he describes the utopia that he seeks as a result of his form of crimefighting. It's uneven, and the Blasfemy stuff is terrible, but if you skip over that two-parter, Alan Grant will definitely make you think with his red-r...

This starts with Anarky's early appearances as a vigilante opposing Batman, then wraps up with a four-part miniseries (a later, short-lived series got its own volume). The early encounters are fun — it's refreshing to see a vigilante antihero who actually works against the rich and powerful, and doesn't kill, rather than gunning down crooks.However the miniseries is a mess — talky, preachy and culminating in an incredibly cliched conclusion. Grant did better with his second Anarky series, though...

Apparently, I enjoyed this more than most. I'm rather intrigued by Anarky despite the *highly* improbably origin and blatant sell on his belief system. It is indicative of the time when it was written though.

It’s alright but gets pretty preachy.

I found this to be melodramatic and weird. Plus, i dont like Darkseid. Not for me.

Batman: Anarky is a 1999 trade paperback published by DC Comics. The book collects prominent appearances of Lonnie Machin as Anarky. This trade paperback collects: Detective Comics #608–609, Batman Chronicles #1, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #40–41, and the four-issue miniseries Anarky and collects four storylines: "Anarky in Gotham City", "Anarky: Tomorrow Belongs to Us", "Anarky", and "Metamorphosis"."Anarky in Gotham City" is a two-issue storyline (Detective Comics #608–609) which has Bruce Wayn...

Creación del escritor Alan Grant y del artista Norm Breyfogle, la aparición de este personaje en los cómics en Detective Comics obedece a las inquietudes filosóficas y políticas de Grant, y a la premisa "¿Qué pasaría si Batman se enfrentara con V?"Alan Grant, uno de los mejores escritores de DC en los 90, al igual que Alan Moore, era anarquista. Así, se dio a la tarea a crear a Lonnie Machin, alias Anarky, como un antagonista para Batman. Su intención no era hacerlo un villano, sino un antihéroe...

Blah.