In the newest upcoming Batman animated series, “Batman teams up with swordstress Katana and his gun-toting ex-secret agent butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld led by the twisted Anarky ….”
Oh, wonderful.
In the newest upcoming Batman animated series, “Batman teams up with swordstress Katana and his gun-toting ex-secret agent butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld led by the twisted Anarky ….”
Oh, wonderful.
Well… I think I may become fonder of The Batman by comparison after this little treat airs.
So such thing as bad publicity?
The wikipedia article for Anarky is fascinating. The creator of the character became an Objectivist and apparently used the character as a vehicle to espouse political and philosophical themes. Kinda interested in Batman now…
Wikipedia’s Anarky page quotes me!
Scott Trinh – Alan Grant did some good stuff, with and without Anarky. Aside from his famous run with Breyfogle, his long tenure on Shadow of the Bat produced a solid title showing his growing Neo-Tech/Objectivist influence in subtle and VERY not so subtle ways.
Incidentally – For a specifically Randian old school character, The Question as written by Ditko is fascinating. (Denny O’Neil later made him a Zennist and softened the Randian edges. The same man who made Green Arrow the Liberal Pinko we know today. 😉 )
Alan Moore’s Rorshach is a comment/deconstruction of Ditko’s version, and an aggressively Objectivist* Question is one of the few bright spots in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight returns
Ditko had another, less known Objectivist Comic Character, the obscure Mr. A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._A
The “A” is a reference to the Law Of Identity – If Roderick didn’t know about Mr. A, I’m happy I introduced him to the Austro Athenian Empire.
*Though at one particularly delicious point in that not-very-yummy tome, The Question screams at Green Arrow “I’m no Ayn Randian! She didn’t go NEARLY far enough!”
Oh, yuck, meant The Dark Knight Strikes Again, not The Dark Knight Returns, which is good.
Whatever issues there are with its quality, that entire book (DKSA) seems to be something like Atlas Shrugged with DC characters. I have yet to find a better Randian metaphor than the Flash forced to run on a hamster wheel that powers the country.
One of Miller’s Martha Washington books — Martha Washington Goes to War — was also an Atlas Shrugged adaptation of sorts.
How does anarky relate to autarky?