 Grant later expressed relief that he had not fully committed to portraying Anarky as a potential murderer , as he felt " Anarky would have compromised his own beliefs if he had taken the route of the criminal @-@ killer . " Anarky was given a non @-@ lethal approach in The Batman Adventures No.31 , " Anarky " , written by Alan Grant , who acted as a guest author for the issue . Anarky takes business elites hostage and places them on public trial , broadcast from a pirate television show . He charges these men with such crimes as the creation of land mines that kill or cripple thousands , funding Third World dictators , polluting the air with toxic chemicals , and profiting from wage slavery , and threatens each man with a bomb if the public should find them guilty . When the explosions take place , it is revealed that the bombs are fake , and the public trials were only intended to expose the men and raise public awareness . One bomb explosion carried a specific message . It unfurled a banner that denounced lethal weapons . 
