 On August 15 , 2008 , DC Comics announced that Anarky would reappear in the December issue of Robin , issue No.181. With the publication of Robin No.181 , " Search For a Hero , Part 5 : Pushing Buttons , Pulling Strings " , on December 17 , 2008 , it was revealed that Lonnie Machin 's role as Anarky had been supplanted by another Batman villain , Ulysses Armstrong . Fabian Nicieza , author of the issue and storyline in which Anarky appeared , depicted the character as being held hostage by Armstrong , " paralyzed and catatonic " , encased in an iron lung , and connected to computers through his brain . This final feature allowed the character to connect to the internet and communicate with others via a speech synthesizer . Nicieza 's decision to give Machin 's mantle as Anarky to another character was due to his desire to establish him as a nemesis for Tim Drake , while respecting the original characterization of Anarky , who Nicieza recognized as neither immature , nor a villain . Regardless , Nicieza did desire to use Machin and properly return the character to publication , and so favored presenting Ulysses H. Armstrong as Anarky , and Lonnie Machin as Moneyspider , a reference to a secondary name briefly used by Grant for Anarky in storyline published in 1990 . 
