 Literary cues illustrated into scenes were occasionally used whenever Anarky was a featured character in a comic . During the Anarky limited series , fluttering newspapers were used to bear headlines alluding to social problems . Occasionally , the titles of books found in Anarky 's room would express the character 's philosophical , political , or generally esoteric agenda . In both Detective Comics No.620 and Batman : Shadow of the Bat No.40 , a copy of V for Vendetta can be seen on Lonnie Machin 's bookshelf as homage . Other books in his room at different times have included Apostles of Revolution by Max Nomad , The Anarchists by James Joll , books labeled " Proudhon " and " Bakunin " , and an issue of Black Flag . Non @-@ anarchist material included books labeled " Plato " , " Aristotle " , and " Swedenborg " , and a copy of Synergetics , by Buckminster Fuller . The character also made references to Universe by Scudder Klyce , an extremely rare book . When asked if he was concerned readers would be unable to follow some of the more obscure literary references , Grant explained that he hadn 't expected many to do so , but reported encountering some who had , and that one particular reader of the 1999 Anarky series had carried out an ongoing correspondence with him on the topic as of 2005 . 
