 Over the course of several years , Grant 's political opinions shifted from libertarian socialism to free market @-@ based philosophies . Alan Grant commented on the philosophical pattern the character 's transformation took for a 1997 interview : " Although I haven ’ t read them in chronological order I would think it would be quite easy to see the parallel between Anarky ’ s thought processes and my own thought processes . " By 1997 he had settled on the philosophy of Neo @-@ Tech , a philosophy developed by Frank R. Wallace . At approximately the same time he was when given the opportunity to write an Anarky mini @-@ series , and so decided to revamp the character accordingly . Grant laid out his reasoning in an interview just before the first issue 's publication . " I felt he was the perfect character " to express Neo @-@ Tech philosophy , Grant explained , " because he 's human , he has no special powers , the only power he 's got is the power of his own rational consciousness " . This new characterization was later carried on in the 1999 Anarky ongoing series . 
