 The last of these four stories , " Metamorphosis " , was published as a spin @-@ off limited series between May and August of 1997 , as a result of a request Norm Breyfogle made to DC Comics for employment following the comic book crash of the mid @-@ 1990s . Darren Vincenzo suggested multiple projects which Breyfogle could take part in , among them an Anarky mini @-@ series written by Alan Grant , which was eventually the project decided upon . The Anarky limited series was received with positive reviews and sales , and was later declared by Grant to be among his " career highlights " . With the continuation of the series as an ongoing monthly in 1999 , these four issues were retroactively categorized as the first Anarky volume . Both volumes of Anarky are unique as the only comic books ever thematically based on the philosophy of Neo @-@ Tech . 
