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Hardware #15 (May 1994):
“A Bird in the Hand”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Humberto Ramos, Bob Smith, Prentis Rollins

Hardware #15

Title: “A Bird in the Hand”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1994

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Humberto Ramos, Bob Smith, Prentis Rollins


8 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf)
(lead character)
hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Edwin Alva Edwin Alva villain scientist
CBR Scale: M obsessed with power
System DC Milestone Media 39
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
Reprise Reprise
(flashback)
villain
  [assassin; mercenary] DC Milestone Media 6
System System
(flashback)
villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
SYSTEMatics SYSTEMatics
(flashback)
villain group
  System
[operatives in massive exo-skeletons]
DC Milestone Media 11
Barraki Young Barraki Young supporting character
  black
[taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]
DC Milestone Media 29
Technique Technique (Tiffany Evans)
(flashback)
villain hero scientist
  black DC Milestone Media 9

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=147&):

Curtis compares himself to a bird in a cage, like the first issue. as Alva and him have a confrontation. We get a short recap of the first fourteen issues. The discussion between Curtis and Alva leads to a deal between the two of them to work together. Curtis is now to be Alva's successor.