Hardware #19 (Sep. 1994):
“The Landing of the Holy Mothership”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Humberto Ramos, Bobby Rae

Hardware #19

Title: “The Landing of the Holy Mothership”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1994

Publisher:
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Humberto Ramos, Bobby Rae

12 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 (Curtis Metcalf) (lead character)		black; The Shadow Cabinet		97
Static (Virgil Hawkins)		black; Heroes...  The Teen Titans		148
drug dealers		[occupation]	, etc.	2
Barraki Young		black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]		29
Phreaky Deac (Deacon Stuart)		black		7
Tetras	alien	D'amsi		2
Evane	alien	D'amsi		2
D'amsi	alien	D'amsi [interstellar police force]		3
Christina		[1st app: Icon #19 (Nov. 1994)]		3
Mission		black		2
Icon (Augustus Freeman) (mentioned)  Hardware has some time. He decides to work on a problem Icon gave him. Curtis contacts Icon's race. The aliens think Hardware is the survivor, but he leads them to Icon.	alien	The Shadow Cabinet		73
The Cooperative (mentioned)  Hardware has some time. He decides to work on a problem Icon gave him. Curtis contacts Icon's race. The aliens think Hardware is the survivor, but he leads them to Icon.		[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)]		3

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=151&):

We see Hardware and Static bust some drug dealers. Curtis tries to make up with Barraki after not calling her for two months. Barraki's gives him the cold shoulder and since Hardware has time he decides to work on the problem Icon gave him. Curtis contacts Icon's race. We see Deacon meet with a man he calls Mission (Sanction?). The aliens think Hardware is the survivor, but he leads them to Icon.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: “Mothership Connection, Prelude: The Landing of the Holy Mothership”. Webpage for Hardware #19 (Sep. 1994) created 18 February 2013. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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