Hardware #50
Title: “War”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Apr. 1997
Publisher:
10 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. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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black; The Shadow Cabinet | |
97 | |||||||
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System | |
39 | ||||||
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black [Hardware's father] |
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3 | |||||||
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black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend] |
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29 | |||||||
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[Post Mortem's sister] | |
4 | |||||||
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[Autopsy's brother] | |
4 | |||||||
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[agency created to monitor Dakota City superhumans] | |
4 | |||||||
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COVERT; Native American | |
4 | ||||||
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[planned takeover of Dakota City] | |
3 | |||||||
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[1st app: Hardware #50 (Apr. 1997)] | |
1 |
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=182&):
After a good night with Barraki, Curtis is getting ready to move to Georgetown. EDWIN pops in to warn him, just before Post Mortem and Autopsy track him down. Curtis runs for his life. Tyrant is torturing Seven Pallaton to give up the identity of Hardware. Curtis figures out a way to defeat Post Mortem and Autopsy. And kills them. Then Curtis goes to his dad's garage and builds a new version of Hardware. And Curtis finds out his dad knows he is Hardware. The EDWIN program replaces DOBIE as Curtis sees another time how close he was to Edwin. Seven Pallaton gives Curtis a warning that Tyrant is attacking. Hardware 3.0 attacks Tyrant gunship and the showdown is on. We learn the Tyrant may have off-planet ties. In the end the new version of Hardware defeats Tyrant and apparently kills him. Of course Curtis is late for his meeting with Barraki.
