Hardware: The Man in the Machine
Title: “That Obscure Object of Desire”
Medium: comic
Cover date: May 2010
Publisher:
5 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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The Shadow Cabinet | |
73 | ||||||
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[corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] | |
25 | |||||||
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[adventurer; vigilante] | |
11 | ||||||
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black | |
7 |
This comic was reprinted from: Hardware #5 (July 1993): "That Obscure Object of Desire".
Hardware: The Man in the Machine is a trade paperback publication which collects the first eight issues of Milestone Media's Hardware comic book series.
Notes from original source:
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=137&):
We are introduced to Deacon "Phreaky Deak" Stuart, a hardcore computer hacker as we see his favorite hooker is killed. Deacon calls Hardware for help because he ends up framed for the murder. We see Hardware interact with Augustus Freeman (Icon). And we are introduced to Deathwish, a psychotic vigilante obsessed with sex related crimes, as he faces off with Deacon.
