Hardware #11 (Jan. 1994):
“Shadow and Act”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Bob Smith, ChrisCross, etc.

Hardware #11

Title: “Shadow and Act”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1994

Publisher:
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Denys Cowan, Bob Smith, ChrisCross, Joe Brozowski (as J.J. Birch), Prentis Rollins

29 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
Iron Butterfly (Kahina Eskandari)		The Shadow Cabinet		28
Static (Virgil Hawkins)		black; Heroes...  The Teen Titans		148
Dharma (Harry Chawney)	prophet	The Shadow Cabinet (leader)		32
Xombi (David Kim)		Asian; Organitek...  Painful Inscriptions; The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber; Xombies [Korean-American]		35
Icon (Augustus Freeman)	alien	The Shadow Cabinet		73
Rocket (Raquel Ervin)		black; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [Icon's partner]		58
Third Rail (Pui Chung)		Asian; Blood Syndicate...  Korean; League of Superteens		44
Ash		The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber		5
Rainsaw		The Star Chamber		2
Slag		The Star Chamber		4
Boogieman (Martin Berger)	Jewish	Blood Syndicate		44
Transit		black; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [teleporter]		5
Wise Son (Hannibal White)	Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)	black; Blood Syndicate		59
Wytch		The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber		2
Holocaust (Leonard Smalls)		black; Blood Syndicate...  The Star Chamber		43
Headmaster		The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber (leader)		4
S.H.R.E.D.		[Dakota City's elite tactical police force]		8
Alva Technologies		[corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva]		25
DMZ		black; Blood Syndicate		57
Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.)	LGBT	black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		56
Flashback (Sara Quinones)		Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  League of Superteens		53
Blood Syndicate		[gang]		61
Barraki Young		black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]		29
The Star Chamber		[operative]		7
The Shadow Cabinet		[1st app: Hardware #11 (Jan. 1994)]		33
Harm (Nick Pugleise)		The Coalition; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [govt. agent undercover posing as enforcer]		15
Edwin Alva (mentioned)  Butterfly convinces Hardware, using the rhetoric that while he continues his personal vendetta for justice against Edwin Alva, he could be doing good on a global scale working for an agency like hers.	obsessed with power	System		39
Giacomo Cornelius (mentioned)  A significant setting of this story is the Cornelius estate.		[a local Don]		3

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=143&):

Hardware faces off against Transit as he barely escapes being teleported. We see Harm get introduced to the Star Chamber. We are introduced to Headmaster and other members of the Star Chamber, including Holocaust. Headmaster blackmails Harm into joining the Star Chamber. Holocaust meets Iron Butterfly, who convinces him to help the Shadow Cabinet.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Hardware #11 (Jan. 1994) created 18 February 2013. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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