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Shadow Cabinet #0 (Jan. 1994):
“Shadow War”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Robert L. Washington III, John Paul Leon, Rober Quijano

Shadow Cabinet #0

Title: “Shadow War”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1994

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie, Robert L. Washington III
Art by: John Paul Leon, Rober Quijano


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.
Dharma Dharma (Harry Chawney)
(lead character)
villain hero
CBR Scale: M prophet
The Shadow Cabinet (leader) DC Milestone Media 32
Static Static (Virgil Hawkins) hero
  black; Heroes...  DC Milestone Media 148
Mechanic Mechanic (Thomas Hague) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 18
Icon Icon (Augustus Freeman) hero
CBR Scale: I alien
The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 73
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Plus Plus (Bina and Apurna Chawney) hero
  Asian; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 15
Donner Donner (Gerri Brauer) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 35
Sideshow Sideshow (Ramon Rand) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 16
Twilight Twilight hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 10
Blitzen Blitzen (Valerie Kameya) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 36
Bad Betty Bad Betty villain hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 14
Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly (Kahina Eskandari) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 28
Iota Iota (Isadora Wellington-Smythe) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 27
Funyl Funyl villain
  The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 2
Xombi Xombi (David Kim) hero scientist
  Asian; Organitek... 
[Korean-American]
DC Milestone Media 35
Rocket Rocket (Raquel Ervin) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet... 
[Icon's partner]
DC Milestone Media 58
Ash Ash villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 5
Rainsaw Rainsaw villain
  The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 2
Slag villain
  The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 4
Wytch villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 2
Holocaust Holocaust (Leonard Smalls) villain
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 43
Headmaster villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber (leader) DC Milestone Media 4
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
SYSTEMatics SYSTEMatics villain group
  System
[operatives in massive exo-skeletons]
DC Milestone Media 11
The Star Chamber The Star Chamber villain group
  [operative] DC Milestone Media 7
The Shadow Cabinet The Shadow Cabinet hero group
  [1st app: Hardware #11 (Jan. 1994)] DC Milestone Media 33
Harm Harm (Nick Pugleise) hero
  The Coalition; The Shadow Cabinet... 
[govt. agent undercover posing as enforcer]
DC Milestone Media 15
Doctor Nemo (Nathan Flack) villain scientist
  System; The Star Chamber
[created Quantum Juice and first Bang Baby]
DC Milestone Media 6
Narnie Narnie (Apurna Chawney) hero
  Asian; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 2

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=274&):

Dharma is mulling over his plans in the Shadowspire. He admits being behind the tear gas that was present at the Big Bang. Dharma addresses the heroes of Dakota. He has gathered heroes including Hardware, Static and Icon. Dharma explains that the Star Chamber is after Dr. Nathan Flack and his sources of Q-juice. The Star Chamber must be stopped and the Q-juice must be destroyed. Star Chamber attacks a S.Y.S.T.E.M. base. When they are interrupted by the Shadow Cabinet. Static recognizes the Q-juice as the tear gas from the Big Bang. The Shadow Cabinet must go to China's Super-Conductor Super-Collider to stop the making of Q-juice. The Shadow Cabinet and the Star Chamber battle in Tokyo and Paris over Q-juice ingredients. Then the battles move to Tel Aviv and Moscow. The final battle happens in China. Rocket and Xombi switch sides to help turn the tide. The bomb is set off, but Hardware disables it before it can go off.