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Hardware #23 (Jan. 1995):
“My Brother’s Keeper?”
by Otis Wesley Clay, Denton Fixx Jr., Matt Wayne, Dwayne McDuffie, etc.

Hardware #23

Title: “My Brother’s Keeper?”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1995

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Otis Wesley Clay, Denton Fixx Jr., Matt Wayne, Dwayne McDuffie, Adam Blaustein
Art by: Humberto Ramos, Prentis Rollins


7 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 Hardware (Curtis Metcalf)
(lead character)
hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Edwin Alva Edwin Alva villain scientist
CBR Scale: M obsessed with power
System DC Milestone Media 39
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
Milton St. Cloud villain
  The Coalition DC Milestone Media 5
System Crimson villain group
  System DC Milestone Media 4
Preston Dawes supporting character scientist
  [manipulated by Milton St. Cloud] DC Milestone Media 3

Writers Wayne, McDuffie, and Blaustein used the collective pseudonym "Denton Fixx Jr." in the credits in this issue.

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=155&):

Hardware faces off against the Crimson S.Y.S.T.E.M. which is run by Milton St. Cloud. Curtis finds out more about the Synrep Technology from Preston Dawes. Curtis thinks Alva is double-crossing him and confronts him again. They are interrupted by a Crimson Systematic attack.