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Hardware #26 (Apr. 1995):
“Welcome to the Machine”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, Prentis Rollins, Aubrey Bradford

Hardware #26

Title: “Welcome to the Machine”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1995

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani
Art by: Prentis Rollins, Aubrey Bradford


13 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
Deathwish Deathwish (Wilton Johnson) villain hero
CBR Scale: D obsessed with sex-related
crimes
[adventurer; vigilante] DC Milestone Media 11
Marisa Rahm Marisa Rahm supporting character hero based on a real person
CBR Scale: M LGBT
[transexual] DC Milestone Media 7
Club-Haus Kidz villain group
  [1st app: Hardware #26 (Apr. 1995)] DC Milestone Media 2
Sturm villain
  Club-Haus Kidz DC Milestone Media 2
Drang villain
  Club-Haus Kidz DC Milestone Media 2
Monkeywrench villain
  Club-Haus Kidz DC Milestone Media 2
Fractula Fractula villain
  Club-Haus Kidz DC Milestone Media 2
Mandelbrat villain
  Club-Haus Kidz DC Milestone Media 2
Haus villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
[child abuser] DC Milestone Media 3
Cyber-Bwana Cyber-Bwana villain
  [1st app: Hardware #26 (Apr. 1995)] DC Milestone Media 3
Shutterbug Shutterbug villain
  [1st app: Hardware #26 (Apr. 1995)] DC Milestone Media 3

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=158&):

We see a kid get physically abused by a machine. Deathwish sees T.V. reports about the killing of 22 kids and breaks out of jail. Deathwish begins to track Haus, the child abuser, through the internet. Deathwish then confronts CyberBwana and Shutterbug, but decides they have to much firepower for him. Deathwish decides to get in touch with Hardware. Hardware and Deathwish find the Club-Haus Kidz (Mandelbrat, Sturm and Drag, MonkeyWrench, Fractula). The Kidz capture Haus.