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Hardware #28 (June 1995):
“The Pain, the Dark and Other Things...”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, Prentis Rollins, Aubrey Bradford

Hardware #28

Title: “The Pain, the Dark and Other Things...”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1995

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


6 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
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
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=160&):

Hardware must go after Haus to regain his armor. He sees Deathwish wondering around aimlessly. Deathwish leads him to Haus. Hardware defeats CyberBwana and Shutterbug inside of Haus. Hardware finally finds Rahm and his armor. Deathwish kills Haus who turns out to be an old man. Rahm and Hardware barely make it out alive.