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Hardware #29 (July 1995):
“Keep On Pushin’ ”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Humberto Ramos, Prentis Rollins

Hardware #29

Title: “Keep On Pushin’”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 1995

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Humberto Ramos, Prentis Rollins


12 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
Oro Oro (Miguel Medina) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 22
Wise Son Wise Son (Hannibal White) hero
CBR Scale: S Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)
black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 59
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
DMZ DMZ hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 57
Fade Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 56
Flashback Flashback (Sara Quinones) hero
  Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 53
Tech-9 Tech-9 (Rolando Texador) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 22
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Aquamaria Aquamaria (Maria) hero
CBR Scale: U Catholic
Blood Syndicate; Society of the Cross DC Milestone Media 34
Barraki Young Barraki Young supporting character
  black
[taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]
DC Milestone Media 29

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=161&):

Curtis and Alva discuss the future building of Utopia Park. And Curtis agrees to help the process along. This leads to a confrontation between Hardware and Blood Syndicate about their leaving the Factory. Hardware decides that trying to remove them is not worth the effort.