Hardware #40
Title: “Fathers and Sons”
Medium: comic
Cover date: June 1996
Publisher:
9 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. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
black; The Shadow Cabinet | |
97 | |||||
|
black [Hardware's father] |
|
3 | |||||
|
black [Hardware's mother; community activist] |
|
4 | |||||
|
[scientist] | |
6 | |||||
|
black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend] |
|
29 | |||||
|
black | |
7 | |||||
|
[has powerful hypnosis power] | |
2 | |||||
|
[killed himself while under Top Dog's hypnotic power] | |
1 | |||||
|
[company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition] | |
9 |
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=172&):
Detective Metcalf (Hardware's father) sees one of his informants shoot himself because of Top Dog's hypnotic power. Hardware is testing some new weapons and toys for Hard Co. Curtis's mom calls him concerning his father. Curtis's parents are divorced and he is estranged from both of them. Curtis meets his dad as Hardware. Together they track the Top Dog crime boss. Later Barraki scolds Curtis for not confronting his father as himself. Hardware and Detective Metcalf attack Top Dog's headquarters, where Hardware is hypnotized by Top Dog.
