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Hardware #44 (Oct. 1996):
“Closure”
by Joseph Illidge, Prentis Rollins, Caesar Antomattei (as Caesar), Hector Collazo, etc.

Hardware #44

Title: “Closure”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 1996

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Joseph Illidge
Art by: Prentis Rollins, Caesar Antomattei (as Caesar), Hector Collazo, Rodney Ramos, Rober Quijano


14 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
Static Static (Virgil Hawkins) hero
  black; Heroes...  DC Milestone Media 148
Payback Payback (Kevin Franklin) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet
[man-mountain]
DC Milestone Media 30
Donner Donner (Gerri Brauer) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 35
Starlight Starlight (Stella Maxwell) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 23
Blitzen Blitzen (Valerie Kameya) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 36
Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly (Kahina Eskandari) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 28
Iota Iota (Isadora Wellington-Smythe) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 27
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
Heroes Heroes hero group
  [former Shadow Cabinet members, made new super-team] DC Milestone Media 12
Scar Scar villain
  System DC Milestone Media 4
K'lumnii villain group
CBR Scale: D alien
[alien race; warrior] DC Milestone Media 1
R'thaal villain
CBR Scale: D alien
K'lumnii
[made truce with Hardware after his people attacked Earth]
DC Milestone Media 1
young girl used to make portal supporting character
  [made portal between Earth and K'lumnii dimension] DC Milestone Media 1

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=176&):

Donner, Blitzen and Static battle K'lumnii warriors in New York City, while Iota, Payback and Starlight battle Agent Scar of SYSTEM in Montana. Hardware is in the dimension of the K'lumnii and convinces the warriors to take him to their leader. Agent Scar and the Heroes battle while Hardware meets with the K'lumnii king, R'thaal. R'thaal and Hardware agree to a truce. Hardware races to close the portal. Starlight destroys Agent Scar, then Iron Butterfly of the Shadow Cabinet arrives to pick him up. Hardware comes back and has a plan to close the portal. The Heroes finish mopping up the K'lumnii warriors and ther portal is closed with the help of Starlight. The young girl used to make the portal is placed in the care of Man-Machine of Alva House.