Hardware #46
Title: “Give Them the Works”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Dec. 1996
Publisher:
11 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 | ||||||||
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System | 39 | |||||||
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black [Hardware's mother; community activist] |
4 | ||||||||
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[scientist] | 6 | ||||||||
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black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend] |
29 | ||||||||
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[Edwin Alva's son] | 5 | ||||||||
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[Post Mortem's sister] | 4 | ||||||||
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[Autopsy's brother] | 4 | ||||||||
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[agency created to monitor Dakota City superhumans] | 4 | ||||||||
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Asian [hospitalized due to attack by Autopsy, Post Mortem] |
4 | ||||||||
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[company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition] | 9 |
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=178&):
The artificial intelligence Curtis creates takes on the persona of Edwin Alva. The Alva IA has dispersed into the Internet and can't be destroyed. As Curtis and Alva IA argue, Cheryl learns that Edwin, Jr. and Kim are in the hospital due to the attack of Autopsy and Post-Mordem. Edwin IA gives some clues to Curtis on the attacks and Hardware takes off to get some payback. We see Kim's relatives in a sick, twisted sweatshop. Congresswoman Metcalf helps commission an agency, COVERT, to monitor the superhumans located in Dakota. Hardware tracks down and stops the horrors of Autopsy and Post Mordem. And then Barraki drops an ultimatum on Curtis: make a commitment or she leaves.