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Hardware: The Man in the Machine (May 2010):
“Resolution”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Mike Manley, Jimmy Palmiotti

Hardware: The Man in the Machine

Title: “Resolution”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 2010

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Denys Cowan, Mike Manley, Jimmy Palmiotti


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
Edwin Alva Edwin Alva villain scientist
CBR Scale: M obsessed with power
System DC Milestone Media 39
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
SYSTEMatics SYSTEMatics villain group
  System
[operatives in massive exo-skeletons]
DC Milestone Media 11
Barraki Young Barraki Young supporting character
  black
[taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]
DC Milestone Media 29

This comic was reprinted from: Hardware #4 (June 1993): "Resolution".

Hardware: The Man in the Machine is a trade paperback publication which collects the first eight issues of Milestone Media's Hardware comic book series.

Notes from original source:

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=136&):

Alva sends an Indigo Systematic after Hardware. The battle is an all out brawl as Hardware barely defeats the Systematic. Hardware brings the defeated Systematic to Alva and says he will learn about the rest of his organization. Finally he tells Barraki that he basically can't leave his obsession over Alva undone.