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Hardware: The Man in the Machine (May 2010):
“Rest in Peace”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Joe Brozowski (as J.J. Birch), Jason Temujin Minor

Hardware: The Man in the Machine

Title: “Rest in Peace”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 2010

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: Joe Brozowski (as J.J. Birch), Jason Temujin Minor


8 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
(flashback)
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
Denise Metcalf Denise Metcalf
(flashback)
supporting character
  black
[Hardware's mother; community activist]
DC Milestone Media 4
Mitchell Metcalf Mitchell Metcalf
(flashback)
supporting character
  black
[Hardware's father]
DC Milestone Media 3
zombies zombies
(dream)
villain group
  [generic listing] Image DC, etc. 1,325
Reprise Reprise
(dream)
villain
  [assassin; mercenary] DC Milestone Media 6
Barraki Young Barraki Young
(dream)
supporting character
  black
[taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend]
DC Milestone Media 29

This comic was reprinted from: Hardware #8 (Oct. 1993): "Rest in Peace".

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=140&):

In this retrospective issue, we see much of Curtis's background in detail as he struggles with his conscience. The whole book is a dream sequence as we see Curtis growing up. When Curtis wakes up he declares that Hardware is going to be an instrument for justice and not revenge anymore.