Hardware (comics) - Supporting Characters

Supporting Characters

• Barraki Young - Curtis' girlfriend.
• Don "Jolly Jock" Cornelius - a mob leader, by faking the death of Hardware at the hands of Harm, Harm was left in control of Cornelius' mob sector in Dakota.
• Deacon "Phreaky Deak" Stuart - a hardcore computer hacker, a friend of Curtis Metcalf's; Deacon "Phreaky Deak" Stuart was first introduced in issue 5.
• Deathwish (Wilton Johnson) - a psychotic vigilante obsessed with sex related crimes. He was the victim of a brutal family raping of which only he survived. Deathwish was first introduced in issue 5 going up against Hardware; Deathwish appeared in Hardware six times and got his own 4 issue spinoff mini-series in December, 1994. It was notable for its use of a pre-operative transsexual protagonist and the exclamation to close the third issue: "Fuck art! Let's dance!" (The comic was penned by Maddie Blaustein).
• Edwin Alva, Sr. - owner of Alva Industries and is the leader of the Indigo Cell in the S.Y.S.T.E.M. organization.
• Harm (Nick Pugliese) - a super-human mob enforcer who is actually an undercover cop, introduced in issue 10.
• Reprise - a super-human hitman with the power to make duplicates of himself.
• Technique (Tiffany Evans) - a phenom, introduced in issue 9, who under Alva's orders became Technique to stop Hardware; in the resulting battle Technique beats up on Hardware badly, teaching him a lesson in humility.
• Transit - a teleporting superhuman villain.