Hardware Season One: Backed Up For Hard Times

Milestone Comics is back up in this piece and the rollout ain’t stopping any time soon. Season One of Static dropped as the lead leg for this Milestone relay, Icon and Rocket took the baton next, and now it’s Hardware’s turn to run the track. Hardware’s the anchor for this run with Brendon Thomas and Milestone Comics OG Denys Cowan in the wings. We got the chance to talk with Brandon and Denys in a virtual conference about Hardware busting through the door waving the technology for his season one DC debut. Now, to be clear, Denys Cowan created the Hardware character right alongside Dwayne McDuffie. Denys talked about returning to draw the character and the changes made from then to now. Denys Cowan: “It has been a bit of an emotional journey revisiting these characters, I said before, I started drawing Hardware and I figured it’d be like riding a bike, I’d just get back on. ‘I can draw Hardware no problem, shit I drew him before. I invented Hardware, I know him back and forth.’ I get the scripts, I start drawing, and realize I have no idea who this guy is, what he looks like these days. I can’t use nineties references because he looked like that in the nineties. It’s 2021 now. Those things have been very interesting. In a way, it’s like doing a whole new book I’m very familiar with. There is no nostalgia, it’s all hard work.”

Speaking of nostalgia, Listen… Y’all may be familiar with Hardware aka Curtis Metcalf and his story from the original run. This ain’t that origi…