Hardware #30

Edwin Alva looms large over a chessboard, coolly holding a miniature Hardware figure between his fingers as scattered chess pieces suggest a high-stakes game with Dakota's criminal underworld at its heart — it's a striking visual metaphor for the power plays at the center of this "End Game" arc. The cover by penciler Humberto Ramos and inker Prentis Rollins crackles with tension, framing Alva as the calculating mastermind and Hardware as just another piece to be moved or sacrificed. Presented in Milestone's premium 32-page fully painted format, this 1995 issue looks like a pivotal showdown between Hardware's principles and the ruthless chess match Alva is determined to win.