Extremis

Adi Granov's iconic

 Iron man illustrated pose

A Marvel Knights presentation, Extremis is a re-telling of an actual comic book story line from the pages of Iron Man.  The original writer Warren Ellis and artist Adi Granov has there comic book story arc brought to  life  in an animated mini series. Magnetic Dreams production hashed out a  six episode short. The series opens with Tony Stark speaking with a documentarian, who outlines that his creations that built his empire of Stark Enterprises,  has been used to essentially harm, maim, and kill thousands without discrimination. The documentarian pursues Tony like a crusader within his line of questioning, and Tony concludes the interview by asking has any of his documentaries  actually changed the outcome of anything he has reported.

We as an audience witness a test subject who survives the Extremis injection and meet Aldrich Killian a scientist/co-worker of Maya Hansen,  Hansen is a colleague of Tony, back when Stark began building his US Contracts. Killian commits suicide and leaves a note confessing his involvement with the stealing and releasing of Extremis. This action prompts Maya to contact Tony for help. Still distressed over Aldrich's death Tony and Maya go see Sal Kennedy, a Jeff Bridges' Big Lebrowski guru who is a medium between Tony's mechanical and Maya's biologic study of expertise. His enlightenment points out the flaws in both of them; meanwhile the Extremis surviving recipient named Mallen is a white supremacist bent  on acting out his grievance over at the Washington Capital; and begins a killing spree on the road to capital hill.  Iron Man's first encounter with Mallen leaves Tony's body shattered and broken, desperate to evolve his Iron Man technology to move the suit with faster reflexes  by  melding of the mind, body and machine to act as one. Tony uses Maya's Extremis formula on himself with his own genetic recoding. He manages to create an armour under his skin, inside the marrow of his own bones to help control and strengthen his symbiotic relationship  with his  Iron Man armour in order to defeat Mallen.

Co-directed by Joe Gibbs, and Mike Halsey (President of Magnetic Dreams) Debut the mini series as a screening at the Chicago Comic-Con on August 2010, and had it available on video by November of that year. Marking its release to the public  three years before cinematic debut of Iron Man 3,  but just months after the release of Iron Man 2 posing as a  unconnected thread between the movies.  Classified as a motion comic evolve animation, from Marvel, because past Marvel Knight series are considered motion comics that displayed less fluidity. Motion comics are referred to as a little more than just camera panning of a comic book panel, and some clunky character movements with a musical score.  Though the final product did not feel stalled in its process, it remains far from being considered a fully processed animation.