Iron Man #5

Great writing from Warren Ellis combined with great artwork from Adi Granov really helped kick start a rebirthing of a character a few years back from bland billionaire to someone a bit more edgy and compelling.  Extremis is a great storyline, from the use of a parody of an old leftie journalist in issue one to some thrilling set pieces that lead to Stark being rendered helpless by, of all things, a car.  This issue contains a reimagining of Iron Man's origin with Ho Yinsen having a bit more sass than I can ever recall.  However, it's the sequence where Tony has his new armour inserted into his bone marrow by the extremis process that's really compelling and more than a little disturbing.  Readers identify with Tony's scientist buddy, Maya, who finds Tony's nonchalance with mixing his armour up with his body chemistry a little sickening (well, I did anyway).  Stark's not only driven here but also, possibly, making some crazy choices.  Great writing.