Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis

Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis is a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. 
The three-issue limited series, written by Christofer Emgȧrd and illustrated by Fernando Baldo, is a tie-in prequel to Tom Clancy's The Division 2. It first began publishing on January 9, 2019.
The story follows Strategic Homeland Division agent Caleb Dunne as he hunts down a mysterious woman across the United States in a quest for revenge, meeting fellow agents on his journey and uncovering a grave threat to a nation already on the brink of total collapse.
==Plot==
===Issue #1===
In March 2016, following the death of Charles Bliss, the remnants of the Last Man Battalion in New York City are revitalized after receiving Carl Gustav M3s and other heavy weapons from an unknown supplier. With the help of information from Padilla, an LMB informant, the Division tracks the weapons supplier to a warehouse in Chinatown.
SHD agents and close friends Caleb Dunne and Mathias Kaminsky are dispatched to raid the warehouse alongside the Joint Task Force. During the raid, Kaminsky encounters an operative named Mantis, who feigns surrender before subduing him at knifepoint. Dunne attempt to negotiate, but Mantis brutally slices Kaminsky’s throat and stabs him in the abdomen before escaping. Despite Dunne’s efforts to save him, Kaminsky succumbs to his injuries and dies. 
Back at the Base of Operations, Faye Lau consoles Dunne over Kaminsky’s death, who vows revenge on Mantis. He visits Padilla for information, but finds him dead, with an ECHO revealing Mantis once again as the culprit. Dunne finds trace chemicals at the scene that lead him to the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, where he witnesses Mantis talking with rogue agent Ike Ronson. He finds Mantis’s safehouse underground, which contains loose SHD Smart Watches and a map detailing operations across the East Coast, including between New York City and Philadelphia. 
Mantis returns and, after a scuffle, activates the hideout’s self-destruct explosives and flees. Dunne barely escapes, and is recovered by JTF personnel. During his recovery, Dunne informs Lau that he is heading to Philadelphia to investigate Mantis’s operation further. 
=== Issue #2===
In New Jersey, Dunne encounters fellow SHD agent Heather Ward, who invites him to the nearby Camden Settlement. They find the settlement under attack by The Founders, a local insurrectionist faction, and fend them off together. Ward informs Dunne that the Founders, like the LMB, recently received heavy weaponry from an unknown source. 
With the help of a defector named Timmy, the trio infiltrate the Founders’s headquarters at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. They recover a SATCOM transceiver, then destroy the armory with explosive charges, although Timmy is shot and killed during their escape. 
Dunne messages Lau, who suggests her former NSA colleagues at Fort Meade could break the SATCOM transceiver’s encryption. With the Camden Settlement now safe from the Founders, Ward decides to accompany Dunne to Maryland.
===Issue #3===
At Fort Meade, Dunne and Ward meet another agent, Brian Johnson, and Miranda Pirandello, the NSA’s Deputy Director, who agrees to help. After the agents bond and recuperate for several weeks, NSA technicians manage to track the transceiver’s signal to a farmhouse outside Fredrick, and Johnson joins Dunne and Ward in scouting the site. 
At the farm, they discover Mantis alongside a team of Black Tusk soldiers, who engage them in a firefight. Mantis attempts to escape in a Humvee, but Ward overturns her vehicle with a Sticky Bomb. Dunne overpowers Mantis and begins choking her to death in a rage, only relenting at Ward’s insistence. As they detain Mantis, the SHD Network goes offline, and their watches display the coordinates “38.8975, -77.0375”. 
The agents escort Mantis to the nearby Fort Detrick for interrogation, but they find the entire base destroyed. A Black Tusk sniper shoots Mantis through the head, then reports her death to Milla "Wyvern" Radek and departs. 
Left without any leads or access to the SHD Network, the trio decides to follow their watches’ coordinates. Two weeks later, they arrive at Arlington Cemetery on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., leading into the events of Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
==Publication==
=== Issues===
Issue 	Publication date
Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis #1	January 9, 2019
Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis #2	February 13, 2019
Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis #3	April 3, 2019
===Collected Editions===
Title 	Material collected 	Publication date	ISBN
Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis	Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis #1–3	July 23, 2019 	9781506710426
==Trivia==
* The name of the comic book series is derived from the Strategic Homeland Division's motto, "Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia" (translated as "Extreme Evil, Extreme Remedy").
*The final page of Tom Clancy's The Division: Extremis Malis #3 is a shot-for-shot recreation of the ending scene from Tom Clancy's The Division 2: E3 Cinematic Trailer 2018.
== Video==
Tom Clancy's The Division- Extremis Malis Comic Series Trailer - Ubisoft -NA-
==External links==
*Tom Clancy's The Division Extremis Malis (Issue-1)
*Tom Clancy's The Division Extremis Malis (Issue-2)
*Tom Clancy's The Division Extremis Malis (Issue-3)
Category:Comics