April 18th: Avengers Vs X-Men #2

AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #2
Ok, so I know what you're all thinking: Marvel and DC sucks, it never changes, the phoenix again? Well, sue me, because I'm into the Avengers vs X-Men series. You can write it on a sign, put it around my neck and walk me through the APE-Expo like Bruce Willis in Die Hard to be beaten and stoned by hordes of angry hippsters. The phoenix is overdone, and so is fights between super-teams, but this series has three main reasons to read it- 1) The artwork. This series has the best artists working in the buisness drawing up the art. John Romita Jr had issue 1, and issue two is done up by Frank Cho. 2) Cyclops. When I was growing up, Cyclops was the bad-ass of the X-Men, often having to fight them one-on-six and often times saving the day and getting the woman. Then came Jim Lee and Chris Claremont, and Cyclops became the biggest dick-head that marvel universe has ever seen. A brown-nosing suck-up who's woman was being sexually harassed by every guy on the team, Scott Summers became as lame as the yellow underwear he wore, and as boring as one of his lectures. That same character followed over to the cartoon, and then came the movies, where they added "crybaby" and "useless" to the list of Cyclop's personality traits. Over the last couple of years Scott Summers has become a hardcore militant leader for the remaining mutants, and this series has him protecting the return of the phoenix against the world. Even Magneto follows his lead, along with Namor, and many others. He's a bad-ass again, and you should check it out before they kill him off. 3) Marvel AR. Google it.