It's funny that they create a team to promote more unity between the Avengers and X-Men and it hasn't gotten much better. The only time they seem to...
Definitely agree, MacKay's Avengers isn't decompressed at all. The plot has been moving along pretty well and hasn't been bogged down with subplots....
I would say that Ewing had a premise similar to Liss, king off the throne, becoming a more street-level hero. But that would be the only similarity....