Scary Tousers

No battles?
Hercules vs Council Of Godheads in issue #1 
Hercules and Thor vs Silver Surfer in issue #2
Entire issue #3 was composed of battles. Everybody vs Zeus, Hera and Ares, and the Chaos King vs Everybody and everything
Hercules s Athena in issue #4
 
Are we reading the same comics?
 
Galactus is useless
Of cuse he is, that's the point. This way we can see how serious is situation and how strong Chaos king is - even @#$% Galactus cannot do anything.

" Is the checklist the proper way to read this? I've been interested in picking this up, but I don't know the order... I can tell the beginning point is obviously Chaos War #1...  "

I would say Tim Drake, but I'm not sure if it's not the time for him to move and become his own man, maybe by becoming Red Robin he already did. Damian is currently on a good way to become the best Robin, Stephanie is good new Batgirl (I just hope that Cassandra Cain will become new Nightwing) and Jason...yeah, psychopath.
And Grayson, of course, is Batman.

 The question is: With Daken's existence, why would there be a need for Sinister to assist in X-23's birth? (I'm thinking maybe it's because he was going to possibly use Daken, but Rommy (as I call him) got to him first). 

It would be good, but only if Sinister would have some greater plan in motion, scheme in which X-23 is his unwilling paw. Revealing that he has been behind her creation and could have been manipulating her entire life, even after his own death, as Miss Sinister or by putting certain events in motion earlier, would be great twist. First, it fits Sinister, manipulator and sciencist, whose similiar schemes we already seen in Inferno or Weapon X, it adds new level of horror to the character. It also fits X-23, victim of manipulations, girl who has been enslaved and used as a weapon since her "birth", who fears nothing else than being trapped in a cage again, controlled and manipulated by people who don't see her as a person but mere tool. Her struggle to break from Sinister's control would be interesting thing to watch. 
Shortly, I think that  both characters would benefits from that.

I think I'm in love with Master Cyclonis

We're speaking here about character that makes Sauron looks like a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain and is the size of a mountain. Darkseid level at least.

Count me as worried.

To all people saying that Marvel is worse than DC, please consider that Marvel doesn't control imprints like Vertigo and Wildstorm they can screw over.

You rased some really interesting points. And I would love to see superheroes in different settings. As long as they're nto Warhammer 40k, only Judge Dredd is allowed there.