@Sheldon131: There are two basic classification of comics, those that follow the main universe ( Earth 616) and those that do not; alternate realities such as the What if?, the Ultimate universe, Age of Apocalypse, Age of X, Marvel Zombies etc...
AvX takes place in the main reality. To read events preceding AvX, you have to decide do you want to read avengers story lines or x-men story lines, each gives you a different perspective to the lead up to AvX (obviously you can read avengers and X-men, but it might be more expensive) Ill give you a list of main continuity events that you can read which provide a pretty decent lead into AvX
X-Men
Morrisons New X-men 2001-2004
Whedons Astonishing X-Men (2004-2006)
House of M
Messiah Complex
Messiah War
Utopia
Second Coming
Remenders Uncanny X-Force
Schism
Avengers
youre going to have to ask someone else for most avengers titles, i have like no idea as im not a fan haha
House of M (its actually pretty important for both sides)
Avengers disassembled
Civil War
Secret invasion
Dark reign
Siege
Fear Itself
You can buy all of these in collections or digital issues, so that you don't have to buy every individual issue. the ones in bold are more important, the others are just fun to read for the characters. I might have missed some shit out haha, im relatively new myself.
2. This stuff all leads in to marvel now, which was a general restructuring of the number of books they are producing and was designed to be a place for new readers to jump on, although reading these events makes everything a little clearer.
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