Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Episode Notes In this episode, Zack spends a frustrating amount of time just reading Jeff Matsuda's LinkedIn page. Is it more entertaining than Howard Mackie comics? You be the judge (because we can't rank LinkedIn pages on this podcast, otherwise we are the judges). Ranked This Episode: X-Factor v1 #-1  X-Factor v1 #132-134 (Underground) X-Men v2 #48-49 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ran...

Episode Notes Ultimate Gambit don't care about your rules. Ultimate Gambit play solitaire how he want. Ranked This Episode: Ultimate X-Men #13-14 (Gambit) Ultimate X-Men #50-53 (Cry Wolf) Ultimate X-Men Annual #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Fa...

Episode Notes Marvel, many times, will tell you that nothing will ever be the same again, when many times, not only will it be the same, but you will forget that they ever said that things would be different. This is that but with character. Ranked This Episode X-Men Unlimited #8 (Bolt) X-Men Unlimited #27 (Thunderbird III) Marvel Voices Pride 2021 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking L...

Episode Notes There's a certain person who hates birthdays, but normally for shame based reasons. Wolverine? He has better reasons. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine Vol. 4 #5.1 Amazing Spider-Man: Extra! #2 Wolverine First Class #2 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme...

Episode Notes If I only could, I'd make a deal with God. Have Paul Smith draw less Morlocks. It would fix a lot of things, make a bit more sense, but then we would miss these stories. Sing it, it tracks. Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #21-23 Storm vol 1 Uncanny X-Men v4 #6-10 (Apocalypse Wars) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam...

Episode Notes The X-Men have often been cartoons, but what if they tried to be funny? Would that be good? History says "no". Ranked This Episode The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Fun What The--?! #3-4 (Mutant Beach Party) Not Brand Echh #4 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to...

Episode Notes I wonder if people know the burden of being an X-Men fan and having to keep all these stories in facts straight when, SOMETIMES, the comics don't put in the same effort to remember unimportant stuff. Ranked This Episode: Kitty Pryde: Agent of SHIELD X-Men True Friends X-Men Forever 2 #7-10 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com F...

Episode Notes Some have called us the Cheech & Chong of X-Men podcasts. I've never seen those movies but I can say that if one of them is constantly suffering from bits that only the other person thinks is funny, then the descriptions fits. This is the weed number episode. Danked This Episode: Kissnation #1 Uncanny X-Men #417-420 (Dominate Species) X-Force #121-122 (Laccuna) Check out the Batt...

Episode Notes Alex Paknadel comes on the show to chat about his upcoming Cyclops series, the Punch Dimension, and what it's like writing X-Men in this last year. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami,...

Episode Notes There is an epidemic striking our country, that is an epidemic of running out of holiday themed stories to cover at Christmas time. Therefore I want no complaints at what Santa brought you. Ranked This Episode; Marvel Holiday Special 1996 Marvel Holiday Magazine #1 Marvel Holiday Tales To Astonish #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on Com...

Episode Notes Een la yair of ur laird déux thousand deux Marvel writairs absulute-lee loved makeng nu charactairs to throw at people and 'ope zey stik. Vairy fu of zém did. But zere was un and of curse 'e's francais, why do you think 'e 'as zis ootrajéous accént? Ranked zis episode: X-Treme X-Men #10-16 (Invasion) Uncanny X-Men #399 (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge) New X-Men #128-130 (Fantomex) Che...

Episode Notes In 2007, the creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada had children's pull-ups character Spider-Man sell his marriage to the Satan Mephisto in exchange for the life of his dear Aunt May, an octogenarian who lived a full life that was marred near its end by nearly weekly health issues and who was assumed dead at the start of Straczynski's run. Much like me with my own pa...

Episode Notes We love Nightcrawer, we love all types of blue people, we also love Dr. Anna Peppard who is not blue. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #16-17 (Warlord Kurt) Exiles v1 #41-42 (A Nocturne's Tale)  X-Men First Class: The High Hand Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!...

Episode Notes You'll never go in the water again, but maybe you'll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode: Classic X-Men #13 Namor: The First Mutant #5 Deadpool vol 7 #6 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Fa...

Episode Notes Trent Renzor once said "I want to feel you from the inside" and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode: What If? #75 (What if Blink hadn't died?) Generation X #71-75 (Four Days) X Deaths of Wolverine Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurstacy &a...

Episode Notes Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #145-147 Uncanny X-Men #197 Super-Villain Team-Up #14, Champions #16 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never t...

Episode Notes It's a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant. Ranked This Episode: Secret Wars II #5 X-Factor #12 New Mutants vol 4 #3-4,6 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami,...

Episode Notes Happy Halloween everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #64 (The Resurrection on Cypher) Marvel Comics Presents #90-97 (Ghost Rider & Cable: Servants of the Dead) Gambit vol 4 #7-9 (Voodoo Economics) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy &...

Episode Notes Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode: Team X / Team 7 Wolverine/Deathblow #1-2 Shi/Wolverine Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never...

Episode Notes Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #45 (Larry Bodine) Muties Generation Hope #9 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack! Our theme music is...

Episode Notes The Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese Manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel's history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the dude taking a year off to write a comic about how much sex...

Episode Notes We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode: X-Force #3-4, Spider-Man #16 (Sabotage) Uncanny X-Men #189 (Two Girls Out To Have Fun) Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (Revenge of the Living Monolith) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New c...

Episode Notes I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode: X-Force vol 4 #1-6 (Dirty/Tricks) Spider-Man/Marrow #1 X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic 75-79 (Unbreakable) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arth...

Episode Notes Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it's to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn't normally get in an X-Men podcast. Ranked This Episode: Spellbound #4 Mutant Misadventures of Cloak a...

Episode Notes Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn't approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn't entitled to the sweat of the worker's brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode: John Allison's Kitty & Wolverine comic Valentine's Syrin comic Max Wittert Jean & Scott Check out the Battle of the Atom M...