Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Episode Notes Rogue man, we all know she was a villian before joining the X-Men but for people who only read X-Men (aka listeners of this podcast, I assume) they might not have seen everywhere she shows up as a baddie before this. We resolve that by describing the adventures of ROM, the greatest of The Spaceknights. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #158 (The Life That Late I Led...) ROM SpaceKni...

Episode Notes Welcome to the Attitude Era. Hope you survive the experience. Ranked this episode: Ultimate X-Men #75-78 (Cable) Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1-12 Ultimate Comics: X-Men #13-18 (Divided We Fall/United We Stand) 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 J...

Episode Notes Episode #300 of Battle Of The Atom brings an event foretold by the sages. Ranknarok: The Rereankening. Also Brian Michael Bendis stops by for a great discussion on his time on the X-Men titles. Re-Ranked This Episode: New Mutants Summer Special Inferno (X-Men/X-Factor) Astonishing X-Men #1-6 (Gifted) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on Com...

Episode Notes What if I told you that the world of 2099 is a concept that often has diminishing returns? You would probably believe me. Anyway, this one is for the boys with the booming systems. Ranked This Episode: Timestorm 2009-2099: X-Men Spider-Man 2099 Exodus #5 X-Men 2099: Oasis Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twit...

Episode Notes It's a Cyclops week where, let me tell you what, we forgot how annoying the M-Pox era was for all of us. Ranked This Episode: Cyclops (2010) #1  Champions vol 3 #5 (War Of The Realms) All New X-Men vol 2 #1-3 (The Ghosts Of Cyclops) 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...

Episode Notes While editing this episode, Adam made a list of the stuff Zack trash talks in it: Elon Musk Back to the Future All 80s Movies Vision All of Post-Romita Sr Spider-Man Nick Spencer Stefano Caselli Pre-Sienkewicz New Mutants Thunderbolts M-Pox That's why he's the Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting. Ranked this episode: Avengers World #9 New Mutants #1-4 US Avengers #10-12 Check out the Battle...

Episode Notes The Dark Phoenix Saga is the defining story in X-Men, and no character is more impacted by it than Jean Grey. This episode asks, perchance, what if stories didn't think about it? Ranked This Episode: X-Men #28 (Devil In The House) X-Men First Class Vol 2 #1 (Job Shadow) Marvel Girl #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow...

Episode Notes We return to 2099 with a vengeance. Unfortunately, we are beginning to understand why these books were canceled with a vengeance. An unexpected, and historic, episode. Ranked This Episode: X-Men 2099 #26-29 (City Of The Dead) X-Nation 2099 2099: World of Tomorrow Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arth...

Episode Notes We once again enter the weird world of Legion and let me tell you what, the takes in this episode? They are smoking hot. Ranked: X-Men: Legacy #1-6 (Prodigal) X-Men: Legacy #251-253 (Lost Legions) Uncanny X-Men #254-255 (Muir Island X-Men) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try...

Episode Notes We're doing the Brood this time. It's the one where the Brood Queen was most likely to go to heaven. Ranked: X-Men Vs The Brood Astonishing X-Men #38,40,42 (Meanwhile) Cable vol 2 #16-20  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 t...

Episode Notes This one is about Iceman and, as promised, we make an insufferable amount of ice puns. Ranked This Episode: Iceman Vol 2 Astonishing X-Men #62-65 Bizarre Adventure #27 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...

Episode Notes The rules? They no longer apply to us. We've decided to stretch the premise of the podcast past the logical conclusion and into a world where frankly, nothing is ever the same. Looks folks, it's coming up on six years, we're deep into our having fun with it era. Ranked This Episode: Incredible Hulk #148 (But Tomorrow -- The Sun Shall Die!) Avengers #102-104 (The Sentinels Are Alive a...

Episode Notes A lot of people will be upset about the Morph we are spending the episode with. Those people need to remember that we are a podcast named after a Bendis event. Here's your reminder to go read Christiana Strain's Gen X. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 3 #14 Generation X #1-2 (ResurrXion) Generation X #8-9, #85-87 (Survival Of The Fittest) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master...

Episode Notes Shinobi Shaw should have been a big deal right? Instead he's always getting into it with teenagers. The dude just needs to chill. Ranked This Episode: Child's Play: X-Force/New Warriors X-Men Annual #3 Generation X Annual Vol 1 1995 (Mondo) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try...

Episode Notes The X-Men are always infighting. That's why we love them. But this episode posits that maybe sometimes they fight versions of the original five X-Men as a bit? We're committed to it. Also in this episode? A lot of talk about Tipper Gore. Ranked This Episode Uncanny X-Men #106 X-Men 2099 #8-11 (Zhao) Uncanny X-Men #19 (Mimic) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New...

Episode Notes It's time, finally, the reason we started this show! Zack finally gets to talk to someone about X-Men 2099. Get ready for the critical reevaluation of the century. Ranked This Episode: X-Men 2099 #1-3 (The Gathering) X-Men 2099 #16-20 (Halloween Jack) X-Men 2099 #21-25 (2099 A.D. [After Doom]) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.c...

Episode Notes Adam was busy so Zack called up Connor Goldsmith from Cerebro to talk about the Age of Apocalypse. Shocking no one, there's a mean lady that Connor has no choice but to stan. Ranked This Episode: Factor X Weapon X X-Calibre 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! Ou...

Episode Notes Once again, Jordan D White, Senior Editor on the X-Men books, joins us to talk about what all happened last year and what all is going to happen this year. Also, oddly enough, a bit about the event Battle Of The Atom and where the heck you can find Raze. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy &...

Episode Notes Zack's going on vacation so he decided to torment Adam and himself by spending a whole episode talking about Ultimatum. What a bad comic. Ranked This Episode Ultimatum Ultimate X-Men #98-100, Requiem #1 (Ultimatum) Ultimate X-Men #26-33 (Return Of The King)  Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthursta...

Episode Notes We don't actually go to Long Island on this one, but we got to the island of Madripoor. We're all Madripoor down here. Ranked This Episode: Generation X #53-54 Wolverine #1-3 (The Black Blade) X-23/Daken: Dark Wolverine: Collision  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...

Episode Notes Welcome to 2023. We're doing politics now. Ranked This Episode: X-Men #4 (Global Economics) X-Factor #82-83 (X-Patriots) Ultimate War 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, Yuji Takenouch...

Episode Notes They say don't speak ill of the dead. Well no one told Professor X and Magneto that because this episode has them negging the heck outta Stan Lee as Battle Of The Atom goes to the movies. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Unlimited #17 (Faceoff) X-Men #40 (Frankenstein) X-Men: The Last Stand Collectors Edition DVD Movie w/ Comic Book Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! Ne...

Episode Notes It's Chrisesmas once again and wouldn't you know it, Chris & Christi Eddleman have joined Zack & Adam to ostensibly talk about X-Men comics but really to catch up and hang out. If you are here for X-Men content and only X-Men content, well, get ready to have Marvel's first furry hero explained to you. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Man #420 (Twas A Night Before X-Man) GL...

Episode Notes We all remember Chris Claremont's classic work on his most famous characters, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing. This week we look into those characters and specifically how they intersect with some forgotten characters, the X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #122 Dazzler #22-24 (Sisterhood) Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4 Check out the Battle of the Atom Maste...

Episode Notes We've done a lot of episodes about wretched war criminal Beast, but today we talk about delightful war criminal Abigail Brand and her time with SWORD! Ranked This Episode: SWORD Vol 1 X-Men Vol 4 #18-22 SWORD Vol 2 #1-5 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 th...