Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Episode Notes Charles Francis Xavier is one of the most important leaders in mutant history. He's... not great with people. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Annual 2000 X-Men #2 (Vanisher)  Marvel Team-Up #118 (Spidey & Prof X) 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 t...

Episode Notes Jeph Loeb probably enjoys a Mountain Dew Dark Berry Bash, the blue raspberry and blackberry variant exclusive to Applebee's Cosmic Wings ghost kitchen. David Draiman probably enjoys Hard Mountain Dew Black Cherry, the most embarrassing way to get drunk. David Bowie would never touch the stuff. Ranked This Episode: Hulk #14-17 (Code Red) Avengers: X-Sanction Wolverine #310-313 (Sabret...

Episode Notes Cyclops is one of the greatest characters in comics, and that's because he screws up so often that it is funny. Like, every time, it's funny how he makes a bad decision. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men v1 #96 (Night of the Demon) X-Factor v1 #13-14 (Master Mold) Uncanny X-Men v3 #32 (Cyclops & Havok) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week...

Episode Notes There's a lot of things that we talk about in this episode, including the New York Knicks and Grunt Squad shirts and more importantly Ben Grimm. Ranked This Episode: Clobberin' Time #2 X-Man #59 Siege vol 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 music is...

Episode Notes Much like the band Arcade Fire, the X-Men villain Arcade knows that more is more. Also we talk about Dawn, a thing that will only entertain my friend Robert. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #4-5 Claws Northstar 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...

Episode Notes I have a hard time believing that Daniel Clowes would want his "comix" confused with Marvel's "What If?" series featuring the X-Men. And yet, that's what we are presupposing in this week's Battle Of The Atom. Are we the smartest podcast out there? No. But we are the best place to learn about the video game series Primal Roar. A video game I think Daniel Clowes wou...

Episode Notes ATTENTION ALL MEMEMBERS OF THE BOTA FEDERATION. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOG. REPEAT. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOGS. THIS WILL IMPACT YOUR PRECEPTIONS OF REALITY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Millennial Visions #1-2 GeneXt Marvels Comics: X-Men #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthur...

Episode Notes Look, I was going to write something else here but I just found a copy of the unmade Magneto movie so I'm going to be over here reading that. Thematically appropriate. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Force #9 Magneto #13-17 Uncanny X-Men #161 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 How funny is it that Tim Heidecker is the new Alex Jones? Anyway here's an episode about Wolverine with a lot of good art and also a nude Tane. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine: Bloodlust Wolverine: Inner Fury Wolverine: Killing 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 Adam & Dr. Anna Peppard got married. Well they got married a year ago but anyway we're celebrating it how. Say happy wedding to them. Ranked This Episode: Black Panther #14-18 (Wedding Of The Century) Excalibur #124-125 X-Men: The Wedding Special vol 2 #1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @arthurs...

Episode Notes In this episode, Zack proves the one guy from 7 years ago who made a comment about how this podcast is too religious correct. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Hope #1 New Mutants v2 #5-6 Astonishing X-Men v4 #7-12 (A Man Called X) https://www.patreon.com/BattleOfTheAtom Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter  @a...

Episode Notes Gail Simone is the current writer of Uncanny X-Men. But what we posit is that she wrote X-Men related things before this. Would you believe that's what we are covering on the podcast this week? Ranked This Episode: Deadpool #65-69 (Healing Factor) Domino: Hotshots Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer: X-Men Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week o...

Episode Notes Sometimes superheroes get new clothes for no reason other than the fact that it sells variant convers and maybe could be a microtransaction in a video game. This is call the Spider-Man sales plan. Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis X-Men vol 2 #35 (Sunset Grace) X-Men #37-39 (Factor Three) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week...

Episode Notes At the start of the 1970s crumbling relationships with Iran led to shocks in the global energy market, shooting up prices at the pump while the X-Men meandered aimlessly with Marvel not having a clue what to do with them. This is not commentary on current events. Ranked This Episode: Marvel Team-Up #4 Avengers #110-111 Captain America Annual #4 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master...

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...