Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

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...

Episode Notes In which we understand how much Cable's favorite Everclear song is "Father of Mine" Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #1-2 Uncanny X-Men #310 Cable & X-Force #6-9 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 Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade...

Episode Notes Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real... Ranked This Episode: Obnoxio The Clown Vs The X-Men Marvel Two-In-One #76 Wolverine & The X-Men #21-23 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 Fuka...

Episode Notes 400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #268 (Madripoor Nights) X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever Battle Of The Atom Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content...

Episode Notes The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous Games X-Men: Legacy #7-9 Check out the Battle of the A...

Episode Notes Sabretooth has a costume with a lion's mane sewn into it. Wrestler Tyler Mane played Sabretooth in a movie. Are these facts related to this episode? Ranked This Episode: Sabretooth War Sabretooth vol 1 Wolverine #10 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 Chris Hassan from AiPT's X-Men Monday joins us for a journey through the last 300 installments of his column and what folks were talking about for all that time. This episode also doubles as a weird history lesson on/therapy session what it was like to be a figure of minor notoriety in X-Men fandom for the last decade or so. Ranked This Episode: Return Of Wolverine Gwenpool Strikes B...

Episode Notes Do the children even remember Wizard Magazine these days? I mean, to be fair, Zack only knows of it, but was never of it. Luckily, the children all remember Skin; isn't that right children? Ranked This Episode: Generation X v1 #17 (X-Cutioner) Generation X v1 #20-21 (Howard The Duck) Generation X v1 #1/2 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on...

Episode Notes Comic fans oft wonder "who would win". Those folks need to touch grass. Ranked This Episode: Contest Of Champions II AVX: Vs Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection Arcade Classics 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 I'll be real with you, sometimes there's a request that really throws us for a loop. This is one of them. Ranked This Episode: X-Factor #63-64 (Cyburai) Generation X #29-31 (Operation: Zero Tollerance) Alpha Flight #107 (X-Factor) 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 Z...

Episode Notes 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 Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto. Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee If you want to suppo...

Episode Notes I'm not mad, just disappointed at the society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this? Ranked This Episode: Immortal X-Men #1-4 District X #7-12 (Underground) Ultimate Comics: X-Men #18.1-22 (Reservation 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...