Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

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...

Episode Notes We've done it. We've become a podcast about ship wars. Get out of here you Jarbs with your Jott agenda. Emmor stans? To the side. This is all about Scemma 4 eva! Nothing will ever make me think this is not a perfect ship and if writers do not appreciate it in the same way I do, they deserve the Hague. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on Co...

Episode Notes Spider-Man and Nightcrawler are our blue and red wall-crawlers but did you know they have teamed up? You did? Well so did Anna Peppard who joins us this week to Bamf all over this place. Ranked This Episode: Amazing Spider-Man #161-162 Marvel Team-Up #89 Amazing Nightcrawler Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on T...

Episode Notes Many people like to talk about the war crimes of Beast. Today, we want to highlight some of his lesser known mass murders. Everyone's favorite fun loving Avenger right? Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men #25-30 (Ghost Box) Secret Avengers #16 All-New X-Men #25 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @art...

Episode Notes There's been a lot of X-Men podcasts before us, and there will be a lot of X-Men podcasts after us, but let me tell you what, ain't none of them gonna beat us! Because we are the BOTA BOYZ and we are too stupid and too ugly to know when to quit! This is a call out to all those so called contenders, you talk a big game behind your RSS feeds but we'll see who the supreme champion of ta...

Episode Notes Happy Halloween! We here at Battle Of The Atom have decided to celebrate by talking about the scariest thing of all, bad comics. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #118-119 (Dark Night Of The Bamfs) Marvel Zombies Halloween #1 Weapon X #22-27 (Weapon X Force) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy...

Episode Notes Wanna see Adam grow increasingly more angry and Zack's commitment to bits? Bits everyone loves? Could this be the end of Battle Of The Atom? Spoiler Alert: No. Ranked This Episode: Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book One: Dreamers and Demons Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Two: Heroes and Martyrs Stan Lee Presents: X-Men: The End: Book Three: Men and X-Men Check out the B...

Episode Notes Adam hits the show floor to talk to some fantastic creators at New York Comic Con 2022. 4:30 - Zeb Wells 7:37 - Steve Orlando 15:05 - Maria Wolf 20:25 - Danny Lore 28:45 - David Nakayama 34:00 - Bill Sienkewicz 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 Everyone knows how the X-Men are pirates now. These are times when the X-Men met some pirates. Yo Ho! Ranked This Episode: Marauders #1-12, #16 Uncanny X-Men #384-385, X-Men #104 (Crimson Pirates) Nightcrawler #8-12 (Bloody Bess + Shadow King) 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 We sometimes spend our time talking about deep important stories that challenge what it means to be human. Other times we talk about a dinosaur man. This is a dumb one and I love it. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #353-355 (Sauron) Weapon X - The Draft: Sauron #1 Wolverine/Badrock Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com Follow...

Episode Notes Folks, they say you can never go home again. That has literally, never once, in his entire life, stopped Chris Claremont from trying. We travel to the world of Elsewhen and see all these times creators just, came back and did something weird. X-Men Forever #1-5 X-Factor Forever First X-Men Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on ComicsXF.com F...

Episode Notes We get it started in here with X-Terminators writer Leah Williams on a very dumb (complimentary) comic. It's X-Terminators week at long last! 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 T...