Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Episode Notes Senior X-Men Editor Jordan D White joins us today to talk about his first year overseeing the line as well as what's to come in the Dawn of X Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji...

Episode Notes Welcome to the new mutant nation. Spoilers from House Of X abound. Also, we lucked into this being THEMATIC. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #515-522 (Nation X) Uncanny X-Men #148-150 (I, Magneto...) Excalibur #1-4 (Forging The Sword) Check out the good work Peter is doing. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack...

Episode Notes Welcome to Let's Talk Bill The Lobster. This is your weekly podcast where we talk about how great Bill The Lobster is. Bill is great. All the time. All the time. Bill is great. Ranked this episode: Fallen Angels NYX: No Way Home Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #17 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on T...

Episode Notes This week we recommend a bunch of media and also talk about X-Men! Ranked this episode: X-Men: Colossus Bloodline Marvel Comics Presents #10-17 (Colossus: God's Country) Uncanny X-Men #540-543 (Fear Itself) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our theme music i...

Episode Notes We brought in Harvard poetry professor Stephanie Burt to school us on Kitty Pryde. There is capital "S" Subtext. Ranked This Episode: Kitty Pryde & Wolverine Excalibur #31-34 (Girls School From Heck) All-New Doop Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our the...

Episode Notes Enter The Age Of The Atom as we try to prevent a dark future. Please do not spoil this for anyone! Ranked this episode: New Mutants #98-100 (The Beginning of the End) X-Men v2 #100-102 (Revolutions) Exiles #100 Special thanks to Charlie , Chris , Luke , and Matt for lending their voices to this event! Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on Xa...

Episode Notes We celebrate the return of Legion with the return of Matt Sibley, Zack's former co-host with a chip on his shoulder. Hopefully nothing bad happens because of this. Ranked this episode: New Mutants #26-28 (Legion) X-Men: Legacy #19-24 (For We Are Many) Legion Quest Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on...

Episode Notes Proteus is a bad child but he has been in good stories. We talk about them this week, as one does. Uncanny X-Men #125-128 (Proteus) X-Men Legacy #231-233 (Necrosha) Ultimate X-Men #16-19 (World Tour) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our theme music is Junk...

Episode Notes What's up you cool babies? We've got some Weezer content, some Muppets content, and some X-Babies content. Who could ask for more? Maybe a song or post credits scene? We got that too! Ranked This Episode: X-Babies Giant-Sized Little Marvel: AvX Pint-Sized X-Babies: Murderama Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack a...

Episode Notes This X-Men Podcast could be worth $2500 to you. That is, if that's what you value an epic team-up between the BotA Boys and Jay Edidin of Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men . Anyway, there is a movie you all are going to see against you're better judgement, and we are going to talk about the story that movie is based on. It's finally time for Dark Phoenix! Ranked This Episode: Dar...

Cyclops, just, boy howdy does he have some problems. We love our sweet anxiety riddled son but, man, he needs to maybe talk to someone. Maybe that someone could be you? (Cyclops is fictional, please do not talk to him unless you have put on your fiction suit). Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men vol 2 #19 (The Passion Of Scott Summers) Uncanny X-Men #391 (Dad) Champions #12 Check out the Battle of...

Episode Notes We're back, we're different, and we're talking about Bishop. But in a very different way, we aren't talking about Bishop because we picked 3 stories he is only nominally the star of. Oops! Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #281-283 (Bishop's Crossing) Life And Times Of Lucas Bishop New X-Men #139-141 (Murder At The Mansion) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New...

Episode Notes Welcome to Sunday School. This has become your premier destination for all things related to Christianity if by that we mean the Sentinel program. Anyway there is a very pink robot in this one. Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #194 (Juggernaut's Back In Town) New X-Men #28-31 (Nimrod) X-Men: Second Coming Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week...

Episode Notes This week we talk about Beast. We were going to talk about roller coasters but SOMEONE didn't get my reference. Anyway this episode also turned into a bunch of romance stories and WOW, Hank McCoy can brood. Ranked this Episode: X-Men Endangered Species Beauty & The Beast X-Factor Special: Prisoner of Love Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every we...

Episode Notes The New Mutants do two things constantly. 1) Push back the release date of their feature film 2) Die This episode is about the second thing. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants: Dead Souls New Mutants #38-40 (Aftermath) New Mutants: Truth or Death Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier File...

Episode Notes This week we talk about the Hellfire Club, and wouldn't you know it, we had audio issues and had to rerecord 2/3rds of the whole danged thing! So if we seem off our game, that's why. Sorry, we'll fix it next time. Enjoy the 50 Shades of Grey jokes! Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #96-100 (London Hellfire Club) Astonishing X-Men #13-18 (Torn) Wolverine & the X-Men #30-35 (The Hellf...

Episode Notes I tell you what, if my teenage self came forward in time to tell me how much I sucked, I wouldn't take him very seriously. Teenage me was a dummy. Anyway we talk about the O5 for a while. Hope you like it. Ranked This Episode: All-New X-Men #1-5 (Yesterday's X-Men) eXtermination X-Men: Season One Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierF...

Episode Notes 90s X-Men sure sold a bunch! So much so that everyone got cool, four-issue minis! We talk about 3 of them as Zack offends the entire state of Louisiana. Adam, as always, is the voice of reason and quality analysis. Ranked This Episode: Gambit vol 1 Rogue vol 1 Bishop vol 1 Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and...

Episode Notes Zack went to C2E2 last weekend and talked to A BUNCH of creators. Let's see what that was all about. Check out everyone in this episode like Matthew Rosenberg Todd Nauck Daniel Kibblesmith Tim Seeley Declan Shalvey Kyle Starks Russel Dauterman And special thanks to con friends Charlie Davis , Chris Eddleman , and Christi Eddleman . Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List...

Episode Notes We boldly go where no podcast has gone before and talk about Star Trek. I know nothing about it. Adam gets frustrated at continuity. Ranked this episode: Star Trek/X-Men #1 Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact #1 X-Men: Kingbreaker Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier F...

Episode Notes We have Prisoner X writer Vita Ayala joining us this week to talk about their awesome book. It gets real heavy but then we talk about Magic: The Gathering so it's one of those episodes. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our theme music is Junk Factory from t...

Episode Notes Happy St. Patrick's Day! Well, soon I guess. We celebrate in the X-Men way by just winging it based on cultural sterotypes that are probably a little insensitive. It is a very X-Men way to celebrate, that is for sure. Anyway we rushed to get this out so it isn't as editied as usual, sorry about that but I think it still turned out fun. Ranked this Episode: Uncanny X-Men #101-104 (The...

Episode Notes Let's chug some Mountain Dew, hit a sick kick flip, and talk about how our parents just don't understand us. We got Dan McMahon here with us to talk about Adam-X the X-Treme. Ranked this Episode: X-Force Annual #2 Captain Marvel #2-#3 X-Men #39 (Adam-X the X-Treme Goes Camping) Check out Dan's podcast Super Sons Here's that Adam-X comic I made Check out the Battle of the Atom Master...

Episode Notes Guys, Leah Williams is back to talk about X-Tremists! It's a super fun episode that does have a cuss or two in it so keep the earmuffs ready for the young ones. Anyway it's a great time and you should go buy her books. Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List ! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy ! Our t...

Episode Notes This episode is going to talk about stories where Magneto attempts to commit genocide and generally acts like a monster. We talk bluntly about the parallels to the real world. If that's not what you need in your life, no sweat, see you next week. Also, we split it up with a Silver Age story so we still have some jokes. Ranked this episode: Magneto Rex X-Men #4-5 (The Brotherhood of E...