Battle Of The Atom: An X-Men Podcast

Mar 24 2025 387 ep. 54 mins 921
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Join Zack and Adam from ComicsXF as they battle to decide the best and worst X-Men stories of all time!

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Ep.385 - The Gold Standard

Mar 24 2025 62 mins  
Episode Notes In times of economic uncertainty, many speculative investors will transition a larger portion of their assets into gold. This is generally a weird plan based on the fact that gold is nice to look at. For more in things that are nice to look at, here's Art Adams comics. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 (Mojo, Deaged X-Men) X-Factor v1 #41-42 (Alchemy Art

Ep.384 - The Robcipe

Mar 17 2025 62 mins  
Episode Notes There is nothing I could say here that would help explain the life and times of Rob Liefeld more than reading literally every word he has ever said about Major X. Ranked This Episode: Wolverine #154-155 (All Along The Watchtower) Major X 1-6 + 0 X-Force: Killshot Anniversary Special Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on Comi

Ep.383 - Heka-Nut & The Sword Of Bone

Mar 10 2025 59 mins  
Episode Notes Sometimes, listeners tune in for insightful commentary on X-Men comics and the world at large. Other times Zack and Adam are giggling so much that they can't actually complete a joke. This isn't one of those smart episodes. What is smart though? Supporting friend of the show Vita Ayala after their family was displaced by a fire. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #52 M

Ep.382 - Egg Challenge with Dr. Anna Peppard

Mar 03 2025 77 mins  
Episode Notes We love Meggan, here's an episode. Also Anna is here and isn't that great! Ranked this Episode: Mighty World Of Marvel #14-16 Excalibur #28 Captain Britain and MI13 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 Factory fr

Ep.381 - D'Onofrio Style + Megacon 2025

Feb 24 2025 68 mins  
Episode Notes RIP Zack "The Bad Boy Of X-Men Podcasting" Jenkins. He leaves behind a loving co-host and many people who would consider him an enemy because of jokes he made about X-Men. Ranked This Episode: Excalibur #1-2 Wolverine #102.5 Excalibur Vol 4 #7-8 (Warwolves) Also in the episode: Greg Land, Marc Guggenheim, Ben Percy, Craig Kyle, David Pepose, Chris Condon,

Ep.380 - The 1000th Story

Feb 10 2025 58 mins  
Episode Notes Rivers Cumo once said "I wanna go back, back to the shack, back to the Strat with the lightning strap" and we echo that message back going back to our roots for a 1000th story celebration about the stories the occurred at both the birth of the podcast and the birth of us. Rivers Cumo also once said "Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press tabl

Ep.379 - Sweeps Week with Connor Goldsmith

Feb 03 2025 112 mins  
Episode Notes When TV shows cared about Nielsen ratings, ad rates would be set based on how well a show performed during a very specific portion of the year called "Sweeps Week". To goose the system, shows would bring out all the stops with big episodes, guest stars, all of that. We honor that tradition as the road to 1000 stories comes to a close with Cerebro host Connor

Ep.378 - Humans Do Suck

Jan 27 2025 52 mins  
Episode Notes No further explanation needed. Ranked This Episode: X-Men v5 #10-11 (Empyre) Wolverine & The X-Men Annual #1 Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet & Uncanny X-Men #387 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

Ep.377 - Sacre Blu Superman

Jan 20 2025 62 mins  
Episode Notes This episode is all about Gambit. Why? I mean, that's quite the important question. Friedrich Nietzsche said "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Of course, Nietzsche also said "The Superman is the meaning of the earth." and I remember just enough about that time he had blue electricity powers to use that as evidence to disagree with

Ep.376 - Carey On

Jan 13 2025 52 mins  
Episode Notes Once upon a time, in the years before Xavier Files, Zack and his friend Thomas started an X-Men book club where the first thing they wanted to talk about was Mike Carey's X-Men work. This is then that domino meme that gets us to this very moment nearly a decade later. Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Legacy Annual #1, #228-230 (Devil at the Crossroads_)_ X-Men #194-196 (P