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Continuing Their Recent Track Record Of Weird Islands, The X-Men Find Themselves On Venom Island In New Variants

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Remembering that the X-Men are very popular, Marvel is leading off their new Venom Island variants with the fact that the X-Men will get them. The X-Men now live on an island and Venom symboites were involved in Weapon Plus so I’m counting it as relevant. Anyway I guess other books will get these covers…

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Battle Of The Atom: Hot Tamales + PCP

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Parenting is hard and I’mma be honest, the X-Men are bad at it. Ranked This Episode: Daken: Dark Wolverine #13-15 (Moonwalking) New Mutants Vol 3 #1-4 (Return of the Legion) Wolverine #98-100 (Furnace Of His Mind, Anvil Of His Heart)

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Battle Of The Atom: Passionate MCU Warriors

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We’re a Spider-Man podcast now. Here’s some Spider-Man Stories. Ranked This Episode: Spider-Man & X-Factor: Shadowgames Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine Arms Of The Octopus (All-New X-Men Special, Indestructible Hulk Special, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Special)

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Rumor: Chip Zdarsky “Subtly” Hints At A New X-Men Title

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Intergalactic treasure Chip Zdarsky released a newsletter today hinting at new work. It is called “Project Interxting” and the brimping enthusiast describes the publisher as “Marvelous” to work with. He also described eating a “dozen” doughnuts and it being “unhealthy”. We have our best Cypher cosplayers working on figuring this out. Zdarsky has dipped his…

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  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Shatterstar’s Cereal Corner

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We have a new segment guaranteed to make everyone excited. Also a guest like Charlie Davis is here to have a fun time talking about X-Force. Plus, a behind the scenes look at the struggles of a real podcast daddy. Ranked this episode: X-Force and Cable Annual ’97 X-Force #63-64 (The Haunting of Castle Doom) X-Force and…

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Battle Of The Atom: Hands On, Constructive Learning

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We have decided to speed up our podcast’s mission and just cover the entire history of the X-Men in one episode. Thank you for your time. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Grand Design Uncanny X-Men #138 Marvels #2

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Battle Of The Atom: Mortal Kombat Time

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Grab your car chargers and your Combos kids, it’s time for an X-Men Road Trip Uncanny X-Men #319, #322 – 325, & X-Men #45 (Gene Nation + Rogue & Iceman) X-Force #71-74 (Road Trip) X-23 #4-7 (Songs of the Orphan Child)

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  • House Of X/Powers Of X

HoX PoX ToX: Annotating Powers Of X #2

Chris Eddleman and Rob Secundus6 years ago4 years ago062 mins

Powers Of X #2 by Johnathan Hickman, RB Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, and Marte Gracia continues the tale in four times. In X0, Moira and Xavier recruit Magneto. In X1 and X2, the heroes of those words analyze the data they received on previous missions and prepare for their next one. And 1,000 years away…

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Bish & Jubez: The Cross-Time Conundrum 20

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago2 years ago01 mins
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Battle Of The Atom: Residual Face Tattoo Energy

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Warning: the Age Of Apocalypse is super depressing sometimes. We love it though. Ranked This Episode: Generation Next X-Men: Age of Apocalypse (2005) Age of Apocalypse #1-4 & Uncanny X-Force 19.1 (Exterminated)

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HoX PoX ToX: Annotating House Of X #2

Chris Eddleman and Rob Secundus6 years ago4 years ago049 mins

Moira MacTaggert was a long time human ally of the X-Men. House Of X #2 posits the question, what if she was a mutant? In an Anatomy Lesson like study, Johnathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia explore the ten lives of Moira X. Seeing her as an innocent by-standard, an ally to the X-Men,…

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Battle Of The Atom: Episode 105 – It’s All Fun Make ‘Em-Ups with Jordan D White

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

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

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  • House Of X/Powers Of X

HoX PoX ToX: Annotating Powers Of X #1

Chris Eddleman and Rob Secundus6 years ago4 years ago078 mins

Powers Of X #1 shows four different timelines, starting with a young Professor Xavier. Each timeline is a factor of 10 from the first (1 year, 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years). We see this after Xavier reads Moria’s mind. The 10 year mark (X1), continues the story from House Of X #1. The 100…

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Battle Of The Atom: Episode 104 – One Chart, For Which It Stands

Zachary Jenkins6 years ago4 years ago01 mins

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.

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  • House Of X/Powers Of X

HoX PoX ToX: Annotating House Of X #1

Chris Eddleman and Rob Secundus6 years ago4 years ago062 mins

In House of X #1, a masked figure, presumably Charles Xavier, is seen awakening a number of people from plant-pods. We are shown that over the past few months, the X-Men have been planting Krakoa flowers. These grow into Habitats– domains of Krakoa that acts as embassies for the country of Krakoa. The Professor has…

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