Battle Of The Atom: Everyone Looks The Same
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:
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The 10 best X-Men time travel stories according to the Battle of the Atom podcast
This week sees the release of a new Giant-Size X-Men #1, which will set Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, on a time-travel adventure through key points in X-Men history, starting with the dawn of the All-New, All-Different X-Men of 1975. Time travel is a Tuesday for some X-Men. And so we consulted Battle of the Atom’s…
Ms. Marvel Shermans her way through X-Men history in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (not that one)
Ever since she discovered she was a mutant, Kamala Khan has been balancing her previous life as Ms. Marvel with her role as a leader in the new community, but her conflicted identity has come at a deep personal cost. Now, pulled into the distant past by an unhinged villain with deep ties to mutant…
The Outliers go to Hot Topic in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #15
With one young mutant taken hostage in the underworld of the Dark Artery, it’s left to the remaining Outliers to lead the Louisiana X-Men to try to steal them back, but the ultimate terror blocks the way. The Voice of Darkness seeks a new home, and violence and fear will follow whoever takes that mantle….
Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) (Space) Society
I’m not mad, just disappointed at the (space) society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this (in space)? Ranked This Episode:
10 things we loved in Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Episodes 10-12
It took us a bit to come to terms with our grief over the end of Andor, but here, at last, are 10 things we loved in Season 2 Episodes 10-12. Suiting Up The beginning of this three-episode arc and its conclusion both have parallel constructions, in that the arc opens with Luthen preparing to…
Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) Society
I’m not mad, just disappointed at the society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this? Ranked This Episode:
Here there be dragons, Man-Things and rock golems in Uncanny X-Men #14
The Louisiana X-Men thought Haven House was a safe place, a place to call home. But is it more than that? What is the history of the hidden landscape under the Louisiana swampland, and what does it want with the young Outliers? Long-held secrets revealed, and a part of X-history never before shown threatens to…
Battle Of The Atom: Michigan J Frog Situation
This episode is about Iron Man, but more than that, it’s about the turn of the century Evangelical crossover literary sensation Left Behind. Ranked This Episode:
Lovingly rendered butts for all: Our favorite pinups from the Marvel Swimsuit Specials
Superheroes are meant to be the best of us. As a result, they’re also the sexiest of us. So it stands to reason we’d want to see what they look like in swimwear — though it could be argued many of them wear bathing suits as standard dress. For five years in the 1990s, Marvel…
Battle Of The Atom: Death Comes For Us All
What do we say to the god of death? We ask them what Dani Moonstar is like and if death thinks she would be our friend and also proud of us. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: King Of The Hill
Dang ol’ Magneto, man, talkin’ ’bout that next generation of mutant kids? Run aroun’ using dang ol’ magnets to reflec’ people’s mind beams and talkin’ ’bout mothervine and all ‘dat. Zippin’ round like vrroom-bing-bop-screech-pow man. It’s a, a real weird school man. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Flashin’ Around w/ David Harper
Flashback with us to yesteryear as we get nostalgic about comics getting nostalgic about other comics. David Harper from SKTCHD and Off Panel is here to help us out! Ranked This Episode: Make sure you check out his new SKTCHD Book 2024 on sale now!
The Outliers go Scooby-Dooing and new mutant history revealed in Uncanny X-Men #13
In their most terrifying adventure yet, the four young Outliers discover the true meaning of Haven House and a doorway that should never be opened. Meanwhile, an otherworldly presence has set its covetous eye on one of the four young mutants, in a story that tells a never-before-told slice of the history of mutantkind. Uncanny…
Battle Of The Atom: Borat Voice My Wife
In a 2012 episode of the hit television series “Bob’s Burgers” the titular Mr. Burgers has a nightmare where, instead of being a small business owner slinging underappreciated patties, he is a cog in the corporate machine, laughing as his co-workers doing the Borat voice. In a 2025 episode of the 3rd most popular X-Men…