Battle of the Atom: Vewy Anime
Ah, Albert & Elsie-Dee. The kind of characters only people terminally cursed with X-Men brain rot could love. We love them so much. Ranked This Episode
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Krakoa waves goodbye, and all that’s left are Ashes in X-Men #35/Uncanny #700
All good things must come to an end, and as good of a thing as the Krakoan era has been for mutantkind, its time has come at last. The tragedy and triumph of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X, the madness and mystery of RISE OF THE POWERS OF X, they have all come to…
Battle of the Atom: Not Getting Over
Fill-in stories are a great chance to try and get a character over. Not Hazard though, he ain’t ever getting over. Ranked This Episode:
Mystique & Destiny immortalize Be Gay, Do Crimes in ‘X-Men: The Wedding Special #1’
Marvel’s first queerest family is throwing a party, and everyone’s invited! Particularly if it pleases the brides to know you won’t be home during their rapturous re-exchanging of vows. X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 was written by Kieron Gillen, Tini Howard, Tate Brombal, Yoon Ha Lee and Wyatt Kennedy; drawn by Rachael Stott, Phillip Sevy,…
Battle of the Atom: The One with the Guy from Lost
The guy from Lost wrote a comic one time. It had Hulk in it. Ipso facto we are doing a Hulk episode. Ranked This Episode
Battle of the Atom: Adaptations of Adaptations
Everyone is talking about X-Men ’97, aren’t they? Well, I guess everyone includes us because you get the unfiltered opinions of these two chuckleheads now. Also we talk about adaptations of things from the original animated series. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Dream Of The Fisherman’s Wife
The prompt was “a fine selection of Claremont tentacles, please.” So that’s what we are doing this week. Ranked This Episode
Battle Of The Atom: Spider-Man’s Old Pants
I (Zack) asked my wife if she ever thought about Spider-Man’s old pants and how that is what Venom is. She said I need to mulch. Ranked This Episode:
Battle of the Atom: An Angels and Demons Thing
Nightcrawler is a constant in the world of X-Men. Here are some stories where he isn’t. Ranked This Episode
Battle Of The Atom: Alice ‘Malice’ McAllister
Nine hundred X-Men stories in and we may be losing the plot because oops, this one is all Malice and we don’t actually get much closer to understanding her. Ranked This Episode:
Fall of the House of X #4 gets so much wrong
The X-Men don’t play softball but do play hardball in the latest, bloodiest installment of the ongoing end of an era. Fall of the House of X #4 written by Gerry Duggan, drawn by Lucas Werneck and Jethro Morales, colored by Bryan Valenza, and lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham. Anna Peppard: We all know baseball…
Battle Of The Atom: Behind The Music
When I wore a younger man’s clothes I used to go to concerts and have a great time. Now I talk about them on podcasts. Ranked This Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: Dead For 3 Pages
Sometimes SOMEONE will start a plot and ever finish it. This is about the time Claremont decided Dazzler was immortal. Ranked This Episode
Battle of the Atom: Her Web Connects Us All
Zack once threatened Adam with a Madame Web episode. Well guess what the Bad Boy of X-Men Podcasting did? Plus, Zack and Adam sent each other predictions about the new X-Men era. Now that it’s announced, we get to see who was right and who is committed to bits you couldn’t possibly understand. Ranked This…
Battle of the Atom: Crux Point of Your Life
Our beloved Bendis-era X-Men. Our Saint, Eva Bell. This one is for you. Ranked This Episode: