Battle Of The Atom: Name That External!
It’s time for everyone’s favorite game, Name That External! It’s the game you try and remember who the Externals are. The fun thing about this game is that we all lose! Ranked This Episode:
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Xavier gets his gold watch in X-Manhunt Omega #1
The X-MANHUNT concludes as Professor X reaches his destination and his assorted pursuers, friend and foe alike, catch up with him. Alliances will be battle-tested, the blades of betrayals will cut deep with poisoned tips and, when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice with the fate of all…
Battle Of The Atom: The Gold Standard
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:
ON THE X-MANHUNT: X-Force #9 lays a giant egg
Sage and Professor X go way back, to another war and another time. But now, in his hour of need, will Sage use her talents to aid the professor’s quest, or put a stop to his manic mission? X-Force #9, the penultimate chapter of “X-Manhunt,” was written by Geoffrey Thorne, pencilled by Marcus To, colored…
Battle Of The Atom: The Robcipe
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:
ON THE X-MANHUNT: Archangel is a Beyblade in X-Factor #8
Charles Xavier has escaped from prison, and X-Factor must track him down. But how will the X-Men react to X-Factor hunting their founder? And what will happen when Havok and Cyclops collide? X-Factor #8-slash-300 is written by Mark Russell, drawn by Bob Quinn, colored by Jesus Aburtov and lettered by Joe Caramagna. Dan Grote: And…
Battle Of The Atom: Heka-Nut & The Sword Of Bone
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…
Neramani the bollocks, here’s the X-Manhunt in Uncanny X-Men #11
At the end of the Orchis War, Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities and allowed himself to be imprisoned in his old house. But now, something has spurred him into action, into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation. What has caused Professor X to go on the run?…
Battle Of The Atom: Egg Challenge with Dr. Anna Peppard
We love Meggan, here’s an episode. Also Anna is here and isn’t that great! Ranked this Episode:
Battle Of The Atom: D’Onofrio Style + Megacon 2025
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: Also in the episode: Greg Land, Marc Guggenheim, Ben Percy, Craig Kyle, David Pepose, Chris Condon, Ryan Stegman, Zeb Wells and…
More mall mutt madness in Uncanny X-Men #10
The four potential mutant recruits known as the Outliers are the target of a new, vicious and unstoppable anti-mutant weapon initiative, a cold-hearted pack of tracking Sentinels based on dogs, who use their enhanced senses and chainsaw-like teeth to hunt down and kill mutants. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide as the Outliers face the…
Battle Of The Atom: The 1,000th Story
Rivers Cuomo once said, “I wanna go back, back to the shack, back to the Strat with the lightning strap,” and we echo that message by going back to our roots for a 1,000th story celebration about the stories the occurred at both the birth of the podcast and the birth of us. Rivers Cuomo…
Battle Of The Atom: Sweeps Week with Connor Goldsmith
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…
ComicsXF’s official ranking of the From the Ashes X-Men books
As of this writing, there are 13(!) monthly X-books on the shelves, two of which — X-Men and Uncanny X-Men — ship on an 18-issue-a-year schedule. That’s a lot, and there’s more coming, including Laura Kinney: Wolverine (who is already starring in NYX); a Timeslide one-shot co-starring Cable and Bishop; Magik (who is already starring…
Better late than never: ComicsXF’s 14 geeky New Year’s resolutions for 2025
It’s a new year, and in true new year’s tradition, the ComicsXF team has set some New Year’s resolutions. Also in New Year’s tradition, it’s almost the end of the first month of the year, and we’re just now getting to it, and, look, the beginning of the year was a lot OK? So sit…