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Battle of The Atom

Ranking every X-Men story from A to Z. Hosted by Zack Jenkins and Adam Reck.

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Battle Of The Atom #420: Baked In

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck5 days ago5 days ago01 mins

Battle of the Atom blazes it up for its 420th episode with three X-Men stories you may have to be stoned to read.

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Battle Of The Atom: Inscrutable Cyclops with Alex Paknadel

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 weeks ago2 weeks ago01 mins

Alex Paknadel comes on the show to chat about his upcoming Cyclops series, the Punch Dimension, and what it’s like writing X-Men this past year.

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Battle Of The Atom: Mall Elf

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 weeks ago4 weeks ago01 mins

There is an epidemic striking our country, that is an epidemic of running out of holiday themed stories to cover at Christmas time. Therefore I want no complaints at what Santa brought you. Ranked This Episode;

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Battle Of The Atom: The 2002 All-Stars

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 month ago1 month ago01 mins

Een la yair of ur laird déux thousand deux Marvel writairs absulute-lee loved makeng nu charactairs to throw at people and ‘ope zey stik. Vairy fu of zém did. But zere was un and of curse ‘e’s francais, why do you think ‘e ‘as zis ootrajéous accént? Ranked zis episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Thwip Thoughts

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 month ago1 month ago01 mins

In 2007, the creative team of J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada had children’s pull-ups character Spider-Man sell his marriage to the Satan Mephisto in exchange for the life of his dear Aunt May, an octogenarian who lived a full life that was marred near its end by nearly weekly health issues and who was…

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Battle Of The Atom: French Cut (At Minimum) w/ Dr. Anna Peppard

Zachary Jenkins, Adam Reck and Anna Peppard2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

We love Nightcrawer, we love all types of blue people, we also love Dr. Anna Peppard who is not blue. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Dolphin’s Ancient Enemy

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

You’ll never go in the water again, but maybe you’ll go back in the podcast again and talk about Loa (Alani Ryan). Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Skinsuit

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

Trent Reznor once said, “I want to feel you from the inside,” and the gothy romantic she is, Moira took that seriously in her tenth life. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Let Doom Be Doom

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

Zack gets mad at people who take a man named Victor Von Doom too seriously. Adam does his absolute best to save the podcast from neurogas. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Blowing Crap Up

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

It’s a lovely morning in the X-Mansion, and you are a horrible mutant. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Corpse Stuff

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

Happy Halloween, everybody. We have stories about corpses. Also economics? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Three Large, Round Reasons

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

Look folks we are 30 or 40 years old, sometimes it takes 3 weeks to record an episode about 5 total issues of comics. This is what life is for us who choose this life. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Something To Say

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

Sometimes, X-Men comics have something to say. No one said they should say it, but darn it, the X-Men are going to say something. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Turning Japanese

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

The editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel’s history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the…

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Battle Of The Atom: I Know You Planned It

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers. Ranked This Episode:

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