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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: Helping (Sort Of)

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck5 hours ago18 hours ago01 mins

Charles Francis Xavier is one of the most important leaders in mutant history. He’s… not great with people. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Bowie Baja Blast

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 week ago1 week ago01 mins

Jeph Loeb probably enjoys a Mountain Dew Dark Berry Bash, the blue raspberry and blackberry variant exclusive to Applebee’s Cosmic Wings ghost kitchen. David Draiman probably enjoys Hard Mountain Dew Black Cherry, the most embarrassing way to get drunk. David Bowie would never touch the stuff. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Sour Grapes Scott

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 weeks ago2 weeks ago01 mins

Cyclops is one of the greatest characters in comics, and that’s because he screws up so often that it is funny. Like, every time, it’s funny how he makes a bad decision. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: What Time Is It?

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 weeks ago3 weeks ago01 mins

There’s a lot of things that we talk about in this episode, including the New York Knicks and Grunt Squad shirts and more importantly Ben Grimm.

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Battle of the Atom: Pure Beautiful Stupid

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 month ago1 month ago01 mins

Much like the band Arcade Fire, the X-Men villain Arcade knows that more is more. Also we talk about Dawn, a thing that will only entertain my friend Robert. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Ghost World Daria

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck1 month ago1 month ago01 mins

I have a hard time believing Daniel Clowes would want his “comix” confused with Marvel’s “What If?” series. And yet, that’s what we are presupposing.

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Battle Of The Atom: All Dogs

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

ATTENTION ALL MEMEMBERS OF THE BOTA FEDERATION. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOG. REPEAT. ZACK HAS BECOME ALL DOGS. THIS WILL IMPACT YOUR PRECEPTIONS OF REALITY FROM THIS POINT FORWARD. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Will Not Go Meekly

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

Look, I was going to write something else here but I just found a copy of the unmade Magneto movie so I’m going to be over here reading that. Thematically appropriate. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Nude Tane

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck2 months ago2 months ago01 mins

Here’s an episode about Wolverine with a lot of good art and also a nude Tane.

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Battle Of The Atom: The Wedding Special

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

Adam & Dr. Anna Peppard got married. Well they got married a year ago but anyway we’re celebrating it how. Say happy wedding to them. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Resurrected

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

In this episode, Zack proves the one guy from 7 years ago who made a comment about how this podcast is too religious correct. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Hey Arnold

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 months ago3 months ago01 mins

Gail Simone is the current writer of Uncanny X-Men. But what we posit is that she wrote X-Men related things before this. Would you believe that’s what we are covering on the podcast this week? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Jessica Rabbit

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

Sometimes superheroes get new clothes for no reason other than the fact that it sells variant convers and maybe could be a microtransaction in a video game.

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Battle Of The Atom: The World’s Smallest Man

Zachary Jenkins4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

At the start of the 1970s crumbling relationships with Iran led to shocks in the global energy market, shooting up prices at the pump while the X-Men meandered aimlessly with Marvel not having a clue what to do with them. This is not commentary on current events. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Matsudasode

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago4 months ago01 mins

Zack spends a frustrating amount of time just reading Jeff Matsuda’s LinkedIn page. Is it more entertaining than Howard Mackie comics? You be the judge.

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