Skip to content
June 5, 2025
  • Imperial #1 impresses on scale and ambition, but needs a heart
  • Storm #9 is an overstuffed omelet, but there’s a good reason for that
  • Black Panther’s son is WHAT?! in Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1
  • Hickman rewrites Marvel’s cosmic order, DC kicks off Pride Month and more CXF Staff Picks

COMICSXF

The comics criticism you crave

  • HOME
  • Articles
    • Opinions
    • Issue Overviews
    • Television Overviews
    • Interviews
    • Odds & Ends
    • Redesigning
  • Battle of The Atom
  • TCXFIP
  • BatChat
  • Primer
    • Creator Primers
    • The Pull List
    • Character Primers
    • Team Primers
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Home
  • Podcasts
  • Battle of The Atom
  • Page 12

Battle of The Atom

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

  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Put The Body Back with Connor Goldsmith

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

This week on Battle Of The Atom, podcaster extraordinaire Connor Goldsmith talks to us about Betsy Braddock and Revanche. Also this one has some cusses and a couple swears.Check out Connor’s great show Cerebro hereRanked This Episode: X-Men vol 2 #31-32 (Soul Possession) Psylocke Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Circa 2003

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Travel back to 2003 as we talk about terrorist, spy and generally neat person Mystique. Ranked This Episode: Sabretooth/Mystique Mystique #1-6 X-Men #171-174 (Bizarre Love Triangle)

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Level Of Domesticity

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

It’s time to power up this podcast as we return to the power of the Power Pack. Ranked this episode: X-Men/Power Pack Wolverine/Power Pack Power Pack #36 The episode of Jeff And Rick Present: Unpacking The Power Of Power Pack that Zack was on can be found here.

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Leftover Cat Food

Zachary Jenkins4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

This is about team ups. I recorded it not 48 hours ago and I have no recollection of what our bits were. Adam says it’s a “classic”.Ranked This Episode: Wolverine & Jubilee X-Force vol 2 Wolverine/Doop

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Golden Underwear

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We talk about the X-Men character Hyperion. You know him, he is fake Superman.Ranked this episode: Exiles #38-40 (King Hyperion) Exiles #43-45 (A Blink In Time) Exiles #62-#65 (Timebreakers)

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Omega Red Fatty Acids

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We’re heading to Russia comrades! Join us as we talk all about Omega Red stories.Ranked this Episode: X-Men #4-7 (Omega Red) Wolverine Origins #37-40 (Romulus) Uncanny X-Force #25-35 (Final Execution)

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Doug Does Terrible Things With Jordan Blum

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We have a rip roaring time hanging with Hollywood big-shot Jordan Blum while we talk about Doug Ramsey and the Hellions. Ranked this episode: New Mutants #53-54 (Scavenger Hunt) New Warriors #31 (Who Mourns The Hellions?) New Mutants #6-8 (Necrosha)

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Down The Rabbit Hole

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Happy Halloween, we talk about some sufficiently spooky stories. Then someone gets distracted and talks about weird Marvel continuity for too long. It’s a great event. Ranked This Episode: Inferno (Secret Wars) Nova #22 Generation X #22

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Spider-Man 2099 Shirt

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We enter the world of Mutant X, and by that we mean we get distracted by other weird Marvel stuff of the turn of the century.Ranked this episode: X-Factor #145-149 Mutant X #1-3 Mutant X: Origins #1

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: I Don’t Like My Brother Either with Vishal Gullapalli

Zachary Jenkins, Adam Reck and Vishal Gullapalli4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Everyone loves Vulcan. He’s the third Summers brother, and no one has ever disliked how clunkily he was put into the story and then used as a big deal in space for a while. Anyway, our buddy Vishal is here to set us straight! Ranked This Episode: Rise & Fall of the Shi’Ar Empire Emperor…

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Wolverine In Armor

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

This week it is all Wolverine all the time. If anyone makes those jokes where we talk about Logan and we all know we are talking about Logan and you pretend we are talking about Laura, I will be sad and tired.Ranked this episode: All-New Wolverine: Four Sisters All-New Wolverine: Enemy Of The State II…

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Thinking Vertically with Declan Shalvey

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Cartoonist Declan Shalvey is here with a vengeance to talk about vertical scroll comics and his just completed X-Men Unlimited story.

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Talkin’ Bout My Generation

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

You know we won’t all f f f f fade away. It’s Generation X spectacular as the team gets mashed up into all sorts of detective comics.Ranked This Episode: Gen13/Generation X Generation X/Gen13 Generation Hex

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: What If We Read What If?

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We totally planned this What If…? episode around the TV show and this isn’t a coincidence that we are talking about 3 X-Men What If…? stories today.Ranked This Episode: What If vol 2 #13 (Professor X was the Juggernaut) What If vol 2 #46-47 (Cable Killed the X-Men/Magneto Took Over The USA) What If vol…

Read More
  • Battle of The Atom

Battle Of The Atom: Metal As Heck

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We have to go back to The Age Of Apocalypse and accept that it rules so much and we have no choice but to stan. We also make some of the weirdest structural decision about Ranking we have ever done.Ranked This Episode: X-Men: Alpha/Omega Astonishing X-Men (AoA) Amazing X-Men (AoA)

Read More
  • 1
  • …
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • …
  • 27
2016-2025, ComicsXF Powered By BlazeThemes.