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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: Phoenix Pacemaker

Zachary Jenkins4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom: Phoenix Pacemaker: All men must die. All men must serve. Are we still talking about Game of Thrones? I don’t think so but we’re still talking about death and stuff this week so we’re going to go with it.Ranked This Episode: Death Of X X-Men: The Exterminated Uncanny X-Men Annual 2019

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Battle Of The Atom: Soft Spot For S-Men

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We get all flipped and inverted and talked about by comics. It wasn’t great.Ranked This Episode: AXIS Magneto #9-12 (AXIS) Deadpool #36-39 (AXIS)

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Battle Of The Atom: End Of The Road (To 500)

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom: End Of The Road (To 500): We decimate the competition as we become the only X-Men podcast to rank 500 bespoke stories. We are celebrating with wonton destruction. Ranked This Episode: X-Men Vol 2 #177-179 (Decimation) Generation M The 198

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Battle Of The Atom – Bowl of Potato Salad

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom – Bowl of Potato Salad: Let’s go back to the 1970s and fill in some classic tales of X-Men action that we ding dang forgot to do before. Ranked This Episode: Uncanny X-Men #105, #107-108 (Phoenix Saga) Iron Fist #15 (Enter, the X-Men) Uncanny X-Men #120-121 (Wanted: Wolverine! Dead or Alive!)

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Battle Of The Atom: House Of Pabst

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom: House Of Pabst — What is best in life? To read comics and do podcasts about them I guess. We talk about Conan and Conan-related wizards on this one. It’s a fun time.Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #190-191 (An Age Undreamed Of) Savage Avengers #1-5 (The City Of Sickles) X-Men #1/2…

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Battle Of The Atom: Cyclops Is Wearing A Loincloth

Zachary Jenkins4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom: Cyclops Is Wearing A Loincloth: Who will fall? Who will rise? Who will be the last host standing? You know a schism was coming between Adam and Zack, you just never thought it would be this ugly. Ranked this episode: Schism Generation Hope #10-12 X-Men: Regenesis

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Battle Of The Atom: A Toy I Have No Recollection Of

Zachary Jenkins, Austin Gorton and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

“A Toy I Have No Recollection Of”. Y’all like weird X-Men guest appearances in toy comics? We do! We love them so much that we got our buddy Austen Gorton on the show to talk about ROM the Spaceknight. Ranked This Episode: ROM #17-18 (Hybrid!) X-Men and the Micronauts Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior #6…

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Battle Of The Atom: If You Only Listen One X-Men Podcast This Week, It Must Be This One

Zachary Jenkins4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

If You Only Listen One X-Men Podcast This Week, It Must Be This One! We wanted to talk about Magik and Shadowcat, we ended up talking about Jim Shooter and Daredevil. This is what happens every time we pick three single issues to talk about. Plus, see Zack slowly descend into madness as he loses…

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Battle Of The Atom: Wacky Races

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

Battle Of The Atom: Wacky Races The old men of Battle of the Atom provide all the Old Man content you need. This includes talking about Mark Millar, arguing about New Jersey and talking about Johnny Cash. Ranked This Episode Old Man Logan (Millar/McNiven) Old Man Logan vol 2 #1-4 (Bezerker) Dead Man Logan

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Battle Of The Atom: The Marc Silvestri Power Hour

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

It’s the Marc Silvestri Power Hour where we talk all about the life and work of Marc Silvestri. Once again, Zack’s audio is bad and he is so so tired.Ranked this episode: Uncanny X-Men #232-234 (Earthfall) Wolverine #35-37 (Blood & Claws) Cyberforce/X-Men

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Battle Of The Atom: Video James

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

What’s Wolverine’s favorite video game system? The XBox I’m sorry. We’re talking about X-Men games tie-ins, some video, some card. These comics are not good, they have never been good, and they never would be good. But they are weird hell and I know you crazy kids love weird comics. Honestly? We get pretty distracted…

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Battle Of The Atom: We All Love A Large Goddess

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We dive into Nova Roma. It’s bad. We don’t care for it. So we listen to “Up The Wolves” by The Mountain Goats, a song that must have been inspired by that terrible New Mutants arc. John Darnielle please confirm. Ranked This Episode: New Mutants #7-12 (Nova Roma) New Mutants Forever Necrosha

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Battle Of The Atom: Powerlord Kruun

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We all love Breakworld right? It’s such a good fun place with a lot of stories that we all care about right? Right?Ranked This Episode: Astonishing X-Men (Unstoppable) Uncanny X-Men #504-507 (Lovelorn) Uncanny X-Men #535-538 (Breaking Point)

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Battle Of The Atom: Who Wants To Kill An Xavier? With Nola Pfau

Zachary Jenkins, Adam Reck and Nola Pfau4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

We complete our double Dazzler coverage by looking at recent stories featuring the disco Dazzler and oops, it’s a lot about the Inhumans. Get ready for us to remember how annoying they were. Oh, and WWAC Editor-In-Chief and CXF contributor Nola Pfau joins us to relitigate some real weird times. Also, there’s a bunch of…

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Battle Of The Atom: Disco Dazzler

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 years ago4 years ago01 mins

It’s the first of our Double Dazzler celebration! This week it’s old school with Disco stories featuring Allison Blaire.Ranked this episode: Dazzler #9-11 (Herald of Galactus) Dazzler #38 (Vs The X-Men) Dazzler: The Movie

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