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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: 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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Battle Of The Atom: Unbreakable

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck4 months ago5 months ago01 mins

I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Zxazx Attack

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck5 months ago5 months ago01 mins

Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it’s to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn’t normally get in an X-Men…

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Battle Of The Atom: Don’t Bow To The Mouse

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck5 months ago5 months ago01 mins

Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn’t approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn’t entitled to the sweat of the worker’s brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Daddy’s Home.

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck5 months ago5 months ago01 mins

In which we understand how much Cable’s favorite Everclear song is “Father of Mine” Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Clown Agnostic

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck6 months ago6 months ago01 mins

Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real… Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Ranknarök Returns

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck6 months ago6 months ago01 mins

400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode:

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Battle of the Atom: Krakoa Cops

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck6 months ago6 months ago01 mins

The wild thing about looking back on comics is how much they are colored by what was happening when you were originally reading them. In retrospect, perhaps things are different. Anyway the optics on pitching a book as religious police was still an amazing unforced error. Ranked This Episode: Legion of X #1-5 Wolverine: Dangerous…

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Battle Of The Atom: The Mane

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck7 months ago7 months ago01 mins

Sabretooth has a costume with a lion’s mane sewn into it. Wrestler Tyler Mane played Sabretooth in a movie. Are these facts related to this episode? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: X-Men Monday Morning Quarterback with Chris Hassan

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck7 months ago7 months ago01 mins

Chris Hassan from AiPT’s X-Men Monday joins us for a journey through the last 300 installments of his column and what folks were talking about for all that time. This episode also doubles as a weird history lesson on/therapy session what it was like to be a figure of minor notoriety in X-Men fandom for…

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Battle Of The Atom: Better Recognize

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck7 months ago7 months ago01 mins

Do the children even remember Wizard Magazine these days? I mean, to be fair, Zack only knows of it, but was never of it. Luckily, the children all remember Skin; isn’t that right children? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: The Fightingist Smashouts

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck7 months ago8 months ago01 mins

Comic fans oft wonder “who would win”. Those folks need to touch grass. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: Everyone Looks The Same

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck8 months ago8 months ago01 mins

I’ll be real with you, sometimes there’s a request that really throws us for a loop. This is one of them. Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) (Space) Society

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck8 months ago8 months ago01 mins

I’m not mad, just disappointed at the (space) society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this (in space)? Ranked This Episode:

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Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) Society

Zachary Jenkins and Adam Reck8 months ago8 months ago01 mins

I’m not mad, just disappointed at the society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this? Ranked This Episode:

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