Ranking every X-Men story from A to Z. Hosted by Zack Jenkins and Adam Reck.
Once upon a time, in the years before Xavier Files, Zack and his friend Thomas started an X-Men book club where the first thing they wanted to talk about was Mike Carey’s X-Men work. This is then that domino meme that gets us to this very moment nearly a decade later. Ranked This Episode:
When we think of icons, we think of them. They are X-Men characters whose names we would never confuse or mix up and certainly characters who should help Slingers sell more copies. Ranked This Episode:
In our post-truth world, it is sometimes difficult to discern what Magneto truly is. Is he a freedom fighter filled with righteous fury? A lunatic obsessed with supremacy? A kind shepherd for the next generation of his people? What this podcast posits, it that he is a South Beach yoga instructor, and you know we…
We don’t have a friend or a guest named Kevin in this one. But we do have Christmas stories of VARIOUS quality. Someone help us escape from the holiday hellscape we have created for ourselves. Ranked This Episode:
Guess who had to resist screeching the entire episode? Hint: it’s the host who, for reasons unknown to himself, spends a shocking amount of this episode defending PAD X-Factor, a run he doesn’t really like all that much. People are complicated… Ranked This Episode:
For legal reasons, the hosts of Battle Of The Atom need to affirm that we explicitly do not endorse murder as defined in 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111 and 1112. 18 U.S.C. § 1111. This episode discusses fictional events and characters and any statements or inferences about one or both of the hosts being “pro-murder” must be taken…
Son of a Bromide, those Gallium Darmstadtium BotA Boyz are at it again with their stretching of what counts as an X-Men comic. This time it’s about Dr. Nemesis. Ranked This Episode:
X-Men: The Manga: Remastered editor David Brothers joins the boys for a deep dive into the remaster of the manga adaptation of the cartoon adaptation of the X-Men comics. Like an onion, this episode has layers.
The horrors around us, they persist. But so does the Spirit of Vengeance. Adam and Zack continue celebrating Halloween longer than most people by talking about Ghost Rider because it was the best use of their mental energy on a Tuesday night. Ranked This Episode:
Legally, it’s not Halloween anymore. But the bad boy of X-Men podcasting doesn’t care. We’re doing Halloween! Ranked This Episode:
This is a New York Comic Con super special featuring Pepe Larraz, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, Declan Shalvey, Spencer Ackerman, Jackson Lanzing, David Marquez, Josh Cassara, Gerry Duggan, Chris Condon, and Justin Mason!
Tablua Rasa is a location in the Marvel Universe that we all think about every day. These are the stories about it. Ranked this episode:
So X-Men Unlimited, it’s a thing we always talk about, right? We all think of all the important X-Men Unlimited stories, yes? Well, much like X-Men Unlimited, Zack forgot what he and Adam talked about immediately after recording stopped on this episode so he can’t give like, good notes. Sorry! Ranked This Episode:
Esta semana en la Batalla del Átomo, los chicos viajan a Perú donde hablan sobre algunos cómics protagonizados por Patrulla-X. Espero que los dos oyentes de habla hispana aprecien el esfuerzo que estoy poniendo en estas notas. También espero que cualquiera que no entienda español entienda que esto es una broma y no haya descargado…
The guys get spicy. And by spicy we mean that Zack tries to explain ACOTAR to Adam even though he is only vaguely aware of it and Adam tries to stop us from getting the explicit tag. This episode is about Chris Bachalo, we promise. Ranked This Episode: